Excellently summarized J/T, I am new to this blog and just starting out on my CAT prep, for 2025. Looking forward to future posts! Although, I am certain your older posts will keep engaged for quite a while.
Wow, wasn’t expecting a reply for a while (or ever) when I wrote the comment. Since I have a veteran at the game here, it would be remiss of me to not ask a question or two. Apologies for the length, couldn’t resist!
A little background info: I have made the decision to go for CAT 2025 after agonizing over what I exactly I want to do after College for a while. I wanted to get started early (this being my semi final year) to ensure I’d be at a good level for Mocks before my internships start next year in August.
I love Reading, Puzzles and am an Engineer (in training) from a good undergrad so those are some advantages, on the other hand I am a General Engineering Male with great scores in 10th, 12th but a 7.6 CGPA in undergrad. So I have my work cut out for me as I understand it.
1) Any suggestions for daily habits that might over the next year prove useful?
2) I intend to use your blog as a reference after I am done practicing with a topic on my own, is that how you intended/suggest its use?
3) Is there any particular post in the blog I should look at that you’d recommend for someone who is just starting out? So far I’ve just browsed around and solved some of the questions that looked interesting. (There are many of those!)
4) Anything you think I should know?
Finally I’d like to thank you for the blog, it seems really interesting and fun. I can see myself enjoying visiting this over the next year.
Haha well this is not really the place for these kind of queries, and I don’t do that much of individual response, but I guess just this once…:
A 7.6 is a problem but not necessarily a deal-breaker (for example in Cal, FMS and XL it won’t matter for a shortlist. In the rest, it will certainly mean you need a higher score than others). For daily habits you already do the two things I recommend most, reading and puzzles. Can work on hands-on calculation perhaps. You can use the blog any way you like – completely self-study some topics (not all are covered here, but those present are mostly starting from basics), or study from elsewhere and then use this to revise or develop different perspectives, or just randomly browse a topic through the tag clouds when you have some free time. No particular starting point, thought I would suggest that within a given topic/tag you start at the bottom (i.e. the oldest post) and work your way upwards. Anything else…well, try to enjoy the process of prepping as that would be the easiest way to maintain momentum (something which most people struggle to do long-term, especially engineers who typically study in short sharp bursts if at all!)
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Excellently summarized J/T, I am new to this blog and just starting out on my CAT prep, for 2025. Looking forward to future posts! Although, I am certain your older posts will keep engaged for quite a while.
Hehe new posts are rare these days as I’ve pretty much covered most of the areas I felt I could add value! Hope you enjoy the old ones though…
regards
J
Wow, wasn’t expecting a reply for a while (or ever) when I wrote the comment. Since I have a veteran at the game here, it would be remiss of me to not ask a question or two. Apologies for the length, couldn’t resist!
A little background info:
I have made the decision to go for CAT 2025 after agonizing over what I exactly I want to do after College for a while. I wanted to get started early (this being my semi final year) to ensure I’d be at a good level for Mocks before my internships start next year in August.
I love Reading, Puzzles and am an Engineer (in training) from a good undergrad so those are some advantages, on the other hand I am a General Engineering Male with great scores in 10th, 12th but a 7.6 CGPA in undergrad. So I have my work cut out for me as I understand it.
1) Any suggestions for daily habits that might over the next year prove useful?
2) I intend to use your blog as a reference after I am done practicing with a topic on my own, is that how you intended/suggest its use?
3) Is there any particular post in the blog I should look at that you’d recommend for someone who is just starting out? So far I’ve just browsed around and solved some of the questions that looked interesting. (There are many of those!)
4) Anything you think I should know?
Finally I’d like to thank you for the blog, it seems really interesting and fun. I can see myself enjoying visiting this over the next year.
Haha well this is not really the place for these kind of queries, and I don’t do that much of individual response, but I guess just this once…:
A 7.6 is a problem but not necessarily a deal-breaker (for example in Cal, FMS and XL it won’t matter for a shortlist. In the rest, it will certainly mean you need a higher score than others). For daily habits you already do the two things I recommend most, reading and puzzles. Can work on hands-on calculation perhaps. You can use the blog any way you like – completely self-study some topics (not all are covered here, but those present are mostly starting from basics), or study from elsewhere and then use this to revise or develop different perspectives, or just randomly browse a topic through the tag clouds when you have some free time. No particular starting point, thought I would suggest that within a given topic/tag you start at the bottom (i.e. the oldest post) and work your way upwards. Anything else…well, try to enjoy the process of prepping as that would be the easiest way to maintain momentum (something which most people struggle to do long-term, especially engineers who typically study in short sharp bursts if at all!)
regards
J