{"id":4268,"date":"2020-07-08T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T11:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2020-07-08T16:38:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T11:08:13","slug":"7-golden-rules-for-cat-preparation-from-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/cat-preparation-strategy\/7-golden-rules-for-cat-preparation-from-july\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Golden Rules for CAT Preparation from July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“How do I prepare for CAT 2020 from May\/June\/July?” is one of the most frequently asked question. There is no one straight answer to this question, although there is a detailed schedule of sorts available for free access, here<\/a>. Since that is a giveaway, what I am going to focus on are more specific aspects of CAT preparation from TODAY. Some of it are relevant throughout your CAT preparation journey, but most of them are applicable for the period spanning July to the D-Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1) Own your preparation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If someone tells you, “Prepare for Quant during this hour of the day, read during the evenings, relax during nights for these many hours”, that is THEIR SCHEDULE. That need not work well for you; if it does, well and good. If not, however, you have to own your preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2) Create your own schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Create a schedule that is in sync with your work hours, nature of work and other chores. If you are retaking CAT, and know all the moving pieces of the examination in general, your CAT preparation (from July) should focus on taking more mocks, analysis them and intense course correction measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you are taking CAT for the first time this year, there are five crucial steps to kick<\/a>–<\/a>start your CAT preparation<\/a>. You should get a hang of which section is difficult for you, which you can manage with relative ease; plan your schedule accordingly. Initially, you have to make sure it is Quant intensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would MY preparation schedule look like?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

If I were a person who works between 9 am and 7 pm, I would make sure I have a hour and a half of time in the mornings where my preparation is intense; during weekdays, I would concentrate on Quant, there might be one session (or a maximum of two) for DILR, zilch for VARC. During work hours, I would ensure that I have an hour of reading quality content. VARC takes care of itself with that. In the weekends, I will take a mock and analyse it, which would take a minimum of six hours <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The caveat here is that I am a morning person. You need not be one. If I am doing 15 hours of intense solving a week, plus about six hours of reading, and a mock to top it up, I am done for the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have known people who wake up just in time to get to work in the morning, but stay late; in that case, squeezing two hours of intense preparation between, say, 8 pm and 10 pm, is quite possible and workable for those people. Find your niche, and capitalize on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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