How to Prepare for CAT 2021 in 2 Months?

How to Prepare for CAT 2021 in 2 Months? - The importance of CAT can be easily acknowledged through the number of applicants who register every year. Although it is advisable that candidates should start their preparation four to five months prior to the exam, candidates preparing for CAT 2021 must note that it is never too late to start preparing for CAT. But the question is how to prepare for CAT 2021 in 2 months? Honestly, it requires hard work, determination and dedication to put your mind in order to achieve 100 per cent results. In this article on how to prepare for CAT Exam 2021 in two months, Careers360 will give you major tips on formulating a study plan that will help you in preparing for CAT in less time. This study plan will also ensure peak performance that gives maximum output.
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Strategies To Be Followed For CAT 2021

Candidates who have registered for CAT 2021 and will start their preparation prior to two months are requested to go through the basic strategies listed below to have a better understanding.

• Decide In Advance The Number of Hours to Devote for CAT 2021 Preparation?

• Do Not Start A New Topic

• Maintain Speed and Accuracy Through Revision

• Increase Attempts of Mock Tests

• Look For a Guide/Mentor

Let us look at each CAT 2021 Strategy one by one -

Decide In Advance The Number of Hours to Devote for CAT 2021 Preparation?

Time management and hard work are the key strategies that lead to success in IIM Entrance exam. As per the exam pattern of CAT 2021, candidates will have to face a sectional time limit in which three sections each with a 60 minutes limit will be there. Try to make a timetable that allows you to study each section 3 hours a day on a daily basis.

For example, if you devote 3 hours daily to each section i.e. three hours to Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension, three hours to Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning and three hours to Quantitative Ability. Only 9 hours out of 24 are used. In the remaining time i.e. 24-9 = 15 hours, you can do what extra you want.

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How to prepare for CAT VARC (Verbal and Reading Comprehension)
How to prepare for CAT DI & LR
How to Prepare for CAT Quantitative Ability

Do Not Start A New Topic

One of the most important things to keep in mind while starting your preparation prior to two months before CAT 2021 is that you should not start any new topic. Take some time, get a print out of CAT syllabus 2021 and note the familiar topics. Now candidates should be very careful and not choose a new topic from the CAT 2021 syllabus because starting a new topic will be time-consuming. Moreover, the known topics might get affected too as well as candidates will be uncertain on how many commands they can attain in the new topics. Thus, instead of starting any new topics, the candidates should practice the topics they already have prepared previously.

Maintain Speed and Accuracy Through Revision

Once you are halfway through the syllabus of CAT 2021, try to revise the topics that you have already learned and covered in order to maintain momentum. Make sure that speed and accuracy both are at pace as both are equally important. Note that CAT 2021 is never about attempting all questions; instead, it is about getting one more right than your other fellow test-takers. Both speed and accuracy can be maintained by solving more and more CAT question papers/sample papers. Search google and try to find a simpler, easier and yet fastest way of solving tricky questions. Apart from solving MCQs, try to study TITA Questions as well. Revise all the known topics, make sticky notes of important formulas so that it gets into your head easily.

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Increase Attempts of Mock Tests

Importance of mocks is known only after its taken as described by CAT 2020 toppers. Mock tests help you analyze your relative performance across a variety of different kinds of papers. Along with that critically analyse them to clear concepts. To be specific, roughly 100 hours should be used in practising the CAT 2021 mock tests. After each test is taken, analyze your performance and ensure the balance between both strongest and weakest sections.

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Why, When and How to take CAT Mock Test?

Look For a Guide/Mentor

For any exam, be it competitive or informal, it is important to have a guide/mentor as this will lead to better results. For those who will be appearing or giving CAT 2021 for the first time, it is advisable to take help of a mentor or teacher who can assist you with getting questions done accurately without hampering time. Moreover, forming a focused friend circle who is attempting for the same/has given CAT in previous years can be beneficial and help to clear doubts and to formulate a test strategy.

Last but not the least, CAT is such an exam that tests not only your subject knowledge but also tests your mental grit as well as determination. Remember that everyone faces low points during preparation and there will be a time when even you would, but that should not let you down.