How to score 99+ percentile in CMAT exam in 30 days

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Hello there ,

If you are aiming to ace CMAT exam with 99+ percentile but still doubt yourself or your preparation is not as expected or you have not studied anything at all or most importantly you gave CAT/IIFT etc but could not perform well and CMAT is your last resort(this was my case)

Then you are in right place..!

Before I start something, you should know about my background and then you can easily relate. I am Divyanshu, CMAT'17   AIR- 109 with 99.82 percentile. Now before you start judging me as some kind of bookworm or anything like that , stop!... I am not a studious student , I am an Computer Science Engineer, and I do stuff that mostly all Engineers do (rooms are open for imaginations).

I am just an average student and started preparing for CAT exam from an reputed institute in Delhi. I was not very good at LR and Quants, as far as english is concerned it was fine. Back in 2016 , I gave CAT & CMAT but unfortunately could not score well in them but I cleared TISSNET(thrice! , for tissnet read my next post!)  I tried again in 2017 , appeared for CAT, CMAT and TISSNET , but here again could not score well in CAT ! as mentioned earlier my LR was still weak and I couldn't do more about it but I got 99.82 in CMAT , 225 marks 99 in NMAT, and qualified for TISSNET again!.

To be honest, I knew why I could not perform well in CAT, it was due to past academic record.My acads are very bad in 10th , 12th, So deep inside i knew even if I score more in CAT, I would not get into top IIMS (BLACKI) , I was disheartened. After CAT there were 3 exams in pipeline CMAT, NMAT, TISSNET. In this post I will talk about CMAT only. In CMAT-2016 , i got rank some where around 3500, and I knew were I lagged. These three exams were my last hope and all these were pretty easy compared to CAT exam. So, I devoted all my energy in these exams.

I came to know about MMS programme through cmat , which will guarantee you a seat in top colleges like SIMSREE, KJ SOMAIYA etc etc. irrespective your past acads + no interview (no one could grill me on my acads now!)....It felt like yea! this exam is for me, and I am gonna ace it !, ace it good!... BUT it was not easy, you have to be in top ~150  rank to get into MMS programme  for candidate outside Maharashtra state (i.e. OMS candidates)..

In next 40 days , I started from the beginning and followed only few books , studying at max 2-3 hours per day. I devoted more time to GK and LR. List of books that I followed are given at the end of this post.During this period I realized what went wrong in my Cmat preparation last year, I had soo many books, many coaching materials, newspaper editorial which I thought would help me but it backfired. It was too much for me to assimilate and forget about revising.

This time, I followed only few books which I liked the most and studied them only multiple time. It is better to study from 1 book many times than from many books 1 time!....In the end I won!...

For CMAT just follow these books-

Quants- Buy How to Prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT Book Online at Low Prices in India(Solve LOD 1 & 2 only!)

Reasoning -Buy How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for the CAT Book Online at Low Prices in India (LOD 1 & 2)

English— Amazon.in: D,V,Prasada,Rao N, N.D.V. Prasada Rao: Books (Yes, this is the only book you need to ace English section) or this book- Buy How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for the CAT Book Online at Low Prices in India

Gk —https://amzn.to/2zF6Q6D(For static part like History,Geography etc)

For current affairs , refer to last 6 month current affairs only from any good online sources like Gktoday- Home Page

I followed only these books and secured 99.82%ile in CMAT 2017 :)

Hope this will work for you too.

ATB !~…..

Edit 1: Make sure you buy the latest edition of books

You can see my result here -> http://www.aicte-cmat.in/Documents/CMATMeritList2017N.pdf