CAT 2025: How to Get More Marks in VARC? Last Week Tips

VARC is the first section of CAT exam and needs maximum concentration because of long RC passages and confusing parajumbles. With CAT 2025 being only a few days away, check here last week preparation tips for CAT VARC section 2025.

CAT preparation 2025 in last one week of the exam is very crucial. The last few days can boost or ruin your efforts put in previous months. Some candidates often go into relaxed mode once they start scoring well in CAT mocks. This can be dangerous. Especially in the CAT VARC section. Because you don't know the surprise awaiting you in the form of RC passages. 

CAT 2025 exam will be held on November 30, 2025 so in these last six days, you must make a list of your strong areas.. Ignore what is left, and focus on what you've learnt so far. Use your notes for revision and spend time on problem solving, that it, if there are a few minor challenges left. In this article, we have shared last week preparation tips for CAT VARC. 

To perform well in CAT VARC section, you must have have good reading and comprehension skills. But having good comprehension skills is not enough, you should be able to read fast and understand quickly. Most of the questions in CAT VARC are RC based which need speed reading and comprehension. Parajumbles and odd sentence questions can be very confusing. To handle complicated sentences, you need to have strong grammar.

In the last few days before the CAT 2025 exam, reading a novel or magazine to improve comprehension skills is of no use. At this time, focusing on verbal ability practice and referring RC passages of past years' exam will be helpful.

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Focus on keywords

In Reading Comprehension (RC) section of CAT exam, many students face one problem - they are unable to decode the Reading Comprehension section easily. The trick here is to not understand each and every word of the passage. Surprising, but true. All you need to do is understand the key theme of the passage. If the passage is fact/data based, note down the important data points on the rough paper that'll be given to you.

Challenge with CAT is that there are rarely data based RCs. Most of the times, the passages are inference based. Nonetheless, you can still note down important points from the passage. Also, just understanding the summary will not help. When preparing for CAT Reading Comprehension, make it a practice to remove unnecessary words, phrases, sentences, and focus only on keywords.

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Time management is important

No matter how well-prepared you are for the CAT exam, if you do not manage the time correctly, all the efforts will go waste. The CAT 2025 exam will be of 120 minutes and VARC questions will have to be solved in 40 minutes only. So it is all the more important to have a sound time-management plan. In the last week of the CAT exam preparation, work on sample parajumbles. You have been practicing CAT mock tests so this shouldn't be a challenge. Once time management is in control, attempting the RC section will be a piece of cake for you. An important aspect of time management is choosing the right set of questions to solve. Once you go through the passage, make a quick analysis of whether you can answer the questions or not. Otherwise, move to the next set. Solving all the questions is not mandatory so don't even try that. Focus on the questions you're confident of.

Improve your reading speed

Good reading speed will help the candidate to finish the CAT exam on or before time. Not many students know that moving lips while reading slows down the speed. Also, skimming & scanning are shortcut techniques for cracking reading comprehension section of CAT exam. Learn them. 

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Practice reading comprehension online 

In the last week of CAT 2025 preparation, practice RC at the same time as your exam slot. Your mind and eyes have to be completely awake during the exam. If your CAT slot timing is the same as your resting time, you will be naturally slow. 

Practice different types of RC passages and questions

By the time it’s the final week, you should have tried a variety of RC passages. In the last week before CAT 2025, focus on the types of questions asked in RC. If you are able to do the same, they will be able to manage VARC section of any difficulty level.

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Never skip reading newspaper

Needless to say, candidates must have been reading the newspaper daily. Do not think that it is enough - continue the practice even in the last week of CAT preparation 2025.

Crack cross word puzzles in dedicated time

To gain expertise in solving word meanings, jumbled sentences and jumbled paragraphs, dedicate 15-20 minutes to crossword puzzles - this will be a good practice for the final CAT exam.

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