For basics in Macro , i would say you go through Dornbusch and Fischer - Macroeconomics...
It explains fundas very well...I have graduated in Eco from DU and it was our core book for Macro...
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This is raghav from chennai planning to take CAT xams tis year., so looking for materials of either T.I.M.E or IMS. Im ready to buy
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hi
This is raghav from chennai planning to take CAT xams tis year., so looking for materials of either T.I.M.E or IMS. Im ready to buy
pls reply to this mail id.
Thanks a lot
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raghav
hi raghav try this thread this is the right place to put your queries http://www.pagalguy.com/discussions/calling-all-successful-bschools-junta-donate-ur-old-cat-material-25003704
moreover posting email address is against the forum rule
For Those who find maths challenging, I will like to suggest a wonderfull book which is very basic in nature and makes you understand fundas well. The books name is "Maths 30 days wonder" Published by wonder publishers. I will even suggest the book to people who are good at maths. This will help you revise your basics at a quicker pace.
sorry wrong post
Book for Managerial Economics - Salvatore
Book for Financial Management - IM Pandey, better is Corporate Finance by Bearley & Myers
Hi puys,
Could anyone tell me the names of some standard books for Managerial Economics and Financial Accounting? Prescribed books in B Schools would be helpful
Thanks and regards,
Karthik
The book in financial management by I.M. Pandey is a good book and is widely used you can refer it.
Book for Managerial Economics - Salvatore
Book for Financial Management - IM Pandey, better is Corporate Finance by Bearley & Myers
Hi Amit,
Do you suggest to take up the books you mentioned for prep things...? Are they must or just kind of directive or reference?
Please do suggest and clarify as I am far away from these things except the general management concept that we take up in btech curriculum.
@ All:
How about the book by Philip Kotler, "Principal of Marketing"? Has anyone read it?
I have one at home, planning to read it. 😃
How about the book by Philip Kotler, "Principal of Marketing"? Has anyone read it?
I have one at home, planning to read it. 😃
Hi Amit,
Do you suggest to take up the books you mentioned for prep things...? Are they must or just kind of directive or reference?
Please do suggest and clarify as I am far away from these things except the general management concept that we take up in btech curriculum.
No simply these are not for preprations. They are books required when you reahc management schools.
Hi All,
If any one have Quanta notes, please post them
Hey puys !
Nishit k sinha is a good book for Quant. App.
Nishit k sinha is a good book for Quant. App.
hi pls tell me which book is the best fr VA, esp RC...im thru wid BRM(IMS) n dont hv any other resource fr practice
hi seniors, i am planning to join mba within a few months. Could someone suggest some books which would help me make a base for the MBA studies. i am from Btech background and am at zero knowledge. Could people from different colleges list the books prescribed for their first year of study? thanks a lot.
Folks, I'm just listing down some books that I followed for my preparations for CAT '07. I hope some of these will serve you well too.
QA - Arun Sharma, Trishna's QA, and TIME material. In addition, I also followed a book called 'Think without ink' to build speed. (Please note that my strategy was to completely ignore Permutations and Combinations, but I don't recommend that course of action. I suggest that you try and focus on strong areas, but also build on weaker ones, instead of ignoring them completely.)
VA/RC - Arun Sharma, Norman Lewis' books, and TIME material. I strongly advise you to not mug up word lists. They don't work. But, books like Norman Lewis' build contextual vocabulary. Also, sign up for Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online's 'word of a day'. It is quite good, sometimes. Then, to build reading speed, there's a book called 'How to Read Better and Faster'. It might click for you too. To foolproof your grammar, there's nothing better than Wren and Martin's book.
Tip for para jumbles: Visit the Hindu or the Economist online. Copy some random article, and print out a few lines from a para, without reading it. Cut the paper so that the lines are in random order. Arrange them in sequence, and compare with the original. It'll give you a nice perspective, on your approach, and help you iron out any flaws.
DI/Reasoning - Arun Sharma, TIME material, and random GMAT questions. I suggest that you try solving questions of particular types, like network problems, truth-lie and stuff, and design your own customised approach. Trust me, it speeds up things a lot.
