Best material for CAT prep

shub001 · **Best material for CAT prep -** 02-12-2002, 01:01 AM

This pole is a follow up question to the previous pole. Kindly give us (CAT 2003'ers) your opinion.

**pagalguy** · 02-12-2002, 10:21 AM

The trouble with such a poll is that someone needs to have gone through all the material of different institutes, else it will remain biased. Take look at previous threads and you'll notice that the majority of the people here are from IMS, CF, TIME & CL.

Regards,

shub001 · 02-12-2002, 06:21 PM

I posted the poll to take the opinion of the students of various coaching classes, coz sometimes you meet students who warn you against joining the classes which they had joined. But I think you are correct as no ons has polled.

avi_baliga · 03-12-2002, 12:18 AM

i've been thru cf,time and ims material and my personal opinion is that ims is pretty good followed by time especially the full length papers.so b4 u join do chk out with a few more guys around here..

chao
avinash

**pagalguy** · 03-12-2002, 12:23 AM

The top guys around here have taken up both IMS and CF as well. As for me, I preferred CL's books. Concise and upto the point.

robo · 03-12-2002, 02:26 PM

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my personal opinion is that ims is pretty good followed by time especially the full length papers

Yes I fully agree ... I found Time full length test (esp. the All India Mock) to be of great value and ims is definetly good ...As far as reading material is concerned there are overlaps , which is expected but Time goes a step further by explaining the points which were mentioned in the IMS material.They also give tips for speedy calculations and approach for reading comprehension.Moreover, they give you speed enhancement test for DI and a set of Passages for improving reading speed.Though sometimes the RC Exercises are quite easy and may give you a false impression that you have improved in RC. I would say a combination of Time and IMS is sufficient.

shub001 · 03-12-2002, 08:07 PM

So if I want to go for correspondence course, Shall I opt for Time? ( since I have IMS notes) ??

robo · 09-12-2002, 11:38 AM

Please also consult guys studying CL , CF notes .I did not use them so cant say anything about them .

apocalypse NOW · 09-09-2005, 11:20 AM

i guess solving a lot of mock cat papers will do..a senior of mine never reffered to ne course material,jus kept solving papers and made it to an IIM.

could vary from person to person...other than course materials of the coaching institutes are there ne books specifically for algebra,number systems???even a book covering the entire Quant will do..

TIA....

nairpraveenk · 09-09-2005, 11:29 AM

Hi all,

Well, I don't know how far it's true, but I have heard IMS maths is good and for english wither CL material or T.I.M.E material is good. Dont know about DI.