CAT rewards accuracy under time pressure more than syllabus coverage, which makes it unusually friendly to working professionals — if you structure your hours.
Give weekday evenings to one section each: Monday and Thursday to QA, Tuesday to VARC reading, Wednesday to DILR sets. Keep weekends for a full mock and its analysis.
VARC improves with daily reading of dense non-fiction — editorials, long-form essays, philosophy — far more than with 'RC tricks'. DILR improves only through solving sets; there is no shortcut.
By September, you should be writing one mock a week. By October, two. Your mock percentile in the last month is a reliable predictor of the real result; trust it and focus on the sections where a few marks move the percentile the most.
