How To Use Mock Tests To Crack CAT | Detailed CAT 2020 Strategy By 99.98 %iler, IIM C Student

When Sohum wrote the CAT in 2017 for the first time, he knew he would not make it to the top IIMs of the country. This engineer from Haldia Institute, West Bengal, decided to go on and work at Infosys while preparing for his next 2 CAT attempts. Throughout 2018 and 2019, Sohum continued to work at Infosys as well as on his MBA dream. Finally, this time around, in 2019, Sohum managed to crack the CAT with 99.98%ile overall and a whopping 100%ile in the VA-RC section. In his first CAT attempt, he scored pretty low on DI-LR and Quants as well for an engineer. But he managed to go from a 91%ile score to a healthy 98%ile score. Wondering what was his strategy? Want to know how he managed to crack 2019 and make it to IIM C? Check out this video to find out.
Summary:
In this video, Sohum Sen, CAT 99.98%iler tells us about his winning CAT strategy. He shares how he wrote the CAT in 2017 for the first time and did not score well enough to get into IIM A, B or C. He shares how he managed to score a whopping 100 %ile in VA-RC in CAT 2019. He talks about his VA-RC strategy, and how anticipating the possible questions helped him score so well. He then shares his solid LI-DR strategy. He tells us how he managed to go from 91-93%ile to 98-99%ile in this section.
With a bird's eye view of his own CAT experience, he tells us how while preparing for the LI-DR section, making multiple excel sheets to track your own progress, answers, concepts, etc., can be a powerful tool. He shares how to use this excel sheet to mark your own progress and how to grow in terms of better CAT performance. He shares invaluable insights into writing mocks for the quant and LR-DI sections. He shares how writing mocks and analysing these based on your performance, percentile, average time taken, etc., can be strong ways to improve your overall CAT score.
Finally Sohum throws light on how to deal with a particularly tough section on CAT day. He shares how he wrote tough sections in each of his CAT attempts. In a mature, insightful way, he shares how to navigate a tough section mentally and in real life. If you want to know a sure shot method to prepare for CAT 2020, this is a must watch for you.
Key Takeaways:
- To increase your reading speed and comprehension, try to anticipate the flow of the RC passages after connecting words.
- To ace the VA-RC section, you should be able to read tough, dense language and make sense of it.
- Solve various mocks and save the results along with parameters like concepts grasped, chapters learnt, answers given, etc., in an excel sheet which you can refer to when revising.
- When it comes to QA, if you're good at it, work on increasing your accuracy.
- If you know you're weak when it comes to certain concepts and theories, go back to basics and start learning from scratch.
- In QA, even if you attempt less questions, increasing your accuracy may help your overall score.
- Note down questions that you often get wrong as well as the concepts they are based on, and use these notes to revise.
- Select a mock test that has 10-15K regular test takers and gives you results as well as an answer key.
- Mock analysis for VA-RC includes finding out which questions you are making errors at and of what kind.
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[@arghamaji4166]

Such an eloquent speaker! THE GOAT

[@chaitanyasawhney1658]

Goat 🤣

[@Darth8304]

Gadhe

[@YogeshSharma-hh1qi]

Please make him speak more about VARC prep ,it seem like he is a GOD of tips and tricks of RCs.......just 45 min. ...arr u kidding me???

[@SATISHKUMAR-qk2wq]

They are experiences not tips

[@soumyaroy5796]

He sat for 4 consecutive years! That's pretty long, as a result he completed within 45 mins

[@soumya508]

Are Arsene96 . Great to see you in action. Btw you look like Harry Maguire

[@anshravindramishra2053]

The Man! The Myth! The legend himself, I present to you, ladies and gentlemen, @Arsene96 !

[@anikchatterjee6320]

Seems like Mr.Wenger just shared his strategy after the invincible season! Thanks for the tips, and good luck to you ahead. Your AIWTSAC is such a moving read. Keep inspiring others like you always have!

[@surajmourya1894]

Sir, It will be more helpful if you share excel sheet format so that we will get an Idea about how we should maintain like. If possible then please share.

