CATking Verbal Workbook

CATking Verbal Workbook
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Verbal Workbook

Table of Contents

A. Getting Started 3
1. Top 10 Myth Busters 4
2. Pre workshop Homework 6
3. Diagnostic Test 7
4. Back to Basics 8
5. SWOT Analysis Conscious Competence... 10
6. Evening Revise 11
7. Complete your syllabus 5 times before CAT! .. 12
8. Daily Schedule for the week CAT 2009 - CHECKLIST... 13
9. Temperature Check 14
10. Grammar & Critical Reasoning 15
11. Para Completion 19
12. Para Jumbled 23
13. Para Summary 29
14. Vocab Based Questions 31
15. Fill in the Blanks 33
16. Find meaning of a word 35
17. Reading Comprehension 39
18. Sectional Test 1 80
19. Sectional Test 2 92
20. Live Mock 103
21. CATking Frameworks 121
22. Mockngineering 122
23. Score Analyser Software 123
24. Studycovigilance 124



Zen Koan Principle
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your thoughts
Have to buy Mobile
phone on way home.
Will not get leave
for Monday.
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1. Getting Started

Learning Objectives
Learn Shortcuts and tricks
Identify Weaknesses
Confidence Building
Dedication towards CAT
Make time table for preparation
Do homework given in Workshop
Increase your score by 20 marks
Match winning strategies
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Type Topic 2006 2007 2008 Total
RC RC 15 12 20 47
Paragraph
Para Completion 5 3 4 12
Para Jumble 4 4
Vocab
Vocab Usage 3 8 11
Fill in the Blanks 4 4
Grammar Grammar Usage 3 4 7
CR CR 5 5
Total 25 25 40 90

Ice Breaker

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2. Top 10 Myth Busters

Before you start your final preparation for CAT, you should understand DI Section thoroughly.
Take this Quiz to test your understanding of CAT DI Section.

Statements
What you think about
it
True or False?
Reading on paper or online is a same thing True False
Word lists can only be crammed so I am just mugging them up True False
CAT verbal has very close choices as compared to DI or QA True False
My RC is bad, can clear cut-off on the basis of Verbal Ability only True False
Every topic is equally important in Verbal True False
Formulae and patterns can only be found in Quant True False
RC, Verbal usage & Grammar.. sounds like a 2 days job! True False
Best way for.. VA Take a book of RC and finish it in a week True False
Verbal can be solved with logic & shortcuts! True False
Verbal = DI/LR = Quant CAT is equal opportunity employer True False

Answers:
Count your score by giving 1 mark for each FALSE you circled in the test above. Answer to all the above
questions is FALSE.

Are you preparing According to your understanding of these Myths & their Reality?

Score Analysis

Your Score Analysis
8 + right
You have very good understanding of CAT Environment and are well prepared to
take the CAT headon! For you CATking workshop will be about learning shortcuts
and techniques only.
6 8 right
You have got decent score. But still need a better understanding of CAT before
you sit for the exams. CATking workshop will provide you an overall
understanding of CAT along with shortcuts and techniques.
5 & less
You need more understanding of the dynamics of CAT. Going for CAT half
prepared can be suicidal and can seriously hamper your chances to get into top
B-school. Joining CATking will help you develop the right attitude and skills for
CAT along with shortcuts and techniques.



10 Myths Explained

Solutions:
Myth no. Statements
1 Well please bear in mind Reading on online is much more difficult then on paper.
2 Word lists can also be learned with logic sense.
3 Thats true that Verbal has close choices in answers which is frustrating
4 No, RC have to be integral part of your Verbal
5 No there is no fixed weight-age for every topic in Verbal
6 Verbal can be solved by formulae and Logic!!
7 RC, Verbal usage & Grammar.. cannot be improved over night, you need consistancy
8 Verbal cannot be done quickly rather give time to each set
9 Verbal can be solved with logic & shortcuts!
10 Verbal = DI/LR = Quant CAT is NOT opportunity employer

Are you preparing According to your understanding of these Myths & their Reality?

4.
Myth:
My RC is bad, can clear cut-off on the basis of Verbal Ability only

Reality:
Avoiding RC can be suicidal!

