How to crack CAT in 7 months
Is 7 months enough for the preparation of CAT? The answer is ‘Yes’. With a determination and right guidance provided you can ace your CAT exam. Getting into IIM is a dream that many graduates aspire to achieve. For that you need to have consistency and strong will, and proper guidance. Some of the important details are here as follows:
The exam pattern contains 3 sections, namely Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC), Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR), and Quantitative Ability (QA). Total duration of exam is 2 hours, with each section marked for a time period of 40 minutes. If you are planning to give your CAT in a period of 7 months you need to follow the highlights mentioned below.
- Write down the whole syllabus and mark your weak and strong points.
- Prepare a month wise learning, practicing and revising strategy.
- Go through your weaker points first, the ones you find challenging.
Without an appropriate strategy it is difficult to crack CAT , one needs proper guidance and an institute that provides with detailed and thorough study within a time period. If you are looking to give your CAT exam in around 7 months, then starting “NOW” is the keyword to ace your exam with a higher percentile. Starting from March till the day of your exam. Lets introduce to the three characters of the exam:
Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension(VARC)
The candidate’s reading and comprehensive ability is tested. The ability to identify the style and the tone of phrases and summarizing the flow of passages is tested through 24 questions which are to be attempted in 40 minutes time. 16 questions for RC will make a 70% of your total VARC questions. The first step towards comprehension is your catch at vocabulary and grammar, and how well you can retain what you have read.
The best way to enhance your reading ability is to start reading long passages a day. You can start by reading newspaper articles, daily magazines, books, or online articles etc. Aeon or AI-daily to get improve your vocabulary and reading ability. If you are already into reading novels then, Voila! You already have a head start and you can use your time saved off reading enhancement on other topics required.
Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation (LRDI)
The candidate’s comprehension and problem solving ability is tested through Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation. It checks your reasoning ability and critical thinking. The difficulty level in LRDI is increased in a past few years. Practicing around 300-500 LRDI sets will help you score in your CAT exam. You need CAT type LRDI sets to solve to help you understand the pattern of it.
If you are solving 300-400 sets you will be able to solve around 50% to 60% of the sets in CAT 2024. To be able to solve the sets you need a lot of patience and clutter free mind and there you go! You will be familiar with the field.
Quantitative Ability (QA)
Quantitative Ability is the in CAT exam is the basic mathematics that individual studied at their school level. The quantitative section is the most trickiest and interesting section of the exam. While this may sound as the most difficult section it is the easily scoring topic among the three. If you are able to ace it then you are sure to nail the exam more than halfway. Basically the Quantitative section covers the syllabus of maths from 9th and 10th classes. The concept may differ in application of a few topics like Numbers, PNC and Algebra.
You can start with writing complete quants syllabus in detail, it’d give you a firsthand overview of the syllabus, which will definitely improve your planning for the exam. You can go for the NCERT maths books of classes 6th to 10th to start with practicing.
Conclusion
A time period of about 7 months is more than enough to prepare well for the exam. You can start with writing whole syllabus in detail, it’d give you a firsthand overview of the syllabus. Now, daily investment and preparation according to the months would be highly beneficial. You will save a lot of your time and enhance your management skills as well. Identify your strong and weak topics, starting with the weaker ones first. It’d leave you with easier ones alongside which you can continue practicing difficult ones. Preparing with a strategy, time management and regular practice, you will be ready to crack your CAT exam.
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