30 days to CAT 2016 Plan

26 Oct,2015 Ravneet Gandhi

Cetkings 30 days to CAT 2016 Plan

Remember 50% of your exam preparation is based on last 30 days. For

those who are focused and ambitious, the 30 day study guide plan is great,
as long as you have the time to put in. this is an aggressive plan, and you
will need to be able to dedicate, on average, 2-3 hours a day. Also, if you
are a geometry whiz or a reading comprehension guru, feel free to skip the
sections you know you dont need to review: this guide can be customized
to your strengths and weaknesses.

Essential Materials:
Last year CAT papers
Cetking or other coaching class material
Atleast 10 15 mocks for practice
Loads of motivation and time to study

Lets divide the preparation into 2 phases, first 15 days and last 2 weeks.

Phase 1
30 days to CAT first 15 days Week 1 & 2 plan
Primary Goals:
Brush up on quant fundamentals 10 questions sure shot!
Run through all different verbal questions types parajumbles, RC etc to
know our accurcy.
Check different types of questions coming in CAT exam

Secondary Goals:
Quant
Run through all formulas in Quant as you wil be getting 10 questions based
on basic formulas in CAT exam. Go through 3 main chapters of Quant
Geometry, Dirty Quant(Functions, Inequalities) and Arithmetic as they
together is more than 70% of the paper.

Shortcuts
Start using cetking shortcuts (if you are Cetking student) as speed is
important part of these topics for quant verbal and DI/LR. you can join our
30 days to CAT program here: courses.cetking.com

Verbal
Verbal is all about accuracy and practice, complete RC and Critical
reasoning in this period so that we can focus on the remaining portion next
part. RC 16 questions and Critical Reasoning 8 questions is more than
70% of the CAT syllabus.

Logic
CAT is all about Logical Puzzles (arrangement sets and other things).
Practice arrangement based sets in this phase so that we can do
tournament and games based puzzles in the next phase.

DI
50% of the DI section of 16 questions ie 8 questions (2 sets of 4 questions
each) will be normal calculation based DI not very time consuming or
calculation intensive. So run though atleast 20 DI puzzles in next 15 days
to get a hang on these topic.

Mocks
In next 15 days do atleast one mock every 3 days. Making sure you
strategies are set and you are well verse with the CAT paper pattern.

Phase 2
30 days to CAT last 15 days Week 3 & 4 plan

Primary Goals:
Focus on shortcuts in quant section as speed is the name of the game
Focus on practice in verbal DI and Logic section
Solve last year CAT papers

Secondary Goals:
Quant
Time to move to shortcuts in quant, Go through remaining main chapters of
Quant Numbers and Algebra as this will complete the full quant CAT
syllabus. You now need to revise all topics again so that we are done with
everything twice.

Shortcuts
Complete all cetking shortcuts as speed is important part of these topics for
quant verbal and DI/LR.

Verbal
In verbal go through remaining main topics of verbal Paragraph based 8
questions (Para Jumbles, Para Completion) and Grammar. This will
complete the full Verbal CAT syllabus. You now need to revise all topics
again so that we are done with everything twice.
Logic
CAT is all about Logical Puzzles (arrangement sets and other things). In
last phase we practiced arrangement based sets. So now we will do more
complicated tournament and games based puzzles. There will be two sets
of 4 questions each in CAT exam from Games & Tournament based
questions.

DI
Remaining 50% of the DI section of 16 questions ie 8 questions (2 sets of 4
questions each) will be logic based DI sets. Not at all time consuming or
calculation intensive but need more understanding. So run though atleast
20 DI puzzles in next 15 days to get a hang on these topic.

Mocks
In Last 15 days do atleast one mock every alternate day or maybe 1 mock
everyday. Finalise your mock taking strategies.