14 Month Study Plan For CAT
Month – 1, 2: Start your preparation
- The Hindu editorial section (continue till the end of the exam)
- QA (Basic Arithmetic skills, Number System, Geometry and Mensuration)
- LR (Clock and Calendar Problems, Analogies, Arrangements)
Month – 3, 4: Continue with QA, LR and Verbal
- QA (Time and Work, Percentage, Profit and Loss, Probability, Set theory)
- Verbal (Synonyms and Antonyms, Idioms and Phrases, Reading Comprehension)
- LR (Syllogism, Direction problems)
Month – 5, 6: Complete QA
- QA (Simple and Compound Interests, Progression, Logarithms, P&C, Inequalities, Equations, Functions)
- LR (Blood relation, Quantitative reasoning)
Month – 7, 8 Complete LR
- LR (Coding & decoding, Series, Puzzles)
- VA (Fill in the blanks, Critical Reasoning, Logical deduction)
Month – 9: Complete VA
Sentence correction, Paragraph completion, Cube and Dice, Grammars
Month – 10: Complete DI
Tables, Pie-chart, Line chart, Bar chart, caselets and Data sufficiency.
Month 11, 12: Start Revision and Solve Past Papers
- Solve past papers
- Memorize math formulae
- Revise QA, LR, VA and DI
Month 13, 14: Practice Mock Tests
- Attempt 1 Mock Test Every 2 days
- Analyze the performance in the test
- Focus on improving score in each test
- Revise all concepts