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SNAP 2011 Answer Key

2011-12-16T15:03:00.004+05:30

SNAP 2011 is to be conducted on 18th December 2011. There are in total 17 institutes participating in SNAP 2011.

Institutes participating in the tests are follows:

1. Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM) Pune
2. Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research (SICSR)
3. Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication (SIMC) Pune
4. Symbiosis Institute of International Business (SIIB)
5. Symbiosis Centre for Management & Human Resource Development (SCMHRD)
6. Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies (SIMS)
7. Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management (SITM)
8. Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology (SCIT)
9. Symbiosis Institute of Geo-informatics (SIG)
10. Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management (SIOM) Nashik
11. Symbiosis Institute of Health Sciences (SIHS)
12. Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM) Bengaluru
13. Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication (SIMC) Bengaluru
14. Symbiosis School of Banking Management (SSBM)
15. Symbiosis School of Economics (SSE)
16. Symbiosis Institute of Technology (SIT)
17. Symbiosis School of Biomedical Sciences (SSBS)

SNAP test is a 120 minute duration test. It consists of objective questions with each question having four responses. Each wrong answer deducts 25% marks toward negative marking from your total score.

Students will want to Answer key after exam. Subject experts of TCYonline will be solving SNAP 2011 exam and will upload on the website www.tcyonline.com
Students can get SNAP 2011 Answer Key, SNAP 2011 Cutoffs, SNAP 2011 Analysis.

IIFT 2011 Analysis | IIFT 2011 Answer Keys | IIFT 2011 Solution

2011-11-25T10:12:00.001+05:30
IIFT 2011 Exam will be held on Nov 27, 2011. Students can get IIFT 2011 Answer Key, IIFT 2011 solutions & IIFT 2011 cutoff on http://www.tcyonline.com/. Subject experts at TCYonline will be solving the exam and hosting the IIFT 2011 solutions on the website by 4:00 p.m. on the day of the exam itself.

IIFT 2012 Admission test is a multiple choice objective type written test (in English). Duration of the test is two hours. It normally consists of around 200 questions covering ENGLISH COMPREHENSION, GENERAL KNOWLEDGE & AWARENESS, LOGICAL REASONING AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS.

So Logon to TCYonline.com for complete answer/solution key and question by question analysis for all sections; English Comprehension, Quantitative Analysis, Logical Reasoning, and General Knowledge and Awareness.

SPJIMR PGDM Placements 2011

2011-03-02T12:55:00.005+05:30

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) is rated among the top ten B-schools in the country. Inaugurated in 1981 by the then British Prime Minister Rt. Hon'ble Margaret Thatcher, it has moved from strength to strength due to its innovative pedagogic approach and its ability to adapt to the changing business environment.The institute has completed yet another successful season of placements for the PGDM Class of 2011 with 242 offers from 76 companies for the placement process.The Placement process saw companies queuing up for selection of candidate for lateral and fresher hiring. Prof. Abbasali Gabula, Deputy Director (External Relations & Administration) has seen the turn of events over his 10 long years in the Education sector. "The economy is definitely booming and hence the salaries have risen sharply. The companies spent more time in the hiring process which is good for the participants".The average salary increased by 27% to Rs. 14.07 Lacs per annum from Rs. 11 Lacs per annum last year, with the highest domestic offer of Rs. 23 lacs

Participants in the Batch 178
Participants in the batch opting out of placements 1
Total Number of Offers Made 242
Number of participating Companies 76
Number of First time Recruiters 17
Number of Lateral Offers 107
Total Number of Pre Placement Offers (PPO/PPI) 93
No. of offers per student 1.35
Average Domestic Salary 14.07 lacs
Average Foreign Salary offered 39400 USD
52.5% of the batch had pre-placement offers and pre placement interviews from the Autumns Internships which were done in companies like TAS, Microsoft, GE, Mahindra and Mahindra, Asian Paints, Colgate-Palmolive, Dabur, Nestle, KPMG, Ernst and Young, PnG, HUL, GSK, Miebach Consulting, Citibank, BNP Paribas, Edelweiss etc.
Key Highlights
39% of the batch had offers of Rs. 15 lacs and more
59.5% of the batch had salaries of Rs.13 lacs and more
The median salary for the batch of 177 students was 14 lacs
Foreign offers were made by Thomson Reuters and Deloitte
Some brief on the kind of the companies on campus this year:
General Management This year Tata Administrative Services, Adani Leadership Program, Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Industries Limited and RPG Group made about 16 offers in several middle management positions. The roles entailing to all domains of business require close co-ordination with CXOs and the hires are groomed to be take top level leadership positions in the companies.Consulting/ IT ConsultingThis year saw a phenomenal increase in offers from consulting companies at SPJIMR. 19% of the batch was placed in leading Consulting firms.The consulting bandwagon led by McKinsey and Co. included Arthur D’Little, Accenture Business Consulting (ABC), Deloitte,Ernst and Young, KPMG, PwC, CEB and TSMG. Deloitte picked up maximum number of students for their various divisions. Accenture for the first time gave offers for the Global Talent and Innovation Network team. IT consulting was offered by Cognizant Business Consulting (CBC) and Capgemini.Other offers included profiles like Strategic Consulting, Operations consulting and Financial Advisory.FinanceThe major finance players on the campus included JP Morgan, IIFL, Standard Chartered, Citi Bank, Deutsche Bank, ICICI Bank, Edelweiss, ICRA, Avista Advisory , SBI Caps, HSBC , Yes Bank, Axis Bank etc. Offers were received across a plethora of functions ranging fromInvestment Banking , Corporate Banking, Institutional Equities , Equity Research , Credit Rating, Credit Risk, Treasury , Project Finance and Corporate Finance. The campus also saw participation from Multinational firms like Thomson Reuters making exclusive offers for their Global Business Graduate Program. 21.35% of the batch got offers in the Financial Services and Banking sectorIT/ITesIT companies like Microsoft, HCL Technologies and IBM offered Sales roles. Corporate IT roles were offered from business giants like General Electric, Proctor and Gamble and Citibank. Other IT majors included TCS, Wipro, Polaris, HP, Winshuttle, i-Gate etc.Marketing and OperationsMarketing, Sales and Supply chain roles were made by FMCG majors including Procter & Gamble, Hindustan Unilever Ltd, Johnson & Johnson, Dabur, Asian Paints, Nestle, Marico, Britannia, Nivea and Wipro Consumer.For the first time HUL picked up a lateral hire from campus for the supply chain division. This placement season, also had participation from companies like Bharti Airtel, Philips, Novartis, CEAT and Titan offering our students niche roles across diverse sectors.Companies like 3M, Cummins also visited the campus for the first time offering roles for the students with operation majors. 23% of the batch got offers from FMCG majorsOne student deferred participating in placements to explore his own venture.Students benefited the most with the placement springing back to even better levels than for the class of 2008, the boom year.

