Most Common Mistakes to Avoid While Preparing for IPMAT 2025
IPMAT exams – IPMAT Indore and IPMAT Rohtak will be conducted in May 2025 (Tentatively), and preparation must be done with the proper strategy to score well. IPMAT aspirants have a feeling of urgency to prepare quickly for the exam as they compete for the limited seats in the top IPM programmes offered by IIM Indore and IIM Rohtak. This urgency and panic can make an even bright student lose focus on IPMAT 2025 preparation. To ensure your preparation remains on track without affecting your board exam studies, you must be aware of the most common mistakes to avoid while preparing for IPMAT 2025.
Here’s how you can streamline your IPMAT 2025 preparation without falling for the most common pitfalls that keep you from securing a seat in IIM Indore or IIM Rohtak.
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What are the most common mistakes to avoid while preparing for IPMAT 2025?
Not going through previous years’ papers
Students should keep in mind that a combination of Mock Tests + Previous Years Papers is the best way to keep your preparation uptight for the exam. This presents students with a golden opportunity to make study plan with exact IPMAT-level questions for practice. Not solving these previous years’ question papers despite their availability is a big mistake.
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Stopping your IPMAT prep to prepare for board exams
With the boards right around the corner, most students are glued to their school textbooks with a focus on their boards’ preparation. While the boards are important, students should not completely halt their IPMAT preparation to avoid losing touch with the topics and questions. In fact, many students stop going to school in December itself in anticipation of their boards. This leaves them with a lot of time to remain up-to-date with their IPMAT prep. It is recommended that they spend at least 2-3 hours every day focused on IPMAT and the rest preparing for their boards.
Haven’t yet started taking IPMAT mocks
IPMAT exams are probably to be conducted in May, So students need to buckle up and finish their preparation. What most students need to remember is that apart from completing the syllabus, they also need to take IPMAT mock tests. Even if your syllabus is pending, it is good practice to give the mocks just to prepare yourself for the test environment and pressure. Moreover, the mocks can be used to understand and evaluate your preparedness for the topics you have studied. After all, knowing a topic isn’t enough; you must also be proficient at recalling it under exam pressure.
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Failing to analyse the mocks or maintain an error log
While taking mock tests is important, as mentioned above, analysing the result and documenting your errors is even more important. Just giving the mocks might help you get better prepared with the paper pattern, but your score won’t just improve by it. You will need to sit down and analyse your mistakes, the reason behind the mistakes, and the right solution to the problems to keep yourself from repeating the same mistakes again. An error log is a great way to keep track of your errors and progress.
Not taking your high school academics and current affairs seriously
On the one hand, some students drop the IPMAT preparation before their boards. Conversely, some students refuse to take their high school books seriously. You must remember that your academics are equally important – not just for the boards but also for your personal interview rounds. IIM Indore and IIM Rohtak interviewers are known to have stringent procedures with students on their academic subjects. Another factor to remember is that you should also continue to read newspapers, periodicals, and magazines to remain updated with the latest happenings around the world. A bad interview can keep you from securing a seat despite clearing the cutoffs with good marks.
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Trying to finish new material before you’re well-versed with the old material
This is a very underrated tip. Most students measure their competence based on the number of questions they have solved from a variety of sources. But there are better strategies than this one. Our mentors suggest sticking to one source of information and resolving questions from it over and over again. The IMS IPMAT classroom programme provides you with comprehensive courseware, a 5000+ question bank, 600+ hours of live learning, 30+ mock tests, and 80+ hours of video content, among others. Completing this material is more than enough for your IPMAT prep.
Believing that IPMAT Verbal is the same as CBSE English
This mistake is what dooms quite a few IPMAT aspirants every year. The overconfidence that they will easily manage to ace the verbal section of IPMAT because they’ve been doing well in their high school English is what keeps them from actually studying for IPMAT Verbal. The difficulty level and the types of questions asked in IPMAT Verbal are very different from the theoretical questions in English boards. Both require different preparation plans and strategies. By just putting in real effort to study for the Verbal IPMAT, they can differentiate themselves from their peers and boost their scores.
With just a few hundred IPM seats in the top colleges, even one mistake can turn out to be costly. You must build the right strategy, eliminate errors, and remain on the right track to crack the IPMAT Indore and IPMAT Rohtak exams.
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