Posted by TCYonline.com on December 4, 2009
There was a XAT failure and there is this one in CAT. Many students all over India could not enjoy their first day first show with Prometric-NIIT-IIM led CAT 2009. Exam for more than 300 people will be rescheduled in the next 9 days as their test could not begin at all. The first day was certainly a flop show.
OVERALL
Overall, the common feeling among the test takers was that the test was of moderate level of difficulty. This was expected as this was IIMs first tryst with the computer based CAT. As most of the test takers fond it easier we can generalize that the first of the 20 tests was of moderate difficulty.
NAVIGATION
The navigation and test interface was very user friendly. The Highlights in case of RCs remained for all the questions answerable through that RC. It was possible only because all questions related to a RC appeared on one page (scrollable) and NOT as one question a page as it appears in GRE. This was good news considering the fact that the video by Prometric said that the highlights would go off as the screen changed.
The only exception was a button to quit the exam that was available on all pages and many takers clicked on that by mistake leading to sudden end of their test.
QUANT
As per the students’ opinion, Quant was of the level of CAT 2006. It was quite manageable. The cut-offs are expected to be higher. However, some well placed traps in Data Sufficiency questions may so the damage.
VERBAL
Verbal was much like that of past two years. Many students observed that RCs were shorter as compared to past years.
DI
Students found DI section the most time consuming mainly because of the few logical questions. Also, the questions that appeared in sets were presented the same way as RCs were – That is, all questions based on one set of data were on the same page. Here also, highlights were possible till the end of the set.
RECOMMENDATIONS
- Stay cool! The test is manageable.
- It is pretty CAT and did not incline towards GRE or GMAT.
- All basic topics in Quant are important to be covered viz. Algebra, Arithmetic, Geometry etc.
- Practice more on Logical reasoning questions with long statements and only one question per set.
- Practice a lot of past CAT questions will help you gain confidence in handling the test!
Posted by TCYonline.com on November 26, 2008
NEW DELHI, Nov. 26 – Recession or no recession, the modern Indian student always aspires for more – more knowledge, more money and more challenge. The just concluded CAT and the very thought of fat MBA pay packages spur him on to perform better each passing day.
Be it upcoming SNAP, FMS and XAT, or for that matter any college/school or competitive exam, the student’s Net gains have made him more confident after he has learnt how to wriggle out of difficult situations. Online testing being his new success mantra, all he has to do is benchmark his performance against the best in India and abroad, and raise his bar.
Today, we see a study shift from chalk-and-board to computers with the greater impact of education websites like TCYonline.com which have brought a revolution of sorts in the test prep sector. A smart student is supplementing his classroom education with online practice tests, which are taking precedence over traditional ‘bookish’ learning.
It is worth noting that enjoying the privilege of being India’s Number One Testing Platform, www.tcyonline.com has today over 2.70 lakh students in the age group of 13–32 years on its portal taking advantage of its various free resources — online tests ranging from CBSE to MBA to GRE and Medical/Engineering exams.
Talking of the CBSE, scores of practice tests are available on the website for the benefit of the school students. As a gesture of goodwill, like previous years, TCYonline.com will also make available number of pre board tests for the February 2009 exam.
Student benchmarking being the hallmark of this web-portal, its recently launched two testing tools – the ‘Challenge Zone’ and the ‘Test Generator’ – are making good rounds among the academic community.
Being the free website for the students, the portal has also found great favour with some schools, colleges and universities in the country. Of late, some academic institutions have shown keen interest in TCYonline.com’s elite testing platform.
TCYonline.com’s exhaustive and free material catering to all the major national and international exams coupled with technology-enabled tools is not only becoming a rage amongst students but is also catching the eye of educational institutions and other companies.
A huge student base and separate exam categories on the website provide a perfect platform for educational institutions to showcase their offerings to prospective students. With continuous product innovation and technological upgradation taking place every second, this platform offers a host of opportunities to education institutions in India and abroad, virtually on a platter.
While it is heartening to note that TCYonline.com is crossing the five-lakh registration mark during the next few months, the web-portal gives education bodies an opportunity to describe their programs, organize mock tests and virtual education fairs. Moreover, the students can gain by asking questions and interacting with the university representatives through an online chat facility.
TCYonline.com has in a way squeezed the whole world to such an extent that a now a student sitting in any part of the world, say in the US or Canada, can prepare for any international entrance exam like GRE or GMAT or TOEFL. Practice tests for all these entrance exams are available on the website free of cost.
All said and done, TCYonline.com has become the ‘testopedia’ of the modern student today. He can’t think of his life without it.
Posted by TCYonline.com on October 11, 2008
In a move to further ‘revolutionize’ India’s test prep sector, the country’s Number One Testing Platform, TCYonline.com, has launched the ‘Test Generator’ – another testing tool to facilitate student’s better benchmarking. This cutting edge technological marvel is bound to shoot up students’ scores and morale tremendously.
There’s a feeling among intelligentsia that this online tool would immensely help lakhs of MBA aspirants currently gearing up for next month’s Common Admission Test (CAT). According to CAT pundits, their preparation for the elite exam will take an extreme form of customization.
This follows the grand success of TCYonline.com’s recently launched ‘Challenge Zone’ which has already caused much of a sensation in India’s test preparation sector.
All this has been possible because of TCY’s belief in ‘disruption’. No wonder, it is becoming the ‘testopedia’ for everybody. Its latest initiative is a step in that direction.
For the uninitiated to TCYonline.com’s innumerable free benefits, this web-portal takes pride in having close to 2,25,000 students’ and teachers’ registrations.
