ThE final 30 days ...

Please read this post first : Introduction to ThE final 30 days

What We will be doing in these 100 hours spread over 30 days.

5 Sectional tests of QA / DI / VA each ( preferably from previous year mocks or other similar sources and with 20-25 questions in a section in QA/DI and 20-30 questions in VA)
5 Full length Mocks.
Revision of topics where we are comfortable.
Learning new concepts.

Notes we have to maintain

1.) DI sets we couldn't solve in the Mock CAT.
2.) New concepts learned.
3.) Words which came across us in the sectionals and Mocks.
4.) Mistakes that were committed in the mock-cat or the sectional and which could have been avoided.

The basic gyan.

Every day starting from today, make sure to give 3 hours to CAT, and plus do remember that you have to give 10 hours extra.

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Every day, we have to do 3 things.

1.) Learn at-least one new concept, which may be from pg testfunda , totalgadha , some book, some friend, some blog or from anywhere else but we have to read at-least one thing which we didn't knew earlier and note it down + understand it.

2.) Solve at-least 1 DI set, if there is some unsolved DI set in the note 1 for DI we talked about earlier solve it, else get some DI set from any of the above mentioned sources and solve it.

3.) Read the three notes you have written (note 2, note 3 and note 4).

These 3 tasks will take about 60 minutes of your time everyday and sometimes a little more, in all making it an approx 35 hours.


Now we will divide the 30 days into 4 parts : 5 days before taking a full length mock, 5 days where you take a full length mock CAT, 5 days after taking a full length mock, and 15 other days.

For the sake of simplicity I am assuming that one will be taking a full length mock every 6'th day (though it might not be exact 6 days, but try to keep enough time in-between two mocks so as to make sure you can have proper analysis and not too much time to be out of touch of mocks.)

So lets suppose you will be taking full length mocks on 5'th, 11'th, 17'th, 23'nd, 29'th day.


On normal days ie. day 1,2,3,7,8,9,13,14,15,19,20,21,25,26,27.

1 sectional test : 40 minutes.
analysis of test : 80 minutes.
Total : 120 minutes.

What does analysis means // This is one point where my point of view differs from that of coaching institutes and others.

See that
If you wasted time on questions which were difficult to solve.
If you wasted too much time on a question.
If you quit a question just one the verge, and could later solve it in under 3 minutes ( a DI Set in under 15 minutes).
If there was some easy question you didn't/couldn't solve.
If you left a question even without reading it.
If all the questions are at-least familiar to you, if not go through the topic they belong to, and ensure that you can solve any similar question.
Check that if any of the questions could have been solved by some quicker method.

In 15 days : you will have done 15 sectional mock-cats ( 5 from each topic)

On days before full length mock CAT 4,10,16,22,28 .

Solve 3 sectional mocks (which you had already solved) and see if your score improved, if not try to modify your analysis part from next set of sectionals.

total : 3 * 40 =120 minutes.

On the day of full length mock 5,11,17,23,29 .


before giving the mock, be relaxed as if it is the real CAT and do what-ever you would do in a real CAT (just do remember to not to repeat any of the mistakes that you have written in your notes).

total : 135 minutes.

On the day after the full length mock 6,12,18,24,30


Analysis of the mock CAT.

total : 120 minutes.

NET TOTAL : 96 hours 15 minutes ( rest 3 hours 45 minutes, munaafa ..... "Congratulations, you have earned this time and can enjoy this".)