CAT Exam Preparation Tips: Books, Coaching, Pattern, Syllabus
CAT Exam Preparation Tips: If you are planning to go for the CAT Exam, but you are confused about how to prepare for the CAT examination? It is also the toughest MBA entrance exam to crack. But you don’t have worry umeacademy.com will help you to make a strategy and also guides you to prepare for the Common Admission Test or CAT.
In India, every year more than two lakh candidates give this MBA entrance test. It is computer-based MBA test to get admission in 20 IIMs and over 1,200 top B-Schools in the India offering MBA, PGDM and PGP programs.
Every year IIMs (Indian Institute of Management) conducts this exam and along with that IIM select the Convener for overseeing all aspects of the test. Convener is that person who overseas and is responsible for managing everything and see and see all the possibilities.
This year, CAT 2022 exam is most probably expected to be held on 27th November, 2022 by any one of the IIMs. The authority will release the official notification by the last week of July, 2022 and registrations will begin in the month of August, 2022.
CAT Exam Pattern
CAT Test is divided into 3 sections that will come in Non-MCQ and MCQ type questions format are given below:-
- VARC (Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension)
- QA (Quantitative Aptitude)
- DILR (Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning)
Given below the detailed distribution of CAT exam Sections and questions:-
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Sections |
VARC, QA and DILR |
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Duration of exam |
Total 120 minutes (40 minutes per section) |
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Total number of questions |
76 Questions |
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Section-wise number of questions |
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Total marks |
228 Marks |
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Language of question paper |
English Language |
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Type of questions |
Non-MCQs and MCQs |
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Marking Scheme |
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CAT Exam Syllabus: Important Topics
CAT Sections | Important Topics |
Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) | Para-Jumbles, Para Summary, Antonyms, One Word Substitution, Sentence Completion |
Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR) | Syllogism, Seating Arrangement, Tables, Charts, Graphs, Caselets |
Quantitative Aptitude (QA) | Geometry, Algebra, Mensuration, Time and Work, Number System |
Best Books suggested for the Preparation of CAT exam
Given below are some of the books that are being suggested for the CAT exam preparation along with the author/publishers name for all three sections:-
Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
- How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for CAT – Arun Sharma and Meenakshi Upadhyay/Arihant
- 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary Mass Market Paperback – Wilfred Funk & Norman Lewis/ Simon & Schuster
- How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for the CAT – Sharma and Upadhyay
- PSC for VA for CAT – Nishit Sinha
- High School English Grammar & Composition – Wren & Martin
Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning
- CAT 2018 Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning – Gautam Puri
- Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation for the CAT – Nishit K. Sinha
- Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency – Ananta Ashisha
- How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CAT – Arun Sharma
 Quantitative Aptitude
- NCERT Mathematics Books (Class 6 to 10) – NCERT
- How to Prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT – Arun Sharma
- Quantitative Aptitude Quantum CAT – Sarvesh Sharma
- Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations – Abhijit Guha
- Quantitative Aptitude for CAT – Nishit Sinha
Best CAT exam coaching
Doing preparation from the Top CAT Coaching institute will be more beneficial to sharpen candidate’s skills and it will also help all the candidates to boost up their preparation without wastage of time.
Top CAT Coaching in Delhi NCR
Coaching Institute Name | Location of Coaching Centers in Delhi |
TIME | Connaught Circus, Nirman Vihar, GTB Nagar, Pitam Pura, East of Kailash, Kalu Sarai, Rajouri Garden, Satya Niketan (South Campus), Sec 7 Dwarka, Shahadara, Jhendewalan, Sec 15 Noida, Sec 62 Noida |
Career Launcher | Connaught Place, Dwarka Sec 5, PitamPura, Rajouri Garden, Preet Vihar, SDA College Centre, Kailash Colony, Kingsway Camp, Mohan Estate, KP-II Greater Noida |
IMS | Connaught Place, Dwarka Sec 7, Karkardooma, Kailash Colony, GTB Nagar, PitamPura, Najafgarh Road, Satya Niketan (South Campus), Sec 2 Noida, Sec 14 Gurgaon, Sec 16 Faridabad |
MBAGURU | Connaught Place Center – 1, Connaught Place Center – 2, North Campus Center, Rajouri Garden Center, Pitampura Center, East Delhi Center |
Arun Sharma’s Mindworkzz | Connaught Place – 2 Centers |
Tathagat | Connaught Place |
How to do registration or apply for CAT Examination
Given below the step by step procedure to apply for the CAT Examination:-
- Firstly go to the official website of IIM CAT
- Now go to registration tab and do registration by entering your credentials such as name, DOB, mail ID and phone number
- After that you will receive an OTP for successful registration on your number or e-mail
- Now log in the registration details
- After that you will get your registration form on the screen
- Fill in the CAT Examination registration form with all the required credentials
- Along with the form upload all the asked or required scanned documents
- After that select the CAT exam center for the giving Writing Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI)
- At last pay the CAT Examination registration fee and submit the form.
