When should I start preparing for CAT (2019)? I am currently studying in 3rd year of engineering.

Hello Akash, As early as you can. You have 1 year in your hand before you get eligible to enrol for CAT. If you start now, you will have no chance for loopholes. You will get enough time to prepare for each section well. Since CAT is a tough nut to crack. Good luck.

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For converting any of the top 10 colleges, the safest percentile is 99+. You may convert it at less, but the safest is 99+. Now coming to my experience, I started preparing for CAT in 3rd year of my engineering, but I was never serious so I ended up missing a lot of classes and was very irregular. Ended up scoring less. Decided to give CAT another attempt and this time promised myself to be serious about it. After my engineering, I didn't take up a corporate job (had an offer). Instead I started working with my father in our family business and was preparing for CAT alongside. I will share my daily routine with you: I used to go to work at 10am and return by 5pm or 6pm. After that from around 7 or 8, I used to start studying till 1 or 2 am. I used to give one section test of RC consisting of 3 RC passages daily. This was mainly because I was the weakest in VA-RC. I used to analyses the RCs and then start with QA and DI/LR on alternate days. I am a moody person so used to study chapters based on my mood. On days when I was too tired, I used to solve easy chapters. For vocabulary, in the initial first month, I started doing 1 or 2 sessions of word power made easy by Norman Lewis and completed it. I used to give mocks mainly on weekends. Most of my weekends were spent mainly on giving a mock followed by analyzing a mock. Lastly, I would say consistency is a must. This all worked for me. Hope you benefit from some of it too.

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