THOUGHTS

Here are some thoughts that have come to me while being in the state of disappointment(refer the bost below)

It's all about practice .... Forget attitude (stakes are too high to have a bad/negative attitude) Forget aptitude (u either have it or not, in any case u can't do anything about it)
PRACTICE -- Yes, that's the only thing in ur hand.. do it like mad...

A guy like me, scoring 17.33 in VA just because of good practice of late strengthens the argument.
DI -- A section where I've allways been strong went to abysmal levels and the fact remains that it happened because of my being underpracticed. Actually, I was slightly over-confident, I wasn't giving it full attention.
Point remains that in the actual CAT, I won't rely on VA.. (more the better), QA is unpredictable, so DI has to be my strength.
The bottomline in the strategy has to be 35X3 + 15 to the section which I've felt is the most crackable.
So, when I'll be relying on DI the most during the actual... it has to be practiced the most.
Doesn't mean that QA and VA can be relaxed.. should continue doing whatever I am doing for them.
In addition, DI has to be practiced. (when,how.. remain the key questions now)..

Doooooomed

I got doomed in the 2nd mock cat... (sad, disappointed,ashamed)

U must be wondering, why ashamed..!!!
Reason : I consider myself to be good at DI..
I got royally screwed (hook, line and sinker ; left, right and center) in DI in this mock....
di-7
qa-8
va-17.33
total-32.33
Cutoffs (according to me) - va~14,qa~7,di~7

Some analysis :
1. Missed sitters in QA. (Reading all of the questions, marking the doable ones and then concentrating on them for the rest of the time seems to be the way to go...)
2. DI got screwed because a) Lack of practice... because of which I had to give lotsa time on easier questions and then did the 2 markers in a frenzy.b)Made a couple of guesses in DI --- will NEVER do it again..
3. Though I scored well in VA, some of the answers were extremely contentuous, so cannot afford to relax..

Percentile -- ummm.. expecting around 95-96.. let's see..

DIVINE BLUNDERS

Was extremely busy of late with lots a stuff happening.
So couldn't post here.
But welcome me back and I assure you that I'll flood you with all the posts...
First things first... My first MOCKCAT happened last sunday....
va-14.66 (cutoff 13.33)
qa-10.33 (cutoff 6.66)
di- 11.00 (cutoff 9.33)
Total-36

Results -- overall ~97%ile. But there were many people above me, who had not cleared sectional cut-offs, so an AIR of 136. Not bad when no. of students were ~10k.
So, at best an "acceptable" start.
But what went wrong...........ANALYSIS......
DIVINE BLUNDERS
1. One DI set (3 ques./4marks). Some initial calculations were required before moving to the questions and I end up calculationg 65-15 as 40 ... and miraculously all 3 ques had implications of this "divine blunder".. huh 4 marks and I wud have been into 98's
2. What, u think I can't make any more such mistakes... wait here comes my second one.
Question says "After how many digits will u encounter an odd digit..". I solve the problem and then count the digits .. yeah 5th digit is odd and options .. yeah yeah 5 is there.. I cracked it...
What the heck.... it is "encountred" after 4 digits ...... 2.67 straight off.....

There were more but not as divine as these.
Any type of errors can be tolerated but these... goooooooooood..........

chalo enuf for now....
btw when is the next mock..? jun 11... hmm