Dear participants, Today we shall be talking about maximizing scores for QA. Here are some key pointers: Sequence of Attempts of QA questions: Skim through the paper and find the types of questions. 1. Immediately eliminate the type which you have not encountered before. No need to try your hands in something new in the exam hall. 2. Identify the questions which you can solve immediately. These will be your first attempts 3. Identify the question types which you have solved before but will take a little more time to solve. These will be your second attempts 4. Identify the questions which you have found difficult in your mocks too. These will be your third attempts. SO only if you have time left after solving first and second attempt questions will you focus on these questions. How to know which questions you can solve immediately? These questions should satisfy one or more of the following criteria: • Belongs to your areas of interest/comfort zones • Are not calculation intensive or lengthy • Are understandable in the first reading • Can be attempted in 60-90 secs or 1-1.5 mins How to know which questions will be taken up as second attempts? These will typically satisfy one or more of the following criteria: • Belongs to your areas of interest/comfort zones • Are calculation intensive • Difficult to understand in the first reading • Can be attempted in 90-180 secs or 1.5-3mins How to go about solving questions in QA? • In Algebra try solving questions by substitution of choices, avoid questions not possible to be solved by this • In Maxima-Minima try solving questions using differentiation • Take 30-35 minutes to solve first attempts and 20 mins to solve second attempts Hope this helps. All the best! :)

01:23 PM

how much should one score to get a 90 percentile in QA section? (I know it varies with difficulty of the paper. But I would like to know your estimates)

01:43 PM

See a consistency generally helps always. I would say a 70% attempt with 80% accuracy will fetch a 99 percentile for sure For 90 it should be 50% with 80% accuracy

01:45 PM

I calculated 50% with 80% accuracy which comes out to be around 40 marks. So will 40 marks are enough to fetch 90% in that section?

01:50 PM

*So 40 marks are enough to fetch 90 percentile in that section?

01:51 PM

For a moderately difficult paper it should, but you can always increase the accuracy level to be more confident

01:51 PM

Less than 3 weeks are remaining for CAT16. What do u think should be my strategy in these final three weeks?

01:54 PM

Specially for QA section

01:55 PM

That was covered earlier. I will send the content to you after today's conversation. What's your mail id?

01:56 PM

saideepchy@gmail.com

01:58 PM

Hi! Will there be questions which can be solved without the need of any calculations?

02:00 PM

ok

02:00 PM

Ashik: yes, you can evaluate the options and eliminate.

02:01 PM

How many such questions can be expected?

02:03 PM

@Ashik: that can't be said actually

02:04 PM

I'm just worrying about my quant section because after finishing verbal and di sections it is quite harder to go to Quants section and solve this.

02:05 PM

@Mathi: no, please don't have thoughts like that. Follow this approach - Skim through the paper and find the types of questions. 1. Immediately eliminate the type which you have not encountered before. No need to try your hands in something new in the exam hall. 2. Identify the questions which you can solve immediately. These will be your first attempts 3. Identify the question types which you have solved before but will take a little more time to solve. These will be your second attempts 4. Identify the questions which you have found difficult in your mocks too. These will be your third attempts. SO only if you have time left after solving first and second attempt questions will you focus on these questions. This will help you keep your cool and will let you concentrate

02:06 PM

hey....only 3 months left for CAT...my college exams are starting from 24..i won't be able to give time after that...i am weak in QA...what should be my strategy till 24...first time cat taker

02:08 PM

How to approach questions which do not have options? Any suggestions for such type of questions?

02:08 PM

@Rashi, not 3 months. Only 3 weeks

02:09 PM

@Rashi: I guess you meant 3 weeks. And that strategy I have covered before. Send me your mail id I will share the content with you tonight. @Saideep: Please go through the following - Sequence of Attempts of QA questions: Skim through the paper and find the types of questions. 1. Immediately eliminate the type which you have not encountered before. No need to try your hands in something new in the exam hall. 2. Identify the questions which you can solve immediately. These will be your first attempts 3. Identify the question types which you have solved before but will take a little more time to solve. These will be your second attempts 4. Identify the questions which you have found difficult in your mocks too. These will be your third attempts. SO only if you have time left after solving first and second attempt questions will you focus on these questions. How to know which questions you can solve immediately? These questions should satisfy one or more of the following criteria: • Belongs to your areas of interest/comfort zones • Are not calculation intensive or lengthy • Are understandable in the first reading • Can be attempted in 60-90 secs or 1-1.5 mins How to know which questions will be taken up as second attempts? These will typically satisfy one or more of the following criteria: • Belongs to your areas of interest/comfort zones • Are calculation intensive • Difficult to understand in the first reading • Can be attempted in 90-180 secs or 1.5-3mins How to go about solving questions in QA? • In Algebra try solving questions by substitution of choices, avoid questions not possible to be solved by this • In Maxima-Minima try solving questions using differentiation • Take 30-35 minutes to solve first attempts and 20 mins to solve second attempts

02:10 PM

stress!

02:10 PM

@Rashi, no problem. :)

02:11 PM

rashiraj977@yahoo.in...thanks a lot!

02:12 PM

Please give me some tips to increase my confidence level and give me some strategies to achieve my path.

