How can I prepare for CAT? I have completed my 2 years in mechanical engineering.

The following article describes the way I prepared for CAT (2016). This strategy worked for me and hopefully it works for all you guys as well. WARNING! This is a pretty lengthy but descriptive article so those who don't have the time, maybe you can come read this later! I started preparing seriously from the month of March. So here it goes: March May: PRACTISE, PRACTISE! I dedicated this period to work on the Funds and getting conceptual clarity on various topics. This is by far the best place to get all your basics right. Coming back to the main content, my advice to those of you who are just starting your prep will be: focus on practicing as many questions as you can. This is not the time to take full length MOCK CAT. Quant: I had bought TIME material, so I just stuck onto those. Those books are very good and give enough practice for any serious aspirant. The TIME material consists of 3 types of exercises: Conceptual Review, Exercise- (a), and Exercise- (b). So, I solved each and every problem from the TIME books and I feel this is very important because this is when one becomes familiar with all the different types of Quant problems that are likely to come in the actual CAT. DI/LR: Again, to prepare for this section, it takes a lot of practice. So just practice all the problems that are there in the TIME material. When I started solving DI/LR problems, I somehow found that I was able to solve LR problems easier than DI. But the truth is, I feel DI problems are easier to score as once you figure out how to get the answer (which will take less time than in LR), you will invariably get it. Also, the main thing in DI is understanding the given data as quickly as possible and figuring out a way to get a solution with the given data. A similar thing holds good for LR problems as well.

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