How to Secure Rank 1 in MBA CET by Patrick - Part 2 of 3

Previous Article: How to Secure Rank 1 in MBA CET by Patrick - Part 1 of 3 : http://mbacetprepwithpatrick.blogspot.in/2015/12/how-to-secure-rank-1-in-mba-cet-by.html

One important quality of a student who will score Rank 1 is that he needs to be familiar with the different types of questions that can come in the exam. To be familiar with different type of questions that can be asked, one has to solve a lot of mocks and do a lot of practice.

In CAT preparation old mocks are fine, but in CET ideally solve the latest mocks of different classes as what has been seen is that there are new type of questions in CET every year which is then asked in the subsequent years and that is only incorporated in the latest mocks.

It is difficult to predict the difficulty level of CET exam as it could differ drastically. (The cutoff for JB in written test have varied from 120 to 165 in written test). So it is important to get used to mocks of different difficulty levels so that one does not get surprised by the difficulty level of the exam.

When one writes mocks the focus has to be constant improvement. This is only possible if you analyse the mocks thoroughly and try to get better ways of solving the questions that have come in the mocks.

Number of Mocks that one needs to write can vary from 20 to 50 depending on the time available with the student. So one of the plans for the last 3 months is as follows.

From 12th week to CET to 10th week to CET one can write 1 mock per week (if one has not completed the syllabus) or 2 mocks per week (if one has finished the syllabus). The idea is to understand the paper pattern and find where one needs to work on and focus on the rest of the week on areas one has to improve. also in the initial period one may take more time to analyse the paper. So each paper one writes can be analysed for 5 to 6 hours or even more.

From 9^th week to CET to 6^th week before CET one can write 3 mocks per week. So on one day you can write and analyse your mock, which should take a total of 5 to 6 hours. On the next day you should be able to practice whatever your areas of improvement are so that you can be prepared to write the mock the next day.

From 5^th week to 2^nd week before CET exam you can write 4 to 5 mocks a week. So you can write and analyse mocks on two consecutive days with a days break for preparing for your areas of improvement. 

Last week writing just 2 to 3 mocks would suffice. One should not write too many mocks just before the exam or there could be a problem of burnout.

The focus in the last couple of weeks should be to go through the previous mocks that one has solved and go trough the questions that one has marked or see what mistakes one has done so that one does not repeat the same. One should also be going through the various strategies that one has adopted in different types of paper and try to finalise the strategy that one should adopt in the actual exam. So it is important that after writing each mock one should have a write up on the mock as to what worked, what did not and improvement for the next mocks. Also in the mock mark the questions you feel you should go through them at a later stage.

This plan basically assumes that you have finished with your syllabus 2 months before the exam.

That does not mean that you cannot crack the exam with 2 months left. I had a student by name Ranjan Sharma, who came to me with less than 2 months to go for the exam. He had not prepared for any other aptitude exam before and being a non Engineer had not touched Math for more than 4 years. He ensured that he went through all the important topics in 20 days and then spent 1 month writing mocks and analysing. He managed to secure Rank 9 in CET and made it to JBIMS easily.

I have been harping on 6 hours a day of preparation. But that will be difficult for working people. But working students need to work doubly hard. They need to some amount of their preparation during work – like reading or maybe analysing some part of mock that they have written. Rest of the preparation they need to do at home where they can spend around 3 to 4 hours of preparation time. I had a classroom student Varun Vaze who used to come late from work, sit late at night and write mocks and analyse the mock the next day. He used to write mocks until 12 to 1 am in the night. He made it to JBIMS.

Next Article (Part 3 of 3 of this series) will be on how to improve scores in the mocks.

CET16 Test Series by Patrick - http://mbacetprepwithpatrick.blogspot.in/2015/12/cet16-test-series-by-quoin-academy.html 

Patrick D'souza is an alumns of JBIMS. He has secured Rank 1 in CET in 2011 and 2012. More than 120 of his students secured admission in JBIMS in the last 6 years.

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