How Can Non-Engineers Prepare For Quantitative Aptitude In CAT 2021 - Shirajith Anton, IIM C'23

You can use books like Arun Sharma, Nishit K Sinha or your own coaching class materials for this purpose.

Solve A Variety Of Questions:

After you become strong on the concepts, the next important step is to practice as many varieties of questions possible from those concepts. As you might be already aware, merely memorizing formulae is not enough to crack CAT. You have to learn to apply those concepts and formulae in a wide variety of circumstances and contexts to ace CAT.

So try to solve questions of various types and difficulties to be prepared for the surprises that CAT might throw this year.

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Focus on Arithmetics, Algebra and Geometry:

You can call these three the holy trinity of CAT QA. Consistently over the past few years, Arithmetics, Algebra and Geometry has accounted for around 75-80% of the questions asked in the QA section. So it is evident that an aspirant should be well versed in these topics, at the least two of them.

This doesn’t mean you should ignore Modern Math and Number Systems. You should definitely prepare for them too but don’t focus too much of your energy on those topics without preparing for the three main topics.

Topic Tests/Mocks:

The most important step in the preparation of any aspirant is test-taking. So try to solve topic tests, sectional tests and full length mocks to get used to the testing pressure and environment. Don’t be bogged down by bad test scores initially. Focus on analysing the test sincerely and finding the knowledge gap or competency gap and try to improve on that aspect till the next test.

I would recommend taking test subscriptions from two providers (preferably two out of Time, CL and IMS) in order to get questions of different variety and quality.

Finally, It is important to assess yourself and find what the right target is for you. Even though it’s recommended that everyone should aim for 99.5+ percentile, it is important to keep small achievable targets in the beginning to make progress.

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Keep practising and improving and you will get there.

Cheers and Best of Luck!!