Also, one should do some extra reading, once in a while, to build speed/patience/interest. I don't mean read Franz Kafka, or Ayn Rand. Read contemporay fiction - Sheldon, Archer, Maclean etc. But, DON'T read passively. Be an active reader. That means, don't just read, and forget. Try to build a connection with the characters, just think about them, absorb the ambience of the book. (Reading magazines and newspapers does NOT count as extra reading.)
In addition, to boost your morale, watch some inspiring movies like Miracle, Goal (The English one), Remember the Titans, Glory Road etc. Watching underdogs triumph should give you a high. I watch such a movie before every big day in my life, and yeah, it works!
All the best! I don't say that my tips WILL work, but I hope they do, and you folks make it to the best b-schools in the country. Even if you don't, doesn't matter. As long as you try, and give it more than 100%, you'll always be heroes. Cheers!
Puys,
My take on the books. Not much to offer though, but I am sure will be a little helpful. 
Quant
This section has been the nemesis of many owing to the twisted problems which are appearing frequently. In my opinion, there always are two major componets of a quant paper : Number Systems + Basic Algebra and Geometry. This will mostly be 40% - 50% of a quant paper. It always pays to work on both of them extensively.
Books : There are two approaches for two kinds of people! A) Those who are already biting their nails ( like yours truly in April) B) Those will wake up when september ends (No harm in that as well).
A) I would recommend on building up speed and work on easier book : Trishna's quant ability ( get only at TIME centres sadly!). This will slowly raise your level and initially you neednt worry on time management at all. Three months are enough to sail through. At the later stage when you are geared up with basics : Arun Sharma's Quant is one of the good books. It will help you in not losing touch and will prepare you for the battle till the end.
B) Wake up and Grab Arun Sharma. Slog for 4 hours a day on weekdays and 6 hours on weekends. Please finish it for God's Sake! Priority List : Number Systems >> Geometry >> Mensuration >> Speed Time Distance >> Statistics & Probability >> Permutations and Combinations >> Whatever remains.
See some papers and you will know why the above!
and yeah, Mr A and B, Your test series papers supersede over everything. Better do them all! And by all, I mean all!
Verbal
Now this is the dreaded monster for all those Quant and DI crackers! Naturally so! No one pays heed to what is required. My views (strictly personal) :
- Word Lists dont help.
- Focus on Grammar is a must.
- Parajumbles are a great help. ( Think on Marks Earned / Time spent funda 😉 )
- Summaries are lame most of the times.
- Inference, Judgement types are easy. Only good source are lost of test papers. Think, spend time and you will get those. Search for the the thread on PG.
- RCs are the most deceptive of all. BEWARE, I say! :death:
And yeah.. read ... read... read... talk... talk..talk.. Thats the best you can do! Be prepared for a change in this section. This is the easiest to play around with. (IFFJ - remember 😉 )
Data Interpretation
My nemesis most of the times. And I am sure I have lots of friends here!
One tip : If you get nervous for even 5 mins in this section - You are out! :death:Good focus and practice can keep you going. I have been through both the scenarios and I am sure of what I am saying. 😃
Books: I have seen Arun Sharma for DI. Its not a very good book for the kind of questions that are being seen these days. You may search for its new editions in the market which can be helpful. There are lots of puzzle books available in market which you can have a look at only if you start preparing NOW! Other good sources are Tenaday (for its simplicity and time bounded tests) and DI Question A Day on PG (if you do it seriously).
The most important source for any DI prep is the test papers ( Yeah I know, I am saying it for the third time
). Get last ears papers. They are easily available. Solve them as part tests during May-June-July-August. Analyse. Analyse. Understand every bit in blank ink written there. Solve current year papers in the similar manner. And send me a box of sweets after you solve the DI section comfortably in CAT. All the above are the methods which I had adopted. And are very general. CAT as an exam, in my opinion, needs prep which has to be tailor made by one according to his needs. I can discuss more and more on specifics if people want. But following a skeleton will always fetch good results in the end. And its not a matter of books and material, it just depends on your mindset and how you perform. In the end, whatever may be the result, its you who learns!
So Long!
-S
Folks, dunno if this is the correct section...