CAT Registration Fee
- CAT Registration Fee for General and OBC Category Candidates is 2,000/-
- CAT Registration Fee for SC, ST and PWD Category Candidates is 1,000/-
How to pay CAT Exam Registration Fee?
You have to pay the CAT Exam Registration Fee via online mode by using any one of the option given below
- Debit card
- Credit card
- Net banking
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CAT Exam Centers
CAT examination has been conducted at numerous centers located in 156 cities in India. You can choose at least six CAT exam center preferences for the Writing Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI) at the time of registration.
Mumbai | Hamirpur | Port Blair |
Nashik | Jammu | Guntur |
Satara | Bokaro | Nellore |
Palghar | Dhanbad | Vijayawada |
Ulhasnagar | Hazaribagh | Kakinada |
Shillong | Jamshedpur | Rajahmundry |
Aizawl | Ranchi | Visakhapatnam |
Kohima | Belagavi (Belgaum) | Kurnool |
Balasore | Bengaluru | Tirupathi |
Cuttack | Hubballi(Hubli) | Vizianagaram |
Sambalpur | Mysuru(Mysore) | Itanagar |
Berhampur | Kalaburagi(Gulbarga) | Dibrugarh |
Dhenkanal | Shivamogga(Shimoga) | Silchar |
Bhubaneswar | Dharwad | Guwahati |
Rourkela | Mangaluru(Mangalore) | Tezpur |
Puducherry | Udupi | Jorhat |
Pathankot | Kannur | Aurangabad-Bihar |
Ludhiana | Ernakulam | Darbhanga |
Amritsar | Kollam | Arrah |
Bhatinda | Kottayam | Muzaffarpur |
Patiala | Kozhikode | Bhagalpur |
Jalandhar | Thrissur | Patna |
Sangrur | Trivandrum | Mohali |
Ajmer | Bhopal | Chandigarh |
Jaipur | Jabalpur | Bhilai Nagar |
Sikar | Ujjain | Bilaspur |
Alwar | Gwalior | Raipur |
Jodhpur | Sagar | Delhi |
Udaipur | Indore | Faridabad |
Bikaner | Satna | Gurugram |
Kota | Bhopal | Ghaziabad |
Madurai | Jabalpur | New Delhi |
Chennai | Ujjain | Greater Noida |
Salem | Gwalior | Noida |
Trichy | Sagar | Meerut |
Coimbatore | Indore | Panaji |
Vellore | Satna | Ahmedabad |
Tirunelveli | Amravati | Mehsana |
Hyderabad | Jalgaon | Vadodara |
Karimnagar | Nagpur | Anand |
Warangal | Pune | Rajkot |
Allahabad | Solapur | Gandhinagar |
Bareilly | Navi Mumbai | Surat |
Kanpur | Ahmednagar | Ambala |
Muzaffarnagar | Kolhapur | Hisar |
Agra | Nanded | Karnal |
Gorakhpur | Raigad | Kurushetra |
Lucknow | Thane | Panipat |
Varanasi | Vasai | Rohtak |
Aligarh | Aurangabad | Shimla |
Dehradun | Moradabad | Jhansi |
Asansol | Roorkee | Haldwani |
Burdwan | Bankura | Durgapur |
Kalyani | Hooghly | Kolkata |
Siliguri | Â | |
Top 10 colleges Accepting CAT examination score
- IIM Calcutta
- IIM Shillong
- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi
- Amity Business School, Noida
- Asia Pacific Institute of Management
- Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH)
- S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR)
- DY Patil University
- IMS Ghaziabad
- UPES University
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