CAT 2022 Updates: Section-wise Preparation Tips to Crack the IIM Entrance Exam

In CAT, you will find that there are few absolutely easy questions that even 8th or 9th standard students can solve. You may find the questions that are extremely tough in time bound scenario. This is not done to identify and select the math majors. The reason being there is a mix of questions of varying difficulty level is that it reflects real life situations. But, given that you have deadline, you must pick and target the lowest hanging fruits (easy questions).

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CAT does not focus on theoretical knowledge but application of basic concepts. This essentially means that your knowledge of basic arithmetic skills, proportionality tools, numbers, elementary combinatorics, algebra and geometry is more than enough to help you crack the test.

Basic mathematical skill is just one dimension of QA section and the other dimensions are more important. These are the ability to perform in a pressure situation, observation skill, decision making, adaptability/flexibility and finally an ability to comprehend the questions. Questions are normally cleverly framed to test conceptual clarity and smartness in approach.

Solving a CAT quant problem is a step wise process and the basic algorithm is:
Step-I: Comprehension of question,
Step-II: Interpretation i.e. what is given and what is required etc.
Step-III: Problem solving (if required).
Before moving to step -III, one must explore all the possibilities of answer option elimination through various approaches like observation or through finding out the range of guesstimate values after analysing the extreme cases. To inculcate the above set of skills, one needs to practice hard.
Time bound practices will help the students understand what concepts they require to revisit. Prepare a compendium of formulas and concept map topic-wise so that one can revise it on a regular basis.