Can you suggest some best books for CAT preparation?

Best books for CAT preparations: *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. *Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT by Nishit K Sinha. *The Pearson Guide to Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations by Dinesh Khattar. *Quantum CAT by Sarvesh Verma.

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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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Best books for CAT preparations: *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. *Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT by Nishit K Sinha. *The Pearson Guide to Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations by Dinesh Khattar. *Quantum CAT by Sarvesh Verma.

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For QA: 1. I first cleared my base with Dinesh Miglani's YouTube videos (they are awesome for clearing basics). 2. Then I solved Arun Sharma Parallely. 3. Enrolled for Iquanta online quant class which helped me solve the trickier questions in an easier way. 4. After completing a particular section, for e. g. - arithmetic or geometry, I solved it from time material also, I tried to solve and read as many doubts posted on the group at the end of the day. For VA: Solved 10 RC's a week from different sources like Iquanta event on RC everyday, RC & VA from time basic tests of 30 minds for each topic and so gave 2 sectionals per week. Solve Arun Sharma book for VARC, it has quite a good mix. For DILR: Solved past year paper sets and mostly mock questions continuously, along with sectionals 2 per week. Since I was giving many mocks, DILR sets were very vast and varying which was sufficient. Vivek sir's LRDI classes (Iquanta crash course) were also helpful. Besides, I solved continuous DILR sets from random sources and time material so that I could to understand different. Approaches to a problem and come up with my own way! In these past years DILR has been very practical oriented rather than typical calculation sets, hence resolve all the mock sets again while analyzing the undertaken mock and then look at the solution. Keep solving sectionals as it will keep you time bound. Key in DILR: Pure selection of sets. You need to be very strategic during the exam that which sets and in which order are you going to attempt them and also keep revising the plan as per the time left. Mocks: I enrolled for mocks from all the three TIME, CL and IMS. Out of which IMS was the closest to CAT followed by CL. I gave ~40-50 mocks across and never scored even 90 percentile overall in any! Ever! The scores and percentile were very demotivating but I always looked at the D-day and mocks were nothing but a test ground to build stamina and place to try and test new strategy to give the final CAT paper. Hence just take it as a learning tool to know what you can do better. The main exam: Only calm is the key. In the final paper more than your prep, your self-confidence and belief matters. I could never solve even 60 questions in mock, I solved 75 in CAT.

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For QA: 1. I first cleared my base with Dinesh Miglani's Youtube videos (they are awesome for clearing basics). 2. Then I solved Arun Sharma Parallely. 3. Enrolled for Iquanta online quant class which helped me solve the trickier questions in an easier way. 4. After completing a particular section, for e. g. - arithmetic or geometry, I solved it from time material also, I tried to solve and read as many doubts posted on the group at the end of the day. For VA: Solved 10 RC's a week from different sources like Iquanta event on RC everyday, RC & VA from time basic tests of 30 minds for each topic and so gave 2 sectionals per week. Solve Arun Sharma book for VARC, it has quite a good mix. For DILR: Solved past year paper sets and mostly mock questions continuously, along with sectionals 2 per week. Since I was giving many mocks, DILR sets were very vast and varying which was sufficient. Vivek sir's LRDI classes (Iquanta crash course) were also helpful. Besides, I solved continuous DILR sets from random sources and time material so that I could to understand different. Approaches to a problem and come up with my own way! In these past years DILR has been very practical oriented rather than typical calculation sets, hence resolve all the mock sets again while analyzing the undertaken mock and then look at the solution. Keep solving sectionals as it will keep you time bound. Key in DILR: Pure selection of sets. You need to be very strategic during the exam that which sets and in which order are you going to attempt them and also keep revising the plan as per the time left. Mocks: I enrolled for mocks from all the three TIME, CL and IMS. Out of which IMS was the closest to CAT followed by CL. I gave ~40-50 mocks across and never scored even 90 percentile overall in any! Ever! The scores and percentile were very demotivating but I always looked at the D-day and mocks were nothing but a test ground to build stamina and place to try and test new strategy to give the final CAT paper. Hence just take it as a learning tool to know what you can do better. The main exam: Only calm is the key. In the final paper more than your prep, your self-confidence and belief matters. I could never solve even 60 questions in mock, I solved 75 in CAT.

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