[raghav507]

hi puys,
need some guidance...

i have joined time's correspondence course for cat 08...
they have given loads of material...which i am working upon...
i need a method on how to proceed with the vocabulary books...i am unable to figure out how to do that part...
i am a regular reader and do read novels and other stuff which i come across (along with news papers n all)...the thing i am confused bout is that whether i need to mug up the words like a GRE wordlist or something else...
please suggest a way out...

regarding the other subjects...i have started like this...2-3 hours daily...one day QA, other day VA...then the next day DI...

is this approach fine?? or i need to do something else...??

[chekidu]

Hi ragav,

disclaimer:Always go for a second opinion

i need a method on how to proceed with the vocabulary books...i am unable to figure out how to do that part...
i am a regular reader and do read novels and other stuff which i come across (along with news papers n all)...the thing i am confused bout is that whether i need to mug up the words like a GRE wordlist or something else...
please suggest a way out...

The classic way to learn wordlists is as we all know Hindu editorial in one hand+ cofee in other hand+dictionary in ur lap I addition to that we can also use wordlists/cue cards
sincerely speaking, even i felt that cue cards of TIMEor Vocab book of IMS wont give that much help. I think that we cannot learn words alphebetcially..If we are going through the word list its like
AMOROUS
AMORPHOUS etc right?....Personally i felt that it is quite difficult to learn words in that fashion. So during my free time I had created an alternate word list from the IMS book. I took a notebook and started writing the words randomly. so its like Amorous in page 1 and amorphous in page 17. So say after filling up 1-25 pages, it will be lil bit easier to learn...You cannot learn all the words..But u can learn some...

ps: its time consuming..but a silly task..so u may ask ur lil bro/sis ( if any) to help u out....

regarding the other subjects...i have started like this...2-3 hours daily...one day QA, other day VA...then the next day DI...

is this approach fine?? or i need to do something else...??

i do think that its a very good approach at this point.Like this pls finish off ur basics and when the mock season starts, one can take mocks analyse it and comeback to respective chapter for revision/fine tuning...

[raghav507]

Originally Posted by chekidu

Hi ragav,

The classic way to learn wordlists is as we all know Hindu editorial in one hand+ cofee in other hand+dictionary in ur lap I addition to that we can also use wordlists/cue cards
sincerely speaking, even i felt that cue cards of TIMEor Vocab book of IMS wont give that much help. I think that we cannot learn words alphebetcially..If we are going through the word list its like
AMOROUS
AMORPHOUS etc right?....Personally i felt that it is quite difficult to learn words in that fashion. So during my free time I had created an alternate word list from the IMS book. I took a notebook and started writing the words randomly. so its like Amorous in page 1 and amorphous in page 17. So say after filling up 1-25 pages, it will be lil bit easier to learn...You cannot learn all the words..But u can learn some...

ps: its time consuming..but a silly task..so u may ask ur lil bro/sis ( if any) to help u out....

thanks for the reply chekidu,
i just wanted to share that i tried to learn the baron's wordlist in my college days along with a friend of mine who was preparing for GRE...
i found that thing very faltoo...flash cards n all...everytime mugging the words...
instead i have tried this newspaper approach...it is quite useful due to the fact that we get to learn the actual use of the word itself...

actually i practice the same till date (not on a regular basis, twice or thrice in a week) but i was particularly baffled on seeing the same wordlist in the course contents...that's why thought to have an opinion of u puys...

i think i must continue with the same old newspaper strategy...:-)

[sid_shukla]

guys,

I am also preparing for CAT08 from last 3 month but the prob is that i am not able to start vocab(word list):frown:.............

Please help me out how shld i motivate myself to start vocab...........

[chekidu]

Originally Posted by sid_shukla

guys,

I am also preparing for CAT08 from last 3 month but the prob is that i am not able to start vocab(word list):frown:.............

Please help me out how shld i motivate myself to start vocab...........

SID, welcome to pagalguy

ahem.....Guru Recited the entire ramayana to shishya...Guru asks "Beta any doubts?" Shishya replies " nice story.. one doubt ....how is rama and SIta Related?"

The situation is something like that. I believe these questions were raised earlier. iN FUTURE Before posting please go through previous posts.

For motivation (not just vocab lists..everything related to CAT..yes even about whiskers) check this out

motivation (All I wanted to Speak about CAT)

still if u feel u r not motivated

u can try these( Rag to Riches story of one Mr SARATH BABU)

NO:1

NO:2
CIAO,

[SUPER XERO]

puys, the season kicks off......... AIMCAT's start on 18th May.................. ALL THE BEST@preps...... 2 all the CAT'08 aspirants........

[THE-WHO?]

IS the open mock on 18th or is it the one only fr time regular students ?

[chekidu]

Originally Posted by THE-WHO?

IS the open mock on 18th or is it the one only fr time regular students ?

The 18th is a free all India SIMCAT by IMS. For details please refer to todays HINDU.

[ideacrash]

as far as todays TOI bangalore , career forum has free mock cat on 18th.

Can anybody please give the confirmed schedule of differetn free mockcats .

[sarvshwet]

ims has its first free simcat on 18th may.......

details;
OpenSimCAT Registration

you can register at the site.....

alos this time ims is conducting 16 sim cats....
so probably ims sim would be a better option than last year!!!!!!!!!!