Explanation:
RC is an integral part of Verbal, though it constitutes only 50% of the Verbal section but with RC clearing
cut-off will be very difficult. Moreover Verbal Ability is more difficult then RC. So if you we planning to take
on the CAT without RC please rethink your strategy.

5.
Myth:
Every topic is equally important in Verbal

Reality:
Every topic is NOT equally important in
Verbal

Explanation:

Let it be RC, Verbal usage, Grammar or Critical Reasoning. Unlike DI & Quant, Verbal doesnt have a
definite weight-age for every topic which makes it more difficult to do selective studies. So make a habit of
study every topic in Verbal and practice them regularly.

Rest of the Myths will be discussed with examples in the Workshop.

Topic 2006 2007 2008 Total
RC 15 12 20 47
Others 10 13 20 43
Total 25 25 40 90
Topic 2006 2007 2008 Total
RC 15 12 20 47
Para Completion 5 3 4 12
Vocab Usage 3 8 11
Grammar Usage 3 4 7
CR 5 5
Para Jumble 4 4
Grand Total 25 25 40 90


3. Pre workshop Homework

We expect you to do some homework before you come for the workshop. This will make sure that we all are on the
same page and will be very easy for you to grasp the shortcuts and strategies taught in the workshop.

1. Back to basics
You will understand the shortcut better if you know the longcut
of doing the problem. So take any book you have and run though
the basics (Introductions and formulas) of all the chapters.
Step 1: Take any book - your coaching institutes material book or
independent books like Arun sharma.
Step 2: Take a chapter, say Chapter 1 Numbers, go through
and have clear understanding of the basics like concepts,
formulas, theorems and other topics)
Step 3: Make notes of all the basics like we used to do in school days

Check list for 1 & 2.
Topic Basics
Solved
Examples
Topic 1
Topic 2
Topic 3
Topic 4
Topic 5
Topic 6
Topic 7
Topic 8
Topic 9
Topic 10
Topic 11
Topic 12
Topic 13
Topic 14
Topic 15

2. Solved examples
Best way to understand the basics in a practical way is to solve the
solved examples of a topic from books. So take any book you have
(coaching material of other books) and run though the basics
(Introductions and formulas) of all the chapters.
Step 4: Reinforce the basics and concepts learned by solving the 20 odd solved examples given in starting of each
book.
Step 5: Make notes of the practical applications of each concept.

CATkings
4 step approach


3. Building blocks - Mocks & Test
Mocks are best way to simulate your D-Day performance. We recommend you to take 5 Sectional tests and 5 full
length mocks. If you have joined a coaching institute then you might have done this otherwise download last 5 years
CAT papers from www.mbageeks.com and solve them as 5 mocks.
Step 6: Take a minimum of 5 sectional tests and analyse your mistakes
Step 7: Take 5 full length mocks and analyse your performance

Checklist for 3:
Mocks Score
Sectional
Tests
Score
Mock 1 Test 1
Mock 2 Test 2
Mock 3 Test 3
Mock 4 Test 4
Mock 5 Test 5
Mock 6 Test 6
Mock 7 Test 7
Mock 8 Test 8
Mock 9 Test 9
Mock 10 Test 10
Mock 11 Test 11
Mock 12 Test 12
Mock 13 Test 13
Mock 14 Test 14
Mock 15 Test 15

4. Final Touch CATking Workshops
Now the final assault, sharpen your axe with shortcuts and strategies from the CATking workshops. Joining our
month long workshop will boost up your score by 20 marks.
Step 7: Learn strategies and shortcuts from CATking workshop
Step 8: Finish your syllabus 5 times before CAT as discussed in workshop



4. Workbook Legend

Book Based
You will find this icon next to questions
The Questions which are based on direct usage of book
based concepts and forumale will have this sign next to
them in the workbook.

Einstien
The questions which require out of the box thinking will
have this icon next to them in the workbook.

Shortcuts
The questions which can be done by shortcuts will have this
icon next to them in the workbook.

Tricks
The questions which can be done by Tricks will have this
icon next to them in the workbook.

