How to get 95 percentile in CAT 2013; Experts recommendations

Today is the 5th day of CAT 2013 exam. In the last 4 days the exam has been unpredictable in terms of difficulty level and the questions covered. MBAUniverse.com is publishing daily coverage of CAT 2013 exams;

CAT 2013 Day 1: Quant tricky and Tough, Verbal easy
CAT 2013 Day two: Paper pattern and Verbal Ability Analysis
CAT 2013 Day 3 Analysis: RC Lengthy, Verbal & Quant Moderate
CAT 2013 Day 4 Analysis: Imbalance Quant, trouble-free verbal

More than 26000 candidates have taken CAT exam in the first four days. After the examination, the next aim for these students is to wait for the CAT 2013 results. MBAUniverse.com on the basis of the difficulty level and analysis of first four days, presents before you a road map to achieve 95 Percentile in CAT 2013.

Know your Percentile
Mr. Arks Srinivas, Quant guru and seasoned CAT expert shared his mantra to achieve 95+ Percentile in CAT 2013 for Day 1 students. In his opinion, an aspirant can easily achieve above 95 percentile if he has attempted a total of 13 questions in Quant section and 14 questions in Verbal Section with 100% accuracy.

For students who were low on accuracy say 80%, they needed to attempt a total of 30 questions in 1st section including 11 questions in Quantitative Ability and 9 in DI. In 2nd section, they had to attempt 8 questions in verbal section, 7 question in Reading Comprehension (RC) and 8 questions in Logical Reasoning (LR) to achieve 95+ percentile in CAT 2013.

Table below shows the number of question one needed to attempt in CAT 2013 to score above 95 percentile.

CAT 2013 Exam: Way to achieve 95%ile
Quantitative Ability
DI
Verbal Ability
RC
LR
Scenarios 1

Accuracy level
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%

Number of attempts required
6
7
4
4
6

Scenarios 2
Accuracy level
90%
90%
90%
100%
90%

Number of attempts required
8
8
7
6
6

Scenarios 3
Accuracy level
80%
80%
80%
100%
80%

Number of attempts required
11
9
8
7
8

How to achieve 95 Percentile
Based on last four days of paper pattern in CAT 2013, here is our recommendation on how to achieve 95 Percentile:

Quantitative Ability
CAT 2013 aspirants should now devote more time to practice questions on Geometry, Trigonometry and Algebra. The difficulty level is supposed to remain the same. With this difficulty level, a higher percentile can be scored, if the aspirants can crack 13-15 questions in Quant and DI with 100 percent accuracy level.

More questions are to be attempted in this section, if the accuracy level is less say 85-90 percent to score a high percentile.

Data Interpretation
Develop familiarity with the types of data set: You should have a thorough understanding of the different data sets and related calculations.

Develop sound fundamentals of Percentage and Ratio: Addition is most important. After that, Percentage and Ratio are the two chapters that will have a lions share in the calculations while solving any DI set.
How to know which question to quit out of a set of questions: Out of a set of 4-5 questions, 1-2 questions will be slightly difficult. While attempting the set, 1st one should attempt the easy questions, and then only proceed for those central idea questions.Before attempting the questions, read all the questions and try to identify which question is most difficult, and which question is the easiest and should be attempted 1st.

Dont get impressed with the data. Stay away from the technicalities. Keep focused that for solving a particular question, what data may be required. We call this Reverse Contemplating of the solution.

Reading Comprehension
Make sure that you understand the tone of the passage. These questions are expected in every session ofnext CAT 2013 exam. You will get two questions right, if you can crack the tone which is not difficult to understand. Anothercommon question is to detect the main idea of the passage.You will get 3 questions correct, if you can understand it. The strategy should be to write down the important sentences and words from each paragraph on your scratch sheet and by the time you finish reading the passage, you will have fair idea ofcomplete passage. Marking these 5 questions correct, you may have a good improvement in your percentile.

Jumbled paragraphs
Level of difficulty in this section is expected to remain the same. Parajumbles use the connecting words like those, these, this, who, as giving the clue to connect them with other sentences. Besides, any sentence depicting a thought, different from the flow of action, should be construed as outof context sentence.

Contextual Vocabulary
It is not required to cram your head on learning the words. It is better to practice contextual usage. Common words like stand, let, turn, take when suffixed by the prepositions in, by, down, against, off, form phrasal verbs. Read and understand their usage. It will help to mark at least two of the vocabulary questions right.

Error Correction
There may be more than one question on error correction in future sessions. Proper understanding of singular-plural, subject-verb agreement, usage of articles before comparatives and superlatives and the punctuation, will bethe key to crack this type of question. Go for a close reading of direction and remember not to pick out the opposite of what is asked for.

Last sentence of Paragraph: The trick is to opt for the sentence that should conclude the paragraph and should not take the thought to any further discussion. Those who have been practicing such questions wouldnt take much time to crack it. The candidates should concentrate on such sentences that would conclude the discussion instead of opening a domain of further discussion.

Logical Reasoning: Recommendation is to practice more on sets, blood relations and arrangements in logical Reasoning. You may be able to find around 4-5 questions based on these concepts.

MBAUniverse.com readers and users will remember that we published the most relevant articles in last few weeks, giving the clue to the CAT aspirants on surprising and anticipated elements. CAT aspirants, going to take the test in forthcoming days should go through the following How to crack surprise questions in Verbal section for CAT 2013 ; types and tricks to solve CAT questions in Logical Reasoning; Error correction in paragraphs and sentences ; Tips to solve 6 Vocabulary questions; and How to score more in Reading Comprehension.They may prove to be of great help to the aspirants on preparation strategy during the next few days of their CAT examination.