How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for the CAT Common Admission Test

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Authored by certified experts, this book is a student workbook with practice questions and tips based on previous CAT exam patterns. Like the name suggests, How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for the CAT guides students who are aspiring to excel in the competitive CAT examination. Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension are core skills that are tested in this exam. Tailored especially for students who face a marked difficulty in this area of the examination, this book encompasses all the likely questions that could be asked. The examples provided in this book feature near-similar multiple choice answers, which are an integral part of CAT questions. How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension has been formulated to help students avoid errors in these sections, and the book provides ample practice questions to help students learn, familiarize, and practice sufficient comprehension and vocabulary tests before the exam. The book is divided into five parts - Building Skills for Reading Comprehension, Verbal Ability, Verbal Reasoning, Mock Papers and CAT Papers. Building Skills for Reading Comprehension provides several tips and guidelines, and this is followed by exercises in the second section, which are categorized according to their level of difficulty. The Verbal Ability section includes paragraph jumbles, vocabulary-based questions, and vocabulary-strengthening exercises. There is also a section dedicated to Sentence Correction. Verbal Reasoning is divided into four sections including Critical Reasoning, Syllogism, Binary Logic and Logical Deductions. The authors have developed the book with the aim of making it a one-stop solution for the English section of the CAT examination. About The Author  Arun Sharma started his coaching program in 1996 and is a well-known CAT examination trainer. Model Test Papers General Studies (Paper II) CSAT: General Studies 2012 (Paper 2) Study Package For Management Aptitude Test (MAT) Being an alumnus of IIM-Bangalore, Sharma also trains corporate professionals. He has cleared the CAT exam 11 times. Meenakshi Upadhyay is a communications expert with a British Council certification for Training in Business English. She trains corporate professionals in the art of communication. Her training program focuses on a variety of areas ranging from personality development to language. Upadhyay has written many books, most of which are co-authored with Arun Sharma. Some of the books are How To Prepare For The CAT (Set Of 3 Books) CAT Online Test Series CAT Solved Papers Since 1999 Study Package for the CAT Online (With CD) Over the past ten years, she has also been involved in training CAT aspirants as well as candidates appearing in other management exams like XLRI, XAT and IIFT. Table of Contents PART I: BUILDING SKILLS FOR READING COMPREHENSION Reading Comprehension Section II: LOD Exercise PART TWO: VERBAL ABILITY Vocabulary Vocabulary- based Questions Fill in the Blanks Paragraph Jumbles Sentence Correction PART THREE: VERBAL REASONING Critical Reasoning Syllogism Binary Logic Logical Deductions PART FOUR: MOCK TEST PAPERS Level of Difficulty I Level of Difficulty II PART FIVE: CAT PAPERS CAT Papers 2006-2009 Sample Paper on 2009 CAT 2009 Replica Test 1 CAT 2009 Replica Test 2 CAT 2009 Replica Test 3 Model Test Paper