CAT Toppers -- Perseverance and Mock Tests helped score 100 percentile

Hello ravisivan: I agree, the two mentioned by you are very useful tools for success. Perseverance is by far the most important ingredient for any success. Mock tests help one to constantly assess and improve before taking the final test. Very useful thought. Thanks. Have a wonderful time!

With one month remaining for my GATE exam, I wish I could put in my 100% too. But its really hard doing so with all this college routine and new year excitement on Congrats to all those who made it...

hi ravisivan that is really impressive. He took the time to learn and to keep on wor king until he had it all down to perfection. People can learn from him how to succeed in college and go on to higher degrees. You just cannot get there without putting in the real effort and perseverance needed. That is why so many fail and the few do really succeed.I used to use a bit of that strategy when I went back to college in a junior college in my thiries and then later took the final two years at the U of Ca Irvine California.When you put in the work you start to succeed and when you persevere you do get there too.[

Though I think that mock tests and such help with some people, there are other people that it doesn't help at all. I am one of those people, I can do really well on practice exams and things like that but when it comes to the real thing, I will freeze up because of the atmosphere in the room. With that said, however, I do think that perserverance is something that will take people a long way in their lives.

It is possible to do anything if people take a oath and concertrate fully on the goal what he was to achieve do not things avout other things except the goal he had to achive. There nothing that is impossible it is said that human can turn even stone to water then these are small things. But apart from the the hard labour one do there is need of luck as well as mind i mean not all is cpapble doing things. Some one get born with preigifted item and intellegence is one of them .While with hard labour it is posbile to aquire but not all time. What is gited to human will not be achivavlbe by hard work but one should not stop trying ang giving his hard labour to the work he wish to do.

I admire people who work hard to succeed in anything they do. The concentration, the sacrifice and the never-say-die spirit are good models for all of us. But I am attracted by the way of "attempting as many mock tests". It makes me thinking about the real purpose of a test. What is the purpose of a mock test? I guess it is to familiar oneself about the way the test is conducted, the test environment, and to simulate the actual taking of the test. All these endeavors are make to beat the system (not to be intimidated by the system), or at the very least, to minimize/eliminate any mistakes for not knowing the system. What if a student who is not familiar with the test method, makes a simple system mistake like instead of using black inked ball pen, he used blue, and therefore his answers of the test are not accepted. He has failed. He may be a genius in the test subject but he failed because he used the wrong colored ball pen. In that case, the test does not evaluate the true capabilities of the student. Maybe there is a need to re-think the way we make academical\skill evaluations. We have to make the test friendly to the participants.