CAT 2009 | Test Day Tips and Strategies

This article discusses tips and strategies for testing day for this year's computer-based CAT.

Firstly, it is important to have a plan in place to attempt the computer-based CAT. Your plan of action should be decided based on all the practice and mock exams you might have taken and a careful analysis of your performance.

You should be clear on:

--In which section you normally score well -- your areas of comfort.
--What kinds of questions you are normally able to solve.
--Your weaknesses -- questions that you cannot solve or where you take too much time.

From this, you should have an idea of aspects such as:

--Which section -- English, Quantitative Ability or Data Interpretation and Analytical Ability -- you will attempt at first
--Which type of questions you will tackle and in what order. For example, within English, you might choose to do Reading Comprehension after the Verbal Ability section or vice versa.
--How much time you will spend on each of the sections: do you devote equal time to each or slightly more time to the section in which you are most comfortable?
--You should have at least a vague idea of the minimum number of questions you will attempt in the various sections. This will ensure that you clear the sectional cut-offs.
--Will you spend some time at the end going back to certain questions or verifying some of the answers, to ensure a decent accuracy level?

Besides this plan, it may also be useful to have a fallback strategy -- a plan B. What will you do if the unexpected happens? For example, what do you do if the section where you hoped to do well turns out to have extremely tough questions in a particular paper?

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