Mocks are Marks!

A quick post highlighting the importance of writing MTPs in CA preparation. Every CA student should read.

CA Hareesh

8/21/20251 min read

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✨ One habit that can instantly add 10–15 marks per paper in your CA exam.

Most CA students skip writing mock test papers because they feel their preparation isn’t “good enough” yet.

But here’s the truth 👇

📌 You will never feel 100% ready. Waiting for that “perfect” day only leads to less and less control and more anxiety as the exam nears.
📌 Writing mocks exposes your weak spots early—while you still have time to fix them.

📌 If you write mock tests 3 weeks ahead of the exam, it will arouse a new sense of fire, a healthy fear, that will totally shift how much energy you put into your preparation after that until the exam.

📌 Evaluating your own paper is messy, uncomfortable, and even a little painful. But that’s where the real learning happens.

Here’s my challenge to you:
➡️ Download the ICAI mock papers today.
➡️ Attempt them under exam conditions (3 hrs, no shortcuts).
➡️ Evaluate your answers yourself. Don't outsource it. (You don't have to pay to a private test series and depend on it. ICAI's MTPs are more than sufficient.)
Do this for each subject, and watch your exam confidence multiply.

Finally, but what if you are so close to the exam when you are reading this, like you have only 7-10 days to the exam. In that case, at least, download the question papers and suggested answers and go through them 3-4 times entirely.

🔑 Remember: Mocks are Marks!