How to Analyse CAT Mocks?
Strategy for CAT 2024 Aspirants,
The Exact key points you need
- Quantifiers
- 19th March 2024
One of the major questions CAT aspirants face while giving mocks is – How to analyze CAT mocks? We will keep this article as short and at the point.
Contents
How To Analyse Mocks?
Before we move on to section-wise analysis and understanding how to analyze CAT mocks.
- To map our performance against ourselves, how was I doing in past mock, how I did today, what areas were stagnant, what areas I did better and so on.
- To map our performance against others – percentile will help us judge that.
Some errors that we make while analyzing mocks -
- We don’t check the solutions of answers we got correct, we skip them. NO! You have to see the BEST APPROACH FOR EVERY SOLUTION. If you spend 10 mins to solve a problem, the purpose is forfeited. On average a person should be spending 1-4 mins on a particular question depending upon its difficulty level.
- Recording an Excel – how will you improve your weaknesses if you are not noting them? The basic idea is to note every small thing and make data patterns across sections, what are the areas that are giving you more marks, and what are the areas stopping you from improving, we have this common saying – In God we believe, for everything else, there’s data. So collect data for your performances.
- Ignoring minimal progress – at the score of 15 marks, we get 95%ile in QA (CAT 23), we all want to reach the top of the mountain but the path goes through forests, we all keep targeting the top and we feel we are not progressing, but we need to understand ki choti choti cheejo me progress hai, hamesha progress bde numbers me nahi hogi, if the score is going from 15-17, 18—-23, this is all progress and nothing else.
QA Analysis
Quant has three major pillars, arithmetic, algebra and geometry. In all the mocks you have to majorly focus on these areas. Once you’re done with mock, make an excel and write area vs questions vs accuracy.
See where you’re losing marks, is this the accuracy, or is it speed or the conceptual gap? What is the exact reason?
- If it is speed – do some speed-based tests.
- Accuracy – start sacrificing your speed a bit initially and focus on accuracy if you’re losing due to silly errors
- Conceptual gap – watch the video again and make notes – solve some questions and give more section-wise and chapter-wise tests.
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VA Analysis
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- STEP I: The first thing anyone will check is of course, which all questions are right and which all questions are wrong
- STEP II: Analyse, Where did i waste time? Where did time wastage happen? Which passages? Which questions? If it happened in the passage, why? If happened in the questions, what is the type of questions i wasted time in, why? Identify areas of Reading Discomfort.
- STEP III: Also, Analyse which are the questions, I should not have attempted. Also look for questions, which I have not marked despite spending two and a half minutes. The questions not to be attempted should be identified clearly in the paper. Co-relate the time-wise analysis with your accuracy analysis.
- STEP IV: What could have been done in the paper which should have ensured a greater understanding and correct answers and again look at passage by passage and question by question. What should i have done in this passage maybe i read it very slow to get 100% clarity and at the end did not have sufficient time or may be i read it very fast and did not understand anything?
- STEP V: Redo the passage again without worrying about time; get the concept of time out of your mind. Read at your comfortable pace, you will now know what your actual score is. Only then you will know what you did right or what you did wrong. Also re-solve the questions you solved on the basis of guesswork/gut feeling.
- STEP VI: I get confused between two options. Analysis is the best time to ask yourself another question why were you confused between two choices? What was the reason? Why was i not able to eliminate? Look at those words/ tricks which can help you eliminate the choices. What is it which should have told me this is wrong? So, the art of eliminating choices is something that needs to be inculcate during the analysis.
- STEP VII: Look at explanations. This should be the last step. The problem is students just check score (Step I) and jump to explanation (Step VI) and the entire middle process gets short-circuited. Explanation only explains what the answer is and it never tells you what your problem is and how you can improve. You can only figure out what your problem is if you redo the questions. Then only you will be able to figure out what are the possible things i should have probably got correct, is there a better way to solve this question?
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Conclusion
This is the only strategy you need to ace your CAT Mocks!
Remember that consistent and focused practice is key to performing well in CAT mocks. Use each mock test as an opportunity to learn and improve, and adjust your study plan accordingly. Good luck!
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