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DASHCAT vs SIMCAT (posting this as someone earlier had asked me to post this)
VARC: Simcats compared to dashcats have very doable RCs with not so much inference and the questions too are straight forward(you can easily eliminate 2 options and for 3 & 4 too its easy if you have read the passage well) Dashcat's VARC is notch above the simcats and i fell the headstart RCs too are difficult than simcats.... VA part is good and at par with DASHCATs.
DILR: again simcats are easy , for someone could be in terms of set selection or maybe the LOD. usually simcats have 3/4 doable sets and probability of you picking the wrong set is very low compared to dashcats wherein if you pick one wrong set you are cooked for 40 min straight....headstart DILR is more or less on similar lines sometimes and even less
QA : alot of sitters 7-8 questions are LOD1 and which you cant expect to be in real CAT exam ( unless calcutta has something to say xd) Dashcat QA is lengthy and it demands time to check if you can do this question or not wherein simcats you can easily identify sitters and hence maximizing the score is easy...
overall if you attempt headstart mocks you are very close to simcats ...
DASHCAT 50+ = SIMCAT 75-80 score
anyone who has taken simcats can add too :)
I am very bad at VARC section. I am able to score around 20 marks on an average in Cracku mocks in VARC section. But I am consistently scoring less than 15 marks in IMS mocks in VARC. and I felt the varc section in IMS to be difficult than cracku and sometimes I am just not able to understand the RC no matter how many times I read it. Does anyone feel the same?
i got 99.1 percentile in cat varc last year ,believe me when i say ims varc is not tough or hard ,it's meaningless ,it's absurd to an extent it becomes stupid ,i got 23 in simcat 9 and my percentile was like 95 or something which is NUTS because 23 SHOULD NOT BE 95 percentile especially considering only serious people get to 9 ,10 mocks , craku mocks and sectionals are just a tad bit higher then cat's ,it's punishing and tough in a very organic way compared to nonsensical ims's varc ,please only judge yourself with previous years paper and if possible do varc with cracku and give simcats to judge yourself in a bigger pool of candidate's
yes simcat varc is very very difficult as compared to cracku, i also think same
