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As the CAT is just around the corner, avoid your tension levels shooting through the roof by keeping your cool with these stress buster tips: -

Positive Visualization

Take a moment to sit with your eyes closed and visualize yourself achieving the ideal outcome. You have to convince yourself that your hard work will pay off, and this includes convincing your sub-conscious. Repeated negative thoughts seep into your sub-conscious and eat away at your energy and confidence. This is not the time to do post-mortem of what you have studied so far. Rather, tell yourself that whatever you have studied will help you in the test.

Re-Strategize

Your best study coach is your own self. You know your weaknesses and strengths, and if you feel the need, this is the best time to use that knowledge to rehash your strategies. Take a few mock tests, applying various strategies, so that each paper enables you to achieve better results. This might not be the best time to start with new topics. Instead, collate your thoughts and organize your approach patterns. Gravitating towards such "can do" possibilities will also generate genuine confidence.

Tune Your Sleeping Pattern

If your sleeping pattern is topsy-turvy and you find yourself burning the night-oil all too often, your brain will get accustomed to shifting into relax mode during the day and alert mode during night. For CAT, you need to be at your sharpest at 10:00 in the morning. So regulate your sleeping pattern accordingly and remember that your body will take a while to get used to the new pattern. So it's best to start off with it at the earliest possible time. Yes, that means tonight.

Believe in Yourself

Right before a paper, some people feel convinced that they won't do well, in spite of their hard work. But there are plenty of cases of people who 'logically' thought their efforts wouldn't amount to much, but continued in their endeavor anyways because they trusted their intuition that they did have a chance. Thanks to their faith, many of them are now in the IIMs and other top institutes. Trust your intuition. Allow yourself to imagine what it would feel like if you achieve your goal - cracking the CAT and coming out with flying colors!!!

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* Contributed by -
Research Team,
Career Launcher.
Article posted on November 10, 2008.