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I found the LOD of all sections of CAT pretty high in DASHCAT. Got only 80%ile. (Thanks to LRDI) However I am not able to score in VARC and QA section. For VARC, I am not able to achieve accuracy even though I have tried out different strategies. For QA, I am not able to pick the right questions, even when i do, I somehow end up messing up my QA section(I am able to solve most questions in QA during analysis). What should I do to get a better score? Oh, and also, what is a good score in DASHCAT(for 99%ile)?
@vidushi I feel I stand in your shoes as well at the moment. I have solved tons of RCs and quant questions and yet, I happen to mess up the mock each time. I feel there's a mental blockage with us. A sort of phobia that tends to grip us while we are taking a full length test. We should try to first of all bring a mental clarity that we don't have to be scared of it, rather enjoy the process. I think we should focus more on sectional tests and really analyse them well. All we can do is persist and try to give our best from now onwards. A positive attitude will be a nice way to begin with.
One should always diversify their mock providers, just giving mocks of one provider won't help you much to gauge exactly where you stand.
I would recommend TIME or IMS mocks to be supplemented with Dashcats.
Hi
In every quant mock there will be around 40% of the questions that will be classified as easy , around 30-40 % questions that will be classified as medium and remaining 25-30% questions come under hard category .
Your first target should always be to skim the entire paper in 20 minutes and solve the easy questions and in initial 20 minutes if you get stuck on a question for more than 1.5 minutes you should leave that question and move to the next one .Try to identify your strengths and then attempt medium level questions from that topics in the 2nd half of the paper as you will be more confident in questions from topics which are your strength. Try to give more sectionals from now ( at least 1 every alternate day ) and implement the strategy in sectional before attempting in mocks .
For VARC the only way to improve score is analysis, analyze your mistakes very well , identify if there is a pattern because sometimes we miss the information, sometimes we do not read the options very well try to identify what were you thinking when you marked the answer and what the explanation is given, solve more RC's , give sectionals that will help in improving your score.
Apologies for posting the incomplete question, I was specifically talking about DASHCAT 1. Was the difficulty too high? I found DILR to be the only simple(relatively) section whereas VARC and QA were pretty daunting. For VARC, I know that I have to empathize with what the writer is trying to say, however I keep losing track of everything, especially in difficult RCs. I watched Maruti sir's live stream where he said that the Crypto RC was the easiest however I still can't comprehend that RC. I have read it thrice :/ Can someone please guide me a bit? I will be extremely grateful!
