Articles in CAT
Photo Credit: Flickr A very common type of problem that we get in CAT is when we are asked to find out the number of integral solutions to a given equation. I have always found it hard to categorize such sort of problems in a particular category. A case can be made that such questions […]
International School of Management Excellence, Bangalore has been in the forefront of management education with a strong emphasis on Quality in Education and strong industry academic interface. The industry-relevant curriculum, accomplished faculty with strong industry experience and educational background from the best schools like Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue University, Wharton, Texas A&M;, IIM’s and IIT, […]
Photo Credit: Steve A johnson Probability has always been a fascinating topic to teach. The pleasure that I get out of correcting silly mistakes, which are plenty in questions based on probability can be considered sadistic by some or a truly noble thing to do by others. I hope the percentage of the latter would […]
Yudhir Agarwal The Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) 2013 is being conducted over a 5 day test window from February 21-25 across 2 time slots (9:30 am to 12:30 pm; 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm). Today’s paper was comparable in terms of difficulty, with the Quantitative Aptitude & Data Interpretation Section getting tougher compared to […]
Photo Credit: Oatsy 40 (flickr) Questions on clocks (or even calendars) are not really frequent in CAT these days. They used to be really popular few years ago. Having said that, it is always better to understand some of the basic principles and the types of problems that get asked. They might come in handy […]
Sandeep Manudhane February 14 is the day of love. This article is also about love but of a slightly different kind. Love for CAT as in the Common Admission Test (CAT). How else, would you explain Indore-based Sandeep Manudhane’s fascination for taking CAT every single year since 1993! Sandeep runs P.T. Education, a coaching centre […]
Photo Credit: thethreesisters When you are competing against thousands or rather lakhs of people for a few seats, every minute matters. These days, probably what you did in your class 10th, 12th and graduation matters more than most things – but hey, you cannot do anything about that until someone invents a time machine. Although […]
Photo Credit: Sean McEntee Data Sufficiency questions often involve very simple calculations. This does not mean that the questions are simple. It just means that the chances to make conceptual mistakes and / or silly mistakes are a little higher than usual. You will need to pay attention to detail in such questions. In Data […]
Photo Credit: Urban Hafner There are some topics in Quantitative Aptitude, like permutation & combination, where you can easily find out the answer, (it is in the options) but it turns out to be wrong. And then there are some topics in which you read the question, understand it but cannot even begin solving it. […]
Quadratic Equations are first taught to us in 6th or 7th class and most of us are able to score good marks in it because we are able to solve 90% of the questions by just using that formula. And that formula is: The above formula gives us the roots of the quadratic equation ax^2 […]