Before going for the CAT Examination, you must ask yourself few queries
Why are you going for the CAT Examination?
Is your educational background relevant to the Management Course?
Are you mentally prepared to go for IIT and IIM based Management Courses offered by these premier educational institutions?
What if you got good percentile in CAT Examination, Which subjects you will choose as your Major and Minor ???
Are you best in Quantitative analysis or Sales driven area ???
CAT Examination is a National Level examination for the Management Courses offered by IIT's, IIM's, Central Government Universities and State Level Universities for the admission course in MBA Program
You can prepare either through Self Study program or join a Study Centre that's offering coaching for CAT Examination
Decide accordingly and start preparing .

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CAT is conducted for duration of two hours in CBT mode, since last year the entrance test will have MCQs and Non-MCQs questions with three sections such as VARC and QA have 26 questions, DILR has 24 questions, the time duration of each section is of 40 minutes, there will be a total of 76 questions carrying 228 marks, for each correct answer three marks are awarded and in case of each incorrect attempt one mark is deduced.

In order to initiate preparation for any exam, candidates need to be well acquainted with the syllabus, CAT consists of three sections with their respective syllabus and recommended books are as follows-

Quantitative Ability consists of time and work, simple and compound interest, time, speed and distance, probability, geometry and mensuration, number system, basic arithmetic, algebra, permutation and combination, profit, loss, discounts, trigonometry, logarithms and sets .

Best Books for QA:

How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT by Arun Sharma has provided elaborate examples and further its divided into three levels of difficulty, covers all the important topics.

Quantitative Aptitude for CAT by Nishit K Sinha is divided into five modules, it has questions with their solutions along with practice tests.

Quantitative Aptitude Quantum CAT by Sarvesh Sharma has topic wise division of chapters with practice tests with more than one solution for the given questions in the books.

Candidates can use NCERTs book from 6th to 10th standard to have conceptual understanding of the topics.

Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning consists of blood relations, puzzles, data sufficiency, graphs, seating and data arrangement, tables, caslets, clocks and calendars, assumptions and binary logic, syllogism and venn diagram .

Best Books for DSLR:

How to prepare for Data Interpretation for CAT by Arun Sharma is written according to latest syllabus with quick and accurate techniques, new chapters, exercises for practice, mock test and sample paper to analyze preparation level.

Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation by K Nishit Sinha has fundamentals as well as advanced topics with better explanation.

Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension consists of word usage, fill in the blanks, odd sentences, para jumbles, para summary, reading comprehension passages, sentence completion and correction .

Best Books for VARC:

How to prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for the CAT by Arun Sharma and Meenakshi Upadhyay is written in lucid manner with topic-wise segregations, analysis of previous year papers including mock tests.

Mastering the Verbal Ability for CAT by Ajay Singh has defined topics in an extensive manner as per latest syllabus with more than 200 passages and test paper for better preparation.

The most important task is to make a timetable and accordingly assign each section required number of hours. You should focus on having a conceptual understanding especially in case of QA and DILR, for this it's best you go through CAT question papers at https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-question-papers and further practice sample papers available at our site at https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-sample-paper, these will help you evaluate your strength and weakness, improve your confidence, and help you deal with time management skills in better way, also apply mock tests on regular basis once you're nearer to the exam schedule as this will help you assess your preparation level more aptly,

You can explore more details about CAT by visiting our page at https://bschool.careers360.com/exams/cat

Dear Aspirant,

Follow few steps provided below to excel in your preparation ahead:

• Divide & Conquer : Divide your syllabus in to Chuck's and plan your remaining preparation days.
• Stay consistent,Don't take long breaks in your complete preparation journey.
• Analyse the syllabus.
• Realise that CAT is all about breadth of the subject not the depth.
• Know about the examination Pattern, you can get the same from : https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat
• Try getting study material you need,you can find a list of best books for CAT preparation at: https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/best-books-for-cat-preparation

hope it's informative
All the best

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