Books for CAT preparation

sahniprashant · January 16, 2010, 4:35am

I would suggest you to give a try to - Mathematics by Arihant publication..

The books contains theory and lots of examples (Solved :-P) of different levels. Hope it will help :-)

Are you talking about quantum Analysis by SK Verma or is this some other book from Arihant?

v3mpyrik · January 16, 2010, 12:09pm

Hi,

Its called "How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT" - Arun Sharma

ISBN no. - I dont know what it is but on my book there are two ISBN Nos. ,

ISBN-13: 978-0-07-061993-7
ISBN-10: 0-07-061993-X

Regards

Thanks Bro 😛

scorpio_19 · January 16, 2010, 12:13pm

I've got all the quant books, will start preparing soft copies by April this year.

u_desai · January 16, 2010, 2:01pm

Scorpio_19 Says
I've got all the quant books, will start preparing soft copies by April this year.

can you jus state the list here

sahniprashant · January 17, 2010, 4:34am

You're Welcome

sahniprashant · January 17, 2010, 4:54am

Hi puys,

Can anyone plz tell me about any good correspondence course. It would be helpful if you could also name a few courses apart from Time, CL and IMS. I want a course with a good logical and fundamental approach to solve problems.

Regards

arun_patro · February 20, 2010, 1:50pm

Apart from TIME , CL and IMS.. u kidding

karunyan · February 23, 2010, 1:44am

heard career forum materials is good... pls verify before joinin for corres..

raajamurugan · February 23, 2010, 3:42am

Hi puys,

Can anyone plz tell me about any good correspondence course. It would be helpful if you could also name a few courses apart from Time, CL and IMS. I want a course with a good logical and fundamental approach to solve problems.

Regards

m not sure abt better correspondence courses if time ,cl and ims are excluded.. if u want better books on prep on fundamental approach try arun sharma quant .. it is really gud..

seba_catrpillar · February 23, 2010, 5:45pm

raajamurugan Says
m not sure abt better correspondence courses if time ,cl and ims are excluded.. if u want better books on prep on fundamental approach try arun sharma quant .. it is really gud..

For quants i ud suggest Quantam CAT......thats a great book indeed.....DI LR....you have to take help from Mock CATs.....and insti material.....personal belief TIME is the best.......VA.....if you get to know some books name please let me know also

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avirupa.89 · March 3, 2010, 2:40pm

hi! i completely agree with rajkiranonline about the Arun Sharma book. to add to this many of the answers in the book are even wrong.

lavy_singh · March 3, 2010, 2:57pm

hey guys ..
for quant : arun sharma is good ..though it has some wrong answers ...if u think ur quant is too good so then u can refer aryinth publication book .
d.I : again arun sharma and any institutes material.....
verbal: for verbal vocab cards ...and online reading books will hel u a lot.......

innocentevil · March 12, 2010, 10:35am

Are these sufficient and of the level of insti. materials ?

DI/LR - Arun sharma
Quant- Trishna or Arun Sharma- which one better ??
VA- ArunSharma + Wren n Martin + Reading habbit

Are Arun Sharma books uptodate with latest CAT trends??

u_desai · March 15, 2010, 6:16am

Are these sufficient and of the level of insti. materials ?

DI/LR - Arun sharma
Quant- Trishna or Arun Sharma- which one better ??
VA- ArunSharma + Wren n Martin + Reading habbit

Are Arun Sharma books uptodate with latest CAT trends??

I have a doubt about wren and martin..it's tedious and time consuming..we dont have to go so deep into grammer for CAT..any classes stuff should be fine for grammer
if you have time and can do flash cards

, it will be very helpful to interpret rc's in a better way...coz 90% of the time we are stuck in rc's only because we dont know the meaning of that particular word:oops:
it's a personal opinion though..:drinking:
reading cannot help you in short term preparation...vocab improvement will go much faster and more productively with flash cards:grin:

and instead of reading newspaper coloumns .solve atlest 3 rc's a day..that'll help more...
remember every minute you spend in your prep shold be directly useful in incresing your score..just monitor your time spending is wot i think..

innocentevil · March 15, 2010, 4:44pm

@u_desai
thanx
But u answered well for Eng. part

What about-

DI/LR - Arun sharma
Quant- Trishna or Arun Sharma- which one better ??

Are Arun Sharma books uptodate with recent trends

karunyan · March 16, 2010, 12:07am

Are these sufficient and of the level of insti. materials ?

DI/LR - Arun sharma
Quant- Trishna or Arun Sharma- which one better ??
VA- ArunSharma + Wren n Martin + Reading habbit

Are Arun Sharma books uptodate with latest CAT trends??

i dont think all dis is necessary...
jus stick on to a single coachin insti material... dats enuf..

u_desai · March 16, 2010, 10:11am

@u_desai
thanx
But u answered well for Eng. part

What about-

DI/LR - Arun sharma
Quant- Trishna or Arun Sharma- which one better ??

Are Arun Sharma books uptodate with recent trends

i dont have any idea about trishna
but for arun sharma : if you are an enginerring student you must do it..otherwise (commerce, arts) you may find it a bit demoralising if you do it without joining any coaching classes...
genral idea about arun sharma is that it can make a lot of difference if you do it systematically and analyse your progress..so i think every1, whether going to coaching or not must do it..:grin:
updated with recent trends or not...they book's purpose is to clear your concepts

so you can solve problems pertaining to those concepts..that is the prime reason why the book has not outdated over the years...but still by and large it covers everything..i havent seen the recent editions though...
for those going to coaching insti : though they teach you everything there you may still learn something new from arun sharma...ultimately no amount of prep is just suffeicent...:drinking:
edit: level of arun sharma is infact higher that some insti material..but word of caution, it can also depress some not so confident souls without proper guidance..

edit2: you will always find many ppl for and against arun sharma...coz diffrent things work for different ppl..and that it fair enough..so dont jus lisn to anyone...grab a copy yourself and after doing 20 pages you'll know whether it's helping you or not...cheers!

innocentevil · March 16, 2010, 5:23pm

@ U_ Desai

Thanx for ur lucid reply

fullblownman · March 19, 2010, 4:45pm

Is it necessary to consult like 10 different books for preparation. wouldn't the material given by a coaching institute suffice, if one concentrates in the classes and practice the material throughly?

karunyan · March 19, 2010, 5:01pm

fullblownman Says
Is it necessary to consult like 10 different books for preparation. wouldn't the material given by a coaching institute suffice, if one concentrates in the classes and practice the material throughly?

its more dan enuf...