I want to do MBA and want to qualify CAT so what should I do

Not only CAT  you should equally seriously prepare for XAT, NMAT, MAT ans SNAP besides CAT, as they too are gateways to equally good B Schools having great infrastructure, faculty and placements.

Coming to the preparation, you need to start your preparation by strengthening the below 3 Sections

1. Quantitative Aptitude

2. VARC (Verbal Ability)

3. DILR (Logical/Analytical Section)

Since you are a Beginner, I would advise you to follow the below materials and start your preparation before finalising on your Test Taking and Final Preparation Strategy.

1. Sarvesh Verma Quant (First You should Complete this, before moving on to Arun Sarma, etc.)

2. Arun Sarma Books (PDF Available)

3. TIME/Career Launcher DLP Material+Test Series

You ideally may first consider CAT Material by Career Launcher available on Amazon, followed by Test Series, once you are confident with Preparation.

Qualifying CAT with a good percentile will give you a chance to secure Calls from Top Management Institutes followed by PI/GD/WAT Rounds.

For more information about CAT Preparation do follow the link below

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat

Hello Aspirant,

Common Admission Test, in short CAT is conducted by any of the IIM in rotation every year , it is a computer-based entrance exam conducted for MBA/PGDM admissions at 20 IIMs and 1000+ B-Schools in India. Candidates who have completed graduation with 50% of marks are eligible to apply for IIM CAT 2021. As per the new paper pattern the paper is of total 228 marks and it will consists of 76 total number of questions divided in three sections namely VARC, DILR and QA. Out of these 76 questions, 54 question will be of MCQ type and other 22 will be Non-MCQ. For every correct answer 3 marks will be awarded and on incorrect answer -1 will be deducted only from MCQs not from Non-MCQs. For complete exam pattern(latest) of CAT kindly check out the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-exam-pattern

For CAT 2021 no exact dates are out yet but it is expected that the application process for it will start in the month of August '21 and the tentative exam date is November 28th 2021.

You can get complete information about CAT 2021 from the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/exams/cat

Now let us discuss how to prepare for above three sections so that we can get the best score which can take us to the best B-Schools of the country.

For Quantitative Ability :-

> For this section your pre-requisite is the complete understanding of basics of Mathematics.

> You should have proper command on topics like profit and loss, number system, geometry.

> Practice as many as sample papers you can and go for some mock tests as well.

For complete details about preparation of QA section kindly check out the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat-quantitative-ability

Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension :-

> Reading skill is the pre-requisite for this section, so try to read different English story books, magazines, etc.

> Go through newspapers, journals, blogs, articles, etc to enhance your reading skills and watch some English visuals such as English News, web series, movies and likewise.

> Try solving questions based on comprehension, inferences and para jumbles. You can purchase some booklets for the same from market.

For complete details about preparation of VARC section kindly check out the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat-varc

Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation :-

> This section seems to be the toughest section in CAT exam, but it is not if you practice a lots of questions on logical reasoning and practice solving different hard core problems so that your problem solving ability will increase, which is the pre-requisite for this section.

> Go through some basic topics like seating arrangements, blood relations, syllogisms, etc to get familiar with this section.

> For complete details about preparation of DI&LR section kindly check out the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat-di-lr

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!