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After you've classified your questions in the categories I suggested (refer my post on ‘Are you choosing the right questions in your Mocks', this is the second part of things you must do after every mock you take. Students focus on writing the Mocks and some even go to the extent of a taking a Mock CAT every day. After the paper they check their scores and move on to the next paper. To understand how the Mock CATs should be handled we need to first understand the purpose of Mock CATs. If you are feeling feverish you will use a thermometer to check your temperature and if it shows undesirable result, then after analyzing the situation the doctor will advise corrective action – medicines, diet control, rest etc. If you do not take the corrective action your condition will deteriorate. A Mock CAT is similar to a thermometer - It tells you your current situation and highlights the areas where you need to take corrective action. Just as checking your temperature every couple of hours without taking corrective action will be of no use, taking a Mock CAT without analyzing the paper and identifying the corrective action for the desired output is a waste of time. After you have taken the paper and checked your score, the real work starts. Go through all the questions and solve them again. QA Questions: Solve the question again and compare your solution with the one given in the solution booklet. If you were unable to solve it, go through the solution and ask yourself if you would like to attempt this type of question in future. If the answer is no, forget this question. Check if there are any other shorter or faster methods to solve the question. Check if the incorrect choices can be eliminated on the basis of logic. Check if approximation or calculation short cuts get you to the answer faster. Any question in which you have been able to identify an alternate method or a calculation short cut or a question has helped you understand a concept is an IMPORTANT question and needs to be REVISED every week. DI & AR Question sets: 1. Attempt all data sets that you did/could not attempt during the test. 2. Identify the questions that could have been solved with the help of choices and revise them every week. 3. Identify the questions in which calculation short cuts can be applied and revise them every week. 4. Identify the type of data sets that you should definitely attempt or not attempt in future. 5. Identify the data sets that you should revise every week. RC Passages: 1. Attempt the RC passages that you did not attempt in the designated 70 minutes and then decide if the decision of not attempting these passages was correct. 2. Find the meaning of the words that you have come across for the first time. 3. The questions for which you marked incorrect answers, find out the reasons. Verbal Ability Questions: 1. In vocabulary & sentence completion question find out the meaning of all the words in the choices and revise the difficult ones every week. 2. Go through all the grammar questions again and mark for weekly revision the ones you got wrong. 3. Go through all the para jumble, para completion and critical reasoning questions to understand why each choice is correct or incorrect. Revise the difficult questions every week. Now that you have analyzed the paper we need to get to the next step: Revision. This aspect of preparation is ignored by a large number of students. Most students practice a lot, they take a Mock CAT or a section test every day but do not revise the important questions from these papers and hence not only do they commit unforced errors and are unable to work fast in the paper. The author is a faculty by profession and imparts education/training MBA Entrance Exam. For more details, you can visit http://www.careerlauncher.com/smartcatcracker and find information on all entrance tests, Online coaching, coaching for cat, notifications, results and exam analysis.
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