Hi guys, and welcome back to the channel. The preparation for CAT 2024 must be in full swing, and a prominent question in your mind would be how many questions to attempt daily or how many hours to dedicate. Basically, what should be our daily routine to achieve a 99 percentile in CAT 2024? To answer this question, let me take you back a few years when I took the CAT exam, and I achieved a 99 percentile. At that time, while formulating my daily routine, I learned some valuable lessons that I'll share with you today through which you will be able to create your daily routine. So, let's start with the first point, which is called 'no one size fits all.' This means that one size does not fit all. It's not like if someone tells you to follow a specific daily routine, do this many questions from this chapter every day and you will achieve 99%. It doesn't work like that. And the reason for that is every person's capability is different, and everyone's availability is also different. For instance, it's possible that you are a working professional & can't dedicate much time every day. And if I am a fresher, I might have more time. Similarly, it's possible that it takes you a week to complete a chapter, but it might take me two weeks. So, due to the differences in every person's capability, we will create a daily routine that will be right for you. I am not telling you your daily routine; you can plan it better than I can. But I am telling you how to create a daily routine. This is a three-step model in which the first step is mapping out your syllabus. During my CAT exam preparation, I noticed that the CAT syllabus is quite extensive. If we proceed without a plan and without understanding our syllabus, we feel lost and demotivated. Think of it this way: if there's a road you need to travel from point A to point B, but you can't see point B on the road, you won't know when or if you'll reach it. Now, zoom out a bit and try to look at the road from a sky view. Then, you'll be able to see both point A and point B. You'll understand that to cover that distance, you need to travel in smaller segments. This keeps your motivation intact. So when we say mapping out the syllabus, it means we have to measure the length of the road. So, to measure the length of the road, or in other words, to measure our syllabus, the first thing you should know is which resources you will use. You must have seen many books in the market that people use for self-preparation. If you are preparing on your own, you must have bought some book as well. Similarly, those who take coaching get study material from their coaching institutes, which we call a question bank. It could be in the form of booklets, or it could be online material. Whatever the resource is, you need to first define what your resource will be. Which material will you use for practicing questions? I'll give you an example of Supergrads. Supergrads by Top Rankers is a very renowned CAT coaching brand. I will show you their study material and explain how you can create your daily routine. I'm grateful; we've partnered with them for this video. The next full-fledged CAT 2024 batch by Supergrads will start on the 12th of February. Students who join their offline or online batch will be provided with this set of books. Those who join the online batch will have these books delivered to them. So now let's take an example of the quant book. I am showing you the index of the quant book. If you look closely, 3 exercises are mentioned for each chapter, depending upon the level of difficulty. Every person has their own choice regarding how advanced they want their preparation to be. I, during my time, prepared up to level 2, which is easy and moderate. What you need to do is go through those two exercises for each chapter and note down the total number of questions. In the same way, you will calculate the total for all the exercises in all your materials. For example, in all the quant books from Supergrads, there are almost 2000 questions. Similarly, if we look at the Supergrads DILR book, it has almost 400 sets. In VARC, there are 500 Reading Comprehensions and 1000 Verbal Ability questions. So now, our entire syllabus is mapped out in terms of the number of questions that we need to cover. Along with Supergrads' preparation books, they will also offer you 70+ comprehensive mocks, and their faculty is also quite renowned. If you visit their website, you can go to this section and watch their videos, giving you a demo as well. If you want to join Supergrads' upcoming CAT 2024 batch, you will find all the details in the description. There will be a link that you can click on. Now, our three-step process's first step is complete, which is mapping out the syllabus. The second step will be setting the deadline. I also took coaching during my preparation, and in most coaching institutes, what happens is they claim they will finish the syllabus by September. Sometimes the syllabus gets extended until October, & in some coaching institutes, even until November. Your task will be whether you are self-preparing or taking coaching, you need to set your own mental deadline for completing the syllabus. For example, if I have to recommend a deadline, I would suggest setting it by the end of July or at the maximum by the end of August. By that time, you should have gone through all your chapters, at least up to the easy level. I am making this video at the end of January, and if you consider the end of July as your deadline, then there are 25 weeks in between. Whenever you start, note down how many weeks are there between the starting point and your deadline. After these two steps, we will have two things. Due to the first step, we know how many total questions we need to cover in each section. Due to the second step, we know how many weeks we have to cover the syllabus. So now comes our third step, which is setting your weekly targets. You know, I have written the name of this video very wrong, daily routine. CAT preparation should be done with weekly routine. The targets I am telling you are set weekly, not daily. The reason for that is every person's capacity, every person's mood, and availability are different. When I was preparing, sometimes someone's wedding would come up, sometimes I would have an argument with someone. Something or the other keeps happening in our lives. That's why never set daily targets; set weekly targets. The biggest advantage of weekly targets is flexibility. Many times, while preparing, we face situations where we plan to study, but we can't solve questions, and due to that, we don't feel like working the next day. However, if you set weekly targets, you know that even if I couldn't do something today, I can compensate for it tomorrow because at the end of the day, I have to achieve the weekly target, not the daily one. What happens is that your motivation level stays high and you can consistently cover your syllabus. Now, using the same example, let's move to the 3rd step & set your weekly targets. Like, we have written Quant, DILR, and Verbal Ability on the left side, and in front of them, we have written the no. of questions, such as 2000 in Quant, 400 sets in DILR, 500 RCs, and 1000 VA questions in VARC. We will divide all these numbers by the no. of weeks, which is 25 weeks for us. We will have our weekly targets in terms of the number of questions, which will be 80 questions in Quant, 16 sets in DILR, 20 RCs & 40 VA questions in VARC. The important thing is, this is your target for 1 week. If you have to do 80 questions in quant within a week so how many questions you do daily will depend on your capacity as well as availability. You can choose to do all 80 in one day if you want, but you can also evenly divide them for each day. If, for example, you are watching this video a bit late, you might say that you don't have 25 weeks; it's less than that, that is not a problem. Set a deadline, arrive at the number of weeks, find your entire syllabus, and divide it by the number of weeks you have left. That way, you will get your weekly target. It might be much more than 80 questions. That is okay. You have to cover it in just one week, so your daily target will be less. At the end of the day, you just have to achieve your weekly target. This completes our three-step method through which you can arrive at your weekly targets and you can create your daily routine. I will tell you final point related to your weekly rituals. See, now you know your syllabus, how many questions you need to do in each section within a week. But a question may arise in your mind: Should I do all three sections every day, or can I pick up one section? For this, a good rule of thumb is that you should take up each section every week. There should not be any section that you don't cover even once in a week. You need to stay in touch with each section. Otherwise, after some time, you have to restart it. It doesn't mean you have to do every section daily which means you can do one section in a day and you can do two sections in a day as well. When I was preparing, I used to cover two sections in a day. I did quant every day. Quant was my weaker section. So I did quant every day. One day with the Quant and DILR, the next day with the Quant and VARC, and it kept going alternatively like that. This is broadly what is covered under the daily routine for the CAT exam. This is how you set your daily routine, or I should say, your weekly routine. This is all I wanted to share about this topic. If you have any other questions in your mind, you can ask them in the comments, and I can then help you out. I am really sorry for my voice. I am trying it to recover & I can properly make videos. But I am sure that irrespective, this information will definitely help you. Thank you so much for watching, guys. Wish you the very best for your preparation.
