The final countdown for the CAT 2025, which will take place on 30th November 2025, is already knocking at the door. It’s the most crucial time when you have the power to either make it or break it. Rumours state that there have been 3,40,000 lakh+ registrations for the CAT 2025. Last year, there were 3.8 lakh registrations. However, the number of appearing candidates doesn’t matter if you have built a solid preparation plan to accomplish 99%+ in 2025. Your sheer determination, consistency and hard work will be the ultimate ladder to success.
You can either create your own strategy or adhere to the one that we will share below by Aditya Kumar, who has been a top performer in the CAT 2024 with a 99.57%ile. He has created a master plan for the remaining 60 days, which will help you cover your syllabus, revise and appear for mocks altogether. Read the key strategies in this comprehensive blog, where we will address multiple components in detail. From highlighting the advantages latecomers have to sharing the tips to manage time for completing the syllabus before the deadline, Aditya has given an impressive blueprint to accelerate your CAT 2025 preparation in the next 60 days.
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Is 60 Day Study Plan For CAT 2025 Beneficial For Late Comers?
CAT aspirants who started their preparation in January 2025 are already habituated to the daily study routine, daily assignments and mock practice. Although such candidates experience a major disadvantage where they undergo mental fatigue, stress and burnout in the last few months of the preparation. It’s because they have been preparing round-the-clock to hit their target score and overall percentile in the CAT 2025.
In comparison to them, late aspirants have leverage in these 60 days. Latecomers will commence their preparation with a fresh mindset. Unlike the early aspirants, they won’t face a mental breakdown in this timeline. Take note that even if you start your preparation now for the CAT, you still have higher chances of success than others. You will exhibit a strong momentum and a sky-scraping edge over the early aspirants..
CAT 2025 Strategy: 100% Useful & Effective Time-Management Tips
If you started late, it’s obvious that you haven’t reached the halfway point of the CAT 2025 syllabus. This happens with most of the students. Understand that you have less time in hand. With just a 60-day target, you cannot take extensive time to cover all the topics from CAT. You must utilise this duration wisely. Start watching your online lectures, practical video solutions at 1.5x-2.5x speed to grasp the concepts quickly. This will help you to complete your syllabus quickly, grasp the concepts and practice daily assignments in less time.
Secondly, make the best use of your weekends. Why so? Well, most of the CAT aspirants are college students and full-time working professionals. It’s obvious that due to your busy schedule on weekdays, you won’t get enough time to prepare for the CAT 2025. Constant travel, regular classes, and 9-5 working hours will make you feel lethargic and impatient. Henceforth, weekends are your golden getaway to unleash the hidden talent inside you. On weekends, always aim to study for more than 10-12 hours with infrequent breaks. Stretch this period as much as you can. However, ensure to study with an optimistic mindset to avoid mental burnout.
Third, you don’t have to rush to complete the whole syllabus. Your primary objective should be to cover the must-do topics, which will constitute 80% of the CAT 2025 paper. At this time, you do not need to dive deep into the 100% syllabus. Thus, stop rushing and don’t panic. Just create a well-balanced schedule to focus on the maximum scoring topics and study them accordingly. If you focus on studying these topics with a strategic approach, you can easily score 95%-99.99% in the CAT exam. Remember, it’s time to opt for smart work rather than hard work. Even solving 5 questions out of 10 with a strong clarity on fundamentals will help you to crack the CAT exam.
CAT 2025: Revision Strategy For Next 60 Days
Being a CAT aspirant, you must have a proper schedule for constant revision, sectional tests and full-length mocks. To ensure that you revise at your fingertips, create a revision booklet. This booklet should consist of all the important formulas. A glance at this booklet will help you to go through the fundamentals at your fingertips. Make it a compulsory ritual to revise your formula booklet every 2 weeks. This way, you will remember the concepts regularly and will never face a backlog. On the other hand, maintain an error log book for the mocks.
You must incorporate this habit after every mock and note down your errors. Do this for every incorrect response. Pick up a question and determine whether it was a calculation mistake, question misinterpretation or lack of conceptual clarity. Once you know the core reason, work on it for improvement. Conduct a proper analysis after 14 days to understand if you were able to make progress or not. Simultaneously, practice the last 10 years of CAT PYQs. Below, we are sharing the significance of the previous year’s papers.
- Practice PYQs from the CAT 2018-2024 and solve a broad range of basic, intermediate, to complex questions from the QA, VARC and DILR sections.
- It’s a must to solve QA and DILR questions from the previous years because it’s 100% guaranteed that common questions will appear this year, too.
- The more you practice PYQs, you will become proficient with solving questions from similar concepts at maximum speed and accuracy.
- Aditya Kumar (CAT 2024-99.57%iler) suggests that you practice the PYQs twice to gain familiarity with the questions.