[@mayukhsinha5873]

I have read your complete blog on your Cat journey..it was a long one but certainly the one I won't ever forget..you inspired us a lot..Thanks Arsene96 😌

[@harshal101096]

Can u share the link of the blog

[@prannavkrishnaraj4616]

Search it in Quora

[@kamalkaushik8117]

@@prannavkrishnaraj4616 what to search on quota?

[@cricemotica1239]

standing ovation to you sir ..u literally raised the bar for varc....never thought this could happen🙏🙏

[@bangmachiv]

How much he got?

[@209akashkumar4]

@@bangmachiv 💯 %ile

[@atharvadeshmukh6602]

@Arsene96 the legend 🔥

[@imnotlaash]

Keep inspiring people Buddy

[@tirthrajchavan7391]

It's difficult for me to complete varc in 2 hours and this man here completes it in 30 minutes, I need to go very far to chase goals...

[@Gauravkumar-jn1ij]

3 yrs

[@Subhadwip-gq6vo]

The legend... love you man

[@saathwikkolluru5035]

See you in joka :)

[@sumitgautam6298]

Did he say he used to complete VARC section in 30 minutes.

[@srinadh7227]

Damnn how could he not get calls from IIM A,B even with this kind of percentile.

[@abhinavverma8478]

Because ahmedabad focuses more on your academics rather than a cat score

[@cat_pliusha8556]

Very interesting! Come play with me💙

[@mellow9994]

The Invincible Gooner hai ye toh :D

[@VNnimbs]

Please make detailed strategy video...

[@AbhaySingh-yu4vq]

Really helpful.. keep it up👌

[@debapratimpaul8620]

VARC section in 30 mins.

[@MamtaSharma-lr8ix]

Cat 99.98ile ......salute to u sir

[@snehashaw9785]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@user-go4nb8xc8e]

Which mock series to buy?

[@vaishaligupta4198]

Arsene96 !!

[@virajm7034]

99.98 and still he didn't get Call from IIM A?

[@arnabsarkar3737]

97 percentile

[@akshatsharma13964]

Poor acads

[@RSVERMA948]

I have started self preparation from past 2-3 days from Arun Sharma , would it be enough ? And how to get the mock paper , and as I a fresh to all the concepts , when should I actually start the mock ?

[@dwarkeshjangid4331]

Bro complete the syllabus in 1.5 months , then rest of 1.5 months solve mocks. That's what i am gonna start from today.

[@auromohanty2508]

😍😍😍😍😍

[@VardhanBendurthi]

Can anybody suggest me the best budget friendly mock test series

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Cl

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IMS or Time

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IMS

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Learn4exam

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Testfunda

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@arsene96 forever!

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[@navjeetbharti2263]

bhaai time cl ims mock test online hi lenge

[@skydous5043]

bhai tu mujhe padha dena, 4 percentile aaya mereko mock mai :(

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[@coolrock321]

Academic profile

[@akshatsharma13964]

877

[@pmprajwalmaheshwari8046]

How come such a huge Percentile not receive call from iim Ahmadabad

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[@pmprajwalmaheshwari8046]

@@InsideIIMKonversations but i do think that if a person has so willingly prepared for cat and has scored a good percentile shud really mean that he wants to pursue mba and his previous acads shouldn't matter if he is willing to work harder for what he wanna pursue

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@@pmprajwalmaheshwari8046 they want girls and non engineers who haven't scored this high....idk y

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Why didn't he get a call from IIM A & IIM B even after 99.98℅ile

[@AmanSharma-iq5sg]

10th 12th marks

[@ShubhamSharma-yb9vl]

@Suraj... I think it means that the marks do matter a lot, and he didn't get enough...

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8/7/7 hai acads

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@@zeal7641 thankyou

[@sumedh235]

@@zeal7641 sachhi bhai?

[@PGIB_TezasReddy]

99.98😱😱but no calls from IIM A, B what are his acads🤔😪😪

[@akshatsharma13964]

877

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@@poco2909 he didn't get calls

[@kusholbhowmick9731]

Arsene96 _/\_ God

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Arsene OP!!

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Does his pet name arsene???

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@@kuldeepgupta1706 kinda It's what he is famous with on PG....PagalGuy

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Arsene wenger... Former Arsenal manager