02:13 PM

My mock percentiles fluctuates a lot, which is stressing me a lot. How to deal with it?

02:18 PM

I'm just feeling distress the days getting closer.

02:18 PM

I scored 80 percentile in one mock cat and just the next day, I scored 99 in another mock cat. Such fluctuations are destabilizing my confidence. How to deal with these?

02:20 PM

@Saideep: Please ask QA relevant questions in this forum now, I will send you a mail to address your current question. This was covered in a previous session as told before. @Mathi: Relax and don't take more than one mock per day maximum. How much are you scoring in your mocks ? Stressing will just degrade your performance

02:20 PM

okay, thanks

02:21 PM

Okay thanks a lot .

02:23 PM

Hi Noel. I am scoring in the 50 - 60 range in both VA and LRDI and the mid 20's in QA. And hence my score stays in the 120-130 range. What can I do in the last 20 days to get above 160 overall?

02:24 PM

My semester is going currently and I couldn't spend some time for cat.Please suggest me some tips

02:27 PM

@Pratish: This has been covered before. Share your mail id so that I can share the content

02:28 PM

@Noel please share the 3 weeks plan and the how to solve main idea question for RC. My email id is mrbanerjeerudra@gmail.com

02:31 PM

@Noel, Thanks a ton for your valuable time and suggestions. Tips shared by you are great and I would certainly like to implement them in my preparation. I would be leaving now. I will be eagerly awaiting for your email. Thanks, once again.

02:31 PM

pratish.smn@gmail.com. Thanks in advance Noel. :)

02:33 PM

Will do so by tonight @Rudra, Pratish, Saideep

02:35 PM

Thanks Noel. :)

02:36 PM

sent the mail, hopefully you guys have got it

02:44 PM

Thanks Noel but I belong in all the category. So what will be my strategy?

02:47 PM

See, if consistency is your problem, and if u have reached the 95+ category as well, then it's just a mind game for you and your strategy. Take some time to relax. And when you are analyzing if you find any particular area which you have not been doing well consistently focus on that. Rest everything is fine I'd say

02:50 PM

My mail I'd is mathi1996mech@gmail.com

02:54 PM

Ok basically during analysis what I have found that if my percentile in verbal is 90+ I am reaching 98+ but otherwise it is getting lower according to my verbal percentile.

02:54 PM

Mathi: what all you want? the strategy?

02:54 PM

@Rudra : I will be taking a session on VA section tomorrow, see if that helps you

02:55 PM

@Noel please share the 3 weeks plan and the how to solve main idea question for QA, VA, LR. My email id is mbiyani100@gmail.com

02:55 PM

Yes i need some tips for final days preparation

02:56 PM

sent mail to both of u

02:57 PM

@Mayank, VA, LR will be covered tomorrow. Main idea question for QA?

02:58 PM

Main idea question for RC :p

02:59 PM

Thanks Noel for your session

02:59 PM

I will share the link later. If you have questions relating to QA please post

02:59 PM

please share the 3 weeks plan and the how to solve main idea question for QA, VA, dilr- subham872@gmail.com

03:00 PM

Please post if you have relevant questions.

03:02 PM

And at least follow what I wrote before posting! Thanks.

03:03 PM

Sent you the 3 week plan.

03:03 PM

Hi Noel.. please share the 3 weeks plan and How to improve my quant score.. I score btw 20-40 only in mocks :( My email id : upasana.mahajan07@gmail.com . Thanks! :)

03:18 PM

Sequence of Attempts of QA questions: Skim through the paper and find the types of questions. 1. Immediately eliminate the type which you have not encountered before. No need to try your hands in something new in the exam hall. 2. Identify the questions which you can solve immediately. These will be your first attempts 3. Identify the question types which you have solved before but will take a little more time to solve. These will be your second attempts 4. Identify the questions which you have found difficult in your mocks too. These will be your third attempts. SO only if you have time left after solving first and second attempt questions will you focus on these questions. How to know which questions you can solve immediately? These questions should satisfy one or more of the following criteria: • Belongs to your areas of interest/comfort zones • Are not calculation intensive or lengthy • Are understandable in the first reading • Can be attempted in 60-90 secs or 1-1.5 mins How to know which questions will be taken up as second attempts? These will typically satisfy one or more of the following criteria: • Belongs to your areas of interest/comfort zones • Are calculation intensive • Difficult to understand in the first reading • Can be attempted in 90-180 secs or 1.5-3mins How to go about solving questions in QA? • In Algebra try solving questions by substitution of choices, avoid questions not possible to be solved by this • In Maxima-Minima try solving questions using differentiation • Take 30-35 minutes to solve first attempts and 20 mins to solve second attempts

03:21 PM

Also, mailed you

03:21 PM

Thank you :)

03:21 PM

Thank you Noel :)

03:22 PM

hey! I've done the basics of most of the chapters excluding mostly the stuff that goes beyond class X concepts( like logs, surds,functions) would that be okay or is it too much risk About what i have done all of it incudes the 'Time'course book only also my strength areas are only the arithematics or application based qustions , pl guide

03:33 PM

Hey if you are confident and happy with your performance in mocks then you must be good to go. :)

03:35 PM

hi Noel, please tell the must things to do in coming next 20 days for quant

05:12 PM