The Quantitative Ability section at a glance

A very commonly asked question is about the relative importance given to different topics in the QA section of the CAT. The unpredictability of the CAT has been one of the reasons that make it difficult to bell. The following chart shows us how much percent of the QA section of CAT 2004 to CAT 2008 was Arithmetic,...

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Strategies for CBT-CAT

The other day a student remarked, “All these years I’ve taken so many different exams— subjective and multiple choice, with negative marking and without, in familiar or unfamiliar surroundings— but they were always paper based. We all were made to sit on separate benches in a school or college classroom and there were one or two supervisors to help us and monitor us. As long as I knew the subject,...

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How to Prepare for CAT with 3 months to go

Patrick D'souza, CAT 2007 100-Percentiler This is the time when you have already prepared with your basics and have started with your test series. You would have written a few tests but soon realize after a few that it is difficult to improve on your percentiles beyond a certain limit. So you go back to your books and study harder. But still your scores don’t improve. You get frustrated, which...

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