Interview with CAT Exam Topper. Get Tips to Crack Quantitative Ability, Verbal Ability
& Data interpretation, Logical Reasoning Section of CAT Exam
CAT 2011: Get the tricks to crack QA, VA & DI&LR from topper:
If you are serious about cracking the CAT exam, you must have started your section wise preparation
after getting an idea of the strengths and weaknesses. In this exclusive interview
with CAT exam topper Anurag Goyal, an FMS alumnus,
you will know how to prepare for the three sections of
CAT exam, which are Quantitative Ability, Verbal Ability and Data
Interpretation and Logical Reasoning and overall preparation.
Anurag Goyal took CAT in the year 2008. He had scored 99.56 percentile. The other
MBA entrance exams he took were XAT and
FMS where his scores were 98.24 and 98.91 respectively.
He had got final calls from IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Indore, FMS, MDI Gurgaon, IMT Ghaziabad
and NMIMS Mumbai. After passing out from FMS, University of Delhi in 2011, he is
currently working with Nestle India Ltd.
During the interview the topper told about his success and tricks and ideas to crack
the CAT. Anurag said, "The most important thing while
preparing for a paper like CAT is taking mock tests. Never skip mock papers".
CAT Topper Anurag Goyal also answered the following questions:
Q: What are the core features of
Quantitative Ability for CAT? How should the candidate prepare for Quant?
CAT Topper Says: The Quantitative Ability section
is probably the most unpredictable part of CAT. While geometry, algebra, functions,
number system and time, speed and distance remain the most important chapters, their
relative importance keep changing. It is extremely important to be thoroughly prepared
with the chapters that one is comfortable with and not waste time on the others.
Now that it's about six months left for CAT 2011, the best thing to do is to take
one chapter at a time and solve as many questions as possible over a week or 10
days. The objective should be to master the chapter and develop a very high level
of comfort and confidence should any question be asked from the chapter. Thereafter,
move on to the next chapter.
Q: What are the components of the
Verbal Ability section? How should the candidate prepare for VA?
CAT Topper Says: There are two parts to the Verbal
Ability section: Vocabulary, which tests your repertoire of words as well as language,
and Comprehension, which tests your ability to deduce. While you can memorize word
lists in the last two to three weeks before CAT 2011, language can only be built
over time. Six months before CAT, the best thing to do for vocabulary is read. Add
words to your lexicon. As for reading comprehension, the answers are not absolute
like Vocabulary. They are subjective. To understand the kind of answers that CAT
looks for, the only method is to practice and reason out.
Q: What are the features of the Data
Interpretation & Logical Reasoning section? How to prepare for the section six months,
three months, one month and one week before CAT?
CAT Topper Says: The only way to learn Data Interpretation
and Logical Reasoning (DI & LR) is practice. Unlike Quantitative Ability and Verbal
Ability, there is no limit to the possibilities in DI & LR. It is most unlikely
that any caselet that you have solved before will ever turn up in CAT. DI & LR has
only one thing to learn: approach. Six months before CAT, you should best invest
your time in practicing. Another important thing for DI & LR is to go over mock
test questions and caselets thoroughly. This will help one in understanding the
mistakes made and learning the correct approach.
Q: What are the other factors a candidate
should keep in mind while preparing for CAT 2011?
CAT Topper Says: The most important thing while
preparing for a paper like CAT is taking mock tests. Never skip mock papers. CAT
is more about composure and strategy and lesser about formulae. One is bound to
have a few bad mock papers, but it is important to see them through. Again, one
shouldn’t lost focus of other important papers like XAT and FMS.
Preparation Tips
Courtesy: MBA Universe.com