Book Category : Management
CAT Course Material - 2007
Name of the book : CAT Course Material
Author : Ascent, IMS
Edition : 2007
Publisher : Ascent, IMS
Harish, as per forum rules, sharing contact info is not allowed. So, please remove your phone number. Also, we do not allow selling of course material. Hence, please remove those references too.
As a group, our focus is on sharing and helping. None of us is here for monetary gains. I hope you'll understand and respect our values, and edit your post.
My 2 paise on the books that I used:
Quant:
My nemesis throughout the test series. Strangely enough, my highest score was in this section in CAT!!!
What I did: Joined a test series, where i did miserably in quant. So i took 3 books. The ubiquitous Arun Sharma, a Vikas publication book by Career Launcher, and a R.K. publications book(found it in the library..)
. To be really honest, Arun Sharma didn't do me any good. The Vikas and RK books on the other hand, were downright useful. I f you are as confused about quant as I was at the time(which is very,very confused); it is better not to start with stuff like Arun Sharma. Take a test first, check out your comfortable-ness with the subject; and then work on it. Don't go in blindly for an Arun Sharma, or any other big name because every1 else is doing the same.
DI:
This is a section that I always felt comfortable in. And yes, I scored the least in this section on the C-Day.
There is no book out there which will give you a real practice session in DI only. The books I've mentioned above have all the 3 sections, but it's hard to find a book catering exclusively to DI.
What I did: I practiced DI from the above-mentioned books, and from CL's material. Also, i tried to solve any puzzle based on logic that came my way. For that, everyone tries Shakuntala Devi's books which give you a decent mix of maths-and-logic based puzzles. Look around for such puzzle books. The best mantra for DI that I can think of: Big tyme practice.
English:
Aah..my strongest section. This is a section in which most of my friends preparing for MBA entrances mostly found themselves out of depth in.
Two reasons:
1. Lack of good reading culture
2. Inferential questions
I know, the second reason sounds crazy. But we'll get to it in due time.
By good reading culture, i mean reading something substantial, that not only adds to your reading speed, but also enriches your vocabulary and provides you with food for thought. This food for thought will not only broaden your horizons in various subjects, but also help you when you encounter those tricky inferential questions, which are my second reason.
Gone are the days when you would get a simple RC question like "What is the name of Paul's dog?" Now, you need to apply your brains to get something which is derived from some obscure piece of info given in the passage. Herein lies the problem. You can derive more than one piece of result from any given info.
To take an analogy, consider this:
What do you get when Nitrogen and Oxygen react?
There are 5 different compounds that can be formed. Any of those 5 answers is right. But which one do they(read, the examiners) want? A million dollar question indeed. For this, the only recourse one can take is practice. The more such tricky inferential questions you practice, the better you get at reading the examiners' mind. This point is easily missed by most, as one belligerently defends one's own answer: "But we can derive it from this line. See!!" To no avail unfortunately. You might be right, but you will be marked wrong if you don't catch their drift.
This is the RC part out of the way. For the English usage part, what i suggest is, get hold of a book that gives you those seemingly stupid analogies, jumbles and stuff. I for one used to love them, and mind you, Usage is a much more high percentage return section than RC's because of the absolute-ness involved. So being in good practice for this section allows you to relax when you get to the passages which often stress people out.
What i did: Read books, some more books, and more books. I've fortunately had a good reading habit since a small age. This was the major reason in my liking this section. Another thing that I did was to utilise all the material that i could lay my hands on (My CL material, my friends' IMS and TIME material). There is another omnipresent in most MBA aspirants' rooms: R.S. Agarwal, though not in mine: I preferred to borrow from my friends. The sheer number of questions in that book helps you in your practice immensely, though the quality is circumspect.
Hope this helps.
Cheers.
get_amazed Sayshi seniors, i am planning to join mba within a few months. Could someone suggest some books which would help me make a base for the MBA studies. i am from Btech background and am at zero knowledge. Could people from different colleges list the books prescribed for their first year of study? thanks a lot.
yes seniors pls refer some books on eco,finance & accounts..
Though i'm joining MICA the term-1 has all this common courses.
TIA..