XAT 2011 Solutions

2010-12-30T09:24:00.002+05:30
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ANALYTICS: The scale builder in Test Prep Sector

2010-12-28T15:36:00.009+05:30
Exam Preparation is one of the key educational activities in student life. This also makes it a lucrative business to provide them with necessary assistance. This assistance is usually done through tutoring, content, testing & benchmarking.
Conventional Benchmarking: Pros & Cons
Exams and particularly entrance exams act as a sieve through which only a student who manages to perform above a certain performance threshold emerges successful. This threshold level unlike qualifying exams is actually determined by the capabilities of the population appearing for the test. Hence benchmarking oneself against his peers is a key indicator of success probability. Since these tests are becoming a national exercise, any worthwhile benchmarking has to be at national level.
Until over a decade ago the market, which catered to the need of these students, was highly fragmented with small city centric players scattered throughout the country. These centers catered to numerous categories of exams. Any benchmarking, if done was at most at the city level, which really didn’t give a clear picture in National or State Level Exams. Things began to change when National chains of institutes started emerging. They brought in their own national benchmarking tests. Though these tests were held at a national level, they lacked statistical significance. The population of these students was majorly composed of students of the chain only; hence any statistical comparison was not representative of the actual population of competitors.
Internet brings Analytics; the rules of the game are rewritten
Analytics have the potential to transform the way test prep is done in the world. The advent and subsequent mass adoption of internet in the country led to various disruptions in many sectors. We saw the norms changing in many traditional core sectors like banking, ticketing, shopping, matrimonial services etc and these innovations are threatening to wipe off the companies running these businesses conventionally.
In education, animated and interactive content was widely believed to be the biggest disruptors whereas the next big thing is not solely the content but mainly what happens around that content. The ever-growing volume of data around high quality content gives way to the concept that every new user on the website adds value for the next user and makes benchmarking more scientific and relevant.
Analytics have started solving many of the problems that traditional benchmarking had. The sample is random, representative of the entire nation, permanently captured and continuously growing.
Levels of Benchmarking
Analytics offer benchmarking at two levels
Benchmarking with self: A test taker would like to know if he is improving with each subsequent test. These analytics would cover speed, accuracy and error analysis to continuously improve on any subject area, stream or competitive exam area.
Benchmarking with peers: In this, a user has the flexibility to benchmark against any student sitting in any corner of the country. The benchmarking can be done at various levels; starting from city, state or national level. He can also benchmark himself against any group preparing for any competitive exam and has the flexibility to go up to any subgroup level. For example, you may benchmark yourself against male engineers preparing for FMS from NCR.
Much more than a regular benchmarking tool
The analytics engine even takes you one-step forward. It can not only select the most appropriate tests for subsequent practice based on your test history but can also take you to the relevant video tutorial where your conceptual foundations can be strengthened.
Therefore, this tool has started taking millions of students from a shotgun strategy of preparation where they fire all around and hope that a shot would hit the target to a rifle strategy where one feels empowered to take a careful aim to reach target at the first shot. This keeps a student away from inefficient learning practices thereby manufacturing time for other creative pursuits.
Analytics is an Indispensable tool for all stakeholders in education

All these unique features propel analytics to the status of becoming an indispensible tool in exam preparation for any student, teacher or institute. Teachers and institutes not using analytics would be depriving the student a chance of effective test preparation in a scientific manner.

The data comprises threads of discussions that unwind around questions, giving students valuable insights into problem solving techniques contributed by those who attempted these questions; something no traditional classroom training can offer. Peer to peer learning is also promoted through the interaction of students undergoing similar academic pursuits in groups. The most interesting thing is that it is the analytics engine that recommends and adds new members to the groups. The learners collaborate in this environment to take their preparation to the next level.
However, such an internet based platform is not without challenges. Thousands of tests are developed by hundreds of authors, so it becomes a real challenge to manage the quality of these tests. It took us hundreds of authors to write around 450,000 tagged questions and enroll 1 million students to capture approximately 23 million Analytics ( read question attempts ) before we can say that we can provide decent benchmarking . Another rating based system for content and authors ensures that inferior quality tests are chucked out of the system automatically.
Fulfills the aspirations of teachers to deliver the best
Another interesting side of the story is the ‘game change’ in traditional publishing. There is a big problem of the traditional Industry that such system is addressing. Volumes are written usually by one or two authors. If we have a book, which contains 20 chapters, we cannot assume that the author is equally good on all the 20 chapters to be dealt with. Therefore, we usually have textbooks, which cover some areas perfectly, but some areas are left not so perfect. So how do we get our perfect book?
There are thousands of authors who want to publish their work, but they are proficient in only a set of topics. Traditional publishing houses are hence out of their reach. Such online platforms have the unique capacities to put together thousands of authors in the long tail to write on the subjects that they know best and would have the perfect compilation on them.
There are many exams also in the long tail that are held at a limited level and hence are not financially viable for quality publishers to cover. Therefore, there is always a dearth of quality material for the students who prepare for these exams. Such online platforms that give flexibility to students to generate their own tests are a big boon.
All this is just the tip of the iceberg. Such rich data of a candidate at various stages of his student and working life can disrupt some other sectors too. May be it calls for another long article…..
Kamal Wadhera

SNAP 2010 Analysis

2010-12-17T16:14:00.003+05:30

SNAP 2010 Analysis: Symbiosis National Aptitude (SNAP) Test is a common written test for the admission to all the Post graduate institutes of Symbiosis International University. Written test is mandatory for admission into any Post-Graduate programme offered by the constituent institute of Symbiosis International University. The entrance test will be held across the nation on Sunday, the 19^th of December 2010. More than one lac aspirants from across the nation will be vying with each other to secure a seat at the academic programmes of the prestigious Symbiosis International University. After the test, the most important sought after information will be the SNAP-2011 answer keys. Students will want to know how well they did in the SNAP 2010 entrance exam and ‘SNAP 2010’ solution keys will be one of the most searched key phrases on the net.

Subject experts at www.TCYonline.com, India's largest online test prep platform, will be solving the test paper and hosting the SNAP 2010 solution key on their website. Students wanting to check SNAP 2010 answers can find them on latest by 6:30 p.m. of the same day as the test.

Students from across the nation can also participate in 'SNAP 2010 Questions Discussion' on the website. They can also leave their queries on the website and the experts at TCY will revert back with the answers within a short time. Candidates will also be able to input their expected scoring range and TCY Analytics will also compute the inputs to give a cross section of expected scores.

Unlimited free SNAP 2010 and other MBA program Mock Tests are also available in the tests section on www.TCYonline.com. Aspirants can do last minute revision and hone their skills for the upcoming test. They can also target self improvement by using TCY Analytics to analyze their attempt pattern, time taken on each question, sub topic and topic wise analysis of strengths and weaknesses.

ANALYTICS: THE RIGHT WAY OF TEST PREPARATION

2010-12-14T16:43:00.003+05:30
Rajan started preparing for CAT right from his second year of B-Tech. By the time he reached his final year, he found that an early start had given him a definite edge over others who had started their preparation in the third year or the final year. He was confident that he would get through.
The D-day came and he attempted very well as he usually did. When the result card declared that he had scored 85 percentile, he found it hard to digest. Where did Rajan go wrong? Why couldn’t he get through to the IIMs even though he was intelligent and had worked hard towards his goal?

Many scholars share Rajan’s problem. They fail to understand that competition is not about ‘how smart you are’ but about ‘how smarter than the others’. What Rajan’s preparation lacked was benchmarking against others, including the best, and continuous, monitored improvement. Rajan knew the areas he was good at, but he didn’t know how much input he needed to put in and where. He thought he was best among his immediate peers, but he failed to reckon with the best across the nation.

You surely don’t want to be another Rajan. Do you? So, read on.

What is Benchmarking?

Benchmarking in test prep refers to monitoring your competitors and understanding your relative position among the test takers. This helps you in understanding your current level of preparation and additional effort required to improve your competitive positioning. Benchmarking should always be followed by remedial action and identification of improvement areas for arriving at action points.

Benchmarking can be broadly classified into three categories

-benchmarking with self

This is particularly helpful in qualifying exams and for improvement in a particular subject area. Here the focus is not on competition but on self-improvement. The aim is to continually identify and remove weak areas to reach the desired level of proficiency. After reviewing every test, you analyze in detail, the sub skills where your score is low. You work on these sub-skills and take subsequent tests to see how your score has improved. You may also take a test specifically of the sub skills where you scored low. Therefore, the improvement happens in progressive iterations until a desired level of scoring is achieved.

