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How to Plan CAT Preparation 2022

Change in CAT Exam 2022

● Number of questions to go down to 66 or 70 from earlier 100.
● Reduced Overall CAT duration to 2 hours and Sectional duration to 40 Minutes each
● Difficulty Level may go up.
● Change in Mock Test Taking Strategy.
Required Change in preparation
● Test taking strategy to be tweaked. Selection of questions becomes important .
● students should focus on preparation. Exam could prove more beneficial with more
time and better scoring opportunity.
● Improve your skills in each section, IIMs may decide to have stronger skilled students
● Keep total number of questions and duration for your mock test as per CAT pattern.
2. Mode of CAT 2022 Preparation
● Prepare with Self Study with right CAT material.

3. Five Step Preparation Strategy for CAT 2022

● Step-1: Check CAT 2021 Exam Pattern & Syllabus

● Step-2: CAT Exam Preparation without Coaching
● Step-3: Best Books for preparation: Section wise Strategy and Material
● Step-4: Take Mocks to check your current CAT Exam Preparation Level
● Step-5: CAT Toppers: Learn from CAT 100 Percentilers

CAT 2022 pattern

● CAT 2022 exam components

● Section-1: Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) 24 questions
● Section-2: Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR) 20 questions
● Section-3: Quantitative Ability (QA) 22 questions
● HIGHLIGHTS:-
● 4 RC Passages with MCQs; VA Non MCQs divided into Para jumbles,
Para Summary, and Out of Context Sentences
● LR – 10 Ques DI – 10 Ques All in Sets of 3 & 4 Qs
● High on Arithmetic.
● Other on Log, Geometry, Roots, Algebra.

CAT SYLLABUS 2022

● Once you know about the CAT Pattern 2022, your next step for preparation
is to scan the CAT Syllabus. Following facts must be well understood about
the CAT Exam Syllabus
● CAT Syllabus does not have any boundaries
 ● IIM entrance exam syllabus or CAT exam preparation 2022 is not
pre-defined by IIMs nor the CAT syllabus was outlined earlier also
● CAT exam syllabus is based on latest topics that appeared in past CAT
exams
● The type of CAT questions, their composition, format and number may
change in each CAT exam.
● CAT questions are not repeated in any CAT exam although difficulty level of
the questions in CAT exam remains within the syllabus.
● CAT exam syllabus is based on the mentioned guidelines and current
structure of CAT exam.
● Past tendencies reflect that CAT syllabus and pattern overall covers all the
major topics on Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension; Quantitative
Aptitude; Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning.
● CAT exam Syllabus is further divided into subsections.

Preparation without Coaching

● Preparation without Coaching If you wish to opt for CAT self study, you
need to understand first how to prepare for CAT exam at home with the
help of right books for CAT exam preparation and other appropriate CAT
2022 study material. Most of the CAT toppers have opted for preparation
without coaching. CAT toppers like IIM Ahmedabad student of PGP ,
Rahul Gupta with 100 percentile in CAT; Ashish Jhunjhunwala with 99.90
percentile in CAT; Vipul Kukkar 99.99 percentile in CAT, IIM Calcutta
students did self study for CAT exam with the help of books and other
CAT study material.
● CAT Self Preparation is the best preparation strategy for CAT exam.
However, time is also an important factor. If a candidate gets stuck on some
question due to his/her lack of conceptual clarity, the wastage of time is
more and depression begins to set in. It could be a small quant formula, LR
logic, or Verbal usage clarity which might need a simple push to come out
of the shallow waters. This help can be provided by your mentor online or
offline depending upon your preference or a mix of both.
● Most of the candidates coming from Engineering or other technical
background find it easy to get along well with Quant, DI and LR but when it
comes to Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension, they find the section
too difficult. It is where they need an expert guidance.
● CAT 2022 exam preparation needs improvement in your speed and
accuracy as the time to solve per question is reduced now. Till few years
back, CAT test taker had 2.32 minutes per question to solve but now, the
time is reduced to 1.8 minute per question to solve. Ironically it will not be
sufficient to score overall high in CAT 2022; your section wise score should
also be high to become eligible for shortlisting at IIMs.
 ● CAT exam preparation 2022 should equip you with continuous sitting for
more than 2-3 hours without break. To achieve this you are required to take
more Mocks, CAT previous year test papers.

