Majority of the colleges conduct entrance examinations and consider the applicants' score to decide whom to accept. These tests help the colleges in evaluating and comparing the knowledge, skill and potential of the students. The Common Admission Test (CAT) is a computer based test conducted by a number of colleges. It evaluates the knowledge of the students on the basis of Quantitative Ability (QA), Verbal Ability (VA) and Reading Comprehension (RC), Data Interpretation (DI) and Logical Reasoning (LR). One of the major issues faced by a number of candidates who belong to non-engineering backgrounds is how they should prepare for the Common Admission Test. Creative Academy, one of the top ranked institutes in Pune highlights that the focus area and the strategy to be adopted is almost the same for engineering and non-engineering students. As a matter of fact, there are a number of non-engineering students who manage to crack CAT every year. Being from an engineering/statistics/maths/mathematical science background, they outshine various other students with their performance. Thus, the performance of a student in the exam like CAT is not much determined by his/her background. It is mainly dependent on his determination and out-of-the-box thinking.