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9. What about demo classes??

You could request some coaching centers to give you sample/demo lectures, so that you can identify their strengths/weaknesses.Try going through some handouts/materials from different coaching centers by asking friends/acquaintances so that you get a feel of the material.The rest is totally your choice. Think about it, weigh your priorities and decide.

10. I have been failing in VA since past 2 yrs. Please if someone can guide me to improve my VA section. I need to improve significantly. Please if someone can tell me the books or the classes i shoud join.

For vocab improvement read booksWord Power made easy - Norman LewisAll about words - RosenbaumSix Weeks to Words of Power by Wilfred FunkRC - Improve reading speed. Read books , do online reading ( most commonly suggested source :

Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate

For mistakes in sentences etc. coaching institutes recommend grammar books such as Wren and Martin. May help but a really humongous task. Since I have read a lot, I do them by instinct. I usually skip questions having more than one mistake as it is easy to go wrong. Easy to locate if there is just one mistake. Arranging sentences in sequence is no English. Thats just plain logic.courtesy - post by 'The Raven' ( IIM-A)

11. We do not find any DI material to be good , what to refer for DI questions ?

To start with, Arun Sharma DI book plus DI material of either TIME/CL/IMS is decent. Try to solve as many caselets as possible through previous year mocks and sectional tests. There is no very good book as such on DI stuff.

12. Suggestions for correspondence course and its comparison with regular study material? Offered by TIME, CL , IMS , career forum .... almost same material which is given to class room students.

13. Suggest coachings for snap , cet , mat and other non cat exams??All coachings have special sessions for these exams as well as seperate mocks focussed on these exams.

14. Coaching suggestions for gd/pi ??

IMS conducts Achievers workshop for call getters from top b schools.CL conducts gd/pi sessions for top b school getters which are very good stress busters.Sessions on GDPI by TIME are also good ones. In short, either of these would be helpful if one can attend 4-5 mock PIs and few mock GD sessions apart from the sessions on the same by their experts.

15. I am not joining any coaching for classroom program, which books should i refer to ? Please refer to this thread for details on books Books for CAT preparation : Prep Resources - Page (50) : PaGaLGuY Forums

16. Miscellaneous Points- For re-takers only test series is suggested. Preferably both TIME & CL.- CL has advantage of good personal attention given to students.. - TIME'S material is very exhaustive with good QA and DI stuff! - IMS has best VA material ... but TIME and CL also have good enough VA.

If your query remains unanswered still , go ahead and post it.... fellow puys will answer it soon Link to last year's thread on CAT coaching queries

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