How to prepare for varc in these two months for cat.I am very tensed for it,what should be my strategy.

Hello Aditya,

Do not panic considering the fact that only two months are left for CAT.  Two months are more than enough to prepare for VARC section, provided you work consistently for these two months. The focus should mainly be on the RC part.

For the initial 10 days you can practice 2 RCs a day. For the next 15-20 days, make it 3 RCs a day. And for the remaining days till the exam, you should be able to cover 4 RCs a day. Make sure you sit and complete all the RCs in one go. Each RC should not consume more than 10 mins once you have practiced in this manner. The maximum time that you can spend in exam for RCs should not exceed 45 mins.

Good Luck.

Dear aditya

In these months of cat the focus should be to handle RC section very well. It would be good if you read a newspaper daily and try to give as many mocks as possible and analyse each one of them.

Also try to increase accuracy in VARC that is the key for it.

All the best

Hello,

Calm down.

For the first fact, if this section had been your weakest section, you must have started working for it since the start. You need to score equally well in all the three sections.

Anyway, for the last two months, novels and books are definitely not going to be of any big help.

Get some RC books which have around 100 RCs and make it a definite point to practice 2 RCs each day in a scheduled time.

Set your stop clock for 20 minutes for the first 10 days and try to solve the RC in that time. You will learn accuracy and understanding of RCs in this phase.

Then set your stop clock for 15 minutes for the next 10 days.

Then try to solve RCs in 10 minutes. This phase is to improve your speed.

Similarly, solve 10 set of questions from each category of VA.

DO NOT PANIC and start practicing. You don't need to devote all your time on VARC but a majority part of time and that too strategically.

Hope this helps!

All the best !

Hello Aditya

You can easily achieve your target in these two months.

You just have to learn 20 words from cue cards everyday. And practice 3-4 RC before having breakfast at any cost. This is what my faculty told and advised our batch and this really helped me out.

Try to finish RC in 45 mins, so that you can contribute 15 mins on VA.

This will really help you out if you practice RC rigoursly on daily basis.  One hour practice daily is more than suffice to achieve target.

Good luck for your career ahead.

Thanks

Reading novels wont help much, just practise everyday  8hours for all fundamental and solved problems using TIME Education books. Pracise more than 25mocks making 2 mocks everyday. Analyse wrong answers and rectify them.

Also you need to hav ehigh accuracy for 99 percentile and hemce yiu should atleast attempt 55 question of 90 in total and have correct answers above 50 to score atkeast 90 percentile in CaT.

Hi Aditya! Firstly, you should not feel so tensed as it would only cause stress and you won't be able to prepare properly or concentrate. Since you are good in the other two sections, it means that you have good aptitude and with systematic practice, you can overcome your weakness in the VARC section. Now that there are 2 months left, reading novels to improve the section won't work. It's time for you to identify the exact problem areas and work on them. There are broadly 3-4 areas in the section, RC, grammar, vocabulary, idioms, parajumbles etc. Go back to your mock test analysis and figure out the areas where you are particularly weak in. If necessary, take help from your mentors or seniors to guide you on how to improve those areas. Also, you have to understand if the problem lies in the conceptual understanding part or the answering part. Many a times, a student fails to identify the correct answer option despite having conceptual clarity because of the identical answer options or simply confusion. If you are not clear with concepts of grammar, don't waste any more time and go back to basic school grammar book such as Wren & Martin. If the problem lies with RCs, then read as much newspaper reports/editorials/analytical magazines to build that understanding and analysing capacity. After that, practice as much as you can. Regular practice at this stage can prove to be more effective than just reading. So just analyse the weak areas and act accordingly based on mentor advice. Read the following article for better understanding:

Hey Aditya,

Two months are more than enough to prepare for VARC section in CAT. Firstly, make it a habit to read the newspaper daily, especially the editorial column in Hindu or newspaper like Economist. This will be helpful in the long run. Secondly, you can enrol yourself in TIME or Career Launcher for two months course. And, take as many mock tests as possible, do go through your mistakes after that. Analyzing your mistakes and rectifying them is the most important part. Don't go for Novels right now; it will be time-consuming and the results won't be that great.