Training for CAT / MBA

https://youtu.be/wmu1KZBpvMY
this is my new video on Youtube explaining the topic of Algebraic Formulae
hope you like it
and do let me know your comments on this.

Algebraic Formulae (for CAT Preparation) II Ashu Jain This video covers the topic of Algebraic Formulae from the point of CAT and other MBA entrance exams like XAT, IIFT, NMAT, SNAP, etc. Concepts are explained ...

For XAT including decision making, you can buy following book containing past 10 years XAT papers, all sections fully solved with strategies for XAT.

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Wiley's ExamXpert Solved Papers and Practice Tests for XAT (Xavier Aptitude Test) Wiley's ExamXpert Solved Papers and Practice Tests for XAT (Xavier Aptitude Test)

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This is second edition of CAT book for QA authored by me, which contains all the concepts and loads of practice problems with past year questions of CAT, XAT, IIFT
All the questions are fully solved.

When you purchase this book, please don't forget to give reviews on amazon / flipkart.

Wiley's ExamXpert Quantitative Ability for CAT, 2ed Wiley's ExamXpert Quantitative Ability for CAT, 2ed

I was just thinking why people think of doing MBA. Is it that people feel that after doing MBA, they will be able to earn more money? Or that they will GET a job, which is getting more and more difficult (at least nowadays). Or to improve one's management skills? Or a combination of the above?
There could be multiplicity of reasons. But one thing is clear. More important that doing MBA course from a reputed institution is acquiring the skills of management, managing one's life through ups and downs, and that can happen through Education. A truly educated person would always be able to gather the wherewithal to earn decent amount to run his/her life, and save enough for future. Moreover, the educated person would have progressive thought, which will enable him/her to be prepared for future, irrespective of the nature of future.

Should I prepare through classroom coaching or online classes to crack the CAT 2018? If offline, where can I get coaching in Delhi? Ashu Jain's answer: Dear Nikita, Online and Offline, both methods of coaching have pluses and minuses. However, if you are the kind of person who needs much more hand holding, then you should go for offline coaching, whereas if you don’t need too much hand holding, then probably online coaching .....

Below are given two puzzles. Let's give them some thought and solve.

An orange seller sells oranges in the following manner. To the first customer, she sells half the number of oranges and a half orange. To the second customer, she sells half of the remaining and a half orange. This process is continued till she has sold to 4 customers in all. Interestingly, while selling the oranges, she does not have to cut any orange. After all this, she is not left with any orange. How many oranges she had initially?

There are one hundred twenty seven players to play Tennis match. Each match is played by two players. The winner of the first round of matches goes to the second round and so on. In a particular round, if there is odd number of players, one player is given a bye and automatically promoted to next round. This process of playing the matches continues till we have a winner. How many matches, in total, are needed to determine the winner?

Is coaching for the CAT through Byjus good? Ashu Jain's answer: Preparing for CAT is totally a personal affair and for that going for group coaching involving 30 or 50 students in a batch is not advisable. Students feel that if there are good no. of students in a batch, there would be competition and that would aid in the learning. I beg t...

Ok. Let's now see some questions on "percentages".

In a group of people, 30% of men are more than 25 years old and 80% of men are less than or equal to 50 years age. 20% of men play football. If 20% of men above the age of 50 play football, what percentage of the football players are less than or equal to 50 years of age? (Assume that the men-football players are spread uniformly across all ages)
A] 16% B] 80% C] 20% D] 84%

In an election where there are only two candidates A and B, a survey was conducted to find out the popularity of the contestants. It was found that 64% of the respondents favoured A as their leader while the balance favoured B. In another poll conducted 2 days later, it was found that 25% of A’s supporters had shifted support to B, while 20% of B’s supporters had shifted their support to A. What minimum percentage of the total respondents must B now attract in order to tie with A?
A] 23.2 B] 10.4 C] 5.2 D] None of these

Hi All,
Try your hand at one of the important topics in CAT, that is Number System.
Try to solve the following questions, and lets discuss the various angles.

1. If x^2 – y^2 = 101, where x and y are natural numbers, then find the value of x^2 + y^2.
A] 5101 B] 5110 C] 5011 D] Cannot be determined

2. The natural numbers a and b satisfy the equation 56a = 65b. Then, a + b is definitely
A] Prime B] Composite C] Even Number D] Odd Number

This is continuation of the previous post in which I shared strategy for QA section of CAT exam.

