CAT Toolkit
(From Now Till 18th November 2007)
Part - 1
Head churning? Seeing bright
stars in broad daylight? Trying to reason out everything audible? Timing (to the
extent of seconds) your breakfast, lunch or/and dinner?
If answers to most of these
questions are in affirmative, you have certainly realised that the C-Day (the
CAT-Day) is at hand!
Nervous??? Yes. Great - the best
part is that approximately 1,49,999 others too are feeling the same right now!
By now you have gauged yourself
against the best of students taking CAT 2007; now RELAX! Stop worrying! Put your
anxieties away! Why? Let us tell you why! You have taken your Mock CATs. You
might be having any ranking in them, you might be having any kind of a score on
your FLTs (Full Length Tests); ALWAYS remember that at any time and at any
score, there will always be a few thousand students with the same skill level in
Quant, Verbal, Reasoning, etc., as you have. Those few thousand students would
probably be scoring the same; must be sweating out the same way, and must be as
competent as you are. The obvious question now is HOW to gain an edge over those
competitors of yours?
Now, the important answer -
Successfully get over your anxieties while others can't. If you are TOUGH in
your mind, the battle is won (and the CAT has been surely belled). By doing so,
you have left thousands behind.
You must have heard the saying of
a wise wood-cutter (maybe he had appeared for the CAT some time in his life) -
"If I have 12 hours to cut a tree, I will spend 10 hours sharpening the saw."
The 'hours' thing might be too much to spend by the standards of a CAT aspirant
but the gist is undoubtedly worth following for.
See, CAT is your battle where you
have to fight like a General not like a soldier because it is the General who
ultimately leads to victory and a soldier almost inheritably ends up following.
So, be a GENERAL, that is, in a nut-shell, STRATEGISE!
Think, do you have your game-plan
ready for a CAT question paper with 3 sections, 4 sections or may be no section
division at all? If not, be ready with it. CAT is full of surprises and you
never know what will confront you on 18 November 2007. You can't afford to, we
repeat CAN'T AFFORD. To be befuddled and worried on 18 November 2007 - honestly
speaking, remember a gospel for CAT -
"TENSION ON - CAT GONE!"
