Journey To CAT 2008

Hi,

I am a software engineer with 2 years of experience in a bigshot company and I am taking CAT 2007 with a hope to clear the cut off. But today I am starting the journey to  CAT 2008. I will blog this place every workday with my feeds.

Wait for more.

Satya

 

Submitted by satyamline on Wed, 2007-10-17 16:52.

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who prey, they seek.

Sorry Guyz I think I should write this in my blog. Its for my personal improvement but I would love if others gain from the same.

Thanks

Satya

 

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Hey Satya

Welcome to the party!!

There is a road out, but you will face many obstacles along the way.
And it would be of great help if you can maintain a to-do list and share it with others - the way you approach CAT 2008, the range of elucidation to the hindrances you face during the course of preparation and the methodology you adapt to enhance your scores.

CAT is definitely not the toughest journey if you approach it with courage and dedication.

My mantras

1. Right Attitude
No Negatives
Never in your wildest dreams think that - “I can’t achieve”. Fear comes in many different forms, but the fear of failure can really stop your forward progress.

2. Strong Basics
It’s like “Either you have it or you don’t”
If you don’t - then please go back to your school days and complete the unfinished task.
The way CAT has changed in last couple of years; you can’t do anything with superficial knowledge of tricks, short cuts and formulas.

3. Staying Focused
The road to success requires focus. You really need to stay on the path. Working people might find its tough giving equal time each day but then you have to prioritize things and have to devotee some time every day towards your CAT target.

4. Practice & Practice
Once you have done with your basics the only other job left is practice. Solve all kind of questions you come across.

In the age of internet there is no dearth of quality questions. In this site CAT4MBA there are plethoras of questions for all mba exams. Solve all of them on your own and discuss all your doubts.

Finally have faith on your abilities.

Best of Luck Guys
B Mohanty
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I am also a CAT 2008 aspirant.
Now I am in BE 3rd year and will start the full fledge preparation after the semesters exams are over
 
Which coaching centers are you guys planning to join?

Still IMS is the best or some thing else

 

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Hi Incognito,

You had mailed me with a detailed stats of the premier training institutes(IMS,TIME & CL).According to your mail,it seemed that TIME/CL was better than IMS.

Since then I have asked my friends as well as my seniors,what i have come to infer is that

1.IMS---English is the best

2.TIME---DI/LR is the best

3.Quant --- All the three are good.

4.MOCK CATs ---TIME is the best,as one my seniors told that their prediction(sort of) is thebest.

But I have seen ERUDITE materials,their Quant and DI/LR material is very very good,

The way I will be approaching CAT2008 will be joining any institute(I am staying in Bangalore,so most probably TIME) and getting materials of other institute.Also, browsing through this site regularly.In addition to these my humble suggestion is

a.For Quant ---follow Sarvesh Verma and Nishit Sinha also

b.LR ----follow NIshit Sinha also.

Lets join our hands and march ahead towards CAT,2008.

I will also ask Mr.Mohanty to suggest us what should be the choice of institiutes,sine,he has already mede it through.

By the way,where are you people from?

Happy Pujas!!!

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Hey ayan
 
Thanks for the details. .
what I understood from your message is that there is nothing to choose between IMS/TIME/CL. . .all the three are good.
 
I m in kolkata only and its raining heavily rgt now and ‘ll spoil all the Puja programs if it don’t stop in few hours.
 

Anyhow Happy puja to you all.

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Hi Piho,

Hope that your puja doen't get spoiled by the rain!!!By the way are you preparing for CAT'08 or CAT'07.
I think your preparation is going to take a stepback during the pujas.It really feels bad to spend pujo outside kolkata.
Anyways,Best of luck to all for all their exams!!!

Alles Gutte!!!

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Hi satya

I too am a software engineer but unlike you iam a fresher working in chennai. I have decided to take CAT 2008 a single shot with full focus.I have decided to join TIME classes ..Nice meeting ppl who r travelling on the same board with me..u can reach me at :rk.pscse@gmail.com .U can share ur experiences as well as materials while i will share mine as well..Nice seeing your post.

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I am preparing for CAT 2008
 
Can any one tell me what are the topics to be covered?
 
Where to start the preparation?
 

Which coaching center is the best?

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Hi All

About me

I am working in an IT company and my aim/goal/lakhya z CAT 2008.

My plan

We have almost 12 months for the preparation.

For next 6 months I am going to concentrate mainly on building the basics and after that . . (‘ll decide later )

So here are my suggestions

1. Lets find out all the topics on quants.

2. Divide it into some equal parts (say 12).

3. We make a target of 15 days for covering one chapter.

4. In the first 4-6 days we ‘ll discuss the basic concepts and ‘ll go through the fundamental details.

5. After that we ‘ll solve all the questions in this site, Nishit sinha, Arun Sharma, IMS, CL, TIME etc.

 

I am looking for some serious guys . . and hoping those who are appearing CAT 2007 ‘ll also help us.

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Hey Guys

lemme introduce myself ... Im Naveen .. working with oracle as a s/w engineer

Decided to crack CAT-2008

Letz do it

 

Cheers

Naveen

 

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