Competition examinations require lots and lots of practice and mental exercises.
To check how much you have learned and how far you have come, mock tests are
necessary to help you check your growth. They help in time management and
also, help us in understanding our lack of timings and help us record our timings
ways like while applying for competitive exams you should always take a mock
test series before it because of the following reasons:
1. It plays as a Transparency in Evaluation
2. It Tracks our Progress as a Student
3. It is online under our flexible schedule i.e. its Flexible Scheduling
4. Saving Important Exam Papers and also shortcut methods for
particular topics.
5. They come in handy i.e. they are affordable
IF IT IS A COMPUTER BASED EXAM, WHICH YOU ARE GOING TO
ATTEMPT, THEN ONLINE MOCK SERIES HELPS A LOT.
If you are thinking of reasons, let me tell you, that test series also help in the
following-
1. Understanding the sections, the pattern, the type of questions of the exam
2. As everything is online in this covid 19 eras, these test series help us in
getting known to the online system.
3. Speed and Time management of an individual is also determined through these tests.
4. Making a strategy by knowing how much time you are spending on topics and questions.
5. As the famous saying, practice makes us perfect, and competitive exams are all about them.
6. Knowing where you stand, may help you in boosting confidence and
if you are low in the ranking, it helps in improvement.
Now what is the best test series out there;
There are different-different test series for different - different exams but the
widest range is provided by the textbook. They are extremely useful, they make
good mock tests and solutions in their keys are easily understandable and their
approach towards different questions as well. The thing which attracts the most
are that they have a really good analytics part, which shows us our standing or
say ranking in a mock test, what’s our rank, which topics need revision and our
mistakes in them, are we learning from our mistakes, are our performance
improving or not. They even show how many other applicants got a particular
question right. They do are a little easier than other platforms but then their
questions are trickier.
Apart from the Textbook, the Olive board comes next.
They have challenging and trickier question papers. Sometimes these test series
can be extremely beneficial but often they may demotivate you as your answers
can be wrong. But overall, if we look into the test series, they are a very good
platform
According to sources, Oliveboard is said to be a good and a better platform in
comparison to all other exam series. They provide up to date exam patterns and
puzzles to solve Also if you are applying for banking exams, the olive board should
be a priority because of their challenging puzzles.
There are textbooks, prepladder, bankersadda, grade up, Oliveboard test series.
Priority order can be:
1. Oliveboard
2. Bankersadda, grade up
3. Textbook
MOCK ANALYSIS
The mock analysis is an extremely important part of the preparation. You take the
mock only to get accustomed to the actual test interface, and to check your
intellectual powers. But the mock test is not the actual test, so you have had
to improve with every mock test. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses,
doing a SWOT analysis, rectifying and improving your mistakes, check the time spent on each question or passage or case study, let, check time spent by
others, doing a whole-time and speed management your accuracy, and marks
per minute and perhaps get a video solution to every question.
MOCK SERIES FOR C.A.T.
All the three-test series of C.A.T stands almost at par and have created a
benchmark when it comes to creating a base of the students. Generally, only the
most serious and above-average candidates appear for these mocks tests
The number is highest in the beginning, at the start of the season but decreases
gradually as candidates either withdraw themselves or lose interest.
1. AIMCAT usually stars with 27000 applicants but by the end, it decreases to 8000.
2. SIMCAT starts with around 25000 candidates but the no decreases to 10000 by the end of the year.
3. CL starts with around 9000 participants but unusually rises up to 18000 by the end of the year.
Generally, if we look into the statistics, around 20000 or a maximum of 25000 candidates take the mocks.
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About these series;
AIMCATs: if we attend these test series after the window is closed, then
we will not get our results, i.e. you will not receive your AIR or percentile.
The percentiles or the results which are provided when you attend the test
during the window are static, now that means it doesn’t take into account
the performance of those who attended the test outside the window. It is a
the disadvantage for those applicants who work and prepare for the exam in
outskirts, where it might not be possible to attempt during the window
due to network issues
SIMCATs: In these test series, you will get everything from percentiles
to rankings except for AIR. The percentile provided when you attend the test
within or outside the window is static and it doesn’t take into account the
performance of those who took the test outside the window.
CL: in these test series everything is the same, no post window or pre window
stuff. The percentile and the AIR is dynamic which means it takes into
account the performance of those who took the test outside the window,
which is very good NOW, IF WE PUT THEM ACCORDING TO THE PRIORITIES AND FEEDBACKS OF STUDENTS, WE CAN HAVE-
SIMCATS from IMS winning, followed by AIMCATS from TIME INSTITUTE and then CL mocks
As you may have noticed, there are only minor differences among these test
series. The competition is really close and all of them provide a good platform to
test and improve you. All of them either prepare you for worst-case scenarios or
the best thing that happened to you. As for the final result, the is on the spotlight is on
you, how well you use them, how well you do your mocks, and what you
ultimately learn from your mistakes.