i m in my first year of bsc in hopitality and hotel administration from ihm lucknow . i wanted to do mba after this. kindly if anybody who can provide me tips, guidance or anything related to cat and other exams for mba entrance is welcome to do so.
RE:cat 2005
by Pravin on Oct 14, 2004 10:55 PM Permalink
Hi Buddy, just going by what u said, u WERE bad at QA, and then u want some help. I think u need help in English too. Sove as amny tests as possible and Read the newspaper daily. this will help in both english as well as QA.
Dear Friend's, Acc to my career planning I'll have to give CAT examination from next year.But I've decided to prepare for such a challangative exam from this year onwards. Pls give me proper Guidence about How can i practice for CAT before one year. You can reply at "incandescent@rediffmail.com". Thank you JAI
iam preparing for CAT..... i was poor at maths section...so how can i improve n hone my skills in at quantitative section?.......plz suggest me.......thank u
RE:hi
by priya on Aug 20, 2005 11:39 PM Permalink
hey!! To improve quants, first strengthen ur mental calculation ability...it also helps in DI.One of my frens suggested writing all the imp concepts in each chapter in a notebook....n keep goin over it....Solve a lot of problems from different books...keep practicin....tat'll help u! All the Best!
Your advice is way too simplistic to be of any use. Plus there are Errors in what you have told. Everybody knows you have to slog really hard for the CAT, that you need to improve maths, Data interpretation and reading skills. what new perspective have you added. Apart from that, mugging wordlists is going to take you nowhere in CAT. CAT does not test you on vocabulary. You probably got confused with other exams like GRE, XAT, etc, which do test your knowledge of obscure English words.
RE:Your tips are USELESS!!
by sachin on Nov 02, 2004 11:00 AM Permalink
Excuse me yooung man..
CAT is not about intellenge or hard work..its more about smart work..knowing your strengths and weaknesses.
You are in no way going to attempt 150 questions in 2 hrs. So the whole funda is to find out what you will can attempt with better accuracy and speed. Do a SWOT analysis of yourself during mock CATs and if your analysis is right factor in a strategy for the final CAT.
Believe me ..if you understand yourself...you are in..
Although there is a high correlation between the academic success of the students in professional studies with their entrance exam scores in the competitive exams,caution should be exercised not to stetch it too far.
Imagine an Einstein , C.V.Raman , Iacoca ,or Bill Gates preparing for IIT/IISc/CAT entrance exam.No doubt ,all these people would have flunked the "artificial" settings created by the entrance exam culture,which definitely distracts atleast few potential Scientists/Managers from "real world" work.
Also remember that millions of man hours are spent by highly qualified faculty of disparate instituitions in management or technology for preparing redundant set of questions dished out in all such , highly "competitive" ,exams.And,again, millions of man hours are spent by students across the country to answer nearly similar questions of differnt competitive exams conducted by each separate instituitions, blissfully unaware of the vital waste of human resources!
Instead it should be a good idea to have one common netwide ,nation level exam for MBA or BTech/Banking etc (IIT or Self financing Colleges) through out the country as a routine test every year.
RE:Competitive Wastage
by Mikhail Joshi on Oct 19, 2004 03:21 PM Permalink
dude..althought what u say is true upto a certain extent ...a mugging up of word lists is mandatory if u want to make it to the IIMs..coz who knows there might be 2-3 outright vocab Q's potentially gicing u 3 marks in 5 secs which just might prove to be the difference between 6 calls and 6 rejections.. If u dare to dream of IIM-A..leave no stone unturned ..MUG UP THE WORDLIST
RE:Competitive Wastage
by Sumit on Oct 15, 2004 03:24 AM Permalink
Mr. Menon, While i appreciate ur great concern for the wastage of human resources, what i could not understand is , supposing a single commomn admission test is held for all the institutes, will it not contain the so called " redundent questions" ? Secondly, while i agree that Einstein, Dhirubhai Ambani or Bill Gates did not have any professional degrees and probably could never have cleared exams like CAT, the fact still remains that if the resources are scarce, u need some kind of screening to separate the grain from the chaff. Further, u urself admit the high correlation between exam score and the success in carrer.
