r/CATpreparation

first, they told placements by category and now this

Hello guys, I'm 20 GNEF. I gave CAT 2025 with more than a year whole preparation. Still couldn't score well. My scores in mocks never improved despite trying so much. Also, last year I was preparing with college but now I've just graduated. I started preparing again for CAT 2026. But still my mock scores are somewhere around 35-50. I've been doing everything I could. I've been doing this shit for almost 1.5 years now. This is stressing me so f much. You might say that I've time, but I don't. My father is already retired and I'm a single child as well. My parents don't pressurize me but there's still some unsaid pressure. I'm giving everything to it. I don't sleep, don't eat much and just keep studying all the time. My biggest fear is that what if my mock scores improve but still I get anxious like the previous time in the exam hall and mess it all up. While giving CAT 2025, I got so f anxious that I couldn't even understand a single RC line. By the time I started to understand it, a lot of time had gone. I need to anyhow land in a good college next year. I don't know what to do. Any suggestions? Does it happens with anyone else as well?

Just look at the students which are getting placed in the batch of 2026 =183

Are you serious mica having placed only 183 students out of 240 and than reporting about 100 percent placement report

They argue and say students opted out fuck your ass man after paying around 30 lakh plus on an MBA degree no one actually wants to be opted out this college is a scam

Even i heard from my friends who used to be in mica they said that this college was used to be good earlier but the ROI is getting as a debt trap

The placement report is inflated and unaudited only top 50 students get good packages rest all have to struggle a lot

If you’re rich than u can enjoy this college but after having an education loan sorry mate your struggle is being started 🙏🏻

Hi I am in 3rd year of bsc statistics . I have 94.7 % in 10th. 87.83 % in 12th. And hopefully like 7.5 cgpa in grad.

What are my chances .

How can I improve it??

Reality is different for us, we maybe in the same ocean but different boats so retro-introspect before you take a dive in the ocean with a shit ton of money.

I got a raw score of 43 in VARC.

The RCs were fairly doable and I got most right. The only difficult passages were these two- one about Mexican tera fish and the other about instruments in astrology and biology. But even then the questions could be answered easily with the exception of two-three tricky questions.

In quant I got a raw score of 48. Which was extremely surprising because I am in a non engineering field with no trace of math at all. And I had left math in mid-class 11.
I can say with great confidence that I would have gotten the same score on the slot 2 quant section of cat 2025 even back when I was in class 10 and was done with the cbse syllabus for boards.
And before you all get livid at me for lying I can give a clear breakdown of topics that could fetch that score.

Q 1 - solving quadratic equations + substitution (class 10)
Q 2 - Basic averages and mental ability (class 7-8)
Q 3- skipped because class 11 concepts involved (even then doable by a lot of hard thinking but yeah not in the exam room)
Q 4- cost price, market price, selling price and discount and solving equations (class 8-10)
5 - making cases and knowing integers (more of mental ability than school syllabus)
6 - interesting question but just involves knowledge of exponents (class 8)
7- again sum of roots concept quadratic eq (class 10)
8- interesting logarithm question but once you know the properties very doable (class 10 level olympiad math which I knew by chance)
9- typical upstream downstream question of quadratic equations (very typical ncert class 10 level)
10- common sense and making cases (mental ability)
11- skipped because class 11 level
12- i found it difficult so i skipped it otherwise it is quite doable to those who would have prepared for CAT
13- circles and congruency of triangles (class 10 cbse level stuff)
14- skipped (this stuff is not in class 10 and is taught in high school class 11-12)
15- skipped because i forgot the geometry and wasn’t typical class 10 level
16- taking cases and using mental ability (general)
17- class 8 level ratio stuff
18- skipped because crazy class 11 geometric progression stuff (still doable if you had prepared)
19- basic mixture concept and equations solving
20- class 9/10 similarity of triangles and v doable from first principles without any formulae too
21- concept of work and time - simple question (class 8 easy)
22- percentages (class 7-8)

NOW GUYS COUNT IT ALL. IT ADDS UP TO 16 QUESTIONS CORRECT WHICH IS 16\*3=48 raw score

😭😭😭and literally any student who had studied cbse/ncert level math properly till class 10 and has decent mental aptitude would get this score. And some online sites are showing that this would get a 99+%ile easily.

Even if you remove questions where you had to think somewhat (even though it was still based on ncert level math till class 10 only- RD Sharma and NCERT Exemplar used to have much trickier questions btw!), a score of 40+ was extremely achievable.

If I add up my VARC and QUANT scores it is = 48+43=91 and I did not even see DILR and I am sure I would have found freebies there as well. I literally do not understand the crazy/fear/hype about CAT now.

I am no extraordinary genius, did not give JEE, am not in any math related field and yet this score is possible. And I gave the text online in a timed setup for those of you who are going to counter me by saying “exam mein time bound dena hota hai”.

I will attach a few pics to prove my scores -