CAT aspirants who wish to crack this tough exam might be in dilemma as to how much preparation is required for cracking CAT 2018? And for those who have not taken preparation that seriously, it is time to get cracking and launch yourself for CAT preparation.
In general, you are never late for CAT 2018 preparation but with the rider that you need to be well focused now onward. Enough is enough now and take up preparation on war footing. Please go for SWOT analysis of your preparation and find out your strengths and weaknesses immediately and that can be found only with the help of mock tests.
For your reference, following are the sections of CAT 2018 with number of questions allotted along with allotted time also:
Sections | Questions | Time Allotted (In Minutes) | Maximum Marks Allotted |
Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension (VARC) | 34 | 60 | 102 |
Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning (DI & LR) | 32 | 60 | 96 |
Quantitative Ability (QA) | 34 | 60 | 102 |
Total | 100 | 180 | 300 |
For three hours exam and answering hundred questions is positively a herculean task and requires guts to crack CAT, more so that you need to be very accurate without any guess work, otherwise you have negative marking in CAT also. This makes CAT one of the toughest exams for MBA aspirates.
Verbal ability and reading comprehension can prove be a differentiation because proficiency in English language can’t be achieved overnight and as a matter of fact, you need to clear in basic fundamentals of grammar in the language.
VARC section in CAT can be high scoring,provided you are comprehending the section properly and answering questions without guess work. Reading comprehension in this section can be deadly as stanzas which you might get need to be read very fast while ensuring that you are leaving redundant words and reaching to near conclusion within the context of RC Para.
In Data Interpretation and Logical reasoning section, you need to interpret data analytically and for LR questions too , you need not depend on your assumption rater these sections require practice and based on your acumen you must answer the right answer.
Quant section will positively trouble non engineers but if you are practicing in numbers then you may equally compete. Certain areas of questions like time and distance, percentages, profit & loss, subtractions&additions,decimals will continue to be problematic but your mental math can solve them easily and that will certainly help you to ace QA.
It is the time for you to get on to CAT 2018 preparation and remain hopeful to compete in the exam.