-benchmarking in a group

Here a student identifies a small group against which he would like to benchmark himself. Usually this group would be of a similar profile as the candidate himself. The candidate first excels in this group and chooses progressively larger groups subsequently.

-benchmarking nationally

Students who are appearing in National competitive exams like CAT, IIT JEE, PMT, GATE, UPSC etc, adopt national benchmarking. Here a test taker compares himself with his peers throughout the nation and then focuses strategically on maximizing his overall score by working on his weaknesses and reinforcing his strengths.

How is Benchmarking done?

paper pencil based mock test

This can be a very good tool to assess one’s competitive positioning in the nation after completion of one’s preparation. The nature of the assessment being summative, this is kind of a final judgment on one’s preparation rather than a tool of improvement.

However, is the preparation for any competitive exam ever complete?

The reported aggregate score and a percentile rank leave little scope for any analyses of topics for areas of improvement. Also, since the student base is from the test conducting institute only, the data is not true representative and any inference drawn is biased.

online mock test

Online mock tests present a more detailed analysis of test performance. The student can easily see the areas where he needs to improve. However, these tests stop at that, and seldom provide the user with the tools for improvement. Since a user would require tests in many different formats for further improvement, these tests are a one time affair and leave the user high and dry, gasping for improvement.

Besides, the scores and analyses are reliable and statistically valid only if these tests enjoy the patronage of a significant number of students.

analytics way: the right way

There are very few analytic engines worth their salt in the online space. TCYonline.com is the leader. TCY Analytics* gives the user a number of interesting advantages:

- Flexibility to use any type of benchmarking refereed to earlier

- A large student base of approx 1 million (& counting) gives considerable statistical advantage

- 23 million TCY Analytics* (question attempts) & counting

- Automatically suggests improvement areas and action points

- Generates tests to specifically improve identified weak areas

- Picks suggested video tutorials based on your test performance

- Gathers information around each question through student and author discussions

*TCY Analytics: Question attempts where each question has data of each candidate who attempted it, around parameters like time taken on question, gender, age, city, stream ( B.Com, B.Tech, BBA etc)

This data gives students:

A. Comparative benchmarking like:

National benchmarking: National ranking & percentiles for each test

Comparison with top ten : Your performance with national toppers

Comparison with Friends/Groups/Classmates: Your performance with your chosen friends

Customized Comparison: City-wise, state-wise, stream-wise comparison reports

B. Recommendations like:

Your weak areas and recommended tests to overcome these weak areas

C . Self Assessment:

Overall Performance till date: Your performance trends test by test

Topic-wise Analysis till date: A cumulative topic wise analysis of your tests

View Overall Analysis : Which questions you have marked correct/wrong

Question by Question Analysis: The answer to each question and discussion with others

Topic-wise Analysis: Your sub-sub-sub skills to improve faster and your BEST & WEAK topics in the test

Difficulty-wise Analysis: How well you performed on difficult questions

Your Time Management: Know your Time Savers & Time Takers in the test, based on average time per question

What makes TCY-Analytics unique is that hundreds of authors spread all over the world upload thousands of quality tests. It is like a textbook in which each chapter is written by the best expert in that area. Each question is rated and the junk is automatically removed from the site, giving users the best content quality experience.

For our school going K-10 friends, we have a highly effective assessment test called National Benchmarking Test, for students in grades 6 to 10. TCY -NBT is a test of its kind! It is unique as it combines a comprehensive assessment test with a plan of remedial action to overcome the weaknesses it identifies, and further with a career preparedness graph to guide a student on the career options available as per his existing skill levels. What is more, the Analytics of TCY-NBT also provides detailed statistics on his competitiveness at the national, state, regional and school levels.

If you have a testing history on TCYonline, it is mapping your different competencies more and more accurately with every subsequent test. Start early; maintain regularity for us to recommend to you various career options, based on your competencies, throughout your student and working life. Remember, ever increasing portfolio of test categories on TCYonline will give you tests that help you decide career paths. Keep visiting TCYonline more and more often for more and more tests and keep growing intellectually all your life.

Test Preparation without TCY Analytics is incomplete.

Your comments and suggestions are welcome!

Kamal Wadhera along with Viji Raj

JMET 2011 Solutions

2010-12-10T15:38:00.001+05:30

JMET 2011 Analysis: JMET 2011, the entrance test for two-year full time MBA at IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, and IIT Roorkee, will be held across the nation on Sunday, the 12^th of December 2010. Tens of thousands of aspirants, especially those belonging to technical background, from across the nation will be vying with each other to secure a seat at MBA programme of the prestigious I.I.T.s across India. After the test, the most important sought after information will be the JMET-2011 answer keys. Students will want to know how well they did in the JMET 2011 entrance exam and ‘JMET 2011’ solution keys will be one of the most searched key phrases on the net.

Subject experts at www.TCYonline.com, India's largest online test prep platform, will be solving the test paper and hosting the JMET 2011 solution key on their website. Students wanting to check JMET 2011 answers can find them on http://www.tcyonline.com/exam-analysis/jmet-2011-solutions latest by 4:30 p.m. of the same day as the test.

Students from across the nation can also participate in 'JMET 2011 Questions Discussion' on the website. They can also leave their queries on the website and the experts at TCY will revert back with the answers within a short time. Candidates will also be able to input their expected scoring range and TCY Analytics will also compute the inputs to give a cross section of expected scores.
Unlimited free JMET 2011 and other MBA program Mock Tests are also available in the tests section on www.TCYonline.com. Aspirants can do last minute revision and hone their skills for the upcoming test. They can also target self improvement by using TCY Analytics to analyze their attempt pattern, time taken on each question, sub topic and topic wise analysis of strengths and weaknesses.

FMS 2011 Analysis and Solutions

2010-12-03T13:25:00.001+05:30

FMS 2010-11 Analysis: Aspirants can check their score on 5^th Dec (Sunday) itself.

The entrance test for full time MBA at FMS, Delhi, will be held across the nation on the 05^th of December 2010. Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), under the aegis of University of Delhi, is one of the most prestigious B-schools for MBA aspirants.

The students will want to know how well they did, what are their chances of clearing FMS 2011 MBA admission, what would be their score in each section, which questions they answered correctly and what could be the FMS 2011 cut-offs etc.

All these questions will be answered on the same day, so their anxiety will not last beyond 6:30 PM on test day itself.

The subject experts at www.TCYonline.com, India’s largest online test preparation platform, will be solving the test paper and hosting the FMS 2011 Solution Keys on the website. Students wanting to check FMS 2011 Answers can find them on http://www.tcyonline.com/ at 6:30 p.m onwards of the same day (5^th Dec, 2010)

Students simply have to logon to TCYonline.com for complete FMS 2011 Answer or Solution key and question by question analysis for all sections; English Usage, Quantitative Ability, Analytical Ability & Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension.

Students can also share all their apprehensions and experiences with their peers through us. The sharing of experience may allay somebody else’s apprehensions and vice versa.

IIFT 2010 Answer Keys and Solutions

2010-11-27T14:58:00.000+05:30
IIFT 2010 Analysis: Check your scores on 28^th Nov (Sunday) only.
Take a deep breadth, crack your knuckles and get ready to face the next challenge: IIFT 2010. IIFT 2010 will be held on Nov 28, 2010. IIFT MBA Entrance Exam is conducted by Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, one of the prestigious business schools of India.

IIFT entrance test is always a surprise to the candidates. Last year there were 122 questions and four sections and toughest sections were Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation. Let’s see what challenges you will get in IIFT 2010.

