CAT 2012: Speed and Accuracy in QA

In QA important facts are to focus on are speed and accuracy. They play vital role in your quant preparation and will help you score high in the Quantitative Ability part of the CAT 2012. 

You can also refer to the basic preparation material available on our website for the Quantitative Ability section and then progress towards the books meant for CAT preparation. NCERT arithmetic text books from classes VIII to X are the best to strengthen your basics for Quant Problems.

Apart from the NCERT books, the other books you may refer are:

• How To Prepare For Quantitative Aptitude For The CAT by Arun Sharma (TATA-McGraw Hill publications),
•   Quantitative Aptitude for CAT by NishitSinha (Pearson publications),

• Quantum CAT by Sarvesh Kumar Verma (Arihant publication) and

• Quantitative Aptitude for MBA Entrance Examinations by AbhijitGuha (TATA-McGraw Hill publications)

Preparing your own topic wise time table is also very useful. You should prepare it in such a way that you get to alternate days for preparing or revising each area. For instance, Monday - Arithmetic, Tuesday - Algebra, Wednesday - Geometry, Thursday - Modern Math, Friday - take test, Saturday - analyze, Sunday - revise weak areas. This way, you could cover all the areas in the Quant equally,

You must also take a couple of speed math tests every week and Mock Tests are the best. You will not only remain up to date with your preparation level of the Quantitative Ability section for CAT 2012 but will also be able to excel your speed and accuracy.

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CAT 2012: Vocab Tips - Developing a Winning Memory

We can easily recall things by their associations. When you set your mind to remember any particular word, your conscious effort should not be to vaguely mug it up but to understand it and retain so that it shall be impressed and retained. 

The student who will "cram" for CAT 2012 will not be able to makes any permanent addition to his knowledge. As recall without association is very difficult and sometimes confusing and "cramming" allows no time to form associations.

Therefore, if you find a word difficult to remember, do not waste your energy on mugging it up and then on emphasizing it to return. Try to recall some other fact or name associated with it.

If your memory is good in most respects, but poor in a particular line, it is because you do not interest yourself in that line, and therefore have no material for association.  

To improve your memory you must increase the number and variety of your mental associations. Many ingenious methods, scientifically correct, have been devised to aid in the remembering of particular facts. These methods are based wholly on the principle that that is most easily recalled which is associated in our minds with the most complex and elaborate groupings of related ideas.

Cramming is almost prohibited to raise vocabulary so go ahead with practice and usage and achieve mission CAT 2012

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CAT 2012: Useful Tips Section Wise

To give you a clear idea about the preparation strategy for each section of CAT 2012, here are few tips:

For Quantitative Ability, you need to brush up your basics well and focus on your calculation tricks to reduce solution time, lower the mistakes and emphasize on accuracy. Practice is what makes Quantitative Ability friendly to anybody. Just practice a lot and you won’t need to mug any formula and any trick. Things will turn out eventually in your favor.

Data Interpretation is all about studying and understanding the data that are in question. DI involves a lot of calculations and to get things correct in less time, learning the tricks and tips of Vedic Mathematics is the best idea. Analytic skills are tested extensively in DI; therefore the CAT 2012 aspirants need to practice DI questions well. 

Logical Reasoning section has neither any written syllabus nor any prescribed formula. You need to think logically in order to find out the solution of the problem stated in this section. You need to organize your thinking ability step by step in order to find out a solution. 

Unlike Quantitative Ability and Verbal Ability, there is no limit to the possibilities in Logical Reasoning. It is most unlikely that any caselet that you have solved before will ever turn up in CAT. The section has only one thing to learn: approach and that again, could be learned through practice and more practice.  

Prepare with Mock tests and achieve mission CAT 2012.

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CAT 2012: QA -Understanding accelerators & speed breakers

CAT is more about smartness than about intelligence. In CAT nobody expects you to answer all the questions. There should be an elimination round for the questions as well. You should know what to select and what to reject. You have to be choosy while attempting your paper. There is no fun in getting +3 marks for a question and losing one mark for the next. So, unless you are very sure of the solution to the question, don't attempt it.

If you want to be the smartest, give priority to "accuracy". The act of choosing a question, in a way, is related to accuracy as you will select and reject a question based on the accuracy level you can achieve in solving the given question. 47 - 57 per cent of the paper done with 80 per cent accuracy will be much better than 80 per cent of the paper done with 47 - 57 per cent accuracy in QA.

Do put in some efforts to improve your calculation speed. For attempting a question, we can divide time into two parts, to grasp the question and to calculate it further. Fast calculation will definitely save your time which you can then allocate to other questions in QA.

Many a times there are language traps laid by the paper setter. Even simple questions confuse you with their tricky language which is a deliberate attempt to affect your understanding.

Go for Mock Tests and practice will make you perfect for QA for achieving mission CAT 2012.

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CAT 2012: DI section Preparation & Pre-requisites

It's not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.  

Same is applicable for CAT 2012 Preparation and in particular DI section.

Improving your calculations is the first step to improve your Data Interpretation. You need to work on both accuracy and speed to improve this section. Speed can be increased by practicing regularly. Vedic mathematics can also help you to increase you speed. It is not necessary to follow Vedic mathematics if you are not comfortable with it. 

To improve your speed try doing calculations in your mind rather than using pencil/pen. In the starting it would take some time to do calculations in mind, but slowly and gradually you will see a mark difference in your speed.

Solve different type of case lets instead of sticking to one type. Develop your skills to solve different case lets.

Data interpretation is not a subject to be learned instantly. It improves with practice. Regular practice can do wonders in your speed as well as analyzing case lets. 

Go for Mock Tests and practice a lot with umpteen number of revisions. You will achieve Mission CAT 2012 !

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CAT 2012: Analyze your MOCK TESTS through SWOT

Moot point is how to analyze one’s performance in a mock test for the preparation of CAT 2012? As we know practice leads to perfection, taking mock tests will help you practice and perform well. The mock tests are meant to be taken to understand your weakness and rectify your errors. 

Each time do SWOT for each section while you take practice tests, you come to know that which are the areas which you have committed the mistake and the reason behind that. The more you know about your weak areas the more you will work on those areas. You need to identify if the error you’re making is once or consistent.

Thus, mock tests on all sections (VA / LR / DI / QA) of CAT 2012 are no doubt very important and should be analyzed to understand one’s mistakes and to check whether weaknesses are being ironed out.

Mock tests are “MOCK” tests or practice tests that are taken in a “simulated” environment. Practice tests/mock tests tell you your level of preparation. That is why; if they point out to a certain weak link it should be taken care of immediately.

Prepare with “can do attitude” and achieve mission CAT 2012!

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