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| ENGLISH | DATA INTERPRETATION | QUANTITATIVE ABILITY | REASONING | ||||||||
| Vocabulary | Grammar | Verbal Reasoning | Reading Comprehension | ||||||||
| March | 1st Week | You should start you verbal preparation by doing the most basic thing - start reading a lot! This would give you a headstart in this reading oriented test. The CAT is of two hours where you read for 95% of the time. The minimum daily recommendations are: one newspaper (specially the editorial pages), one weekly magazine and one novel every fortnight. | Start building your comfort in basic maths. Start with devoting 1 week each to maths books (NCERT) of VI to X level. | ||||||||
| 2nd week | Build basic calculation speed | ||||||||||
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| 4th week | Break for your term end examination | ||||||||||
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| 9th week | Plan your long-term and short-term preparation goals. Visit a Princeton Review centre and meet our CAT experts to fine tune your preparation | ||||||||||
| April | 10th week | ||||||||||
| May | 11th week | Start with 2 sessions | Start reading more. At least a couple of hours per day | Go though the following topics | Expose yourself to puzzles of all kinds | ||||||
| 12th week | daily of Norman Lewis' | Review basic grammar | Acquaint yourself with | Memorise: Squares from 1 to 30 | |||||||
| 13th week | Word Power Made Easy' | various parts of the verbal section | Cubes from 1 to 30 | numbers | Read books by Shakuntala Devi | ||||||
| 14th week | Sentence formation and structure | Reciprocals 1 to 30 | percentages, profit, loss and discount | Use a standard set of reference material | and George Summers | ||||||
| June | 15th week | Keep a small diary | ratio and proportion | that is updated every year and is | |||||||
| 16th week | of new words that | Parts of speech | Experiment with reading speed | time, speed and distance | based on CAT and other exam papers | ||||||
| 17th week | you come across | Improve calculation speed | basic 2D and 3D geometry | of previous years | |||||||
| 18th week | Grammar practise exercises | jumbled paragraphs | high school algebra | ||||||||
| July | 19th week | Take vocabulary | logic- Inductive and deductive | Read topics which you tend to read slow- | probability | ||||||
| 20th week | based small tests | logical consistency | philosophy, science, psychology | permutation and combination | |||||||
| 21st week | critical reasoning | economics, history, metaphysics - any | Take small DI tests | set theory | |||||||
| 22nd week | Practise odd word out | syllogisms | area that you find difficult to comprehend | ||||||||
| August | 23rd week | Practise synonyms | (refer to article on verbal ability | ||||||||
| 24th week | Practise antonyms | Grammar tests | to understand what these are) | ||||||||
| 25th week | Take small tests on all areas | ||||||||||
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| September | 27th week | Start taking half hour tests on RC. Seek to improve in areas where you are making errors | Start taking half hour tests on DI | ||||||||
| 28th week | Start taking half hour tests on verbal ability section. Seek to improve in areas where you are making errors | Start taking half hour tests on Quant -work on improving speed and clarity of thought. Review areas where you make mistakes | |||||||||
| 29th week | Take tests | ||||||||||
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| October | 31st week | *Take a two hour test every week *Find out areas of strengths and weaknesses *Keep reviewing basics *Analyse why you score less/make mistakes and in which areas. Find out how to Improve | |||||||||
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| November | 35th week | Work out various test strategies. Be aware of different test patterns - CAT surprises aspirants with changes. | |||||||||
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| 37th week | Relax . Do what you like most. Keep a positive attitude. Do basic reviews but no new studies | ||||||||||
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