Quantitative Aptitude Live Session - Sonap Garg (CAT QA: 99.97%ile)
As part of InsideIIM's CAT 2021 Roadmap Series, we had a live session with Sonap Garg (CAT QA: 99.97%ile, IIM Calcutta) on how to prepare for the QA section.
As part of InsideIIM's CAT 2021 Roadmap Series, we had a live session with Sonap Garg (CAT QA: 99.97%ile, IIM Calcutta) on how to prepare for the QA section.
Geometry is one of those topics of CAT Quant that can fetch you easy marks through basic concept application. While some geometry concepts may be hard to grasp, for the most part, you should be good to go if you memorize a basic bunch of formulae. InsideIIM brings you to a thorough formula book for geometry which will help you prepare this topic well enough to fetch an additional 3 to 15 marks on the exam! Make sure you read, review, and revise these thoroughly!
The D-Day is nearing! September is that month in every CAT aspirant's preparation where they have a lot of questions in their mind. Considering CAT 2022 - the number of questions gaga, one might now think, "Am I sorted in all the chapters in Quant?" Cross question yourself, "Will my conceptual understanding allow me to ace the CAT 2022?"
Analysis of Quantitative Aptitude for CAT Quantitative Aptitude section was my forte. Though I was good at quant, many of my friends struggled in this section. To help them, I drafted various preparation strategies before settling on one that has proven useful for anyone who is having trouble with quant.
Tips for planning your QA preparations. The following are some practical ideas that might assist a CAT candidate in channelling their preparations:
Anubhav Singh has done his graduation in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from IMSEC Ghaziabad in 2018. Post that he worked in a manufacturing firm as a production manager. In his engineering final year, he realized that the technical domain is not his cup of tea. So he explored few other options and finally decided to pursue a career in the management domain. Anubhav has scored a whopping 99.64 percentile in the Quantitative Aptitude section of CAT-2019, which played a crucial role in getting an overall high percentile in the exam. He is currently pursuing his management degree from IIM-Lucknow. In this article, he shares his insights on how to score 99+ percentile in CAT. Read on!
QA (Quantitative Aptitude) is probably the most dreaded section for every non-engineer appearing for CAT. As a commerce student myself, I was very much afraid of quants for a vast part of my preparation. There was a point of time during which I wanted to quit my CAT prep just because my quant mock scores were very low. But I kept practicing without losing hope and eventually got a 97.1 percentile in QA. It may not be considered as an excellent score but it was a great improvement from my first mock score of 42 percentile and being afraid of not clearing sectional cut-offs for QA. Here are a few steps/tips which can help a non-math student crack the QA section.