You should know that the entire QA section can be divided into 3 main areas:
Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry.
You should know the names of all the topics asked within the above 3 areas mentioned. If you are the kind who is generally scared of Maths, or are not much comfortable with Maths, then you should start the preparation with those topic(s) which you feel is/are relatively easier than other topic(s). In any case, you should start learning all the topics one by one, gaining conceptual knowhow of each and every topic in thorough details. While you are preparing for these topics, you need not go into detailed proofs of the results. Rather, you should focus on the application of the results. For example, instead of worrying about the proof of Fermat’s theorem with regards to Remainders (Number System), you should worry more about how to apply the theorem in various situations.
While you are learning all the concepts and also the applications, also learn the innovative approaches of solving the questions. Repeatedly working towards learning such approaches will attune your mind into such kind of lateral thinking, in the process developing in you the skills needed to solve the questions well within the time limit. Though not every question in CAT paper can be solved by so called innovative approaches, yet if we can apply such techniques in 25% – 30% of the questions in QA Section of CAT, that would mean huge saving of time, resulting in greater and greater attempts.

One mistake which students usually commit while preparing for QA is that if they find some topic(s) difficult, they altogether leave the topic(s). Note that if you leave 10% - 15% of the topics altogether, and get questions from such topics, especially easy ones, then you would miss the opportunity of having had higher attempts. The problem gets even more compounded when relatively more difficult questions are asked from the topics which you prepared more thoroughly, and in that case, your attempts would automatically go down. So, preparing for QA in this manner is a wrong strategy. Better strategy will be to learn all the concepts of all the topics of QA. In the end, you will become stronger in some areas, and remain weaker in some other areas of QA. This is fine, as long as you have learnt all the concepts, yet not mastered all the topics. Just in case you face a relatively easier question from the areas you are weak in, you can hope to attempt some of those questions.

While you are preparing to increase the conceptual strength of QA topics, you should not forget to attempt the Section Tests of QA on a regular interval, with less frequency of tests during initial phase of preparation, and with more frequency of tests during the later phase of preparation. In your final days of conceptual learning, you should be taking full length tests or mock tests, covering all the areas tested, so that you know how much you can attempt in QA section along with attempting other sections. Attempting other sections will drain your energy levels and hence will impact your performance in QA Section.

In nutshell, during the initial phase of preparation for QA of CAT, your focus should be on learning Conceptual Skills with less emphasis on Tests, and as you progress and move into final phase of preparation, your focus should shift towards learning Test Taking Skills, which is the ultimate skill required to ace the CAT test. You should keep on fine-tuning your strategy in attempting mock tests, so as to maximize the attempt of questions, without diluting the accuracy part.

If you follow the above preparation strategy, with customization of the same to suit your individual needs, you can be sure to have acquired the necessary skills required to attempt CAT with much greater confidence.

All the best!!

Strategy for QA section of CAT exam

How to prepare for QA:

CAT tests you on various areas, mainly Quantitative Skills, Verbal and Passage Comprehension Skills, and Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation Skills. Before you begin preparing for these areas to ace CAT, your first question generally is: How to acquire the necessary skills required to maximize the attempts without diluting the accuracy? In other words, what is the best strategy for preparing for such exams? Here, we try to answer this query for QA.

Before you begin any preparation, you should have a fair idea of the quantum of work and an estimate of the time you would require to acquire the necessary skills. For this, the first step is to have a look at the actual past year papers and try to understand the skills needed to attempt such kind of questions. You should ideally attempt one or two Section Tests based on QA. This is usually psychologically a difficult step, primarily because you feel that you have not yet learnt any concept or shortcut, and so are not prepared for the test at all. Please realize that the objective of taking the Section Tests is not to secure good marks. The objective is solely to know what is Quantitative Aptitude and what skills are tested in a QA test. When you would attempt the test in time limit, then you would not only feel that some of the questions are currently beyond the range of your current knowledge level, but also feel the heat of time pressure. And you would realize that your current process of attempting the questions is not fast enough to solve the questions within time limit, and also that the time pressure decreases the ability to solve the questions. The more you feel the time pressure, the less you have the ability to solve the questions. Having a first-hand experience in this and realizing all this and more is the objective of attempting a Section Test BEFORE starting any preparation for QA.

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