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Which book is preferred for CAT preparations?

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ankit chauhan | Contributor-Level 10

6 years ago

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Concept Building
Make sure that you have the understanding of all the basic concepts of the topics included in CAT. You should try to connect different topics and then work to simplify the connections using lateral thinking and common sense. You can refer the material to get an idea of the understanding required. Please note that you must focus on Concepts first rather than problem solving. Suggested Books For Concept Building:
Quaint:
How many of these are you genuinely comfortable with? How many of these were you good at in school? If the answer is most, you don't need to worry. Pick the one you are not comfortable with and attack that topic. If the answer is one or zero, well the alarm bells should be ringing. A simple scheduling tip for you: depending on the breadth and depth of topic, assign 3 to 5 weeks per topic from now onwards. Number System
Arithmetic
Algebra
Geometry
Permutation and Combinations + Probability
Set theory and some other miscellaneous topics
Which are the books you should refer to? This list of books is created by Gocareer experts. How to Prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for CAT by Arun Sharma
Quantitative Aptitude Quantum CAT Common Admission Tests For Admission into Iims by Sarvesh K Verma (New Edition)
Quantitative Aptitude For Competitive Examinations by Guha Abhijit
Download full Mathematics study material for CAT
Data Interpretation:
As far as our thinking is concerned, we view data interpretation as a combination of two skills: raw mathematical ability and calculation skills. For the first, if you honestly start your work on Qunatative, you are sorted. For the second, you should Learn tables for numbers 1 to 30 (at least from 1 to 30, remember we said at least)
Suggested Book:
Data Interpretation for the CAT by Arun Sharma- Buy (Amazon) - Buy (Flipkart)
Logical Reasoning
Dig into some puzzle books. Famous ones are those by George J Summers, Ravi Narula and Shakuntala Devi. Play some reasoning games. For example: Soduko
Suggested Books:
Logical Reasoning for the CAT by Nishit K. Sinha
Logical Reasoning for the CAT by Arun Sharma
A Modern Approach to Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning By RS Aggarwal
Verbal Ability
Ah, at last our favorite area: Verbal Ability
What should be you be doing for improving in this area? Our one word answer: READ. Suggested Books:
Word Power Made Easy Book by Norman Lewis (Must Have)
High School English Grammar & Composition by Wren, Martin
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary by will.

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Concept Building Make sure that you have the understanding of all the basic concepts of the topics included in CAT. You should try to connect different topics and then work to simplify the connections using lateral thinking and common sense. You can refer the material to get an idea of the understanding required. Please note that you must focus on Concepts first rather than problem solving. Suggested Books For Concept Building: Quaint: How many of these are you genuinely comfortable with? How many of these were you good at in school? If the answer is most, you don't need to worry. Pick the one you are not comfortable with and attack that topic. If the answer is one or zero, well the alarm bells should be ringing. A simple scheduling tip for you: depending on the breadth and depth of topic, assign 3 to 5 weeks per topic from now onwards. Number System Arithmetic Algebra Geometry Permutation and Combinations + Probability Set theory and some other miscellaneous topics Which are the books you should refer to? This list of books is created by Gocareer experts. How to Prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for CAT by Arun Sharma Quantitative Aptitude Quantum CAT Common Admission Tests For Admission into Iims by Sarvesh K Verma (New Edition) Quantitative Aptitude For Competitive Examinations by Guha Abhijit Download full Mathematics study material for CAT Data Interpretation: As far as our thinking is concerned, we view data interpretation as a combination of two skills: raw mathematical ability and calculation skills. For the first, if you honestly start your work on Qunatative, you are sorted. For the second, you should Learn tables for numbers 1 to 30 (at least from 1 to 30, remember we said at least) Suggested Book: Data Interpretation for the CAT by Arun Sharma- Buy (Amazon) - Buy (Flipkart) Logical Reasoning Dig into some puzzle books. Famous ones are those by George J Summers, Ravi Narula and Shakuntala Devi. Play some reasoning games. For example: Soduko Suggested Books: Logical Reasoning for the CAT by Nishit K. Sinha Logical Reasoning for the CAT by Arun Sharma A Modern Approach to Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning By RS Aggarwal Verbal Ability Ah, at last our favorite area: Verbal Ability What should be you be doing for improving in this area? Our one word answer: READ. Suggested Books: Word Power Made Easy Book by Norman Lewis (Must Have) High School English Grammar & Composition by Wren, Martin 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary by will.

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Tn Rani | Contributor-Level 7

9 years ago

Go for the study material from IMS / TIME / Career Launcher as your first resource.
Or you can consider these books for CAT -
How to prepare for Data Interpretation for the CAT TMH / Arun SharmaPearson Guide to Quantitative Aptitude and Data Intrepretation for CAT by Nishit SinhaQuantum CAT by Sarvesh Verma
Know more about CAT on :
https://edudrona.com/common-admission-test-cat/#1464927769900-a0617f54-da37/?mref=tanu

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Saurabh Gupta Product Manager | IIM Ahmedabad | Contributor-Level 9

9 years ago

You can refer to Arun Sharma for quants related subjects.

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