CAT Preparation Tips: Self Preparation

● Go through the revised CAT exam pattern & CAT syllabus 2022 and Pick out
your strong and weak areas in all the three sections and work on improving
them
● Gather the best books and CAT study material for preparation 2022
● Take as many CAT Mocks as possible during your preparation online and
do the analysis of each Mock. Without analysis of Mock, attempting a mock
test may not be useful.
● If you are weak in VARC, reading different articles and novels, conversing
in English with friends and even watching English TV series and movies
will be helpful. Write down whatever new words you encounter after reading
at least 5-6 newspaper articles every day
● Data Interpretation (DI) is considered a bit more time consuming. Start
practising on DI questions. Use approximation techniques for quick
calculations

Best Books For CAT Preparation

CAT Books for VARC section

1. How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for CAT’- by
Arun Sharma & Meenakshi Upadhyay
2. ‘Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for the CAT’ - by Nishit K Sinha
3. Latest RC Passages and practice questions provided by Study centres like
TIME, CL among others
4. Editorial and short articles published in English news papers
5. ‘Word Power Made Easy’ – by Norman Lewis
6. ‘High School English Grammar & Composition’ – by Wren & Martin
7. Regularly solve the Verbal Ability questions from your study material
especially on Para summary, Jumbled Paragraphs
8. There is also number of CAT preparation books PDF free download
available online for CAT 2022 aspirants
9. Use the study material of best online coaching for CAT 2022

CAT Books for DILR section

 10. ‘How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CAT’ - by Arun Sharma
(Published by McGraw Hill)
11. ‘Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation for the CAT’ - by Nishit K Sinha
(Published by Pearson)
12. ‘How to Prepare for Logical Reasoning for CAT’ - by Arun Sharma
(Published by McGraw Hill)
13. ‘Logical Reasoning and data Interpretation for the CAT’ - by Nishit K Sinha
(Published by Pearson)

CAT Books for Quantitative Ability section

1. ‘How to Prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT’ - by Arun Sharma,
published by MGH Education
2. ‘Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT’ – by Nishit K.Sinha, Published by
Pearson
3. ‘The Pearson Guide to Quantitative Aptitude for competitive exams’
4. Quant study modules by TIME, CL, IM

Take Mocks to check your current CAT Exam Preparation Level

You now have to check your current level of CAT exam preparation by taking
Previous Year Papers / Mock Test. Unless you know which are your weak areas
that need your more attention and which are your strong areas where you need to
prepare less for CAT exam, it is difficult to start your preparation 2022 and devise
your preparation strategy. To check your current level of CAT exam preparation,
taking CAT Mock Tests sectional as well as full length can help you to identify
your weak area. After that, you will be able to focus more on your weak areas in
exam preparation.

According to CAT toppers the Mock tests help you gauge your preparation and
help you to improve and focus more in the desired direction. It is therefore, very
important to take CAT Mock tests and devise your preparation strategy.

TOPPERS VIEWS
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2. Don’t waste too much time on theory. If you have understood the basics,
attempt CAT sectional quiz.
3. Practice after theory is a must. Accordingly take periodical CAT 2022 Quiz,
attempt CAT previous years Mock test, CAT previous years question papers
4. Get the best preparation material with best preparation books
5. Beginning your preparation early will give you time to periodically assess
yourself and overcome your weaknesses.
 6. Remain confident right from the day one during your CAT preparation
journey.
7. Self Preparation is the best preparation strategy for CAT 2022 however time
is also an important factor.
8. If a candidate gets stuck on some question due to his/her lack of
conceptual clarity, the wastage of time is more and depression begins to
set in. It could be a small quant formula, LR logic, or Verbal usage clarity
which might need a simple push to come out of the shallow waters. This
help can be provided by your mentor online or offline depending upon your
preference or a mix of both.

Reading ComprehensioRead Newspaper Editorials and Articles

● After Reading the passage, make a summary of it which should be one third
of the passage size
● Check that all the key points are covered in the summary of RC passage
● Frame questions and try to answer them
● Improve your reading speed
● Since 2017, IIMs have released CAT exam papers with answer keys, attempt
the 10 RC passages from actual CAT test papers and answer questions on
them
● Monitor your time to attempt the CAT RC passages. One RC passage
followed by 5-6 questions should not take more than 15 minutes to answer

Verbal Ability for CAT

1. Making a summary of small para of 50-60 words in a single sentence

2. Putting the sentences in Jumbled paragraphs in coherent order
3. Picking out the odd sentence from a jumbled paragraph

Data Interpretation Preparation Tips for CAT

1. DI questions are formed to test how candidates can interpret the given data
and answer questions based on it.
2. Free download for DILR Practice questions for CAT with solutions are
available online and should be practiced well.

Logical Reasoning Preparation Tips for CAT

1. Read and practice various types of Logical Reasoning Questions for CAT
with solutions
2. One of the key CAT Logical Reasoning tricks by experts is to begin with
LOD=1 and move to LOD-2 and finally to LOD=3 Logical Reasoning
Questions.
3. Try to solve as many LR questions on all difficulty levels, as possible.
Never be shy of practice on LR. Once it is done, you will develop the
methodology and will come to know beforehand whether you will be able to
solve a particular LR question set, when it appears in the examination or
should skip that.
4. Get Updated CAT Logical Reasoning Preparation Material of Best Coaching
Institutes
5. Read CAT toppers’ Logical Reasoning Preparation Strategy
6. Attempt more CAT Logical Reasoning Mocks and Analyse your errors after
completing each one