The students will want to know how well they did, what are their chances of clearing it, what would be their score in each section, which questions they did correct and what could be the cut-offs etc…..

Worry no longer!

All these questions will be answered on same day, so their anxiety will not last beyond 5 PM on test day itself.

The subject experts at www.TCYonline.com, India’s largest online test prep platform, will be solving the test paper and hosting the IIFT 2010 solution keys on the website. Students wanting to check IIFT answers can find them on http://www.tcyonline.com/ at 5 p.m onwards of the same day (Nov 28)

So Logon to TCYonline.com for complete answer/solution key and question by question analysis for all sections; Quantitative Aptitude, Logical Reasoning, Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension.

You can also share all your apprehensions and experiences with your peers through us. Your experience may allay somebody else’s apprehensions and vice versa.

ICET 2010 Answer Keys and Expected Cutoffs

2010-05-26T14:51:00.000+05:30
Integrated Common Entrance Test- 2010, popularly known as ICET 2010, will be held across the nation on the 27th of May. More Than two lac aspirants will be participating in the prestigious test that decides admission to MBA and MCA programs for all universities in Andhra Pradesh and their affiliate colleges. The test is conducted by Andhra University, Visakhapatnam on behalf of Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education, Hyderabad. After the test, the most important sought after information will be the ICET 2010 answer keys. Students will want to know how well they did and ICET 2010 solution keys will be one of the most searched key phrase on the net.

Subject experts at www.TCYonline.com, India’s largest online test prep platform, will be solving the test paper and hosting the ICET 2010 solution keys on the website. Students wanting to check ICET answers can find them on http://www.tcyonline.com/exam-analysis/icet-2010-solutions latest by 6 p.m. of the same day as the test.

Students from across the nation can also participate in ‘ICET Questions Discussion’ on the website. They can also leave their queries on the website and the experts at TCY will revert back with the answers within a short time. Candidates will also be able to input their expected scoring range and TCY Analytics will also compute the inputs to give a cross section of expected scores.

Unlimited free ICET 2010 Mock Tests are also available in the tests section on www.TCYonline.com. Aspirants can do last minute revision and hone their skills for the upcoming test. They can also target self improvement by using TCY Analytics to analyze their attempt pattern, time taken on each question, sub topic and topic wise analysis of strengths and weaknesses.

New Networking Platform for Teachers and Students By TCYonline.com

2010-05-25T12:01:00.000+05:30

Teachers and students across India will now be able to network on India’s No. 1 test prep portal, TCYonline.com. Teachers can upload content, create groups, collaborate with other academicians on projects & books and advertise their services as well. Students will be able to find information on diverse topics by a host of authors. The resource is free to use for both teachers and students.

India’s largest online test prep platform, TCYonline.com, has come out with a new offering for educationists and teachers. To provide a professional and academic networking platform to teachers and students across India, TCY has started accepting contributions on its blogs. Teachers can now upload lectures, video lectures, notes, strategies for competitive exams and other writings of interest to students. What’s more, the best entries will also get published on a few of the other blogs that TCYonline.com maintains on other sites. Good teachers, who might have been known only in their institutes till now, will now be able to showcase their talent for the entire online student community. Academicians can also create professional groups on the platform and find collaborators for books and other projects. They can even create an individual profile page highlighting their services so that students can directly contact them.

Talking about the new initiative, a senior team member said, “More and more students are turning to the internet to find solutions to their queries. The convenience of an internet search beats the time and effort required to search for the same content offline. With our new effort, we’re providing a meeting ground for the teacher and the taught. Teachers will be able to reach out to an audience of millions as against the limited number in a classroom. Students will be able to find more relevant content online, directly ask questions from the teachers and even contact them for personalized coaching”.

About TCY: TCY has been providing test prep services for more than a decade. Currently, the company provides coaching for more than fifty categories of international and national tests. The company is also working with top international publishers like McGraw Hill (USA and Canada), Learning Today and many other brands. The company also provides online tutoring to students in United States and Canada for K-12 and college programmes. Currently TCY has a network of over thirty five centres spread across India. Its website, www.TCYonline.com, is India’s number one test prep platform with nearly eight lac students from more than 1500 towns and cities enrolled on it.

2009-08-08T17:53:00.001+05:30

ALL INDIA Online MOCK CATs
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2009-08-08T16:28:00.001+05:30

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CAT 2009: Only study is not important

2009-07-14T17:29:00.000+05:30
By TCYonline.com

Fighting a war ‘within’ is a bigger challenge for an average MBA aspirant gearing up for the upcoming CAT, than the war ‘without’. The question now is how well he is girded up for the Actual-Day.
Only study is not enough for winning over CAT fight. One should have an positive attitude and balanced mind before going for the CAT fight.
Here are some points to ponder:

Stay well connected: Come out of your cocoon and engage in some ‘gup-shup’ with your peers over your mobile or as online chat. Or, better still have a small ‘samosa’ party. That will give you a chance to exchange your preparation strategies with your friends. Not a bad idea to even advance your birthday where you can dance your (CAT) blues away.

Learn to relax: Unfortunately, most of us in India don’t know how to relax. We tend to oversleep and get tired. How about a soft instrumental music for your troubled nerves? That would be nice following a long and drab day glued to your books. If you are a movie buff, enjoy some real reel life.

Limber up: The CAT exam preparation is bound to stretch you to your mental limits. You had enough of mental sweating. Simultaneously one should go out for a long walk and have stretching workouts. That will rejuvenate you. We are sure that following this advice you would be able to double up your efforts at the study table.

Eat right: It goes without saying that fresh fruit and vegetables will go a long way in keeping you in fine fettle. That would keep your system in top gear. Your long sittings require lots of water to drain out toxins from the body.

Well, all sorts of thoughts might come to your mind at this stage. Sometimes you ask yourself, “Is it worth it? One bad mock and you tend to feel down in the dumps. Everybody has his highs and lows – sometimes your mood swings you to cloud nine and sometimes to the lowest rung down the ladder.

All we want you to do is to cheer up. For, CAT is a world no doubt. But there are worlds beyond CAT. Good luck!

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CAT VERBAL – THE WINNING STRATEGY

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The discussion on the strategies is based on the premise that the students are through with the basics of the three broad categories of questions in CAT Verbal:
Vocabulary
Grammar
Reasoning
There are not many direct vocabulary based questions in CAT. But vocabulary base is an absolute must before reasoning comes into play. Likewise, in CAT-2006, there were no questions based on grammar. But this is more likely to be an exception than a rule. Nevertheless, the fact remains that there is an increased emphasis on verbal reasoning. Our winning strategies are:

READING COMPREHENSION:
You cannot simply ignore RC. Give it the respect it deserves. The term “Reading Comprehension” is a misnomer. The term actually means not “read and comprehend”, but “comprehend the main idea and answer”.

Speed reading strategies include skimming, scanning, column reading, phrase reading etc. The crux of the argument is that the questions are not based on the passage; they are rather based on the important ideas of the passage. So learn to read for ideas, not for words.

Don’t look for the right answers. Look for the best, by eliminating the rest.

Go through each answer option carefully and find a reason to reject it.

It is not the passage that is difficult. Invariably it is the questions that are, since most questions are inference based and there is a very thin line of demarcation between the best and the rest.

It is not necessary to attempt all the questions based on a passage. You could skip an odd question that is proving to be much too difficult.

Always keep the main idea in mind while selecting the right answer. The best answer is more likely to revolve around the main idea.

English Usage:
Have a good look at the question types that have figured in the last few CAT examinations. You may not get the same type of questions, but you will get a fair idea of what type to expect.

