CAT 2009 | Tips to remove stress

The CAT is just about a week away and it is to be expected that your tension levels are shooting through the roof. To help you keep your focus and stress levels under control, try these stress-buster tips.

Positive visualisation
Take a moment to sit with your eyes closed and visualise yourself achieving the ideal outcome. You have to convince yourself that your hard work will pay off, and this includes convincing your subconscious. Repeated negative thoughts seep into your subconscious and eat away at your energy and confidence. This is not the time to do a postmortem of what you have studied so far. Rather, tell yourself that whatever you have studied will help you in the test.

Re-strategise
You are your best study coach. You know your weaknesses and strengths, and, if you feel the need, this is the best time to use that knowledge to rehash your strategies. Take a few mock tests, applying various strategies, so that each paper enables you to achieve better results. This might not be the best time to start with new topics. Instead, collate your thoughts and organise your approach patterns. Gravitating towards such "can do" possibilities will also generate genuine confidence.

Tune your sleeping pattern
If your sleep pattern is topsy-turvy and you find yourself burning the midnight oil too often, your brain will get accustomed to shifting into alert mode during the night and relax mode during the day. For this year's CAT, you will need to be at your sharpest at the time you have chosen as your test slot. Regulate your sleeping pattern accordingly and remember that your body will take a while to get used to the new pattern. So it's best to start off with adjusting your sleep pattern it at the earliest possible time. Yes, that means tonight!

Believe in yourself
Right before a paper, some people feel convinced that they wouldn't do well, in spite of their hard work. But there are plenty of cases of people who 'logically' thought their efforts wouldn't amount to much, but continued in their endeavour anyway, because they trusted that they did have a chance. Thanks to their faith, many of them are now in the IIMs and other top institutes. Trust your intuition. Allow yourself to imagine what it would feel like if you achieve your goal --cracking the CAT and coming out with flying colours.

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Courtesy:- Rediff