Books for CAT preparation

MBA CAT 2022
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hi ,
i have written 5 Major MBA exams this year..I am awaiting the final results of IIT DELHI and IIT kharagpur -VGSOm...I would like to share some of the GYAAN i got while preparing for 18 months...

here are some of the books taht might prove helpful....

VOCAB:
1.norman lewis
2.IMS material wordlist- BRM
3.barron's wordlists.

For RC try reading as many novels as you can and make note of the tough words in them.In fact books by DAN brown has many words that come in BARRONS........try improving the reading speed to about 350 wpm......

QUANTS:
1.arun sharma
2.Trishna's book by TIME

DI:
1.arun sharma has a book for DI as well with lots of exercises.....

GK:
1.try reading the newspapaers. i know thats not easy ....
2.TIME AND IMS have their respective magazines with about 100 GK questions each ,onth
GK proves helpful only for exams like IIFT,SNAP and MAT .......but GK is a scoring area where one can boost speed too...

ok all the best
try doing the material of TIME and IMS... i might join u guys in the prep if i dont convert....
i have shared what i knew....

we can start a thread for shortcuts too. i have a list of 60-70 shortcuts .. i can post them if needed
karthik


I need the following info from you:
1. Whats the name of the Quants book by Arun Sharma ?
2. Whats the name of the DI book by Arun Sharma ?

I am planning to buy Shakuntala Devi's "Puzzles to Puzzle You" for LR, "Verbal and Non-verbal Reasoning" by R S Agarwal also.

Do you think i should go for "How to Prepare for CAT" by TMH also ?

let me know
regards.
Shuvabrata
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Hi All,

Bhai koi bata sakta hai ki DI ke liye Arun Sharma ki new book zyaada achchi hai Y abhijit Guha ki ???

Please Do reply asap as I have got too confused by the ballyhoo both of them are getting .

Thanks & Regards,
s_raj_t

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Hi All,

Bhai koi bata sakta hai ki DI ke liye Arun Sharma ki new book zyaada achchi hai Ya abhijit Guha ki ???

Please Do reply asap as I have got too confused by the ballyhoo both of them are getting .

Thanks & Regards,
s_raj_t

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Hi guys,

Please read "The world is Flat" by Thomas Friedman... It has lot of facts abt diff companies ( Google, Walmart, UPS etc...) . Good for RC

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Can anyone please post some links to get pdf files of some gud books or novels.If anyone hasgot the files itself plz attach.

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Try http://greylib.align.ru/ ... The site will be in russian, but u can browse through tabs ... Will find a lot of Novels ...

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thx buddy!!

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Can any1 tell me how is 'Preparation 4 mba' by R S Agarwal . All are suggesting books but no one has given the titles for books

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I believe abhijit guha is extremely good for formulae and concepts while arun sharma is good for weird problems with no solutions!!!

for english, my serious suggestion would be to prepare very little on words and read hell a lot of novels.

I think TIME mockcat DI material is pretty good and the best. Nothing else better for DI prep.

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hi!

please could anyone suggest which is the best wordlist, whether the barron's or else. infact is it really necessary to mug up wordlists.

thanks
regards,
Deepak

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hi!

please could anyone suggest which is the best wordlist, whether the barron's or else. infact is it really necessary to mug up wordlists.

thanks
regards,
Deepak

I find it less important to mug up wordlists. Rather mug up squares upto 50 and cubes of numbers upto 15 or 20.

that should help more. probably those 350 high frequency worlist in barrons should suffice.
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hi

any one has TIME mock CAT of last year . i need it please help

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hey guys..i have started preparing from RS Agarwal for maths..its a great book for ppl who have probably not been in touch with maths for a loonnnnnnng time a.k.a. ME!!!!

so u might wanna go through it..and at best, PLZ PLZ PLZ follow JUST ONE BOOK..no need to confuse yourself!!!!

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Hi Guys,

Wat has gained importance in recent CAT exams is "Reasoning" and I don't find any book with Qs that are at par with the CAT Qs..Can anyone suggest on any book that can really help.

Moreover, I believe I think CL has a good stock of GK questions and word list of "Baron" can be a real help in cracking vocabs in the Management entrance exams...

Regarding Arun Sharma, the solutions are really obsiquos that really pisses me off when I cannot find an answer to the Qs.

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I think Think Without Ink is the best book for quant. Saw that book being mentioned somewhere in PG a week before CAT. Got hold of that book and my quant performance took a quantum jump in CAT in just a week's time.

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is it actually important to follow a lot of books..dun ya think it might be confusing??:wow:
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Hey Guys !

I have Started Prep for CAT 06 couple of months back, with RS Agarwal to brush up my Quants

Also , Shakuntala Devi Puzzles is a great book.

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Is thr any thread for the solutions of Arun Sharma's QA...

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hi i have solved arun sharma.and i dont think we need to go for level 3 for chapters other than number sys and probablity algebra.we can discuss solutions here.yaar tell me name of book of di by arun sharma i havent heard of it is it good.?

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Think without Ink...have never heard abt it.....whoz the author?

howz it like in structuring i mean? kind of like Arun Sharma with different levels.....
what are the types and kinds of questions and concepts covered....?
cud u provide some more details abt it?
thanks
roshi

The Raven Says
I think Think Without Ink is the best book for quant. Saw that book being mentioned somewhere in PG a week before CAT. Got hold of that book and my quant performance took a quantum jump in CAT in just a week's time.