How to Prepare For Cat 2012

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CAT 2012 preparation will determine your actions for many years of your life. Your endeavor will create opportunities for your success in CAT.  How to crack CAT 2012? These are some tips, plans and strategies for your CAT preparation.

1. Familiarize yourself with CAT Pattern: You should be well aware of the sections in CAT. CAT is mainly into 3 sections Quantitative Ability, Verbal Ability, and Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning. You should know how CAT previous year papers have shown changes in last 5-6 years. This will get to know about CAT pattern and syllabus.

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2. Accept your Weakness: You may be good and some topics compared to other. You should not run from it, instead work on it on daily basis. You will develop strength out of it once you take it head on.  You should start taking easy tests. Go back to school books and build basics brick by brick.

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1. For reading comprehension

• Reading Comprehension 1
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2. 300 Antonyms List

3. Improve Reading Speed

4. List of Idioms for CAT with meaning and sentence

5. General Strategies for Reading Comprehension 

6. Facts Inference and Judgement 

7. Practical English Use


8. Para jumbles previous years cat

• Para Jumbles 1
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9. Nishit K Sinha Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning for CAT ebook

10. Fill in the blanks for CAT Link

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Mugging words in CAT is essential as vocabulary comes in reading comprehension, word meanings and almost all of it. This is a high frequency word list for CAT and GRE exam. To download word list PDF click on the image below.

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Also we recommend you must use Barron's book below for your cat preparation and learning high frequency words. Aspirants of XAT and Mica (Micat) should also use barron's to learn new words.

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XAT 2012 Analysis

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XAT 2012 pattern was full of changes. The total number of questions in XAT 2012 was 85 as compared to 101 the previous year XAT 2011. This time in XAT 2012 candidness had to use an OMR sheet. Some students who have been following XAT paper say that it was an easier paper as compared to previous years. Verbal ability and Quantitative ability was manageable however Data Interpretation was time consuming and had higher level of difficulty. The questions had differential marking of 1, 1.5 and 2 marks. Let us analyse XAT exam 2012.

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XAT Exam Sections 2012

Section	Subject	Marks	Time Allotted
Section A	Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning	32	35
Section B	Analytical Reasoning and Decision Making	25	30
Section C	Data Interpretation and Quantitative Ability	28	35

XAT Exam Pattern 

Total Duration of XAT	120 minutes + 20 minutes for essay
Total Questions	85 (28-QA/ 32 – VA & LR/ 25 – DM)
Total Sections	3
Number of choices per question	5
Marks per Question	Mentioned on each question
Negative Marking	1/4th

Section A: XAT 2012 quantitative ability and data interpretation 

A good score could have been 10+ with 20 questions in 40 minutes.

XAT 2012 Verbal Ability Paper Analysis 

Section B: XAT verbal ability and logical reasoning 2012 

English section was easier and than quantitative ability. Grammar was quite doable. Reading comprehensions were as follows:

Total 3 Reading Comprehensions	Number of Questions
The increasing number of SEZs in India	4
‘Agency aspect’ and ‘well-being aspect’ of a person	5
Theory of technological evolution	2

XAT VA and LR 2012

XAT 2012 Paper Analysis 

A good attempt was of 15 marks with 20-22 questions in 30 minutes.

SECTION C: DECISION MAKING

Analytical Reasoning questions were not there at all. Entire case studies had to be read to solve the questions as questions were totally on decision making. Characteristics of this section were tricky, lengthy, difficult, ambitious etc. 

A good attempt was 10+ marks in 14-15 questions in about 50 minutes

XAT essay writing topics

• Poverty is a big menace in India. Due to its complexity and magnitude, most of the government initiatives fail.
• Poverty is a consequence of failure of government policies due to the governments not targeting the root causes.

You had to write on one topic and justify it. Time allotted was 20 minutes. 

XAT 2012 Cut off 2012 

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Here is the list of colleges under xat exam and their xat cut off.

Institute Name	XAT Cut off	City
Xavier Labour Relations Institute – XLRI	100	Jamshedpur
Asian Institute of Management – Mumbai	96	Mumbai
Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar – XIMB	96	Bhubaneswar
Goa Institute of Management – GIM	93	Panaji
Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management	92	New Delhi
Loyola Institute of Business Administration	91	Chennai
Institute for Financial Management and Research	87	Chennai
We School Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research – Full time Courses	85	Mumbai
Xavier Institute of Social Service – XISS	85	Ranchi
Praxis Business School	80	Kolkata
Alliance Business School – Bangalore	80	Bangalore
Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship – XIME	80	Bangalore
National Management School -NMS	75	Chennai
Assam University, Department of Business Administration – Silchar	75	Silchar
College of Management Studies – Kanpur	75	Kanpur
Xavier Institute of Development Action & Studies – Jabalpur	70	Jabalpur
Jagan Institute of Management Studies – JIMS	65	New Delhi
PROTON business school	65	Indore
ITM Business School	65	_
Delhi School of Professional Studies and Research – New Delhi	62	New Delhi
Institute of Business Management and Technology – IBMT	60	Bangalore
VIT Business School – Vellore	60	_
Prestige Institute of Management	50	Gwalior
Mount Carmel Institute of Management	50	Bangalore
Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application – Tarsadi	50	Tarsadi
IILM Business School – Delhi	50	Delhi
Institute of Management Education & Research – Belgaum	50	Belgaum
Integral Institute of Advanced Management	50	Visakhapatnam
Indian Business Academy – IBA – Bangalore	50	Bangalore
Institute of Business Management Research – Ahmedabad	50	Ahmedabad
Management Education & Research Institute – Delhi	50	Delhi
Gitam Institute of Foreign Trade – GIFT	50	Visakhapatnam
Graduate School of Business and Administration, Greater Noida	50	Greater Noida
International School of Management Excellence – ISME, Bangalore	50	Bangalore
International Institute of Business Studies (IIBS)	50	Bangalore
Park Global School of Business Excellence – Tamil Nadu	50	_
GITAM – College of Management Studies	50	Visakhapatnam
New Delhi Institute of Management Studies – Delhi	50	-
Bangalore School of Business, Bangalore	50	Bangalore
HDF School of Management	50	Bhubaneswar
Business School for Women	50	Greater Noida
Suresh Gyan Vihar School of Business Management – Jaipur	50	Jaipur
Institute of Management Bhubaneshwar	50	Bhubaneshwar
Asian School of Management	45	Pune
Affinity Business School – Bhubaneswar	40	Bhubaneswar
Master School of Management – Meerut	40	Meerut
Aryans Group of Colleges – AGC – Chandigarh	30	Chandigarh
Institute of Advance Management Education and Entrepreneurships	20	Secunderabad
Aryans Business School – Chandigarh	10	Chandigarh

These cut off change from year to year. However the change is low in variation.