Taking a Mock is Like Going to the Gym. Analysis is the Muscle Recovery.

Think of mocks like intense workout sessions. You’re sweating it out. You’re pushing limits.

But if you just keep lifting heavier and heavier without stopping to check your form, stretch, and recover, you’ll plateau. Or worse, burn out.

Analysis is where the growth happens. It’s where you sit with your mistakes. Trace the silly ones, the panicked guesses, the overconfident blunders. It’s where you realise you always mess up time allocation in QA or that you second-guess yourself way too much in RC.

Without this part? You're just repeating the same workout. Same mistakes. Same patterns.

Quality Analysis = Knowing Yourself Under Pressure

Let’s be honest. Most of us aren’t getting questions wrong because we don’t know the content. We’re messing up because we panic. Or rush. Or cling to the first method that comes to mind, even when it’s a dead end.

A good analysis session helps you decode your own behaviour.

Maybe you realised you attempted too many tough questions early on and had no time left for the easier ones.

Maybe you wasted eight minutes on one DI set because you didn’t want to "give up."

Mocks show you the score. Analysis shows you the story.

Okay, But How Many Mocks Should You Take?

Fair question. And no — the answer isn’t “just one with great analysis” or “fifty no matter what.”

There’s no magic number. But here’s a good thumb rule:

Take enough mocks to practice stamina, strategy, and time management.

But spend at least twice as much time analysing them as you did writing them.

If you spent 3 hours on a mock, give it 5–6 hours of proper analysis over the next two days. That doesn’t mean staring at every question you got wrong like it betrayed you.

It means grouping your errors, spotting patterns, replaying your decision-making, and planning what to do differently next time.

Wrapping It Up!

You don’t need to be the person who took 70 mocks. You need to become the person who has learned from every single one.

Because in the end, CAT doesn’t care how many times you sat for a mock. It only cares how you show up on the day that counts: calm, ready, and strategic.

And that kind of readiness? It’s built not in the test, but in the reflection that comes after.