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48 hrs before CAT, a two-point advisory
Published on Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 13:52, Updated on Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 14:03 in Nation section
Tags: Bell The CAT, Expert Talk , New Delhi
New Delhi: Ritesh Hemrajani, Director of IMS Applect, New Delhi, shares tips and answers last-minute queries for CAT aspirants on CNN-IBN's special show Bell the CAT.
"Based on your strength and weaknesses, make sure that your weaknesses are reasonably covered. You get the bare minimum in weak areas. And make up your strong areas so as to be able to pull up the maximum score as high as possible." That's the two-point advisory from Hemrajani just 48 hours before the Big Day.
What strategy should I follow for this year’s CAT? (Girish Babu from Bangalore)
Ans: The strategy is broadly defined in two terms. Ensure that you clear the minimum in all the sections and try to maximise the overall. Based on your strength and weaknesses, make sure that your weaknesses are reasonably covered. You get the bare minimum in weak areas. So, make up with your strong areas so as to be able to pull up your maximum score as high as possible. I think that’s the gist of it.
What about the arithmetic portion of the test? (Sudhir Kumar from Cochin)
Ans: Somewhere in last three or four years, the number of questions on the whole has been coming down and your required marks in mathematics, problem solving and various other areas have become much lower in terms of cutoffs. It’s not an unachievable target. Keep focus on main areas, whether it is number systems, arithmetic, geometry. And make sure you do the bare minimum. Arithmetic, par se, mathematics should not make too much of difference. And this year IIM-Ahmedabad has come up with their required cutoffs. So, I think, it will be very much manageable.
Only two days are left for CAT. I have already done my conceptual revision and half of test paper revision. Is it okay if I go with the remaining half of test paper revision today and tomorrow I go with formula revision?(Akshata Despande from Mumbai)
Ans: At this point of time, I think, a lot of study should be to make yourself mentally comfortable that 'I am doing something'. So, if this makes you happy, Akshata, go ahead. But I think today and tomorrow, don’t try and put too much of work. Relax quite an extent. But little sort of revision of formulae will never be a problem, which you can do on Sunday morning also, if that is required. But on the whole, take it very cool tomorrow and be in your best frame of mind when you go for the CAT on Sunday.
Basically I have completed my Masters in Engineering and currently I am working as a senior structural engineer. And I want to know if I take a CAT and decide to do an MBA, which college should I choose and which stream shall I take it?(Rupak Kumar from Chennai)
Ans: There will not be any college dealing with the civil department, par se. But if you look at the broader perspectives within the Civil Engineering department – whether it is a listed company or consulting company – looking at infrastructure and real estate, I think that’s an area you can do well. Also the fact that you already have a Masters degree and you are working, I think, somewhere your requirement from a typical B-school also would be to get a lateral placement. Having said that, your shortlist should be limited pretty much somewhere to the top 15 colleges in India. And beyond that, it will be slightly difficult for you to get the lateral placement.
As far as the sector is concerned, don’t be too focused in terms of looking at just Civil Engineering. Broadly if you look at the infrastructure and consulting, there will be lots of overlaps there.
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