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Real CAT Mock 5 Discussion

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Hi Friends, this thread is started to discuss about the real cat mocks 5. Please share your views on it and how did the mocks go.ย 

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  • human_kid
    human_kid

    7 months ago

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    This mock went off the rails for me. Started VARC with the AI RCโ€”big mistake. Spent forever trying to understand it and didnโ€™t even finish the passage properly. That threw off my tempo for the whole test. Barely managed one set in DILR. QA was okay-ish, but I know I can do better. I need to stop being stubborn mid-paper and just move on faster.

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  • Shweta Shah
    Shweta Shah

    7 months ago

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    Quant was tough again. Only one easy question (Q21), and I was lucky I spotted it early. Rest of QA was mostly moderate-to-difficult, and I got stuck in a couple of Algebra questions. Shouldโ€™ve stuck to Arithmetic. VARC is still my weak spotโ€”I left 2 RCs entirely. Need to build confidence there, even if it's just starting with summary questions.

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  • Karan U
    Karan U

    7 months ago

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    Not my best mock by a long shot. I went in with decent confidence, but DILR completely threw me off. I started with the Network Flow set because it looked vaguely familiar from a past mockโ€”but it turned out to be a total trap. The variables kept overlapping and I couldnโ€™t get a clear foothold. I wasted close to 20 minutes trying to force it, thinking I was close to a breakthrough... and that cost me badly.

    VARC was okayโ€”I got through the VA questions decently, and the Orwell passage felt structured enough. But then I made the mistake of attempting the AI passage, thinking it might have some hidden reward. It didnโ€™t. Shouldโ€™ve trusted the readability levels from the post-mock and just skipped it.

    QA was slightly better. I was able to attempt around 10 questions, mostly from Arithmetic and Algebra. Accuracy is still a question mark, but at least I didnโ€™t fall for Geometry this time.

    Overall, this mock was a reminder that overconfidence in familiar-looking sets can backfire, and each mock needs a fresh approach. Going to rework my set selection strategy and go back to doing a 2-minute scan before locking into anything. Recalibration time.

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  • Karan Shah
    Karan Shah

    7 months ago

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    Just 4 right answers this mock. I chose all the wrong sets in DILR, panicked in VARC, and barely managed anything in QA. But when I looked at the post-analysis, I could actually see where I went wrong. There were at least 6 questions I could have gotten right if I had just managed time better. Going to do a full mock review this time instead of moving on like I usually do.

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  • grummy rabit
    grummy rabit

    7 months ago

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    Multilingualism RC really saved my score in VARC this time. It was the most readable and structured passage of the lotโ€”felt almost like a newspaper feature rather than an academic essay. I started the section with VA as always (odd-one-out and summary felt manageable), which gave me some early momentum. Then I tackled the Orwell RCโ€”it was dense but surprisingly clear once you got past the first paragraph.

    I completely skipped the AI and Carolina Corps RCs after reading the first few linesโ€”they just felt too abstract and jargon-heavy to be worth the time. In the past, I wouldโ€™ve tried to brute-force them and ended up frustrated, so Iโ€™m glad I exercised some restraint this time.

    Attempted 21 questions overall, and while Iโ€™m not 100% sure about all my answers, my accuracy should be decent based on how confident I felt during the attempt. Definitely a better experience than Mock 4, where the RCs were weirdly phrased and all equally tough. Feeling a bit more in control now!

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