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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 as per CAT syllabus.
it has elaborative examples .
In this book 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:-
it starts with fundamental and basics and goes upto advanced level topics with explained examples .
it has questions of three difficulty levels are there etc

*How to prepare for data Interpretation for cat by Arun Sharma :-
it has concepts and strategies which you need to solve questions quickly and accurately.
it also has excerises a designed in a manner to boost your Logical thinking etc.

VERBAL ABILITY AND READING COMPREHENSION

*Word Power made easy by Norman Lewis:-
it is the one of the best books that you can get for improving your vocabulary .
it helps you in learning correct usage of words etc.

*Mastering the verbal Ability for cat by AjaySingh:-
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 has past years papers analysis .
Topicwise segregation is also there in this book along with mock papers for 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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