Over the past two years, 50,000 MBA aspirants have benefited from free CAT courses and free practice tests available on the site.
“This new testing tool will help boost modern students’ exam preparation. Now, he would be in a better position to fine-tune his benchmarking by customizing length, number of questions, types of questions, number of sections, difficulty levels, negative markings, all leading to better performance,” according to TCYonline.com CEO, Kamal Wadhera.
Elaborating on the ‘Test Generator’ he said, “Its concept is akin to an Olympic athlete who after practising in mud and sand, fine-tunes on various aspects – daily raising his difficulty level – makes a gold podium finish one day.”
Since every student’s speed, assimilation and preparation level is different from any other student, this new testing tool would give him the complete cruise-control of his exam preparation.
Just take an example of an average CAT student who feels that his Reading Comprehension is not that good because he usually finds himself at odds while attempting scientific passages. Now, what is he going to do? If he is smart enough, he would log on to www.tcyonline.com RC database and get number of questions according to a particular topic, his difficulty level, negative marking, etc. and get started. Yes, it is as simple as that, thanks to this new testing tool.
“Thousands of questions have already been tagged according to topic, difficulty level, exam and it’s a continuous process. Student will be able create the tests from varied levels of questions,” said Mr. Wadhera.
Benefits for the student:
1. Saves time by attempting only relevant questions
2. Easy access to content of different authors
3. Access to rich repository of content
4. Self-driven tool
It may be noted that the company plans to keep the tool free for some time to gauge the student response and its usage pattern.
“We have seen in the pilot run that the students will be ‘addicted’ to it. It’s bound to become a de facto tool for exam preparation”, said the confident CEO.
This tool will not only help students but teachers too. They can create the tests for their students also form a huge question database. It will save their time while searching questions, etc.
Posted by TCYonline.com on June 16, 2008
TCYonline.com’s free CAT course has evoked quite an enthusiastic response from this year’s MBA aspirants nationwide. About 1500 students have so far benefited from this unique course, the first of its kind in the country, started in January this year.The free online CAT course is a boon for working professionals like S. Karthikeyan of Chennai, according to whom it is the “best” resource for all the MBA aspirants like him.
“The beauty of this course is one can do it at one’s own pace which is not possible if one joins a regular institute,” he said, adding, “Thanks to good quality, challenging tests and lectures on the website, I prefer an online course to a regular course.”
The course consists of 60-70 recorded lectures and over 200 tests in verbal and quant. It has been meticulously designed by TCYonline.com subject-experts and backed by technical expertise. Equal stress is being laid on Quant and Verbal Aptitude, Data Analysis, and Logical Reasoning.
According to TCYonline.com IT Manager, Mr. Rakesh Kumar, “the current batch (eighth) which began on June 4 received about 500 entries, and the demand is rising every day. In fact, the response is so overwhelming that we are getting requests to increase the maximum limit of 250 students.”
Course salient features:
• Vocabulary and speed reading buildup
• Digital audio lectures and online tests
• Live online technical support
• Subject-wise backing by CAT experts
• Downloadable topic-wise notes.
• Test-wise analysis and nationwide ranking
• Mock CATs and previous year’s original papers
Shivam Srivastava, working with Infosys at Bangalore, too is all praise for this free course. “The online course available on the website is exhaustive and at the same time intensive and focuses on the topics well. The best thing about it is that the lectures provided can be attended at any point of time which gives flexibility to the user. The content is also great and covers everything. Also, regular tests and assignments help you benchmark yourself with others.”
It is worth noting that mock tests and original papers of the other exams like FMS, SNAP, XAT are also available on the website. There are also online business awareness quizzes for IIFT, SNAP, IRMA and MAT. CAT experts advise the students to first work on their basics and graduate to mock and chapter-wise tests after two-three months. Since there is always a surprise element in a CAT exam, keeping in view a steady shift from formula-based to reasoning-based questions during the last couple of years, these types of online tests can better prepare them to face any eventuality.
Posted by TCYonline.com on October 30, 2007
Every youngster knows which mobile offers best value, with all complicated data on talk-time, free SMS, rate of local call, the pulse, etc., taken into account. Why does a simple similar
question based on ratio proportion or unitary method looks so confusing inside the CAT exam room?
Have you ever seen a child of III or IV standard committing a calculation mistake, while buying toffees or chocolates? Why does he commit a mistake while doing a similar question in CAT, after studying maths for another decade?
Even an illiterate lady would know exactly how many more potatoes she must get, if subziwala doesn’t have the change of say, Rs. 1.50, to return. Why then a learned graduate is at sea to find this out with a paper and pen?
The answer to all these paradoxes is simple. In the former situations, Commonsense is used, and in the latter, Maths.
Let’s take an example. In this season of “sale” every where, you find on one shop a board that says “Buy 3, get 1 free”. And on the nearby shop “Get 30% off”. Ask the students in a maths class to find out the better offer and they are zapped. Many of the mathematicians will promptly find the discount in the first case to be 33.33 % and in the other to be 30%, thus declaring the first offer better. However, a little common sense (which somehow appears only when you are in the market and disappears as soon as you enter the class room!!!) would tell that in the first case, you are getting a discount of 25%, as you are not paying for 1 out of 4.
Now, ask someone to find out the sale price when an object costing Rs. 151.25 is sold at a loss of 130%. The mathematician will enter the jungle of formulas and calculation, while the one with commonsense (a rare species!!!) would know that nothing could be sold at a loss of more than 100%. Even if you give something free to someone the loss is 100%. And even if you spend something further on its disposal, that is added to the cost and the percentage loss still remains 100%.