Danger
The questions which should have been avoided will have
this icon next to them in the workbook.

BrainGym
You will find this icon next to BrainGym exercises
Through out the workbook we have exercises called
BrainGym as a refresher for you, this icon next to them.

Exercises
You will find this icon next to exercises
Through out the workbook we have exercises for you to do
at home, this icon next to them.

Information
You will find this icon next to information about CAT
Through out the workbook we have information like
number of question in CAT on this topic, etc. this icon next
to them.


Diagnostic Test

Directions for questions 1 to 4
In each question, there are five sentences. Each sentence has a pair of words that are italicized and
highlighted. From the italicized and highlighted words, select the most appropriate words (A or B) to form
correct sentences. The sentences are followed by options that indicate the words, which may be selected
to correctly complete the set of sentences. From the options given, choose the most appropriate one.
CAT 2008

1. Anita wore a beautiful broach(A)/brooch(B) on the lapel of her jacket.
If you want to complain about the amenities in your neighbourhood, please meet your councillor(A) /
counsellor(B).
I would like your advice(A)/advise(B) on which job I should choose.
The last scene provided a climactic(A)/climatic(B) ending to the film.
Jeans that flair(A)/flare(B) at the bottom are in fashion these days.
(1) BABAA (2) BABAB
(3) BAAAB (4)ABABA
(5) BAABA

2. The cake had lots of currents(A)/currants(B) and nuts in it.
If you engage in such exceptional(A)/exceptionable(B) behaviour, I will be forced to punish you.
He has the same capacity as an adult to consent(A)/assent(B) to surgical treatment.
The minister is obliged(A)/compelled(B) to report regularly to a parliamentary board.
His analysis of the situation is far too sanguine(A)/genuine(B).
(1) BBABA (2) BBAAA
(3) BBBBA (4) ABBAB
(5) BABAB

3. She managed to bite back the ironic(A)/caustic(B) retort on the tip of her tongue.
He gave an impassioned and valid(A)/cogent(B) plea for judicial reform.
I am not adverse(A)/averse(B) to helping out. The coupe(A)/coup(B) broke away as the train
climbed the hill.
They heard the bells peeling(A)/pealing(B) far and wide.
(1) BBABA (2) BBBAB
(3) BAABB (4) ABBAA
(5) BBBBA

4. We were not successful in defusing(A)/diffusing(B) the Gurus ideas.
The students baited(A)/bated(B) the instructor with irrelevant questions.
The hoard(A)/horde(B) rushed into the campus.
The prisoners interment(A)/internment(B) came to an end with his early release.
The hockey team could not deal with his unsociable(A)/unsocial(B) tendencies.
(1) BABBA (2) BBABB
(3) BABAA (4) ABBAB
(5) AABBA
00:25 min


Topic Year Total
2004 8
Vocab Usage 2008 8
2007 3
2005 7
2004 5
Grand Total 35
Directions for Questions 5 to 7: In each question, there are four sentences. Each sentence has pairs of
words/phrases that are italicized and highlighted. From the italicized and highlighted word(s)/phrase(s),
select the most appropriate word(s)/phrase(s) to form correct sentences. Then, from the options given,
choose the best one. CAT 2007

5. The cricket council that was [A] / were [B] elected last March is [A] / are [B] at sixes and sevens over
new rules.
The critics censored [a] / censured [B] the new movie because of its social inaccessibility.
Amits explanation for missing the meeting was credulous [A] / credible [B]
She coughed discreetly [A] / discretely [B] to announce her presence.
(1) BBAAA (2) AAABA
(3) BBBBA (4) AABBA
(5) BBBAA

6. The further [A] / farther [B] he pushed himself, the more disillusioned he grew.
For the crowds it was more of a historical [A] / historic [B] event; for their leader, it was just another day.
The old man has a healthy distrust [A] / mistrust [B] for all new technology.
This film is based on a real [A] / true [B] story.
One suspects that the compliment [A] / complement [B] was backhanded
(1) BABAB (2) ABBBA
(3) BAABA (4) BBAAB
(5) ABABA

