What is the best overall preparation plan to crack CAT? Should I quit my job and prepare for CAT?

♠ Posted by Rajesh Balasubramanian

One of the most common questions I get is about how to draft a preparation plan for CAT preparation. This is often followed by the lament that managing CAT prep and job simultaneously is incredibly tough and that the boss was put on planet earth to test human beings level of tolerance. Have an unambitious daily plan, but stick to it When I say unambitious, I do not mean lackadaisical. I mean do not have a plan that demands 8 hours out of you 7 days a week. If you are balancing work and CAT preparation, there is no way you can manage that much over a 3 or 4 month period. And to let you in on a secret related to CAT preparation, you do not need that much, 2-3 hours per day done with very high intensity will easily do the trick. Prepare in three phases - 1) Get the basics right, 2) Do the drill and 3) Fine tune and focus on the overall paper. Very often, students get blinkered and chase arbitrary short-cuts without getting the basics right. I do not have any level of expertise...

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♠ Posted by Anonymous in 2IIM,2IIM Chennai,CAT 2014,CAT Coaching classes Chennai,CAT Questions,CAT Sample Questions,CAT Text Completion,CAT Verbal

CAT Verbal Question : Text Completion Given below are 3 interesting questions on Text Completion  Direction : For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. Question 1: More often than not, mothers are ____________ for oddities of behavior in their offspring. ____________, single mothers’ children, raised even in the most difficult of times, do not display ‘outrageous’ patterns of behavior, as do those of nuclear families. Blank (1)Blank (2) appreciatedConsequently blamedIn the same manner praisedInterestingly enough Question 2: In measuring electrical activity in different parts of the brain, researchers found that people who describe themselves as generally happy have more activity in the left prefrontal lobe of their brains than do other people. Therefore, a medication for ____________ the left prefrontal lobe of the brain would be an ____________ treatment for clinical...

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CAT Verbal Questions : Sentence Rearrangement

♠ Posted by Anonymous in 2IIM,2IIM Chennai,CAT 2014,CAT Coaching classes Chennai,CAT Questions,CAT Sample Questions,CAT Sentence Rearrangement,CAT Verbal

Given below are three interesting questions on Sentence Rearrangement : Question 1 : Directions: Sentences given in the following question, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. Another of his start-ups was sold to Google. He founded the first company to sell virtual reality products. But unlike most of his fellow technologists, he eventually came to feel that the rise of digital networks was no panacea. He was there, more or less, at its creation. Lanier has an unusual authority to criticize the digital economy: Following are the choices : EDCAB EDBAC EBADC ECDBA Question 2 :  Directions: Sentences given in the following question, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the five given...

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