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Now focus on GDPI!
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GMAT and CAT are the accepted entrance examinations, for MBA.
Link for the frequently asked questions:
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TARGET CAT-2019
CAT VERBAL SECTION-A CHALLENGE
Many of you—CAT aspirants, I mean—find the Verbal Section of CAT quite challenging. Indeed, you find it, in your own words, “vague” or “subjective”, because all answer choices seem to be the correct answer to the question asked. Some of you succeed in narrowing down to two answer choices, but there you get stuck. This is a common experience. You also find that different test-prep institutes and test-prep books give different “correct” answers for the same CAT question. So you reason that if “the authorities on the subject” can’t agree on ONE correct answer, then the problem must lie with the English language itself, which you conclude is essentially an imprecise medium with its many eccentricities.
On the other hand, your experience with Quantitative Ability, Data Interpretation and Analytical Reasoning, the other areas of CAT, is very different: everything is so clear-cut and, most importantly, everyone agrees on the ONE correct answer; working hard in these areas produces immediate results and is gratifying. As a consequence, most of your efforts are concentrated in these areas to the neglect of the Verbal Section.
Learning or, let us say “memorising”, new words is laborious and frustrating. Learning grammar rules is pointless as they do not always hold true. Reading newspaper editorials and magazines is boring. Deductive reasoning is manageable: it is like maths, clear-cut with ONE correct answer, but what in the world is “inductive reasoning”?
“So where do I start and how do I prepare for the Verbal Section of CAT?”—this is your predicament.
I have tried to address this predicament in my teaching experience of over 18 years in the CAT-prep industry and experimented with different approaches while working with different test-prep institutes. Each time I came up with the same answer: there are no short-cuts and an attempt to search for short-cuts is futile and counter-productive. After all, the CAT Verbal Section demands a high degree of proficiency in the English language: a life skill so vital for success not only in your professional career but also in your personal life.
The only effective approach is a comprehensive and integrated one—repeatedly borne out by the experience of successful candidates.
The problem is not with the English language but with the lack of familiarity with the variety of its patterns, structures and conventions and with the lack of understanding of its intrinsic logic. And let me assure you that once you have overcome that hurdle, the “vagueness” or the “subjectivity” of the English language will disappear, and you will instinctively home on to THE ONE correct answer.
This approach naturally requires sustained hard work over a long period before you can cross the plateau in the learning curve and before results start to show. More hard work, true, but greater payoff, that too in the long-term—well beyond CAT. Patience and focus are the key. After all, you are trying to master a language, that too a language which is not your native language.
START WITH VOCABULARY-BUILDING--THE MAIN HURDLE IN READING COMPREHENSION
1. Choose the option closest in meaning to the word 'Qualm’.
[Source: IIFT-2015]
A. Concavity
B. Misgiving
C. Amplitude
D. Repute
SENTENCE COMPLETION
Despite being the ………. partner in the relationship, the franchiser does not always have all the ……….
A. sincere ………………. limitations
B. authoritative ………. legalities
C. dominant …………… advantages
D. active ………………… losses
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VERBAL ANALOGY
Directions: Choose the correct answer from the options provided below to indicate the most appropriate word to complete the pair. [Source: IIFT-2018]
1. CICERONE : GUIDE :: DRAGOMAN : ……….
A. Cavalry officer
B. Interpreter
C. Hauler
D. Turnkey
THE INTEGRATED APPROACH: THE 5-F FRAMEWORK
The 'integrated approach' means that you must work on all areas concurrently—vocabulary, grammar, verbal reasoning and reading comprehension—so that the concepts in one area reinforce those in the other, and are assimilated in an integrated manner.
A language as a medium of communication works in an integrated way. Words and phrases combine to form clauses; clauses connect ideas logically together in sentences; sentences combine to form paragraphs; and paragraphs combine to form coherent passages. All the building blocks combine in an integrated way to express “meaning”.
To understand precisely what it means to be proficient in language skills, the 5-F Framework given below has been devised by delineating the five main areas of proficiency.
1. FELICITY WITH WORDS: It is the capacity for appropriate expression. It is the ability to choose the right word in the given context.
2. FAMILIARITY with the natural flow of the English idiom: It is an understanding of grammar as a vehicle for meaning.
3. FACULTY for Verbal reasoning: It is your innate or inherent ability of reasoning with ideas expressed in verbal form—in other words, your verbal intelligence.
4. FACILITY for reading comprehension: It is an acquired effortless aptitude for precise understanding of what the author intends to say.
5. FLUENCY in the clear and logical composition of texts: It is the ability to write with clarity, conciseness and logical consistency.
ONE VERBAL QUESTION A DAY--START NOW, PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY
MATCHING TABLE
Directions: Match the correct answers. [Source: IIFT-2018]
1. Adonis : a. An idler or loafer
2. Don Juan : b. An awkward, rough fellow
3. Wastrel : c. A handsome man
4. Lout : d. A rake or seducer
A. 1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-a
B. 1-b, 2-d, 3-a, 4-c
C. 1-b, 2-a, 3-d, 4-c
D. 1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-b
ONE VERBAL QUESTION A DAY--START NOW, PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY
XAT SENTENCE COMPLETION
1. Carefully read the following statement:
Though he thought of himself as a/an ________ person, his boss’s abusive behaviour made him talk back. However, as he engaged in a/an ________ with his boss, all he got in response was a/an ________, which only filled him with ________. [Source: XAT-2018]
Fill in the blanks meaningfully, in the above statement, from the following options.
(A) nonchalant, remonstration, philippic, ennui
(B) insouciant, philippic, remonstration, ennui
(C) philippic, remonstration, ennui, insouciance
(D) ennui, philippic, insouciance, remonstration
(E) nonchalant, ennui, philippic, remonstration
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ONE QUESTION A DAY--START NOW, PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY
MULTIPLE USAGE
Directions: In each question, the word at the top or its different grammatical forms or similar-sounding words are used in five different sentences, numbered 1 to 5. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
1. DISPENSE
1. There is a peculiar dispensation obtaining in Pakistan where political power is distributed among the duly elected civilian government, the army, and the muslim clergy.
2. The king was the protector of the weak and dispenser of justice.
3. He made himself indispensable to the boss.
4. We can’t continue to live off the charitable dispensations of others.
5. The new procedures dispense the need for verification by a class 1 gazetted officer.
2. MANIFEST
1. The anger of the crowd manifested in arson and looting.
2. Lord Krishna is the manifestation of Lord Vishnu.
3. The advantages of an English-medium education are manifest in today's globalised world.
4. The rise in sea levels is the first obvious manifestation of global warming
5. She was popular because of her manifested charm and proven ability.
ONE QUESTION A DAY--START NOW, PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY
CONFUSIBLES
Directions: 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.
One suspects that the compliment [A] / complement [B] was backhanded.
The consumer society places a high value on material acquisitions [A] / acquirements [B].
My mother was eventually able to persuade [A] / convince [B] my father to branch out on his own.
India made a strong case for capital controls by the emerging economies at the historic [A] / historical [B] G20 meeting.
He is committed to defending workers against illicit [A] / illegitimate [B] managerial practices.
1. BABBA 2. AAAAB 3. AABBA 4. BBAAB
ONE QUESTION A DAY--START NOW, PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY
ANTONYMS
1. Choose the option which is the antonym of the word ‘Blasphemous’? [Source: IIFT-2015]
A. Ascetic
B. Reverent
C. Inferior
D. Blarney
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