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What should be the Optimum Strategy for CAT?
There should be no fiddling with your Test-taking strategy at this late stage. As long as you know that the strategy you are using is giving you rewards, don’t change it… For example, you would know if your best bet is to scan a passage and then move [...]

Career Launcher CATScan: Solutions to previous years CAT papers

Features

Over 1000 CAT Questions from previous CAT papers (1999-2008*) presented in an online interactive format
Detailed solutions in an audio video format
Option of replaying the solutions as many times as you want
Lots of tricks and short cuts

Benefits

Know the CAT papers of the previous years inside out. Get confident about your familiarity with CAT.
Learn new ways to [...]

CAT 2009 is a computer based test

It has finally been confirmed – CAT is definitely going to be a computer based test (CBT) from this year.
As per this press release from IIM Bangalore:

The Common Admission Test (CAT) of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) is going to be a Computer Based Test (CBT) from this year onwards, comparable to the existing [...]

CAT 2009: Online or Offline, IIMs need to answer

It was last year that the big news was unveiled to the world. Common Admission Test (CAT), the examination for securing admission into the IIMs, was to transfigure into an online format, starting 2009. CAT had retained it’s paper-pencil format since it’s inception. There was much debate about the pros and cons of the decision. [...]

CAT may not go online this year

Summary:

Last Dec. IIMs had floated a tender and short-listed 4 companies to conduct CAT 2009 online.
Logistics issues might hinder possibility of CAT going online this year. 300,000 students to take exam on same day on computer terminals – large scale provision of infrastructure and facilities involved – huge task.
Pankaj Chandra, director, IIM Bangalore: [...]

CAT Quant – The True Picture by Shivku (IIMC)

More Last Minute Tips from Recent CATters

Another first hand account of what successful CATters did in the days before the test:
Gaurav Sharma – NSIT Delhi and IIM-A
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Algebra in CAT: 1998 – 2006 (concluding part)

CAT 2003 (retest): A milder version of the leaked CAT paper. It was apparent that that paper had been set in a hurry. A lot of concepts from earlier CATs were repeated. While Algebra was given a lot less importance, there were a lot of questions on Geometry — possibly a deliberate attempt to veer [...]

Geometry in CAT

When it comes to Geometry, ‘out of the world’ concepts have hardly ever been posed in CAT. However, over the years, the focus on geometry has been on the rise.
The checklist below presupposes that you are familiar with quite a bit of Geometry.
1) Triangles: You must be aware of the [...]

Algebra in CAT: 1998 – 2006 (Part II)

The very fact that the Algebra portion in CAT has undergone a slight transformation over the past seven years has led to one of the oft-repeated question: “Is CAT still a Class X game?” Maybe there is some truth behind this concern, especially since the importance of Arithmetic in CAT has reduced over the years.
In [...]