CAT Preparation

CAT is different to any other competitive exam out there. To succeed, you need to work smartly, and choosing the right coaching institute is the first step. When you talk about coaching institutes in Ghaziabad, there is one that is head and shoulders above the rest. That is TIME Vaishali and Ill tell you why.
1) Faculty - When you talk about best faculty in Ghaziabad or even NCR for that matter, the name of Mr. Ritesh Jain emerges instantly. Ritesh Jain is a leading career counselor frequently conducting Live Career Helpline on various National TV channels like Aaj Tak, Doordarshan, IBN7 and others. He also is an active part of MENSA, scoring more than 98 percentile globally in the IQ test conducted by MENSA. But, apart from being a genius, he is the most hardworking and dedicated professional that one might come across. He gives personalised doubt classes to students and also shares his email and Facebook ID with his students, so that they could reach out to him after coaching hours as well.
2) Personal Attention and Batch size - At TIME Vaishali, batch sizes are quite small as compared to other big coaching institutes. Hence, its easy for the faculty to focus on each student. Students can ask for doubt classes, extra classes, revision classes as many time as they like. The clarity of concepts is paramount for the faculty.
3) Study material - TIME is the biggest coaching institute in the country. It has a dedicated team of IIT and IIM alumni who rigorously go through previous year papers and modify the study material year in year out, so that the students do not need to look for any other source for practice.
4) Mocks and Sectional Tests - Being a TIME student automatically enrolls you into the biggest and the best Mock CAT series, AIMCAT. Every time student gets 25 AIMCATs that are conducted both in proctored and unproctored mode to build the student's temperament for the D-day. Every AIMCAT solution is posted in the Student's home page along with their all India percentile. This gives the student, an idea of his preparation. Apart from AIMCATs, more than 100 sectional tests are available on the student's home page, which can be accessed at any time. Sectional test are the best way to test and revise your concepts.

See, CAT is different to any other competitive exam out there. To succeed, you need to work smartly, and choosing the right coaching institute is the first step. When you talk about coaching institutes in Ghaziabad, there is one that is head and shoulders above the rest. That is TIME Vaishali and Ill tell you why.
1) Faculty - When you talk about best faculty in Ghaziabad or even NCR for that matter, the name of Mr. Ritesh Jain emerges instantly. Ritesh Jain is a leading career counselor frequently conducting Live Career Helpline on various National TV channels like Aaj Tak, Doordarshan, IBN7 and others. He also is an active part of MENSA, scoring more than 98 percentile globally in the IQ test conducted by MENSA. But, apart from being a genius, he is the most hardworking and dedicated professional that one might come across. He gives personalised doubt classes to students and also shares his email and Facebook ID with his students, so that they could reach out to him after coaching hours as well.
2) Personal Attention and Batch size - At TIME Vaishali, batch sizes are quite small as compared to other big coaching institutes. Hence, its easy for the faculty to focus on each student. Students can ask for doubt classes, extra classes, revision classes as many time as they like. The clarity of concepts is paramount for the faculty.
3) Study material - TIME is the biggest coaching institute in the country. It has a dedicated team of IIT and IIM alumni who rigorously go through previous year papers and modify the study material year in year out, so that the students do not need to look for any other source for practice.
4) Mocks and Sectional Tests - Being a TIME student automatically enrolls you into the biggest and the best Mock CAT series, AIMCAT. Every time student gets 25 AIMCATs that are conducted both in proctored and unproctored mode to build the student's temperament for the D-day. Every AIMCAT solution is posted in the Student's home page along with their all India percentile. This gives the student, an idea of his preparation. Apart from AIMCATs, more than 100 sectional tests are available on the student's home page, which can be accessed at any time. Sectional test are the best way to test and revise your concepts.

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.