Expect the unexpected: But this could more likely be old wine in new bottles. Remember, CAT 2005, where the sentence completion (gap fill) questions were given in a different format with unknown words (in italics) replacing the blanks? Who knows you could find our old friend, Para jumbles, in a brand new package where there could be four paragraphs in place of four sentences.

Expect questions based on grammar: They could more likely be sentence improvement (GMAT format) rather than sentence correction. Here the key is pinpointing the error and then looking for the answer option that rectifies only that error.

For questions based on word usage, look not for an error in grammar or syntax, but an error where the word is not correctly used.

For sentence completion questions, try to catch the flow of the sentence and supply the filler yourself, before having a look at the answer options. Same is true of many other question types like Para jumbles.

For other vocabulary based questions, don’t get put off by words you are not conversant with. Try to split the words, or at least work out the negative positive. This might eliminate certain answer options straightaway.

Expect questions based on logical reasoning and critical reasoning. Reasoning based questions essentially have three parts: assumptions, evidence, and conclusion. The right answer need not touch the conclusion. Submit the assumption/evidence to denial test. If the conclusion also gets weakened, you might have found your answer.

Above all, if you get the unexpected, don’t lose your head. It is more likely to be something you have prepared for, though in a different format. Take time to decide how it is connects with what you have prepared for.

Top Careers & You (http://www.tcyonline.com/) is the premier organization that has been preparing national and international candidates for high-end tests viz. CAT, XAT, JMET, SNAP, CET, FMS, IIFT and GMAT since 1998. Visit http://www.tcyonline.com/ to have FREE access of thousands of these tests.

ONLINE CAT 2009: Best way to prepare…

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As the Actual-Day approaches, every aspirant begins to feel and respect the fact that some FUNDAMENTAL shifts are required in the preparation. You don’t have to JUST revise your basics of Quant, Grammar, Reading Strategies and other important parts of CAT; rather you have to work towards increasing the degree of objectivity in your REVISION. And still by the end of the day you may ask yourself

- Am I preparing the right way for the Actual-Day?
- Will it lead to a substantial improvement in my SCORE?
- Is there some TEST to instantly check at any point whether my approach is EFFECTIVE or not?
- And most importantly, whom to BENCHMARK my preparation with?

Do not worry. If you think only you have such nightmares; think again, there are 95% other aspirants who also want to have the above questions answered.

MOCK CATs

MOCK CATs and especially National level MOCKs are the most important aspect for your preparation to be in correct direction. MOCK CATs are the sum total of the simulation of different exam patterns and test-taking environment in order to:

* Help you device ways to adapt your strategy to a new CAT pattern quickly and effectively.
* Help you win your anxiety by exercising self-control so many times before the actual CAT.
* Help you decide which topics to concentrate on in order to move up by a hundred or a thousand students.
* Help you generate data for the analysis of your performance vis-à-vis others and even your own previous performance. This is, at this stage, the best way to improve your percentile in CAT. Moreover, a thorough POST-MORTEM of your MOCK CAT can motivate you to look for more innovative ways of solving certain questions which will save time for you in the subsequent tests.

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CHANGE YOUR PREPARATION for CAT 2009

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You will not understand the best way to prepare at this stage unless you feel a strong need to REDEFINE the HIGH FREQUENCY words from your CAT preparation dictionary. The words like REVISION, SHIFT, and MY SCORE are required to be either REDEFINED or MODIFIED. Here are the new and changed definitions:

1. REVISION: Revision is no longer re-doing or capturing the basics of Math, Verbal and DI all the time; rather it MUST be executed in a more SCIENTIFIC manner. Instead of deciding arbitrarily what to revise, there should be some simulation tests that give you feedback on which areas to particularly work on and which to totally ignore.

2. SHIFT: No small shifts of focus help here. You need to spell out a PARADIGM SHIFT in your preparation. You need to NOW think strictly from the point of view of the final exam – what combination of speed and accuracy is required, which areas need your immediate attention, what is the right order in which questions and for that matter – sections are to be attempted.

3. MY SCORE: CAT is not about your performance and your score. It is about your score vis-à-vis all the other aspirants’ scores as well. Hence the word PERCENTILE should replace absolute score.

4. EASY QUESTIONS: We need to change our perception of easy questions. Easy questions in CAT are not the ones that you used to think you can solve. They are the ones which would consume minimum time. Most of the times they are the one liner.

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UNPRIDCTED ONLINE CAT 2009

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There is no doubt in the fact that CAT is the most un-predictable examination held in India. CAT 2000 and 2004 are the biggest examples of this un-predictability factor. On one hand, CAT 2000 gave mere 44 sec per question to the test takers there by bringing the sectional cut offs to a record minimum level. On the other hand, CAT 2004 had the introduction of questions with different weight age in all the three sections. Even a sprinter does not face such un-predictability crisis in his final sprint even though his ultimate goal matches that of a CAT aspirant – scoring high percentile.

Still, the winning sprinter is one who knows his obstacles well and works smarter in adjusting his momentum and concentration in order to jump successfully through those. For a CAT aspirant though, the preparation is better supplemented with the availability of innumerable MOCK CATs before November, 2009.

Hence a CAT aspirant goes through several CATs before the final assault. However it has been observed that MOCK CATs do not help much if they are not analyzed objectively. A comprehensive analysis (Post-Mortem would be a better word though) followed by sectional testing in the weaker areas is the best way to ensure improvement through MOCKs.

Expert from www.TCYonline.com suggest that it is the time to – Plan, strategize and get ready for a perfect execution. A General’s strategic approach is what the need of the hour is rather than a Soldier’s aggressive approach. Just stay focused at the new Tech-CAT Avatar.

Top Careers & You (www.TCYonline.com) is the premier organization that has been preparing national and international candidates for high-end tests viz. CAT, XAT, JMET, SNAP, CET, FMS, IIFT and GMAT since 1998. Visit www.tcyonline.com to have FREE access of thousands of these tests.

HOW TO ANALYZE MOCK CATs?

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The solution to the above problem (and resulting blunders) as is regular and thorough postmortem of MOCK CATs before trying top attempt the next one. A thorough analysis must be undertaken (either by yourself or with the guidance of your trainer) of the following parameters:

Attempt pattern:

This will help you divide the total test time amongst (a) an overall view of the test (b) define a criterion to select the questions for round 1 (time-savers) of your attempt (c) define the maximum time that you will spend on a question (this time will vary from section to section) in order of avoid getting married to one time-taker.

Sectional Count:

It is very important to keep a count of the distribution of questions from various topics in each section. Most of us do it and rather get it done from the training institutes itself, but the success lies in the appropriate use of this vital piece of information. It is sheer wastage of time and energy if we keep such records for knowing which topics are important and which are not. If that’s the purpose prepare such records of the actual previous year CATs rather than your MOCKs.

The actual purpose of the above exercise is to find out your strong and weak areas with regard to your attempt and accuracy in them.

ABC of your attempt:

It is better to know and accept your speed Accelerators, speed Breakers and Carry home questions. Accelerators are one liner in verbal and quant, Single graph questions in DI and the ones that take minimum of your time while solving still giving you a decent accuracy count. Speed Breakers are the ones with close choices where approximations and closer meanings fail. And Carry home questions are ones which are never meant to be attempted but to be carried home.

EMD count:

You must measure your EMD count in each and every MOCK CAT. EMD count stands for the recording your total attempt and accuracy on the Easy, Medium and Difficult questions in each test. This helps you choose the most effective order of attempting the question. It is also recommended to match the questions that were difficult for you with the opinion of your trainer. This comparison reveals some questions, which if attempted in a different may have been time savers. You will learn to use appropriate approach in solving those questions.