7. Regrettably [A] / Regretfully [B] I have to decline your invitation.
I am drawn to the poetic, sensual [A] / sensuous [B] quality of her paintings.
He was besides [A] / beside [B] himself with rage when I told him what I had done.
After brushing against a stationary [A] / stationery [B] truck my car turned turtle.
As the water began to rise over [A] / above [B] the danger mark, the signs of an imminent flood were
clear.
(1) BAABA (2) BBBAB
(3) AAABA (4) BBAAB
(5) BABAB



Directions for Questions 8 to 10: Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which the last
sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in
the most appropriate way. CAT 2007

8. Characters are also part of deep structure. Characters tie events in a story together and provide a
thread of continuity and meaning. Stories can be about individuals, groups, projects or whole
organizations, so from an organizational studies perspective, the focal actor(s) determine the level and
unit of analysis used in a study. Stories of mergers and acquisitions, for example, are common place. In
these stories whole organizations are personified as actors. But these macro-level stories usually are not
told from the perspective of the macro-level participants, because whole organizations cannot narrate
their experiences in the first person.
(1) More generally, data concerning the identities and relationships of the characters in the story are
required, if one is to understand role structure and social networks in which that process is embedded.
(2) Personification of a whole organization abstracts away from the particular actors and from traditional
notions of level of analysis.
(3) The personification of a whole organization is important because stories differ depending on who is
enacting various events.
(4) Every story is told from a particular point of view, with a particular narrative voice, which is not
regarded as part of the deep structure.
(5) The personification of a whole organization is a textual device we use to make macro-level theories
more comprehensible.

9. Nevertheless, photographs still retain some of the magical allure that the earliest daguerreotypes
inspired.
As objects, our photographs have changed; they have become physically flimsier as they have become
more technologically sophisticated. Daguerre produced pictures on copper plates; today many of our
photographs never become tangible thins, but instead remain filed away on computers and cameras, part
of the digital ether that envelops the modern world. At the same time, our patience for the creation of
images has also eroded. Children today are used to being tracked from birth by digital cameras and video
recorders and they expect to see the results of their poses and performances instantly. The space
between life as it is being lived and life as it is being displayed shrinks to a mere second.
(1) Yet, despite these technical developments, photographs still remain powerful because they are
reminders of the people and things we care about.
(2) Images, after all, are surrogates carried into battle by a soldier or by a traveller on holiday.
(3) Photographs, be they digital or traditional, exist to remind us of the absent, the beloved, and the dead.
(4) In the new era of the digital image, the images also have a greater potential for fostering falsehood and
trickery, perpetuating fictions that seem so real we cannot tell the difference.
(5) Anyway, human nature being what it is, little time has passed after photographys inventions became
means of living life through images.

10. Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets; a tiny
white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which
Mma Ramotswe - the only private lady detective in Botswana - brewed red bush tea. And three mugs -
one for herself, one for her secretary and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really nee?
Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in
abundance.
(1) But there was also the view, which again would appear on no inventory.
(2) No inventory would ever include those, of course.
(3) She had an intelligent secretary too.
(4) She was a good detective and a good woman.
(5) What she lacked in possessions was more than made up by a natural shrewdness.


Topic Year Total
Para Completion 2008 4
2007 3
2006 5
2005 4
Para Jumble 2007 4
2005 3
2004 8
Find Summary 2004 4
Grand Total 35

Directions for Questions 11 to 12: Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which the last
sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the
most appropriate way. CAT 2006

11. I am sometimes attacked for imposing rules. Nothing could be further from the truth. I hate rules. All
I do is report on how consumers react to different stimuli. I may say to a copywriter, Research shows
that commercials with celebrities are below average in persuading people to buy products. Are you sure
you want to use a celebrity? Call that a rule? Or I may say to an art director, Research suggests that if
you set the copy in black type on a white background, more people will read it than if you set it in white
type on a black background.
1. Guidance based on applied research can hardly qualify as rules.
2. Thus, all my so called rules are rooted in applied research.
3. A suggestion perhaps, but scarcely a rule.
4. Such principles are unavoidable if one wants to be systematic about consumer behaviour.
5. Fundamentally it is about consumer behaviour not about celebrities or type settings

