Hi, I am Kelvin from Gujarat I am studying BBA in first year I ask on which year I have to start my CAT exam preparation for MBA in well known University or collage.
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Generally 1 year of preparation for CAT is enough, , so you can start your cat preparation in the 3rd or last year of your bba but as you are doing BBA too and in case if you find your BBA studies difficult and then you may start your CAT preparation in 2nd year itself so that you don't have to juggle much between your cat and bba studies and in this way you will be easily able to manage both at the same time easily.
You can follow the below tips to prepare well whenever you start your preparation :-
To start your cat preparation, first of all go through its syllabus at
https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-syllabus
And understand its examination pattern ,your complete CAT paper is divided into three major sections :-
*Quantitative Ability:-
*Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR)
*Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC)
Top books which you can follow for CAT are listed below section wise :-
QUANTITATIVE ABILITY
-)How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT by Arun Sharma:-
*it is the best book for your Aptitude for your cat examination .
*it covers all the topics according to your cat syllabus.
*it has elaborative examples so that it's easy for you to understand them .
* questions are divided into 3 levels of difficulty
DATA INTERPRETATION AND LOGICAL REASONING (DILR) :-
-)Logical reasoning and data interpretation for cat by K. Sinha Nishit:-
* the best thing about this book is it starts with your fundamental and basics and then goes to advanced level too, you get each topics with explained examples .
*it has questions divided into three difficulty levels, so that you can start from basic and move ahead step by step
-) how to prepare for data Interpretation for cat by arun sharma :-
*it has strategies and concepts which you need to solve questions accurately and quickly.
*it has exercises which are designed in a manner to help you boost your logical thinking etc.
VERBAL ABILITY AND READING COMPREHENSION
-) word power made easy by norman lewis:-
*it is one of the best books that you can get for improving your vocabulary .
* it helps you in learning correct usage of words etc.
* at the end of each chapter you get review exercises
-) mastering the verbal ability for cat by ajay singh:-
*it has more than around 200 passages for your practice .
*it also contains test papers of other B-School as well, etc.
-) How to prepare for verbal ability and reading comprehension for the cat by arun sharma and meenakshi upadhyay:-
*it is written in a very lucid manner.
* it has past year question papers analysis .
* you get topicwise segregation in this book along with mock papers for your practice.
For detailed information go through our page the link for the same is provided below
https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/best-books-for-cat-preparation
*Make a routine and religiously follow it as it will help you to utilise the time in the best possible way and avoid procrastination and laziness .
*Keep short breaks of 20 to 25 minutes after every 1.5 to 2 hours between your studies in your routine .Half of the time of your studies must be for practicing questions
* Plan your studies, and set daily, weekly and monthly goals and meet them without any fail.
*Solve previous year question papers of CAT :-it will let you know the examination pattern, type and difficulty level of questions, also concepts behind the question often gets repeated, so you should definitely solve year papers . You can get cat previous year question papers at https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-question-papers
*Once you are done with complete CAT syllabus then go through CAT mock test papers , it will let you know your preparation level and and weak areas so that you can work on them and perform well in your examination
For detailed information go through
https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat/amp
Thank you
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