(Photo credit: Bud Caddell) The concepts of Set Theory are applicable not only in Quant, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning but also in solving syllogism questions. Let us first understand the basics of the Venn Diagram before we move on to the concept of maximum and minimum. A large number of students get confused with […]

For those who didn’t get the references on the front page image and the header, that’s a nod of tribute to Frasier, one of the most successful American sitcoms ever. All the best for CAT 2011! Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets here.

(Photo credit: ensign_beedrill) Chalk it up to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) merging their MBA admissions into the Common Admissions Test (CAT) fold or to the gloomy employment outlook in the IT sector, but the proportion of engineers taking the test this year is 4 percentage points higher than that in 2010. Detailed statistics […]

In my previous post, we discussed two common types of games and tournament questions. So, if you are looking for questions on new types of data representation or questions based on seeding in a tennis tournament, do read that post. However, there is another frequently appearing class of questions in the games and tournaments category […]

(October leaves by Jim Crotty) Nothing beats an October sunrise flowers in full bloom and trees looking refreshed after the monsoon season. And the impending Diwali festive cheer to add to it. But Diwali is not going to be ‘cheerful’ for everyone this year. The Common Admission Test (CAT) dates are now clashing with a […]

(Photo credit: James Lee) Organisers of the Common Admission Test (CAT) have lately been urging the media to stress that this year the legal clause that prevents test-takers from disclosing CAT questions outside the walls of the test-center will be taken more seriously than ever. Anyone found violating the Non-Disclosure Agreement will be severely dealt […]

(Photo credit: US Army) In Logical Reasoning, very often we encounter problems based on games or tournaments. The first thing that as a CAT taker you need to realize is that the tournament-based format of questions offers the examiners a multitude of options to test you about. So, there cannot be a one-size-fits-all way of […]

(Photo credit: Michael Surran) Bucking the trend of marginal increases in other MBA entrance tests, 27% more candidates will take Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) University’s NMIMS Aptitude Test (NMAT 2012) this year compared to last year’s NMAT 2011. The registrations for NMAT 2012, which closed on October 10, 2011, clocked 50,800 candidates […]

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There is a very marginal increase of about 0.49% in the number of candidates registering for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) in 2011 over 2010. While the number of vouchers sold for CAT 2011 is more or less the same as that for CAT 2010 — 2.06 lakhs — the number of candidates actually using […]