Ultimate CAT playbook: mocks & section strategy

A practical, no-nonsense playbook for anyone preparing for CAT 2026. It is built around one decision most aspirants never consciously make: which section deserves the majority of your remaining hours.

I scored 99.87 in CAT 2024 with four months of preparation, almost all of it concentrated on DILR, which finished at 99.97. My VARC finished at 92.98 and I planned it that way. The scorecard is reproduced inside so you can check every number against the claim.

Inside the twenty pages:

1. How the paper actually works, in one page, if you are new to it
2. Five beliefs I held that cost me weeks, and what replaced them
3. The allocation decision: how to find the section where your score moves fastest per hour
4. A full playbook for each section, DILR, VARC and QA, including what to attempt and what to deliberately leave
5. How I ran mock analysis, and why the analysis matters more than the mock
6. An honest account of exam day, including the execution mistake that cost me an IIM Ahmedabad call
7. A four-step method for running the same allocation on your own mock data

This is not a book of shortcuts, secret tricks, or guarantees. It is not a syllabus and it will not tell you which coaching to join. It is one attempt, examined closely, with the parts that went wrong left in.

The most important line in it is a warning: do not copy my split. DILR was right for me because of where I started, with strong Quant, no DILR at all, and four months on the clock. Yours will sit somewhere else entirely. Copy the method, not the split.

Free of cost.