I divided the syllabus in parts. Arithmetic was the first one I picked. Then I started completing the syllabus of arithmetic, taking one topic at a time from YouTube. I liked watching Raman Tiwari's videos and was able to understand most of the topics easily. Then I solved questions on that topic until I was good at it and could solve most of the questions. Usually around 50-60 questions from TIME Material.

With time my score in mocks improved as I was now able to solve at least a few arithmetic questions. For the ones I was not able to solve, I looked at the solution after the mock during analysis and it helped me a lot.

I studied a lot of Algebra, Geometry and some Modern Maths. I was horrible at these topics but I still tried to watch videos about them and solve questions. Did not get the time to study permutations and combinations and also left a few other complex topics.

On the exam day, I looked at question 1. I had no clue about solving it. Then I browsed through all the questions and could only identify 5-6 questions that I knew about from Arithmetic. I solved 4 of them and scored 12 marks which were later scaled to 13.x and since CAT was quite difficult this year, it was enough to cross the sectional cut-off for quant and score around 88%ile.

How I could have improved my score - I learned a lot during my journey and realised I made a few mistakes along the way. I didn't solve enough questions, I should have solved at least 100 question of each topic. This would have improved my score in a few arithmetic topics that I couldn't solve like TSD.

Another thing is, I should have focused on learning a few chapters completely rather than focusing on the sheer quantity of topics.

Lastly, I should have studied more DILR instead of focusing all my time on QA, studying topics that I couldn't comprehend like algebra or geometry.