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How to prepare for CAT English?


Aman Verma 24th Dec, 2017
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Gaurav Shukla 29th Dec, 2017
Hello,

For verbal, you also need to read Word Power made Easy by Norman Lewis. It is a very good book which helps in increasing vocabulary not by memorising stuff, but by understanding the ideas behind the words. It is distributed into 45-47 sessions meant to be read one at a time. It is a must-read book and should be completed within two months of starting your preparation.

Reading, reading & reading



Many students, specially engineers are already good at quant but perform badly in verbal. Earlier, CAT was heavily based on vocab and grammar concepts. But these days, it is more of a general English exam which tests ones command over English in common usage. You should be very much familiar with English.



The only way to improve your verbal score is to read a lot of good books written in standard English.



I hope it will work for you.

Cheers !!








Akshay Kadam 25th Dec, 2017

For Verbal ability section, you should start reading lots of good novels written by good authors like Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, Sydney Sheldon etc. This will help you in improving your English Literature. For improving your vocabulary you should start memorizing 3 words daily with their meaning and correct pronunciation. You should start using these words in your daily life so that you can memorize them in a better way.

For Reading Comprehension section you should start reading different passages in different newspaper, magazines etc. and understand the thought process of the author. You need to see what actually he wants to convey through his passage, to who is he targeting and his way of communication. This will help you in solving the maximum questions asked below the passage. You should also see the Arun Sharma book to check out and practice the different types of questions asked in the exam.

Along with this, you should start giving lots of online mock test and analyse solutions of each one of the thoroughly which will help you in overcoming your mistakes and come up with a strategy to definitely improve your marks and percentile. It will also help you to know about your strength and weakness which will help you in attempting easy questions first, that will reduce your chance of committing a silly mistake in an easy question or missing out an easy question. Along with this, you will also get enough time to attempt medium level difficult questions which will overall increase your speed with accuracy which leads to increase your percentile.

Testfunda, Oluveboard, hitbullseye, cracku.in, youth4work.com, bschool.careers360.com are some of the sites where you can get online mock test papers for all CAT, SNAP and XAT exam.

All the best for your preparations!!

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Amod Tripathi 24th Dec, 2017
Read! Read! Read! To ace the RC section of CAT, you need to spend an hour on an average everyday reading. Good comprehension comes from reading with a relaxed mind, one that is receptive to new ideas. It comes from engaging with the author: understanding not just what he says, but why he says it and how he feels about it. Take your time to read the passage, say 8-10 minutes. This will be time well spent if you involve yourself while reading.

Good comprehension comes from the ability to make connections with what you already know. So, read a wide range of subjects - politics, science, economics, philosophy, culture - so that you get comfortable with these topics and don't balk when you see a passage that relates to a topic you don't know much about.  To start with you can read books by these authors: Sidney Sheldon, Jeffrey Archer, John Grisham, Agatha Christie, Mario Puzo, Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga and many others. You can also start with newspapers including TOI, ET, Indian Express, The Hindu, HT etc.

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