Best material for CAT prep

atbarboz · **JAMMAG says Career Launcher -** 09-09-2005, 01:13 PM

Find the full article here:

http://www.jammag.com/careers/articl...ba/CATprep.htm

Excerpts:

IMS Their study material is quite extensive and the English material recommended. Their FCTs (10) given two months before the main CAT are good to solve and quite CAT like. The SIMCATS, MCTs etc are not that great.

Career Launcher (CL): Their study material is the best of the lot with tricks and shortcuts given in the margins. The English is slightly insufficient but the Quant recommended. Their FLTs(16) which include the previous year’s CAT papers are must-solves. Well analyzed and well assembled. Cheap too.

TIME: Printed on cheap paper but pretty extensive. Their GD/PI material is definitely worth going through. The no. of take homes in all are 20-30. TIME does not offer correspondence courses. The ‘Only test series’ package is inexpensive and effective.

Career Forum (CF): Their study material is good and extensive. Very much like CL’s. The English material is a quite broad. The take home tests are many but more or less the same. Do give some of their tests a shot as they tend to be slightly different than other coaching classes.

Other prep material:
● Mathematics For MBA - P Agarwal
● MBA entrance made easy - Murtuza Gadiwala
● OSWAL Paper solutions
These are good for practicing in the early stages of your preparation.

Must reads: Editorial and Business sections of the daily newspaper (whichever you get) Businessworld/ India Today/ Outlook.

ydb82 · **Can anyone please confirm this -** 10-09-2005, 11:34 AM

I would like to know whether the CAT Archive papers (1990 to 200X) included in the Carrer Forum (CF) materials are the real CAT papers or just Mock CATs with the pattern of CAT papers from 1990 to 200X.

Thanks and regards

Yash

hanoz · 10-09-2005, 12:11 PM

Vaise, it doesn't make a difference what the material is...

Papers make a greater difference in performance. And a criteria while choosing which paper to give is the number of students across the country giving it.

I wud suggest, chuck 'da material, except for solving difficulties in certain areas and keep crackin' 'em papers.

And for practice's sake collaborate with friends in other coaching institutes, exchange papers and get the maximum variety of questions possible.

...Hanoz

abhishek singh · **no coaching material required -** 11-09-2005, 07:18 PM

i am surprised that no one has voted for the others.i took ams classes in lucknow of arun sharma and found it the best.he is really a master of di and quants.

chetshotvjti · **anyone abt PT? -** 22-09-2005, 12:40 PM

Anyone can give feedback abt PT?.
Here i see only Ims ,time ,CL,Cf.
hows PT?.i found the material good!
planning to buy it!

anish_ait · 23-09-2005, 09:21 PM

well......i dont think this poll will be of much use coz only those who have had experience with all the materials will be able to give an unbiased opinion......BTW....whatever i've heard abt PT is that its very good.

PS: I voted for IMS...coz i've joined there......hehe...