How many months and hours per day needed for MAT preparation???

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The paper can be split into three parts: concept-driven, practice intensive and environment sensitive. Mathematical Skills & select areas of Language Comprehension are concept driven where the questions are critically dependent on the test taker's conceptual clarity with respect to core fundamentals; Intelligence & Critical Reasoning, Data Analysis & Sufficiency and select areas of English Language Proficiency are practice intensive where rigorous practice across similar questions plays a key role; Indian & Global Environment is environment sensitive where an awareness with respect to current affairs is the winning stroke.

Indian & Global Environment

Majority of the questions in this section are from the following areas:-

Current Events & Happenings

Banking & Business

Sports

General Political Information

Mathematical Skills

The important areas in this section are:-

Number Systems

Percentage, Profit & Loss, Mixtures

Averages, Ratios, Interest

Time & Work, Time, Speed & Distance

Geometry, Trigonometry

Intelligence & Critical Reasoning

This area has questions related to:-

Identifying patterns in number sets

Relationships

Direction Sense

Coding, Decoding

Verbal Reasoning

Language Comprehension

The vital areas, from which maximum questions have been asked, are:-

Word Analogies

Vocabulary, with questions on antonyms and synonyms

Rearranging sentences

Reading Comprehension

Sentence Completion

Data Analysis & Sufficiency

The thrust areas here are:-

Data Sufficiency

Standard DI tools like bar graphs, pie charts, line graphs, data tables

Data Comparisons