Maybe Second Time Lucky!

So it didn't work out for your this time and you are planning to re-appear. Why do you think you would succeed this time? What different would you do or what would you do differently to end up with a substantially better percentile? Because if you are not planning to succeed, you are planning to fail. I would suggest the following from over a decade of my experience of a CAT educator. 

1. Mindset: Forget that you have prepared before and this is your 2nd/3rd/4th attempt. Tell yourself that you are starting afresh from the scratch. that's the first thing a re-appearing candidate must carve into his mind. 

2. Balance: Try to follow 40/60 rule i.e. 40% of total study time to watching classes and 605 to practice. This has to eventually come down to 80:20 as your syllabus moves to completion.  

3. Trainers: May it be sports, education, medicine or law, choosing the right person makes all the difference. Choose the right coach, teacher, doctor, lawyer...and half the problem is solved. First, know that THERE IS NO ONE BEST EDUCATOR! The best for everyone is different. The best actor for you could be Amir khan while for me it would be SRK and for someone else it would be Nawazzuddin. Understand that for every subject you must find a trainer who is BESTF OR YOU! It is alright to spend even an entire month to decide the right set of trainers for you. You should shortlist 3-4 trainers for each of the 3 subjects (take help of other students or Unacademy ranking or online reviews to decide which 3-4 for each subject). Now follow the same topic (for example geometry for QA, Circular arrangement for LRDI and RC for VARC) from each of the 3-4 trainers for that subject. It is important to follow the same topic so that you can judge whose way of teaching you find more suitable and comprehensible. If you follow different topics from different trainers (algebra from one, geometry from 2nd and number system from third) then you would not be able to account for difference in the difficulty level of the different topics. Also, do not attend just 4-5 classes but entire topic from each of the trainers to be sure before selecting/ruling out a teacher. By the end of this exercise, you will have the right set of trainers for you.

4. Follow. Selecting the right trainer is important, but so is following his/her advice and strategies. Once you have chosen the mentor for you, do have faith in him/her and try to practice whatever the trainers tells you to with absolute sincerity. 

5. Priority. Keep MBA-entrance preparation your top priority. I  can understand that you would have a job to keep and perhaps a hobby to practice...perhaps even a girlfriend or two to spend time with, I do not ask you to renounce worldly pleasures either, but make sure that everything else is secondary to your preparation (except your health and your duty towards your parents). Give bare-minimum to your job, just enough thtat they do not kick you out. Help your girlfriend/s or boyfriend/s understand that this year is crucial for your career and you need their support. Your hobby can wait for sometime and trust me you won't rust at it. 

6. Procrastination. Don't wait for an auspicious time to begin. The only auspicious time in this wold is NOW. Life is happening this moment. Opportunities that exist today may not be there tomorrow. The road built with procrastination does not lead to a top Bschool. It only takes you to where you are today. If you do not want to be here next year, make sure you start the above process from today itself.