Tricks To Improve Your CAT Percentile From 90 to 99 in CAT 2022

CAT 2022 is scheduled on November 27, 2022, i.e. there are around 27 days left for the examination. As the available time is limited, most aspirants focus on taking CAT mocks. As we all know, mocks are imperative in the CAT 2022 preparation. A good number of mock tests will help aspirants face the actual complications in the CAT 2022 examination. Getting into the top b-schools such as IIMs (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, etc.), FMS Delhi, etc., must require the CAT cut-off of about 99 percentile. By taking mocks, one can improve their CAT mock score to the 99 percentile by applying various strategies and tricks on each mock test. In this article, we will discuss how to improve the CAT score from 90 to 99 percentile and also we will look into the list of colleges that accept the 90 to 95 percentile in CAT.

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Getting 90 percentile in CAT? How to Increase The Score To 99 Percentile?

Let us begin with analysing the previously attempted CAT mocks and check out the areas where to focus and improve the scores.

Question Selection

• Start by checking whether you are leaving the questions that are meant to be left.
• By merely avoiding such questions, aspirants can easily attempt 3 additional questions in each section. Therefore, make sure that you are skipping the right questions.
• The next thing to check is whether you are correctly identifying the questions that are meant to be solved.
• Due to the paucity of time, you might have overlooked some easy questions sitting at the farther end of the section. Do questions in rounds to prevent this from happening.

Tips To Improve CAT Score

• Take a good number of mocks and analyse them thoroughly. 
• Identify your strengths and weakness while taking mocks.
• Try to solve the CAT previous year’s papers.
• Focus on improving the accuracy in your weak section.
• Get a strong grasp on any sections and target to get a high score.

Tweak your strategy

Try making some changes to your strategy while taking mocks. A question here and a question there can make all the difference. Therefore, make a few adjustments in the way you approach a test in these last few days. A week before the exam, fix a strategy that you would like to follow.

Let us have a look at some tricks to improve your score in each section of CAT 2022.

How To Improve Score in DILR for CAT

• Try to solve the puzzles such as SuDoKus and KaKuros in your free time to improve your logical thinking skills.
• Improve your thought process.
• Practice various types of sets.
• Take a good number of mocks and analyse them thoroughly.
• Do not spend more than enough time on a single set. It is a very important point to be considered while taking the exam.
• Improve your time management skills while taking mocks.

How To Improve Score in VARC for CAT

• Focus more on the basic concepts of verbal ability.
• Make a habit of reading newspapers, articles, etc., to improve your reading skills.
• Take one RC daily while preparing for CAT.
• Avoid speed reading, skimming, surfing, and other gimmicky techniques while taking an RC.

How To Improve Score in Quant for CAT

• Try to have a strong grasp on the quant basics, including formulas and fundamentals.
• Solve a good number of mocks and also the previous papers.
• Try to find out the shortcuts to solve the given question.
• Focus on improving speed and accuracy.
• Do not spend too much time on a single topic.

How Many Questions To Attempt In CAT To Get 99 Percentile?

As we know that there will be 66 overall questions in the CAT exam. At the same time, one can target a certain number of questions to attempt accurately to get the 99 percentile in CAT 2022. As we all know, VARC and LRDI are the sections which have 24 and 20 questions, respectively. As mentioned before, the targeted scores in these two sections are 24-30 marks. It is quite possible when you solve 2 sets accurately in both sections where you can score more than 24 marks in each section. It is very important to select the right sets that can be solved easily and accurately. The number of questions to be targeted in each section is given below.

This is one of the cases of getting 99%ile. If you are strong in quant, try to get 99+ percentile and target to get 85+ percentile in the other sections.

List of Top Colleges For 90 to 99 Percentile In CAT

Here is the list of top b-schools that accept the CAT score from 90 to 99 percentile, along with their cut-offs.

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