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such as the ones you are gearing up for. Once you taking strategy.
have written a mock, what follows thereafter is as GP loves driving
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The CAT 2016 pattern was akin to taking three, one one of the core
hour sectional tests one after the other and hence it founders of CL.
is highly advisable to take the sectional tests
regularly along with Mock CATs. Most students take
this advice seriously and focus on writing the Mocks
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extent of a taking a Mock CAT every week. However,
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2. Go through all the grammar questions again and Are

mark for weekly revision the ones you got wrong. you
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3. Go through all the para-jumble, para-completion ng the
and critical-reasoning questions to understand right
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why each choice is correct or incorrect. Revise the ons in
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Revision.This aspect of preparation is ignored by a ics,
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but do not revise the important questions from CAT,
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