CAT Preparation

With so many options of CAT coaching available at the disposal of every student, it is but natural that students can feel overwhelmed while deciding which institute to opt for. However, one way by which students can make an informed decision would be to talk to the students who had joined the classes and get their honest feedback. This will surely help the students in narrowing down their options. Apart from that, you can also take the overall ranking of that institute into consideration and depending upon these factors take a call on the institute. The following are the top CAT preparation Institutes in Allahabad as under.
1. Triumphant Institute of Management Education Pvt. Ltd. (T.I.M.E.)
2. Pioneer Tutorials
3. Career Launcher
4. IMS India
5. TCM Education
6. Career forum
So from above TIME, Pioneer and Career Launcher are the best.

The questions from various topics of Quantitative Aptitude, Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning & Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension may be easy or tough, but what makes the difference is how well and fast you use your mind to solve them with 100 percent accuracy. The need to know the CAT syllabus and pattern thoroughly is the first and foremost requirement. Being able to choose the question you can solve quickly and accurately, making calculations quickly and accurately and reading passages quickly and accurately are the key areas you need to work upon during your CAT preparation. Vocabulary based questions include synonyms, antonyms, analogies, spellings, odd words, words often confused, sentence completion and cloze tests. To crack these questions, you require a combination of vocabulary knowledge, reading skills, and reasoning powers. Vocabulary knowledge is not merely knowing what a word means but understanding what contexts the word can fit into. Once you start understanding particular words used in context, it will be easy. DILR - It is logic-based and requires some amount of calculation and counting. Meaning, its a skill to be acquired and not knowledge to be remembered. Quantitative Analysis- This section may require heavy calculation.

There is no comparison between IIMs and ABS. The required CAT percentile for Iims is above 97. While for ABS 75+ is good enough. However, ABS is also having satisfactory placement statistics. Placements at ABS have always been excellent. Students who are eligible and opted for placements have more than one job offer, on an average. Exercising their dream option, some of them have up to three job offers by the end of their course.
1. Successful placement: 100%
2. No. Of Companies Visited: 113
3. Average Salary (Lacs/year): 5.73
4. Maximum Salary for (Lacs/year): 28.4
5. The highest Salary Paid by RKN Project
The course fee is another important issue, The top Iims fee like A, B and C is above 25 Lacs. While ABS is charging about 12.76 Lacs for the course. So from above, you may decide where to go.

This is for people who are planning to write CAT 2020. It is based on my personal experiences and what I learned during my CAT journey. You might disagree with some of these things, and I am open to suggestions from everyone of you. I will edit it as I get wiser. First and foremost thing that you need to do is bring a huge change in the way you do things every day. Try and utilise every single minute of free time for preparation. Whenever free, try and do something that will help you in one way or the other (mental calculations/reading/revising formulas etc. ). People in a very demanding job, stop giving excuses that you are not able to study coz of work. Even though it is true, there is nothing that you can do about it except maybe resign (The worst possible thing that you can do for CAT prep). So take it as a challenge. 2 hrs per day on weekdays and 6 hrs per day on weekends are more than enough for scoring a very good percentile in CAT. Enjoy this preparation, this struggle. Do not think about the result too much, focus on process, the journey. I will give you some key points in no specific order -
1. If you are a 1st timer, write a mock test, any mock, and get a rough idea as to where you stand right now.
2. Get hold of study material from any institute and make sure that you go through at least QA and LR from start to end asap.
3. A very important thing (that most people don't do) is that every time you try and solve questions, do it with time limit. Right from the very first question of the study material you pick up. CAT is a speed based game these days and you'll be able to develop that skill only with practicing speed day in and day out. Every time you plan to study even for a stretch of say 30 minds, plan to solve say 18-20 questions in those 30 with a timer and try and maximise your score in this. This way, you'll develop the art of leaving questions. And then devote another 30-60 minds to learn from the questions you couldn't solve or solved wrongly. Practising within time limits makes your brain think faster and more efficiently under stress and you try and maximise your score this way. I repeat, DEVELOP THE ART OF LEAVING QUESTIONS.
4. Once you start writing mocks, maintain an excel sheet to keep track of questions in VA and QA topic wise. After every mock, during analysis, just fill this excel sheet, something like this.