CAT 2012: Tips for Geometry, Coordinate Geometry and Menstruation

Geometry, Coordinate Geometry and Menstruation are grouped together since they deal with the portion of QA that can be visualized. Of the three, maximum weightage is given to geometry, although every CAT paper will have 3-4 questions on mensuration, as well as a couple of questions on coordinate geometry, totaling about 25-30% of questions in the QA section.

Topics that need to be covered in geometry are basic theorems involving triangles, circles and parallel lines. A common type of question that is often asked in CAT is to find the value of certain angles or length of certain sides. Therefore, make sure that you cover topics such as congruency and similarity of triangles.

The only things that you need to do in coordinate geometry are straight lines and circles. Given the equation of a circle, you should be able to comment on the centre and radius of the circle and draw it on a piece of graph paper, and nothing more. Similarly, you should know what the slope and y-intercept of a given straight line equation is, and be able to draw the line on a piece of graph paper.

For mensuration, flip through a school level textbook for basic formulae on areas, surface areas and volumes of triangles, circles, cylinders, cones, cuboids and spheres. Mensuration problems are calculation intensive, and require lots of practice.

Get on to preparation and practice that will achieve you mission CAT 2012 

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CAT 2012: Bother for Preparation and not for Exam Procedure

CAT 2012 dates will be officially announced on coming Sunday 22^nd July.  Aspirants like you are curious to know exam details. 

A certain amount of curiosity is valid but worrying around on exam procedure may waste time  as time is very crucial component  for you not only for preparation but with passage of time only you will gather momentum of speed. 

CAT exam is combination of logic and speed.  Both can be gained with practice and the best way is to achieve this is to practice Mock Tests.

 

You must remember that even after getting scores you have to go for another step of Extempore Speech, WAT, GD and PI hence, it is advisable to prepare for CAT 2012 with 360 degree approach and give yourself a complete overhaul of SWOT for each step of CAT exam.

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CAT 2012: Wonderful 2 approaches for RC

Primarily the students opt for any one of the following approach for answering the Reading Comprehension Questions: 

The PQ Approach (passage first, then the questions)

• PQ - Read the entire passage thoroughly first and then read the questions
• P scan Q - Skim & Scan through the passage and keep going back and forth with questions and passage
• 2PQ, 4PQ, 6PQ - Read the first 2 paragraphs, scan all the questions and see what you can answer, then read Para 3 & 4, scan the questions and see what you can answer, then read Para 5& 6!!

The QP approach (questions first, then the passage)

• QP - Read all the questions with their answer options first and then the passage
• 1QP, 2QP, 3QP, 4QP - Read question 1 with all the options, then go through the entire passage to answer it. Then read question 2, go through the entire passage. Then question 3!
• Q stem P - Just read all the question stems, without reading the answer options. Then read the passage and try answering the questions by reading them with the options.

You can rely on above wonderful approaches and be successful in achieving mission CAT 2012

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CAT 2012: Essay Preparation

Essay writing has become an integral part for CAT 2012 since the inception of ‘Written Ability Test’ in the admission process of IIMs. 

After successful completion of CAT Exam, students are called for WAT by individual IIMs and based upon the performance of the students in WAT they get selected in the IIM of their preference. 

Apart from IIMs, many other institutes have also started following this pattern so as to get right candidates for their institutes. 

Therefore, it has become very important for the students to have good essay writing capability so as to get into a good MBA Institute.

Essay writing in fact unfolds the inner personality and the kind of professional you are hence, it is very important and crucial to write proper with a conclusion which must be a take away for the readers of your essay. 

Practice writing Essay on variety of topics that will lead you to achieve mission CAT 2012.

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CAT 2012: RC made easy

Reading Comprehension in the CAT 2012, like all the previous CAT exams, will test your ability to understand the following facts:

• The nuances of the written word
•  Tone of the Passage
•  Identify and differentiate the subtleties of meanings of words
• Correct syntax, structure and formation of sentences
• Thought process of the author while writing the passage

The best you could do while reading the passage is to identify the complex ideas presented in the paragraph and link it to the overall theme. This will help you identify the tone and flow of the given passage.

As far as the Reading Comprehension questions are concerned, over all these years CAT has moved from being an English language test to being an English usage test.

It implies that few years back, a lot of questions on grammar, vocabulary and fill in the blanks were pretty straightforward. Either you knew the answer in 10 seconds or you didn’t know them at all.

No amount of deliberation and reasoning would help you if you didn’t know exact meanings of words and core concepts of grammar.

Prepare well and achieve mission CAT 2012 

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