For Verbal ability, you should start reading lots of good novels written by good authors like Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, Sydney Sheldon etc. This will help you in improving your English Literature. For improving your vocabulary you should start memorizing 3 words daily with their meaning and correct pronunciation. You should start using these words in your daily life so that you can memorize them in a better way.

For Reading Comprehension section you should start reading different passages in different newspaper, magazines etc. and understand the thought process of the author. You need to see what actually he wants to convey through his passage, to who is he targeting and his way of communication. This will help you in solving the maximum questions asked below the passage. You should also see the Arun Sharma book to check out and practice the different types of questions asked in the exam.

Along with this, you should start giving lots of online mock test and analyse solutions of each one of the thoroughly which will help you in overcoming your mistakes and come up with a strategy to definitely improve your marks and percentile. It will also help you to know about your strength and weakness which will help you in attempting easy questions first, that will reduce your chance of committing a silly mistake in an easy question or missing out an easy question. Along with this, you will also get enough time to attempt medium level difficult questions which will overall increase your speed with accuracy which leads to increase your percentile. 

Testfunda, Oluveboard, hitbullseye, cracku.in, youth4work.com, bschool.careers360.com are some of the sites where you can get online mock test papers for all CAT, SNAP and XAT exams.

All the best for your preparations!!

Hi Dharmvir,

As questions related to the English language are an integral part of the CAT exam, you have to be professionally good in this section. The English language section is called Verbal Analysis and Reading Comprehension (VARC) in CAT.

There are a lot of ways to strengthen your English language skills. You can do the following things to improve your English if your knowledge level is basic:

• Reading Newspaper everyday
• Listening to English News everyday
• Communicating in the English language with your friends or family members

If you already have the basic knowledge, you can practice the CAT mock tests to improve your VARC skills. Please visit the link given below to know more about how to prepare for VARC section in CAT.

How to prepare for Verbal and Reading Comprehension section in CAT?

All the best.