12. Relations between the factory and the dealer are distant and usually strained as the factory tries to
force cars on the dealers to smooth out production. Relations between the dealer and the customer are
equally strained because dealers continuously adjust prices make deals to adjust demand with supply
while maximizing profits. This becomes a system marked by a lack of long-term commitment on either
side, which maximizes feelings of mistrust. In order to maximize their bargaining positions, everyone holds
back information the dealer about the product and the consumer about his true desires.
1. As a result, deal making becomes rampant, without concern for customer satisfaction.
2. As a result, inefficiencies creep into the supply chain.
3. As a result, everyone treats the other as an adversary, rather than as an ally.
4. As a result, fundamental innovations are becoming scarce in the automobile industry.
5. As a result, everyone loses in the long run.


Directions for questions 13 to 15: Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which the last
sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in
the most appropriate way. CAT 2008

13. Most people at their first consultation take a furtive look at the surgeons hands in the hope of
reassurance. Prospective patients look for delicacy, sensitivity, steadiness, perhaps unblemished pallor. On
this basis, Henry Perowne loses a number of cases each year. Generally, he knows its about to happen
before the patient does: the downward glance repeated, the prepared questions beginning to falter, the
overemphatic thanks during the retreat to the door.
(1) Other people do not communicate due to their poor observation.
(2) Other patients dont like what they see but are ignorant of their right to go elsewhere.
(3) But Perowne himself is not concerned.
(4) But others will take their place, he thought.
(5) These hands are steady enough, but they are large.

14. Trade protectionism, disguised as concern for the climate, is raising its head. Citing competitiveness
concerns, powerful industrialized countries are holding out threats of a levy on imports of energy-
intensive products from developing countries that refuse to accept their demands. The actual source of
protectionist sentiment in the OECD countries is, of course, their current lackluster economic
performance, combined with the challenges posed by he rapid economic rise of China and India in that
order.
(1) Climate change is evoked to bring trade protectionism through the back door.
(2) OECD countries are taking refuge in climate change issues to erect trade barriers against these two
countries.
(3) Climate change concerns have come as a convenient stick to beat the rising trade power of China and
India.
(4) Defenders of the global economic status quo are posing as climate change champions.
(5) Todays climate change champions are the perpetrators of global economic inequity.

15. Mattancherry is Indian Jewrys most famous settlement. Its pretty streets of pastel coloured houses,
connected by first-floor passages and home to the last twelve saree-and-sarongwearing, white-skinned
Indian Jews are visited by thousands of tourists each year. Its synagogue, built in 1568, with a floor of
blue-and-white Chinese tiles, a carpet given by Haile Selassie and the frosty Yaheh selling tickets at the
door, stands as an image of religious tolerance.
(1) Mattancherry represents, therefore, the perfect picture of peaceful co-existence.
(2) Indias Jews have almost never suffered discrimination, except for European colonizers and each other.
(3) Jews in India were always tolerant.
(4) Religious tolerance has always been only a facade and nothing more.
(5) The pretty pastel streets are, thus, very popular with the tourists.


Directions for Questions 16 to 20: The passage given below is followed by a set of five questions. Choose
the most appropriate answer to each question. CAT 2008

