17 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, 10: Complete VA

Sentence correction, Paragraph completion, Cube and Dice, Grammars

Month – 11, 12:  Complete DI

Tables, Pie-chart, Line chart, Bar chart, caselets and Data sufficiency.

Month 13-15: Start Revision and Solve Past Papers

• Solve past papers
• Memorize math formulae
• Revise QA, LR, VA and DI

Month 16, 17: 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

You did it! Congratulations!