“Strategy” is a very powerful word. Strategy is what Bill Gates uses to hire and retain some of the best heads in the software world - by giving them stock options. Strategy is what has made every sound & informed investor rich in the current Indian bull market and strategy is the same as the shot Tendulkar has selected to play or not to play, as per the field set up, if a particular type of ball is bowled to him. It’s hard to imagine all these people without this skill of anticipating and improvising, which they use in their respective unpredictable fields.
A lot has been written and said about catching the CAT that bugs around 1,50,000 aspirants every year. From hard work to picking up questions smartly, from choosing accuracy over speed to managing time effectively & efficiently, from excelling in your strengths to ameliorating in your weak sections by persistence, from applying to the right B-school to aiming for the best & so on. But the fact is, what works for me might not work for you and the otherwise is also true. As I write this, more than a month is left till the D’day. These days CAN change your life. These days CAN create a ladder for that dream gig you always aspired for.
Thankfully, one thing that we can be really sure of is that CAT is very unpredictable. Having a strategy or a set of strategies is as important as hard work that we all put in, and opening the test and starting from 1st question is not a good one. One should always start from s’thing he/she is really good at. First know your strength / strengths and then your second strength. It makes perfect sense to give your favorite section more time and limiting to the cut-off in the others, rather than by going 50-50-50 in the 150 minutes allotted. Now there are two ways of going about it, either by giving the 45-55 minutes in one go to your favorite section or by 30-35 in first go & coming again in the last 10-15 minutes of the test.
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