I am putting a lot of effort in my practice but my performance is not improving in mocks. Will I perform better in actual cat paper?
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Giving atleast 20 mock exams and rectification of repetitive mistakes is key to success in CAT, your score shall improve for sure.
Test 1: Difficulty level: Easy. You score 150/300 and get a percentile of 95.
Test 2: Difficulty level: High. You score 100/300 and score a percentile of 96.
It might seem uncommon but the second stage is very much possible. So the idea is that you need to assess yourself on a relative scale.
Now, once you know whether your score is poor on a relative or an absolute score, you can assess your strength or weaknesses.
Normally yes.
In mock exams you compete with people who prepare for cat. At least half of people just write CAT without any preparation, so you can overtake most of them and your percentile in mock exams normally less than actual CAT. You may expect your CAT score as 40+( mock percentile / 2) if you take mock exams in a highly competitive mock tests like that of TIME. For example if you consistently score 60 percentile in mocks, your score might be 40+ 60/2 = 70 percentile.
Analyze the paper very carefully (it usually take hours to analyze a paper thoroughly).
Do not just memorise formulae. Understand reasoning behind them and question them consistently. This should be followed by playing around with the concepts and formulaes to suit specific questions.
Even after a lot of practice if you are getting such low scores, maybe you are over doing questions that is ending with many negative markings due to wrong answers.
Hope this helps you.
Good Luck!
Do not be disheartened. Take your time and focus on your strengths.
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