Somansh Chordia scored 100 percentile in CAT exam in his first attempt. Read here how Somansh prepared for CAT 2019.
CAT 2019 Topper Somansh Chordia
CAT 2019 Overall Percentile: 100
VARC: 99.93
DILR: 99.88
QA: 99.98
Somansh Chordia, one of the ten 100 percentilers of CAT 2019, says it is important to compare your performance with during CAT preparation but one should not get demoralised or overconfident in the process. Originally from Nagpur, Somansh is currently pursuing BTech Mechanical Engineering in Mumbai. He plans to pursue MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore or IIM Calcutta. Although, he started CAT preparation in January 2019, there were many breaks in between.
Shiksha spoke to Somansh about his CAT preparation strategy, here’s what he shared.
Q: Congratulations! Are you satisfied with your CAT result? How much score were you expecting?
A: I am more than satisfied with my CAT result. I was expecting a bit over 200 but 236 (scaled score) was a surprise.
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A: Yes, it was my first attempt at CAT exam.
Q: When did you start preparing for CAT exam? What was your overall prep strategy?
A: I had joined TIME in January but for the initial 3-4 months I just gave mocks and attended a few classes to understand CAT exam pattern. During summers, I was busy in my internship, so could not devote any time. From August onwards, I began analysing the mocks and worked upon some of my weak areas. Finally in October, I began focusing properly and gave much more time towards CAT preparation. Sectional tests were particularly helpful in improving weak sections. Towards the end (about 1-2 weeks before the exam), I dedicated almost all the time to my weak areas and solved some of the previous years’ CAT question papers.
Q: Please share with us your section-wise strategy.
A: VARC - This was my weakest areas. In the beginning, methodology and tips that faculty at TIME shared were beneficial to understand how to approach these questions and the different common strategies that students commonly use. After that I practiced a lot of similar questions together to understand the common types of mistakes that I am committing and this gave a major boost. After that I just practiced and analysed this section through mock tests. Still, I couldn’t get consistency in getting a good score till the end, but fortunately on the day of exam, this section went very well, even better than any of the mocks.
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DILR - I was quite comfortable with this section from the beginning which might be because I was used to solving similar puzzle kind of problems and also since I enjoyed this section, practicing and improving was a lot more easy and fun. Solving a few questions of each type and practice through mocks was enough for me. Practice was specifically important for increasing the speed since accuracy is generally not a concern in this section.
QA - Initially, this section required revision of some basic theory and memorising certain formulas for solving the questions faster. After that, I used to identify my weak areas, where I felt I could improve the speed of solving questions with a bit of practice and practiced those topics. Since I was trained in ABACUS, I had an edge over others as it helped me solve much faster.
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