Here are the ten most important things with which you can start your CAT preparation:

Go through the CAT syllabus and the latest exam pattern: Though the CAT has never officially released any syllabus, it is necessary for an aspirant to go through the different sources that provide CAT Syllabus, which is usually a collection of the different topics that have come in the past year CAT papers. In addition to the syllabus, the student must make himself familiar with the latest CAT Exam Pattern . The exam pattern will inform the aspirant about the order in which the different topics are tested in the actual exam.

Create a notebook for every topic of the CAT syllabus: CAT has three sections: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension, Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation and Quantitative Ability. Buy a few CAT Books from the market and kick off your preparation. While studying form the books, you must take note of each and every concept in your notebook, something that will help you arrange all the important things at one place.

Develop a good reading habit: Reading Comprehension of the Verbal section of CAT is a major challenge for most aspirants. To overcome that challenge, an aspirant must develop a good reading habit, reading articles from a wide variety of topics. Reading a newspaper could be a right step in that direction. But confine yourself to just newspapers; magazines of international repute such The Economist could also add to your reading skills

Learn to solve Logical reasoning and Quantitative Questions in the shortest time possible: Speed is critical in all the three sections. While there are no shortcuts in the verbal section, the Logical Reasoning and the Quantitative Aptitude questions have shortcuts and tricks that can help you solve questions in a very short time. To this end, YouTube can be a very effective tool. You can search for shortcuts and follow someone whose technique and approach you can relate with.

Work on accuracy: As you cover different topics, you must regularly practice questions from those topics, so as to not forget the concepts that you have learnt. The second thing is that while practicing the focus has to be on accuracy, not speed. You must give your best and not look at the solution until you have exhausted all the tricks up your sleeve. This will help you stretch your imagination, improving your ability to think and arrive at a solution.

Work on speed: Once you have achieved a desired level of accuracy, you should work on speed, without sacrificing accuracy. You must try to strike a balance between speed and accuracy. While striving for the speed-accuracy balance, you will realize your strengths and weaknesses.

Learn to identify the easy questions: You must have an eye for easy questions. In CAT paper, if you get all the easy questions correct, then you can easily touch 95 percentile. The reason behind practicing so many questions is but one: to identify easy questions from those that are difficult.

Solve a good no of sectional tests: The penultimate step is to solve sectional tests. The idea behind taking sectional tests is to learn to adapt to the time pressure that you are likely to be under while writing mocks, and finally in the actual exam. You must take the sectional tests to work on your minor weaknesses, which could range from not being able to apply the concepts to poor concentration or lack of stamina.

Write a good no of mocks: Ideally, you should write at least twenty mocks to get a fair idea of CAT exam and CAT exam pressure. Though there are students who end up writing more than 50 mocks, 20 mocks is the bare minimum that you must target.

Analyze your mocks: Writing mocks alone is not enough, you must learn to analyze those mocks. The deeper the analysis, the greater the improvement. If you spend three hours in writing a mock, you must spend at least 4 hours analyzing that mock. You must be very sensitive to the mistakes that you make so that you don’t repeat those mistakes in the subsequent mocks.

Follow these steps diligently and you shall see the improvements.

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The Common Admission Test ( CAT ) is a computer based test held in India. ... The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) started this exam and use the test for selecting students for their business administration programs. The test is conducted every year by one of the IIMs based on a policy of rotation.

A candidate is eligible to appear in CAT 2019 if he/she holds a Bachelor's Degree with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA. The candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Differently Abled (DA) categories, need at least 45% marks.

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