Time Killed: It is also important to recall how much time was killed in

Solving questions that eventually went wrong

Solving the questions that you thought were easier

Solving questions which were from your not-very-strong topics

This total time that we kill during a MOCK can be reduced, which will automatically increase your attempt in the subsequent MOCKs. This exercise if combined with you consistent accuracy count can help you increase your score with each and every attempt.

The above parameters if measured, maintained and worked upon will make sure that you are moving smartly towards your Goal and your score in the subsequent MOCKs will prove this fact. Moreover, we at Top Careers & You believe that mere reading of such a piece of text will not necessarily help you improve your score in the MOCK CATs until it is illustrative. Hence, we recommend you attempt a MOCK CAT on www.tcyonline.com and practically learn how to take the best out of your previous experiences by observing the post test analysis given on the website. You may take several sectional as well as MOCK tests online to practice further before the online CAT 2009.

All the best!

Online CAT through TCYonline.com

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Basic fundamentals and pattern for the CAT will remain same as always. Yes there will be some alterations and here and there between all sections but basically it revolve around the same old topics. These are the topics which covers CAT exam completely and start preparing for basics of these topics and you will be through with your preparation.

a) Quantitative Ability

Quantitative Ability covers topics like Number Theory, Permutations and Combinations, Algebra, Geometry and Mensuration, Probability etc. This section accounts for the 33% of the total marks of the CAT Paper.

What TCYonline.com Provides: To score heavily in Quantitative Ability, TCYonline.com provides a variety of preparation materials. Please check http://www.tcyonline.com/exam-preparation-mba-cat-entrance-quantitative-ability/100004/quantitative-ability

b) Reading Comprehension & Verbal Ability

In Reading Comprehension, you will get a passage of around one A4 page which you need to read and analyze, and answer the questions that follow the paragraph.
In Verbal Ability, you will be tested in critical reasoning and grammar, vocabulary, verbal reasoning.

What TCYonline.com Provides: To score heavily in Verbal Ability, TCYonline.com provides a variety of preparation materials. Please check http://www.tcyonline.com/exam-preparation-mba-verbal-ability-reading-comprehension-test/100020/reading-comprehension

c) Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency

Data Interpretation questions are based on some data’s structured in the form of Table, Graphs, or Charts, based on which you will be asked to deduce further information. You will be tested on how quickly and correctly you can answer the questions given there.

In Data Sufficiency you will be tested on how to reason quantitatively. Given a set of conditions, mostly 2 of them, you will need to find out whether either of them, both of them, or none of them is required to find an answer to the given situation

What tcyonline.com Provides: To score heavily in DI & DS Ability, tcyonline.com provides variety of preparation materials. Please check http://www.tcyonline.com/india/testCategory/categoryID/100006/cat_reasoning_test_for_mba

CAT has been designed as a test of elimination NOT selection, are the reasons why the CAT 2009 aspirants are confused and nervous at this moment. Moreover, most of the test aspirants have completed 60 – 70% of the topics in our classroom preparation and its time for national Online Mocks – a distant dream for many as the traditional CAT preparation organizations struggle to arrange online versions of their tests – let’s begin with tcyonline.com.

May GOD Bless you………

RC for CAT 2009

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As all aspirants must be aware now that RC is going to be the most important section in Online CAT 2009. And it will be the least changing section from last year’s papers. So prepare yourself for the new format of RCs as online, passage and questions on a single screen of your computer in examination centre. Now just try this method out may be regular practice of this, makes you perfect in this new format of RCs.

“Dot Diagram” Strategy for New RCs

Remember the dot diagram that you came across in the kids section of a paper or magazine? There could be hundreds of dots. When once you join a few dots to form a picture, the other dots become irrelevant. Your RC is like that dot diagram. The hundreds of words are like the hundreds of dots. The questions revolve around the picture and not the words. So get the picture out of the dot diagram.

Now how to join the dots? Our advice:

Pre-read: Get a feel of the passage by reading the opening lines of each Para (the opening Para in particular) as well as the concluding lines of the last Para.

Speed Read: You have to drive a train, say from Delhi to Mumbai. Should you drive at the same speed throughout? What about the stations that fall on the way? You will definitely slow down and even stop at some of the stations. Do the same thing in the case of RC.

I keep forgetting as I proceed: Speed read the first Para. Write down its gist in one single phrase on your scratch sheet. Do the same thing in case of the other paragraphs. Now you have five ideas for (say) five paragraphs. The common link among these five ideas is your dot diagram.

Post read: This is to make sure that the picture you made was right. Look for repetitive words and phrases in the passage. These have to be part of the picture.

The opening paragraph and the concluding Para are important. But remember if the test taker is smart the test giver is smarter. Sometimes there may be nothing much in these paragraphs. So don’t overdo it.

Linking up the answers: You will be able to view only one question at a time. But the answer to various questions based on a passage should have some link. And the link is provided by – what else but – the picture that you formed.

Reading comprehension in CAT Verbal section has become a conundrum for CAT aspirants. But, there’s always a way out for everything. No doubt, it is a time taking process. But through proper strategy, the so called hornet’s nest can be easily tackled. Reading comprehension is the only part in verbal section in CAT which is least subject to change, so it can not be taken for granted.

Top Careers & You (www.TCYonline.com) is the premier organization that has been preparing national and international candidates for high-end tests viz. GRE, CAT, GMAT, and all other management entrance exams since 1998. Visit www.TCYonline.com to access thousands of FREE tests.

Relaxing part for CAT 2009

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Relaxation is the best policy to win your hyper ness and tension. So just believe in yourself that you can and this policy of “I CAN” will definitely make you what and where you want to be.

There is no point getting hyper and repeating your preparations just before the Actual-Day. It’s very important for you to keep your calm composed before the final CAT in November. “And the most important thing while giving the CAT exam is to enjoy each and every minute of the test and leave the worries of the result. The more you get in tension, the worse your expectations and results will become.” For that reason, you must relax your mind just before four or five days to the Actual CAT exam.

Easiness and Relaxation is the only key to success just before the Exam. “Please remember this important thing that CAT is more of a mental game, it’s not like other exams and the person who remains calm and composed on that Actual day will ultimately succeed,”

Expert from www.TCYonline.com suggest that it is the time to – Plan, strategize and get ready for a perfect execution. A General’s strategic approach is what the need of the hour is rather than a Soldier’s aggressive approach. Here are the few important areas that we need to work on in order to stay focused at the new Tech-CAT Avatar.

Relaxation before journey is always helpful………

Team TCYonline.com

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CAT 2009: some thoughts

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Candidates from all around the India have their own ideas about CAT going online from this year 2009 and they are thinking according to their ideas which may not be right. And all of us know that CAT is unexpected Test from years and any guesses will not work for the actual day in November 2009.

These are some thoughts we get from CAT aspirants for 2009.

CAT will be more difficult this time

CAT will shift to GRE-GMAT-type pattern from now onwards.

CAT will be only for computer-addicted aspirants

We can hope shorter RCs and less complex DI questions

I try to avoid CAT, and sit for only state-level tests or XAT and FMS.

I may have an advantage if I get a slot towards the end of the duration.

What if I get is difficult set in particular?

This is just on trial basis. CAT will be paper-based again in the near future.

CAT can be cracked only by IITians and people from other top colleges.

Expert from www.TCYonline.com suggest that it is the time to – Plan, strategize and get ready for a perfect execution. A General’s strategic approach is what the need of the hour is rather than a Soldier’s aggressive approach. Here are the few important areas that we need to work on in order to stay focused at the new Tech-CAT Avatar.

