CAT  is an online examination of 3 hours duration.The questions in the exam will be of MCQ and TITA type totaling 100 questions. MCQ are multiple choice questions, for which candidates get multiple answer choices. Each Question has 3 marks and a wrong answer takes away 1 mark. However Type in the Answer questions are exempted from Negative Marking.

CAT exam paper can be Categorised into 3 parts:

Quantitative Ability

Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension

Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning

The Verbal Ability section and Reading Comprehension has 34 Questions,  Data interpretation-Logical Reasoning section has 32 MCQ questions and Quantitative Ability has 34 MCQ questions totalling up to 100 questions.  Each Question has 3 marks and a wrong answer takes away 1 mark.

First things first, know the syllabus. And go through the previous papers to analyse and prepare a comprehensive plan and set priorities according to the importance of different topics across sections.Customise your own study plan based on your strengths and weaknesses. Gauge your preparation from time to time by taking mock tests. Solve questions to check your levels of preparation but not to set any targets. Remember, its ok to have cheat days and relax. But make sure you have a plan and stick to it for the next few months because even Rome wasn’t built in a day.

NCERT books will sharpen your basics and you need strong basics for preparing for any entrance examination. Once your basics are in place, because the time period for preparation is quite less, your preparation should be extensive and thorough.

Quantitative Aptitude covers almost 30% of the CAT question paper. QA can be categorised into Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry and Advanced Mathematics. Practise chapter by chapter and develop mental calculations. Like practise more of basic summation, subtraction, fractions and tables. Numbers, Percentage, Profit and Loss, Simple and Compound Interest, Ratio, Proportionality, Time-Distance, Time-Work, Mixtures, Averages, Partnership, Permutation and Combinations, Probability, Set Theory, Progression and Series, Line, Angles, Triangles, Quadrilaterals, Polygon, Circles, Ares, Volume, Height and Distance, Coordinate Geometry, Basic Trigonometry are few important topics.

Preparation tips:

Because this section involves mathematics and takes most of your time, your focus should be on solving the problems efficiently in the beginning. Even if it takes time, practise upto perfection. Practise as many questions as you can in the conventional way. As and when you get a grip on the subject, you can go for short cuts. Memorise tables, square roots, cube roots, conversion from percent to fraction, etc. Solve sample papers on Mathematics. In the beginning, do not worry about the time it takes. As you practise, you will get the hang of the subject and it will be easier for you.

In Verbal Ability session, command on your English, Grammar, Vocabulary, Understanding of the given paragraph are of more importance. Reading English NewsPaper will also help you in your preparation.

Preparation tips:

Read articles from time to time. Follow newspapers, magazines, and watch the news channels and browse the internet to keep yourself updated. You will need a lot of reading to help you in the comprehension section. You will need speed to help you in this section and you can achieve that only by thorough practise and reading. Take time to understand the question because most answers are interlinked.

Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning needs to be practised as much as possible. Comparison of data, Data Analysis, taking clues, interpreting missing data, coming to conclusions and making future projections will be covered under this Category. The questions here are interlinked and so if you get one formula correct, cracking the next few questions will be easy. So it's important to memorise and practise formulae. You should cover topics like Data tables, Data Charts, Bar Diagrams, Pie Charts, Graphs, Data Comparison and Analysis.

Preparation tips:

As this is the most tricky section, this needs a lot of practise. Solve as many sample papers as possible to get the hang of the section. Make notes when required. Regular practise can help you understand and solve the questions easily as time goes on.

Overall,once you know the syllabus, it's easier from there on.Go through the previous papers to analyse and prepare a comprehensive plan and set priorities according to the importance of different topics across sections. Customise your own study plan based on your strengths and weaknesses. Gauge your preparation from time to time by taking mock tests. Solve questions to check your levels of preparation but not to set any targets. Remember, its ok to have cheat days and relax. But make sure you have a plan and stick to it for the next few months

We can recommend a few books for you:

NCERT books to cover the basics from 6th to 10th Class

Quantitative Aptitude for CAT by Nishit Saxena

Quantitative Aptitude Quantum for CAT by Sarvesh Sharma

How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for CAT by Arun Sharma

Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Exams by Abhijit Guha

You can also download free downloadable e books at:
https://bschool.careers360. com/download/cat-ebooks

hey,

i hope you are doing well

you may get the CUCET 2020 sample paper and previous year question paper of B.Sc in order to make your preparation more good by just clicking on the link mentioned below

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Hello Aspirant, hope you are doing good.

So, as you said that you have missed the form filling up procedure for Mahatma Gandhi Central University, so definitely you can't apply for the college this year, you have to search for some other colleges. Now, coming to your JEE Mains percentile, I'm sorry to tell you that it's too low and the competition is really very high, so your chances of getting in a good college is less.

But no need to get disheartened, you still have plenty of other options in your hand. You can either take a year drop, and prepare even better for the next year's examination. Or else, you can use our college predictor tool, to find out all the possible colleges you can get into with your JEE mains rank:

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

Hope this helps you. Good Luck!

Hi,

An candidate having 28 -30 percentile have chances in getting admissions in CU Haryana. So you might have a chance. The chances varies according to the cut off of universities . To know the previous year trends please go through the following article

https://www.google.com/amp/s/university.careers360.com/articles/cucet-cutoff/amp

All the best.

Hey,

Every seat in college is disturbed between All India Counseling as well as state counseling. Few seats falls under All India category and few seats are reserved for State Counseling. If the seat remains vacant under All India Counseling, it gets revert back to the state counseling.

Yes Maulana Azad Institute of Central University falls under both counseling.

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

Hello,

As Your marks in CUCET is less, so you are not eligible to get admission with the number which is scored by you. Central university of Tamil Nadu is one of the reputed institute which offers msc chemistry, so seats get full soon. You can search for more colleges offering Msc Chemistry in india.

Thank You!

Hello Deepak

According to our record statistics it is showing that the cutoff percentile for MSc Chemistry in Central University of Haryana indeed is negative. One of the reasons for this is the fact that the university is not popular yet and not many applicants had applied to this university so at the end whoever has applied got the seats hence the less cutoff. Another reason might be that not a lot of people, specially in Haryana, go for Masters hence the seats tend to remain vacant.

Hello,

Hope you are doing well.

As per your question, as you didn't mentioned your category so am considering you under general category. So as per last year trend you should have a score of around 62 to grab your seat here.As they didn't started there admission so you have to wait for their process to start round 1.And dont worry if you didn't get your seat in round 1 , you can go for round 2 and as per my opinion your chances for selection is high.Cutoff may change as it depends on various factors.

If you want more information regarding the cutoffs you can visit :-

https://www.google.com/amp/s/university.careers360.com/articles/cucet-cutoff/ampamp

Hope this information will help you out. Thank you

Feel free to ask any kind of query.