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Tips for Online CAT Preparation for Working Professionals

Apr 06, 2018 by Admin
Tips for Online CAT Preparation for Working Professionals

CAT Preparation for the Working Professionals is not the icing on a cake, if the working professional aspirant has a demanding job, it becomes still more tedious. Even though, working professional aspirants have more advantages over other fresher’s because they have knowledge and have worked with the dynamics of the business before. IIM mainly give significance importance for the Quality of the Work Experience. Working Professionals have better Knowledge about the specialization, departments and functioning of the organization.

Working Professionals who aspires to take up MBA, their career will tremendously guide them combine the sharpness of whatever they have learnt from their experience with the Functional aspects of business which will always make them decisive and grow professionally.

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For the Working Professional Aspirants, it becomes a difficult routine while preparing for CAT and its way too impossible for them to attend any coaching Institutes.

Tips which help working professionals for the preparation of CAT:

  • If the Working Professional candidate is willing to opt for IIMs or Top Management Institutes, he/she has to first check out the Sectional Percentile cut off from the previous year batches from those Institutes. The Candidate must make a point to analyze and then plan accordingly for the Career development.
  • The candidate should make the habit of dividing the preparation in three phases, Firstly, the foundation of the preparation itself is a Basic. The candidate must focus on basic areas such as Formulas, Concepts and the foremost thing is to watch CAT Preparation videos. Second phase is Practice, The only way to get confidence is to Practice more number of question from the preferred book for CAT and in the Third phase, for testing one’s own ability, the candidates must take up  mock tests so that they can figure out their strong and weak areas.
  • Working Professional Aspirants can start accessing the free resources; check the authenticity of the online materials before accessing it. Online preparation will help the working professional aspirant decide their own time of availability and convenience that will guide them for further preparation.

These are the few gists on the routine for CAT preparation that one can follow:

  • Preparation for CAT Exam requires roughly around 300 to 500 hours.
  • Working professional Aspirant must study atleast 1 hour on daily basis. Ideal would be 1.5 to 2 hours.
  • The Aspirant must study atleast 4 hours on Saturday and Sunday. Ideal would be close to 6 hours.

The working professional aspirants must devote their time to all the 3 sections: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension. For Daily practice, they must solve about 10-15 questions a day, cover all the topics from different sections and they should make sure to solve all previous year CAT questions. This increases one’s own practice levels. These are some of the necessary tips for Working Professionals while preparing for CAT exam.

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