Listen to your mind rather then other’s mind……

Are you ready for CAT 2009?

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If yes, then let it going from today onwards. Generally people used to spend most of their time in planning rather then executing their plans. You have to plan and manage your schedules and preparations in such a manner that you can always make the most of it every time.

“Good management is the art of making problems interesting and solutions very constructive that everyone wants to deal with them and get hold on them.”

Let us help you in getting started your journey.

1. Finish fundamentals
One must put equal effort in all the sections of CAT whether its Quantitative aptitude, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension and Data Interpretation. You should not try to take shorter route as there is no shortcut to success and no substitutes to the fundamentals.

2. Revise
Revision should be covering your entire study schedule till CAT 2009. Put some hours every week for your revision only. When you revise you should plan for all the topics you have covered and completed till that date.

3. Test-taking Practice
CAT is not only about solving a problem or question. It is completely about choosing the best alternative from the choices available. Regular test-taking practice with time limits helps tremendously in improving your test-taking skills. Try to solve sectional tests first and then jump in for the mock CAT tests. Make sure you take a test, and analyze it sincerely for better results. For all details just log on to tcyonline.com

4. Relaxation
”I CAN” belief is very important and it can be worked upon at an individual level using one’s own time-tested methods and on daily basis. Just dream about your Dream institute day in and day out and tell yourself that you will make it there at the END.

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”

KEEP YOUR LEVELS HIGH TO BE ON HIGHER END……….

Data Analysis from Last 5 years CAT Exams

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If one looks at and analyses the actual CATs of the last 5 years, a factual and accurate list of topics to be covered can be prepared. Our analysis of CAT 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 can be summarized as follows:

It can be inferred from the trend that the cut-off for one IIM call every year requires 25 to 30% correct questions. It means those with reasonable accuracy in ‘Number Theory’ (never less than 15%); ‘Logic, Sets & Functions’ (never less than 8%) and Higher Math (never less than 10%) can be assured of clearing Quant cut-off in a given year.

It can be inferred from the trend that the cut-off for one IIM call every year requires 28 to 32% correct Verbal questions. It means those who have done thorough practice on Reading Comprehension and sentence completion (and gap-fills) question types, which together make up min 60% of the CAT every year, would be assured of clearing Verbal cut-off in a given year.

It can be inferred from the trend that the cut-off for one IIM call every year requires 30 to 35% correct DI questions. It means those with mastery over ‘Analytical Reasoning based questions’ (never less than 32%); can be assured of clearing DI cut-off in a given year.

CAT 2009 V/S Online Preparation:

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The biggest challenge before test-takers is how to prepare and test themselves before the actual exam. If the ultimate test is online, it is high time, with 4-5 months at hand, to switch to computer-based preparation and practice. If not, they will stay fit only for paper-based IIFTs and SNAPs.

Moreover, with CAT going online, be prepared for news of SNAP, JMET, XAT (once again), MAT, NMAT, FMS and IIFT also going online soon. CAT has actually got easier. One major advantage that CAT 2009 offers is that one can gain quick access to the tests and preparation material at any time of the day if it is available online. This will offer customization and flexibility to the test-takers preparing for CAT 2009.

Since there is always a surprise element in a CAT exam, keeping in view a steady shift from formula-based to reasoning-based questions during the last couple of years, these types of online tests can better prepare them to face any eventuality. Tools like Analytics are designed to provide an aspirant with not only self growth analysis, but also benchmarking with others at the granular level. It acts as your everyday reality check! by providing you national rankings. You can compare your performance vs. that of toppers and your past performance.

Another option for the aspirants is to generate their own tests. One such testing tool with is Test Generator (www.TCYonline.com/Createst). The test generator gives a candidate the facility to create his own test on the basis of the inputs he gets from the analytics thus enabling him a personalized preparation to strengthen his areas of improvement.

Hence, in order to reach the 99.99 mark it becomes imperative to have familiarity with different ways of managing the attempt and finding the answers to the optimum number of questions. Keeping many sources of questions handy with you (like previous CATs and hundreds of tests and new questions available on www.tcyonline.com) and their continuous analysis are indispensable for CAT preparation at this stage.
All the best. . .

Top Careers & You (www.TCYonline.com) is the premier organization that has been preparing national and international candidates for high-end tests viz. CAT, XAT, JMET, SNAP, CET, FMS, IIFT and GMAT since 1998. Visit www.tcyonline.com to have FREE access of thousands of these tests.

Speculations about CAT 2009

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Aspirants from everywhere have a lot of apprehensions on what to expect in CAT 2009? Will it be difficult? How easy or tough it will be to take the Computer Based Test? Almost all aspirants are asking only these types of questions which no one can reply other then IIMs himself.

We have tried to answer a few questions that our users have been posting in the last few weeks. One thing is clear that picture about Online CAT 2009 will be more clear only when IIMs will release their CAT bulletin for this year. All related details will be provided there like examination centers and rules and regulations plus advantages and disadvantages for students of CAT going Online from 2009.

Q) Is there going to be a change in pattern, sections or etc?

A) Can't say at this point of time. But chances are less. So keep preparing what you have been doing till now, and hope for the best in actual examination centre.

Q) Should I stop reading news papers and start reading materials online?

A) Yes, but if you have limited access to materials online, do continue preparing the old way. The vocabulary is helpful anyway. Reading Comprehension could be different while reading on a computer screen, but it will be good if you practice that on websites like tcyonline.com

Q) Will CAT go like the GMAT way?

A) Speculations are rife that it might. But it will not be Computer adaptive it will be only Computer based Test. So it’s declared now and just prepares you according to this only.

Q) Will I get any rough paper?

A) Yes. There will be enough paper to play with.

Q) How should I change my strategy for time?

A) The time allocation for each section, for preparation will not change much. But yes, once the overall picture is clear, and its known how many questions will be asked per section (which might happen only in examination centre), you might have to change the time allotted per section while taking the test.

For more and more practice join free CAT course from tcyonline.com.

Expert from www.TCYonline.com suggest that it is the time to – Plan, strategize and get ready for a perfect execution. A General’s strategic approach is what the need of the hour is rather than a Soldier’s aggressive approach.

Let’s begin the journey to success…

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New LOOK of RCs in CAT 2009:

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The new format has created such a vacuum for strategies in Verbal Section, especially in handling the all time boring and jargon rich RCs, now on computer, that even the best performers in verbal section are finding it hard to strategize time management on RC based questions. The trainers are working hard to devise new ways of attempting RCs on computer.

However, the experts at www.TCYonline.com, who have been designing strategies for other similar computer based tests like GMAT and GRE for over 10 years, are filled with a sense of familiarity. Moreover, the fact that over 50, 000 students prepared online for CAT 2008 with www.TCYonline.com has given them enough experience to discover better ways of attempting CAT verbal when it goes online.

Let us take the help of an RC test designed by www.TCYonline.com using the FREE Test Generator tool (www.TCYonline.com/CreaTest). Here is how it looks like:

As you can see from the screen shot, to your left is the passage and to the right is Question No 1 out of total 20 questions. The “NEXT” button helps in moving ahead to the subsequent questions if a question is done or is to be left un-attempted.

As you would observe, an RC on computer poses some real challenges. Some of them are:

· No way to underline the keywords in the questions as well as in the passage.

· One has to scroll down the passage using a ‘scroller’ as the complete passage is not visible at a time.

· You can read only one question (and NOT all the questions in one go as is possible with the paper-based CAT) at a time.

· It is expected that a lot of time will be wasted when a student has to re-read the passage every time a new question appears.

· Moreover, it is easier to spot the right place to get an answer to a particular question on paper rather than on a computer screen.

