Hello aspirant,

Preparation tips on how to start CAT exam preparation without coaching are focused on the following points to guide you on how and when you should start your CAT exam preparation in 2022:

• Go through the revised CAT exam pattern & CAT syllabus 2022 and pick out your strong and weak areas in all three sections and work on improving them
• Gather the best books and CAT study material for the preparation
• Take as many CAT mock tests as possible during your preparation online and analyze each test. Without analysis of the mock, attempting a mock test may not be useful.
• If you are weak in VARC, reading different articles and novels,  conversing in Engish with friends, and even watching English TV series and movies will be helpful. Write down whatever new words you encounter after reading at least 5 - 6 newspaper articles every day.
• Data Interpretation is considered a bit more time-consuming. Start practicing on these questions. Use approximation techniques for quick calculations.
• Thank you

Hello Aspirant,

Common Admission Test, in short CAT is conducted by any of the IIM in rotation every year , it is a computer-based entrance exam conducted for MBA/PGDM admissions at 20 IIMs and 1000+ B-Schools in India. Candidates who have completed graduation with 50% of marks are eligible to apply for IIM CAT.

Now let us discuss how to prepare for the three sections so that you can get the best score which can take you to the best B-Schools of the country.

For Quantitative Ability :-

> For this section your pre-requisite is the complete understanding of basics of Mathematics.

> You should have proper command on topics like profit and loss, number system, geometry.

> Practice as many as sample papers you can and go for some mock tests as well.

For complete details about preparation of QA section kindly check out the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat-quantitative-ability

Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension :-

> Reading skill is the pre-requisite for this section, so try to read different English story books, magazines, etc.

> Go through newspapers, journals, blogs, articles, etc to enhance your reading skills and watch some English visuals such as English News, web series, movies and likewise.

> Try solving questions based on comprehension, inferences and para jumbles. You can purchase some booklets for the same from market.

For complete details about preparation of VARC section kindly check out the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat-varc

Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation :-

> This section seems to be the toughest section in CAT exam, but it is not if you practice a lots of questions on logical reasoning and practice solving different hard core problems so that your problem solving ability will increase, which is the pre-requisite for this section.

> Go through some basic topics like seating arrangements, blood relations, syllogisms, etc to get familiar with this section.

For complete details about preparation of DI&LR section kindly check out the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat-di-lr

For exam pattern(latest) of CAT kindly check out the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-exam-pattern

You can get complete information about CAT from the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/exams/cat

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!