How can I prepare for the verbal section of CAT?

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

Stop thinking of it as a verbal section. The biggest mistake that you are making is that you are thinking Section 2 in CAT is the Verbal section. Apparently, it is not. Section 2 consists of 3 separate areas: Logical Reasoning (LR) Reading Comprehension (RC) Verbal Aptitude (Critical Reasoning, Grammar, Vocab) You need to prepare for all of them and if you are targeting 100 percentile, or for that matter anything above 95 percentile in section 2, you will need to be really good in two of the above three areas and above average in the third one. Find out the two sub-sections that you are strong in and work hard on the third one. You do not want to miss sitters in your relatively weak area. Also, Word Power Made Easy (or any other Vocab building tool) is helpful in CAT but Vocab is not an important parameter. You barely get a couple of direct question on it but it makes your life easier in RC and other areas. As far as preparation is concerned, I would highly recommend the use of previous year papers for both LR and RC. You need to understand the level of questions that are asked. It hasn't changed much over the years and it is unlikely that it will change drastically this time around. For verbal aptitude, focus on critical reasoning. If you are good in stuff like para-completion, para-jumbles, fact inference judgement, summary then you can go a long way.