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Hi, I started with a score of 36 in VARC section, now I have come down to a score as low as 8. My last VARC sectional score was 13. While analyzing, I am able to solve most of the questions however the same doesn't happen during mocks or sectionals. Poor performance in VARC also impacts other sections during mocks. I feel so underconfident that I have stopped taking risks all together, My attempt rate used to be 17-19. Now it has come down to 11. I don't know how to cope up with this. DILR used to be my strength but I don't even get marks in that section either. Even in the last few mocks that I took, my percentile is hovering around 70-80 which is extremely bad, how to deal with the score dipping especially when the CAT is round the corner, how do I pull through, can someone please share any tips. Thanks in advance!
Hi
Every student faces this problem at some point in time during his/her preparation. Some face it early during their preparation, while some face it late. However, there is not much to worry about. Mocks are a part of preparation and you have to take mocks regularly till CAT, the scores dip mainly because of two reasons sometimes we feel exhausted or level of mocks have increased from what it was a month or two ago . The second reason is the number of students appearing for mocks decreases with time and that is why we see a fall in percentile, so try not to overthink about scores and percentiles in mocks . This is part of the process and we have to continue doing that .As you said your scores have decreased a lot in VARC , one suggestion I would like to give you is while analyzing just don't solve the question , try to find why did you mark this option and why not the correct answer, try to identify if there is a pattern in the mistakes you are committing for example if you are missing some info from passage, or you are not able to answer inference based questions or you are facing difficulties in verbal etc and try to work on them , also start solving past year CAT questions from now and see how do you approach them, try to attend live streams of sir and mam as sir is mainly discussing past year important CAT questions. In LRDI , the only key is practice as much variety as you can and just don't allow mock scores or sectional scores of LRDI to affect you, even if you got 40/60 try to be neutral and even if you scored 10/60 try to be in the same frame, just try to extract learnings from every DILR mock or sectional as much as you can , the more you learn from these the more you will improve and will become better for D Day. Try to be optimistic,try to be in a good frame of mind enjoy these 45 days work as hard as you can and you will do very well .
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Thank you all for the tips and your kind words. @Kapil: Thank you for your extremely kind words. This makes me wanna push myself to do better :)