Language is not a cultural artifact that we learn the way we learn to tell time or how the federal
government works. Instead, it is a distinct piece of the biological makeup of our brains. Language is a
complex, specialized skill, which develops in the child spontaneously, without conscious effort or formal
instruction, is deployed without awareness of its underlying logic, is qualitatively the same in every
individual, and is distinct from more general abilities to process information or behave intelligently. For
these reasons some cognitive scientists have described language as a psychological faculty, a mental
organ, a neural system, and a computational module. But I prefer the admittedly quaint term "instinct." It
conveys the idea that people know how to talk in more or less the sense that spiders know how to spin
webs. Web-spinning was not invented by some unsung spider genius and does not depend on having had
the right education or on having an aptitude for architecture or the construction trades. Rather, spiders
spin spider webs because they have spider brains, which give them the urge to spin and the competence
to succeed. Although there are differences between webs and words, I will encourage you to see language
in this way, for it helps to make sense of the phenomena we will explore. Thinking of language as an
instinct inverts the popular wisdom, especially as it has been passed down in the canon of the humanities
and social sciences. Language is no more a cultural invention than is upright posture. It is not a
manifestation of a general capacity to use -symbols: a three year old, we shall see, is a grammatical genius,
but is quite incompetent at the visual arts, religious iconography, traffic signs, and the other staples of the
semiotics curriculum. Though language is a magnificent ability unique to Homo sapiens among living
species, it does not call for sequestering the study of humans from the domain of biology, for a
magnificent ability unique to a particular living species is far from unique in the animal kingdom. Some
kinds of bats home in on flying insects using Doppler sonar. Some kinds of migratory birds navigate
thousands of miles by calibrating the positions of the constellations against the time of day and year. In
nature's talent show we are simply a species of primate with our own act, a knack for communicating
information about who did what to whom by modulating the sounds we make when we exhale Once you
begin to look at language not as the ineffable essence of human uniqueness but as a biological adaption to
communicate information, it is no longer as tempting to see language as an insidious shaper of thought,
and, we shall see, it is not. Moreover, seeing language as one of natures engineering marvels an organ
with that perfection of structure and co-adaption which justly excites our admiration, in Darwins words
give us a new respect for your ordinary Joe and the much-maligned English language (or any language).
The complexity of language, from the scientists point of view, is part of our biological birthright; it is not
something that parents teach their children or something that must be elaborated in school as Oscar
Wilde said, Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing
that is worth knowing can be taught. A preschoolers tacit knowledge of grammar is more sophisticated
than the thickest style manual or the most state-of-the-art computer language system, and the same
applies to all healthy human beings, even the notorious syntax-fracturing professional athlete and the, you
know, like, inarticulate teenage skateboarder. Finally, since language is the product of a well-engineered
biological instinct, we shall see that it is not nutty barrel of monkeys that entertainer-columnists make it
out to be.

1. According to the passage, which of the following does not stem from popular wisdom on language?
(1) Language is a cultural artifact.
(2) Language is a cultural invention.
(3) Language is learnt as we grow.
(4) Language is unique to Homo sapiens
(5) Language is a psychological faculty.

2. Which of the following can be used to replace the spiders know how to spin webs analogy as used by
the author?
(1) A kitten learning to jump over a wall
(2) Bees collecting nectar
(3) A donkey carrying a load


(4) A horse running a Derby
(5) A pet dog protecting its owners property

3. According to the passage, which of the following is unique to human beings?
(1) Ability to use symbols while communicating with one another.
(2) Ability to communicate with each other through voice modulation.
(3) Ability to communicate information to other members of the species.
(4) Ability to use sound as means of communication.
(5) All of the above.

4. According to the passage, complexity of language cannot be taught by parents or at school to children
because
(1) Children instinctively know language.
(2) Children learn the language on their own.
(3) Language is not amenable to teaching.
(4) Children know language better than their teachers or parents.
(5) children are born with the knowledge of semiotics.

5. Which of the following best summarizes the passage?
(1) Language is unique to Homo sapiens.
(2) Language is neither learnt nor taught.
(3) Language is not a cultural invention or
artifacts as it is made out.
(4) Language is instinctive ability of human beings.
(5) Language is use of symbols unique to human beings.

Solutions:
1.(3), 2.(2), 3.(2), 4.(1), 5.(4), 6.(5), 7.(2), 8.(5), 9.(1), 10.(2),
11.(3), 12.(5), 13.(2), 14.(4), 15.(2), 16.(5), 17.(2), 18.(2), 19.(1), 20.(4)

A ______ Attempts
C ______ Correct
W______ Wrong
S _______ Score

Time taken: ______



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winning are tailor
made your
students need
Schedule
Homework\
CATking students
develop
confidence. They
are not afraid of
CAT and cant
wait to answer
challenging
questions with
shortcuts and
techniques
learned.
Be the Smartest one!
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Quant
Shortcuts in
Quant
Vedic Maths
Solve questions
without formulae
Innovative
techniques for
Quant problems