Target 15th October 2025 To Complete CAT 2025 Syllabus
If you started a year back, then your syllabus must be completed by now. In case you started late, then set a SMART goal to finish the syllabus of CAT 2025 by 15th October. Don’t commit the mistake of stretching it further. The more you delay, you will get less time for revision, mocks and practising CAT PYQs. Prioritise revising the high-scoring topics from every section first. Later on, start appearing for the maximum number of mocks and sectional tests. Keep a track of your performance, maintain an error log book and work vigorously on your weaker concepts.
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CAT 2025 Strategy: Top 3 Quant Topics (Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry)
These three topics from the CAT 2025 Quantitative Aptitude Syllabus are undoubtedly non-negotiable. A huge population of the CAT aspirants encounter challenging situations while studying the basic concepts from the QA. Hereby, Aditya suggests that every student must dive deep into the topics of Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry to achieve the sectional cut-off in the QA section. Important concepts from these topics are below. While studying DILR, capture concepts from Games & Tournaments, Roots & Network, and Arrangements to attain a good sectional cut-off.
High Scoring QA Topics For CAT
| Topic | Priority Level | Sub-Topics |
| Arithmetic | Number 1 | TSD ( Very Very Important) Percentages Average |
| Algebra | Number 2 | Functions, Inequalities and Modulus (If you’re spending a huge amount of time and still cannot develop a strong proficiency nor see a high ROI, then you can skip these topics) Logarithms – Easy to do and manageable. Quadratic and Linear Equations (100% Important. You cannot avoid these topics from your CAT 2025 preparation ) |
| Geometry | Number 3 | Triangles, Circles, Coordinate Geometry, Quadrilaterals and Polygons. |
Why Mocks and Sectionals Are Important For CAT 2025?
The importance of mocks and sectional tests needs no introduction during the CAT 2025 preparation. Both have their fair share of advantages. Completing the CAT syllabus will be of no use if you didn’t practice daily assignments, full-length and sectional tests during your preparation journey. If mocks are important, then you cannot skip sectionals, too. Those candidates who pay equal attention to appearing for the sectional tests will be able to clear the sectional cut-off easily while hitting a 99%ile. Otherwise, you will remain stuck at 90%, 80% or 70%. Some of the must-know information about the CAT mocks and sectional tests is here.
- Learn from the initial mocks and don’t focus on marks. Your mock scores might be low in the early stages. Well, you need not fear here. Instead, you have to learn from those mistakes and refrain from making the same error again. Strengthen those concepts and watch the video solutions before attempting questions from that category next time.
- For Example: You scored 99 % in a full-length mock test, but you took only 10% learnings from that mock. Now, another CAT aspirant scored 70% in a mock test. Hereby, they choose to review their mistakes and extract 60-70% learnings from that paper. So here, the one who paid importance to learn and brushing up their concepts will have a higher edge because they have been striving to clarify their concepts and fix their mistakes.
- Every CAT aspirant must target to appear for 30+ mocks. If you’re unable to reach this goal, manage to appear for 25+ mocks. During his preparation timeline, Aditya gave more than 40+ mocks, which led to fruitful results. Most toppers opt for this same strategy when it comes to sectionals and mocks.
- In the last two months,i.e, mid-October to November, Aditya used to give at least 1 mock every alternate day. For Example: He used to appear for mocks on Monday, did a thorough analysis on the same day and kept the next day for knowledge enhancement on the relevant topics. This way, he gave 3 mocks per week. You can also adhere to this strategy, and it will be highly beneficial for you.
- Aditya Kumar suggests that candidates must appear for the full-length mocks in a noisy environment. This will stimulate you with the actual exam environment. Practice this for alternate mocks and sectional tests. Over time, you will train your mind to appear for mocks in a challenging situation similar to exam day. Eventually, if you come across any challenge on the exam day, you will be able to tackle it like a pro.
- 2 Mocks + Proper Analysis is more beneficial than 10 Mocks + Zero or Improper Analysis. An extensive analysis will take 5-6 hours. Henceforth, remember to segregate your time accordingly for mock tests and performance analysis. Don’t forget to maintain an error log book after every mock.
- Save your time, energy and effort by appearing for the sectionals. 40 mins of sectional tests will strengthen your weak concepts. If you’re weak in Quants, appear for the Quants sectionals more. Find out your weaker section, whether it’s QA, VARC or DILR and appear for it often. Consequently, your mental rigour will be enhanced at a high level, which will prepare you to address the complexities in the actual paper of the CAT 2025.
iQuanta Booster Session Schedule
The CAT 2025 Crash Course is starting soon. It’s a good deal that will include crisp and precise sessions. The best part? It’s absolutely free for students who have already been preparing for the CAT 2025 with iQuanta. New students can attend the booster lectures from 27th September 2025, where highly-qualified experts will conduct informative sessions on Algebra, Arithmetic, LRDI concepts, RC genres ( social sciences, history, philosophy, literature, art, business, economics, science, technology, environmental issues, etc ) for the CAT 2025 aspirants.
