My mock scores and sectional scores look like this. PLEASE HELP!!!!!
8 months of prep and i'm still stuck at the bottom.
Profile: GEF fresher, 9|8|8
Started my prep in Feb start, I have given 410 hours to this prep till now(including mocks and analysis hours). Yes, I have counted every hour using a very nice app called "Forest".
My goal, when I started my prep, was to score a minimum of 99.9%ile. Therefore, a minimum of 110 marks (excluding CAT 2023 data). So I knew that in my mocks around September I had to be near AT LEAST 90-100 OA marks. But I am nowhere near. I knew it wouldn't be easy. But still, this is disheartening.
Every mock that I give, I make the mistake of picking 1 wrong set in DILR always. So, overall i solve 1-1.5 sets in every mock. On a lucky day, i do 2-2.5 sets.
QA is my biggest bottleneck despite me being an engineer. However, I have started giving more time to it now, I used to avoid QA in the first 3-4 months of prep thinking it would be easy for me to do QA later on and boy was I wrong. But QA I know I will get better in time and pull my score to 25-30 at least.
For VARC - I read 1-2 essays everyday along with 4RCs and 4 VA tests everyday. And sectionals here and there. Shall I do more to go from 30s,40s to 50s/60s in VARC?
I have not given up hope, i know I can reach god level. So my question is not whether i can make it to 99.9%ile....
My question is should I keep giving mocks every 3-4 days and analyse it and practice QA,DILR,VARC on the side as well
OR
drill down on QA and DILR (70-80 Questions in QA per day and 8-10 sets in DILR per day and give a mock per week)?
Posted Aug 5, 2026, 1:19 PM UTC