Verbal Ability - CAT

Though the CAT structure is very fluid and dynamic, the verbal ability section of management entrance tests is comprised of four basic types of questions:

Vocabulary-based
Reading comprehension
Grammar-based
Verbal logic questions

NITIE Interview Blog-Posts

A true MBA interview at NITIE

http://vbtofriends.blogspot.com/2006/03/true-mba-interview-at-nitie.html


NITIE GD/PI
http://thejablog.blogspot.com/2006/03/nitie-gdpi-stressed-out.html

NITIE Mumbai - GD/PI Experience
http://anacreontic.blogspot.com/2007/03/nitie-mumbai-gdpi-experience.html

Nitie GD/PI
http://thegaurav.blogspot.com/2007/03/nitie-gdpi.html

Are you attending NITIE PGDIE Interview

Read the textbook you used for IE if it was taught you in your course.


If it was not a part of your curriculum borrow a book on it from library and read some chapters.

Yoy may visit

http://www.nrao-ie-handbook.blogspot.com/

http://nrao-ie-handbook.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-books-on-industrial-engineering.html



Refresh your GATE syllabus.

Some of the questions were collected by some persons to provide some direction to you. The file is available on

http://www.totalgadha.com/html/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=2016

Be calm and talk clearly with appropriate loudness and confidence.

If you are working currently, develop narrations of your successes and project a picture of success and positive attitude about your life and work. Think of how you have withstood unexpected low performance of your projects and what you have learned from them to do better in future.

Be ready to explain the technical or business processes involved in your current job.

You are competing to claim that you are in the top 50 of the students appear in the interview. Make a plan on how you want to achieve this in various ways in the group discussion and interview.

six Month Map to Crack the Code

My views on mergers and acquisitions by Indian corporate sector were published in May 2007 issue of Career Economy.

In the same issue an article with the above title is published in pages 53 to 56. The important points of the article are:

1.Believe that you require only knowledge of 10th class mathematics to clear the cutoffs of quants portion.

1st month: In X class textbook revise the easy chapters like Equations, numbers, percentages. profit & loss, time & work, time & distance, ratios, proportions, averages, mixtures & alligation etc. Then develop some basic skills for faster calculations. Learn multiplication tables up to 30, squares and cubes up to 20 and inverses up to "15" by heart.

2nd month: Try to answer chapter wise problems in CAT guides and have a target of 1 to 1.5 minutes for each question.

3rd month: Start answering longer tests.

4th month: Join a test series and answer 30 to 35 mock test series. Get practice, practice, practice

5th month: If you are not clearing cutoffs in mock tests, go expert consulting. Now start studying chapters like mensuration, logarithms, surds and indices, permutations and combinations, probability and functions. They will contribute 3 to 4 extra marks.

6th month: Take limited number of tests and prepare based on their analysis. During the last 10 days before CAT, take proper rest. Don't try to learn new areas, but try to increase depth of your known topics.

About the blog

My niece asked me the other day whether she should prepare for CAT or for GATE. I told her that she has to appear for both. She told me on the phone that she was counselled by coaching institutes that only one is to be attempted. I do not like this idea. Competitive examinations are conducted to select the persons who have the underlying knowledge and who have the ability to retain the knowledge for longer periods of time. Also, these examinations may contain in the syllabus some topics which may not be there in the qualifying degree examination to test whether the candidate can learn using alternative means of learning. Hence engineering graduates with merit should not hesitate to write both examinations. In fact IIMs/NITIE should give preference to a candidate with superior scores in both examinations. they should use a similar criterion for any other discipline where there are examinations to test the proficiency of the discipline like NET etc. Somebody who cleared IAS written examination and CAT should have a obvious preference. These things do happen but it needs to be told to candidates more explicitly.

My plan in this blog to post my views on preparation for CAT as well as post others views that I come across in various publications and websites.

With blessings of Lord

I seek the blessings of Lord to make this activity useful and successful.