My niece asked me the other day whether she should prepare for CAT or for GATE. I told her that she has to appear for both. She told me on the phone that she was counselled by coaching institutes that only one is to be attempted. I do not like this idea. Competitive examinations are conducted to select the persons who have the underlying knowledge and who have the ability to retain the knowledge for longer periods of time. Also, these examinations may contain in the syllabus some topics which may not be there in the qualifying degree examination to test whether the candidate can learn using alternative means of learning. Hence engineering graduates with merit should not hesitate to write both examinations. In fact IIMs/NITIE should give preference to a candidate with superior scores in both examinations. they should use a similar criterion for any other discipline where there are examinations to test the proficiency of the discipline like NET etc. Somebody who cleared IAS written examination and CAT should have a obvious preference. These things do happen but it needs to be told to candidates more explicitly.
My plan in this blog to post my views on preparation for CAT as well as post others views that I come across in various publications and websites.
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Why would a person appearing for IAS take CAT/GATE/similar examinations. IAS judges the general understanding, awareness and thought process of an individual with respect to the world. The other exams judge either the specialty in a field(GATE) of a combination of some(CAT). The approach towards attempting to study for different exams is different. I think it is baseless to even have a person who has person with IAS into CAT as the civil services are a more practical way of managing
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