· Result: Time taken per question is bound to rise and the accuracy is adversely affected if the test is attempted in rush.

Hence, the ways to attempt an RC based question on computer screen should also be different so as to minimize the possible wastage of time because of obvious reasons. Verbal experts at www.TCYonline.com recommend the following strategy to ensure dual advantage – (1) Overall idea and tone of the passage (2) Pointers to spot the right place where the answer is located.

Keep yourself adjusted with changes…….

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Time Management for CAT 2009:

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Time is the most important portion in anyone’s life and everybody should respect time and try to save time whenever possible. For CAT also it is very important to save time at every stage of your preparation. These are some ways through which you can save your lots of time to do better in Cat 2009.

1) Forget about the Cricket matches, Movies, Traveling to other cities for the next few months. These things consume a lot of time. Once in a while you can reward yourself for your hard work by indulging in these activities.

2) Form a small study group of 3 to 6 people, it helps a lot. Share your problems and doubts with other members of tcyonline.com. It will help.

3) Let your friends and relatives know that you are preparing for exams for the next 6 months so that they unknowingly don’t disturb your study schedule.

4) Try to do as many tasks as possible over the phone or on internet. (www.tcyonline.com)

DURING CAT

Get well versed with time management

You are prospective managers, and managing such a crucial thing as time is most expected from you. And, this is what CAT is structured around. During exam your strategy should be to read for the ideas. For this you can look into repeated words, metaphors and other focused words. To tackle time, read the questions first, register them in your mind and recall them when you are reading the passage so as to get the answers quickly.

And in this way, you will be able to limit your focus on more important ideas. It will definitely help in managing time efficiently and answering the questions accurately.

The strategy can’t be same for everybody, but it has worked in maximum cases. Try it out. It’s not difficult, but, yes, it needs consistent effort.

So, this is the time to show your finesse in reading and understanding. Trust your ability to comprehend and catapult yourself to higher levels.

Keeping reading and stay in the race………

IMPORTANCE of Reading in CAT 2009

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By TCYonline.com
Reading Comprehension carries a lot of weight age in CAT. And to clear verbal cut off it plays an important role. So every aspiring student must know the value of reading speed through out the CAT. If you read fast then only you will be able to solve more questions. There are few ways through which you can be a very good reader and performer as well.
Be an active reader
To read is not enough in CAT. You have to transform yourself from a passive reader to an active one. You should develop critical reading skills in yourself. There are a few things, which if kept in mind can better facilitate the comprehension of the text,
· Read analytically.
· Have a chat with yourself.
· Question yourself about the topic.
· Have a dialogue with the author.
By keeping these points in mind, you will have more clarity of the concepts. This improves your comprehension many folds. Is that something similar to what the author says? What is the theme? What is the author trying to say? What is his attitude towards the topic? And in this way, you can create a contextual map or flow-diagram of the series of events in the text.
Myth about reading speed
Reading speed is an area which is stressed by many. CAT aspirants are skeptical about the concept of reading speed in an RC. You need not be very fast, but a little faster than the normal, as the length of a CAT passage is no more than 2/3rd of a page. One can increase one’s reading speed through
· Widening the eye span.
· Ceasing to speak aloud.
· Not being a word slave.
· Checking the habit of regression.
But, your eye and brain should work together. Our motive is to comprehend and answer accordingly. Reading is the ‘means’ and the ‘end’ is comprehension.
So start doing practice as soon as possible…..
Reading comprehension in CAT Verbal section has become a conundrum for CAT aspirants. But, there’s always a way out for everything. No doubt, it is a time taking process. But through proper strategy, the so called hornet’s nest can be easily tackled. Reading comprehension is the only part in verbal section in CAT which is least subject to change, so it can not be taken for granted.

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Handling traps in CAT 2009

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By TCYonline.com

As all of us know that CAT is famous not for difficulty level but for the tricky questions which makes every one thirsty during exam. There are many types of tricks available which makes the question look enemy but there solution will be so easy that after exam you will say “the chance was missed now”.
A well prepared student can all fall in the traps in a few questions in CAT. You have to clearly see what is being asked in the question and how you should take care of these tricky questions.
For example, consider the following question:

Question: A student is expecting of getting 90 marks in the math paper and overall 75% marks in five papers but he actually gets only 80. What percentage of the marks he finally gets if the marks in other four papers are same as expected?

Solution: Well the very first answer from majority number of students will be 73% as they themselves imagine the maximum marks of a paper as 100, which is a trap in the question. This happens because in many examinations maximum marks are 100, but this does not hold true in this situation.
So the answer for these questions will be data insufficient or can’t be determined.

Hence, in order to reach the 99.99 marks it becomes imperative to have familiarity with different ways of managing the attempt and finding the answers to the optimum number of questions. Keeping many sources of questions handy with you (like previous CATs and hundreds of tests and new questions available on www.tcyonline.com) and their continuous analysis are indispensable for CAT preparation at this stage.

All the best from Team TCYonline.com

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WHICH TOPICS TO BE COVERED IN CAT 2009

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An important data prepared by www.TCYonline.com is given below, wherein the experts have summarized the contribution of the various sub-sections of Quant, DI, and Verbal sections in the total CAT (with reference to CAT 2008):

Hence it is quite obvious from the above three pie charts that

Reading comprehension in Verbal,

Geometry & Arithmetic & Algebra in Quant and

Reasoning based questions in DI

Have clean sweep over the other sub-sections in a CAT. On the other hand Para-Jumbles in Verbal and Ratio & Proportion; Profit-Loss sections had negligible contribution to your CAT score. You must plan in order to cover and exercise these topics thoroughly in order to score high in the CAT 2009.

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Free CAT 2009 course preparation

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CAT 2009 has opened the avenues for online education in India so much that CAT aspirants are looking forward to online inputs more than offline ones.
Really surprising!! While various CAT preparation institutes with significant national presence and hence scale are thinking to increase CAT prep fee, some online preparation programmes are going on an altogether different track.

For instance, TCYonline’s (www.TCYonline.com) FREE CAT course is a matter of surprise for all. Not only are the contents (tests, tutorials, audio et al) comparable in quantity but also ranked very highly by the students. According to company officials – As the CAT experts all over India admit that they really don’t see reason why students would pay for content. It’s not about content AT ALL but what happens around that content. What it means is that websites like www.TCYonline.com have captured millions of Analytics (data points) around lakhs of questions by running this course free for the last two years. Around 50,000 prepared for CAT 2008 with TCYonline NOT just because of content but specifically because of Analytics (http://www.tcyonline.com/cat2009/tcy_graphs.html).

With the pace CAT aspirants are enrolling every day for the online courses; websites like www.TCYonline.com expects to enroll more than 1.5 lakh students. While preparation and test results are absolutely free, students can pay as less as INR 400 for unlimited annual usage of the some special technical features. Moreover, such an approach towards online training requires first the trainers to be trained on the ways of helping a CAT aspirant to use analytics to their best advantage. For instance, the classroom trainers of TCY are certified on these Analytics if students want to take advantage of instructor led training. That’s highly scientific as only certified trainers can train them & not merely subject experts.

Salient features of an online course:
1. Vocabulary and speed reading buildup
2. Digital audio lectures and online tests
3. Live online technical support
4. Subject-wise backing by CAT experts
5 Downloadable topic-wise notes.
6. Test-wise analysis and nationwide ranking
7. Mock CATs and previous year’s original papers

TCY (www.TCYonline.com) features the most advanced and user-friendly online testing engine and a host of FREE services like FREE online CAT course, Test Generator, TCY Analytics and Audio-Visual Lectures for CAT 09 preparation.

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