These classes will start at 9:00 PM and will last for 4 hours. Attend these trial sessions and learn from the experts! This type of CAT 2025 Pre Crash Course Session will make you understand the structure of the 2-month crash course. The speed, learning techniques and sessions will take place similarly. Only the duration of online live sessions and practical classes will vary. Go through the table mentioned below to know about the timings of this trial session. It contains accurate information about the date, time, topics and the expert faculty. Don’t miss this golden opportunity. It’s definitely worth the wait for the aspirants appearing in the CAT 2025.
CAT 2025 Pre Crash Course Free For All: Date and Timings
| Date | Class Timings | Topic | iQuanta CAT Expert Faculty |
| 27th September | Every day from 9:00 PM | Arithmetic Booster session | Raj Kumar Jha Sir |
| 28th September | Every day from 9:00 PM | Most Important LRDI PYQs | Kamal Lohia Sir |
| 29th September | 12:00 PM | The Complete RC Marathon | Shabana Shahab Ma’am |
Final Words
CAT 2025 is the pathway to a progressive career, continuous success and remarkable achievement. In short, you will gain in-depth proficiency in business and management topics after enrolling for an MBA programme. The summer internships will elevate your corporate understanding and interpersonal skills. In the 2nd year, you will have the liberty to choose the specialisation of your choice. In the end, your interview performance in the final year will help you secure a lucrative job package worth lakhs or crores in leading global companies like Amazon, Deloitte, Genpact, Infosys, etc.
If you exhibit the vision of succeeding as the top performer in the CAT 2025, then join our Crash Course right now. These 2 months of investment are the key to fulfilling your career aspirations. It’s always a smart option to enrol for a crash course because at this stage, intense revision and practice are the core secret ingredients to score above 99%ile in the CAT. Lastly, you can also attend our “Booster Sessions” on QA, VARC and DILR, where exclusive theoretical knowledge will be shared with the students. Attending these lectures will give you an idea about the CAT 2025 Crash Course structure. Hurry Up! See you soon in the booster sessions and crash course.
Key Takeaway For CAT 2025 Strategy
For years, it’s been seen that “Consistency and Discipline beat Motivation” with ease. If you have a clear vision that no matter what happens, you will have to crack the CAT 2025, then nothing can stop you from accomplishing this goal. If you demonstrate a strong understanding of every topic from the three sections, practise a variety of questions, and reach your target score in mocks, then you’re already on the right track.
Just continue your preparation with the same motivation and keep your spirits high to become a top performer in the CAT 2025. Let your name shine amongst the list of deserving candidates who will get the wonderful opportunity to pursue a 2-year full-time residential MBA programme at the IIMs, IMT Ghaziabad, MDI Gurgaon, FMS Delhi and other notable B-schools in India.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I manage my time for CAT 2025?
Develop a habit of watching the online recorded sessions, detailed video solutions at a 1.5x-2.5x speed. At this time, your priority should be to clear your basics on high-yielding topics to score a +3 mark for every question. On weekends, study for at least 10-12 hours. Segregate equivalent time to enhance conceptual clarity on QA, VARC and DILR.
What should be my deadline to complete the CAT 2025 syllabus?
If you have started your CAT preparation late, then 15th October 2025 should be your deadline to finish the whole syllabus. Register for iQuanta’s Crash Course now to learn from the best experts. In every class, you will learn about the necessary concepts from scratch. Simultaneously, you’ll also obtain information about the must-know formulas and mistakes to avoid during mocks.
Which Quantitative Aptitude topics can I not skip in the CAT 2025?
Arithmetic, Algebra, and Geometry are the three most popular topics that you shouldn’t miss out on for the CAT 2025. It’s a 100% guarantee that you will come across questions from these topics in the actual exam. Pay attention to solving CAT PYQs because in CAT 2023 and CAT 2024, there were questions from the previous papers.
How will mock help me develop speed and accuracy for CAT 2025?
You must have heard about the proverb that “ Practice Makes a Man Perfect”. If you keep on practising questions from the same categories often, then you will become a master at it. This is also applicable for studying theoretical concepts. Also, your ability to classify questions will improve by solving a diversified range of questions.
Will I get access to pre-recorded videos in iQuanta’s Crash Course?
Yes, our crash course is a complete package with all the mandatory resources. From 7-day live sessions on the entire syllabus, practical-application classes, mega marathons, formula handbook, tips and tricks to attempt questions from every section, to full-length and sectional tests, there’s a lot for the CAT aspirants who enrol with us. Once you enrol, you will get access to 24*7 doubt clarification sessions and workshops too.
Is the CAT 2025 Crash Course free for the existing students at iQuanta?
If you’re already enrolled in our online preparation courses, then you will get the crash course for free. It will serve as a last-minute revision for you, due to which you will become more confident to nail the actual CAT exam. For new students, we are offering this crash course at a discounted price.