DI without pen!
Basic Speed
Techniques for DI
(short cut
techniques for
Division,
Without
Calculations do -
Tables, Bar Chart,
Line Chart, Pie
Chart & Reasoning
Based DI.
Strategy
Formulation : DI

World of Verbal..
Innovative ways to
Speed Reading.
Rambling through
Verbal Ability,
Grammar and
Sentence
Correction.
Strategy
Formulation : VA /
RC
Mock CAT..
Test Taking
Strategies tailor
Made for CAT.
Time Optimisation,
Mock - Engineering
First Section
Selection technique
Some of our Faculty
Rahul
Rahul, JBIMS grad
has more than 10
years of coaching
experience in India
and UK. He likes
travelling and
coaching.
Harshit
Harshit, IIM A
graduate has more
than 5 years of
corporate and
teaching
experience. He is
passionate about
cricket.
Handouts and Material
Goal Setting
Formulae & Tips Sheet
Back to Basics
Pre Class Work
Classroom Handout

Post class Work
Cheat sheets
Homework Exercises
Sectional Test
Sectional Strategies
Mock Strategies & Mockngineering

Some of our flavour

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Team
We have a brilliant team
for CAT, with more than
10 years of coaching
experience. Team
consists of Alumni of IIM-
A, IIM-B, SP Jain, NITIE &
JBIMS with substantial
work experience in
corporate & CAT training.

We recruit the best..
Material Lead: Harshit
IIMA Strategy Lead:
Mahi IIMB Faculty
Lead: Rahul - Alumni
JBIMS Operations Lead:
Sunil SPJain

We provide excellent
training..
All our mentors are trained
to become experts in the
curriculum and
knowledgeable about
current teaching methods.

Best available material..
We use the best available
tools. They are interactive,
engaging and map to the
requirement of CAT. They
adapt to each student and
challenge them at exactly
the right level.

An inspiring environment..
CATking workshops are
lively, vibrant, energetic
and inclusive. Students fell
they are attending a
learning club with hands
on experience, not a
classroom.

A culture of learning..
CATking workshops
provides a culture of
learning.
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You..
No coaching institute can
get you into IIMs or any
other BSchool unless you
have the passion to do it.
CATking will build your
confidence and Can do
attitude in you.

Groupe group..
CATking encourages small
groups for further practice
and learning near their
homes.

Frameworks
We have developed
innovative frameworks to
help students achieve their
goals.
Score Analyser
TM

Mockngineering
TM

Studycovigilance
TM

Open ended discussion
and ease of explaining new
concepts.
- Suman IIM A.B,K,L,I,
SPJain, IIT-Bombay
Explaining shortcuts on
actual CAT questions was
best part
- Rahul SIBM, SCMHRD
Positive Attitude of faculty
and research done on
exams
- Abhi, IIM-K,I
Fantastic Mentors.. Supported by.. In partnership with..
How do we achieve this?


Before After Increase
Abhay K 92 108 16
Rahul J 70 95 25
Bjoy S 82 100 18
Neha K 56 76 20
Tejas L 70 95 25
Richa S 48 70 22
Bhavik S 62 85 23
Ajay Ag 89 105 16
Bhakti S 92 110 18
Anirban M 110 122 12
Pooja J 97 120 23
Puneet N 72 95 23
Abhinav K 68 92 24
Ritesh K 90 112 22
Sunil H - 90 -
Rahul A 56 89 33
Chetan S 60 92 32
Varsha R 74 100 26
Tanvi N 80 110 30
Average Increase: 22.7
Student's
Name
Increase in Score
Students Feedback
We take feedback from
students after every
workshops. In the last
workshop students rated
us: 4.3 / 5

100% of our students
recommend this
workshops to all MBA
Aspirants. 100% of our
students felt that this
workshop is different and
will help them increase
their score.
Our Goal
Everyone at CATking
shares a common goal
with our students - to help
them secure admission
into their dream colleges.
We will work everyday to
ensure that our Students
have the best material,
training, strategies and
support they need to
reach the pinnacle of their
career.

A truly positive experience!
6 students with 99.99%ile in 2008 -09
Workshops
helped me
realize my
weak points

CETking was
instrumental
in my
success.

- Narayan K
99.99%iler

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