Failed in 2 Attempts But Topped in 3rd: A CAT Topper’s Success Secret
A CAT Topper’s Success Secret: Discover the Difference Between Failing in CAT 2 Times (98 percentile) and Becoming a Topper (100 percentile) in 3rd Attempt
Here is what one of the CAT toppers “Ayush Kedia” (Assistant System Engineer at TCS who did BE in Computer Science from NIT Durgapur in 2008) says in an interview to the magazine Career360 April 2010 issue:
As you can read on the magazine page above, Ayush says, “So, this time round, I devoted all my time to English and that’s what made the difference”.
Work HARD-SMART
The secret for you from Ayush’s interview: The path for engineers to IIMs goes through focus on “Verbal Ability”.
It means that it is not enough to work hard but you have to work HARD-SMART. What it means is that you have to work hard, but with right focus in the right direction, and using the best support available to maximize the results in the limited time you have available.
For example, Ayush Kedia is the same person who took CAT exam 3 times, failed 2 times, yet topped the 3rd time. How is it possible? For the first 2 times, perhaps he divided his time equally for the 3 papers, but only after failing 2 times, he realized that the way to work hard-smart is to focus just on “Verbal Ability”.
Please write below in comments how you plan to change your study / preparation after discovering Ayush’s secret.
15 Responses to “Failed in 2 Attempts But Topped in 3rd: A CAT Topper’s Success Secret”
gujja.bharath
I am Studying MBA. my main problem is very poor in English what is your suggestion
priya
how to prepare for CAT……. wat is the benefit of this…….. give me suggestion……
SUPRABHAT SINGH
MY NAME IS SUPRABHAT SINGH MY PROBLEM IS THAT I AM GOOD IN ENGLISH AND DATAINTERPRETATION BUT NOT WELL IN MATBS NUMBER SYSTEM AND PROBABILITY PLEASE HELP ME
Debt Relief
Sorry for my bad english. Thank you so much for your good post. Your post helped me in my college assignment, If you can provide me more details please email me.
srinivasan
building vocab for exam might be a tedious process. after getting the cent percentile its great to feel..ayush said that was 100% correct….concentrating vocab is must to those who will face cat exam .
Mehool Patel
Focus on ENGLISH is highly essential.I will ALSO CONCENTRATE ON THIS MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION.
vijay
hello,please help me to crack CAT-exam. i have to take admission in IIM_A.i am doing b.tech(ece) in 3rd year.
help me.
admin
For engineering students, because they are already good in maths and logic, the path to IIMs goes through mastering vocab.
Use our vocab builder (details at http://www.mindmachinelab.com/cat.htm)
Jui K MAhadeokar
Please give me a good strategy to crack CAT 2010 and a plan for 6 months
Yash N jain
I mainly dont study for any competitive exam,i study for achieving the aim for knowing many of the things in this world and achieving the position that anybody in this world ask me any question, i should always able 2 answer them
madhivadhani
wow………………………superb…………
don`t loose this confident at any cost…..BEST OF LUCK
ameer
how can u prepare for CAT . plz give me suggest.
rachna
now i know how to suceed in competition like aieee ,iit-jee
what we need to do is to focus on the most important subject which is worth scoring and pay all your attention to it,
nisha
hello ayush…
i want to know your success stretegies.Means i wanna know your preparation plans and the time you devoted to crack such a toughtest nut. if possible can you please share some helpful and important tips that you followed while preparing for CAT.
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abhishek
i hv appeared for cat and i guess i wll need to appear again to attain my dream iim seat….and i guess i need to reallly work hard in quants area as i m very weak in that particular area….