Dear Aspirant,

Preparing for CAT is a step towards fulfilling your dream of an MBA, so how you choose to prepare becomes the deciding factor of your exam. It is not an easy exam because of being one of the most competitive exams in the country. So here are some basic steps to prepare and ace it!

Know the exam pattern and syllabus in detail : The duration of the exam is 3 hours and you will roughly have an hour to complete each section. This will be a computer-based test with a total number of 100. Each correct answer will secure 3 marks and there will a negative marking of 1 mark for every wrong answer. There are three sections: Quantitative Ability (QA), Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) and Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR). Out of this DILR will have 32 questions and the other two sections, i.e., QA and VARC will have 34 questions. There will be 7-10 non MCQ type questions in each section.

The syllabus is-

DILR- Bar Graphs, Caselets, Column Graphs, Tables, Blood Relations, Calendars, Cubes, Clocks, Number and Letter Series, Binary Logic, Seating Arrangement, Line Charts, Venn Diagrams, Pie Chart, Combination of two or more types linked to each other, Syllogism etc.

QA- Trigonometry, Arithmetic, Higher Maths, Mensuration, Algebra, Geometry, etc.

VARC- English Usage or Grammar, Jumbled Paragraph, Close Passage, Verbal Ability, Reading Comprehension, Synonyms Antonyms, Verbal Reasoning, Facts-Inferences-Judgements etc.

Choose your study material wisely : To prepare for CAT, here are some books you can consider.

• NCERT books from class 6th to 10th
• Quantitative Aptitude for CAT by Nishit Saxena
• Quantitative Aptitude Quantum CAT by Sarvesh Sharma
• How to Prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT by Arun Sharma
• Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations by Abhijit Guha
• High School Grammar and Composition by Wren and Martin
• Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis
• How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for the CAT by Arun Sharma and Meenakshi Upadhyay
• Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension For The CAT by Nishit Sinha
• Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation for the CAT by Nishit Sinha
• A Modern Approach to Logical Reasoning by R.S. Agarwal
• How to Prepare for Logical Reasoning for CAT by Arun Sharma

Other than this, solve question papers . Find one of the question banks here:

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-sample-paper

This will help you analyse your progress so far and what are your strengths and weaknesses and aid your course of preparation.

Be sincere, confident and dedicate your time religiously to the discourse of preparation. Be with people who motivate you to move forward in this discourse and use the internet for guidance from time to time.

Hope this helps. All the best!

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• Solving past year papers of atleast last 10 years
• Finding your strong and weak points through past year papers and then devoting your time accordingly
• If by chance any topic remains unstudied in the vicinity of exam date than better than covering that topic revise your strong points and forget about that topic.
• Every topic has different weightage, try to cover those topics which have more weightage like conic section in maths, mechanics and optics in physics etc.
• Some topics which are there in jee mains are not in jee advanced like semiconductor, linear programming, reasoning etc so for advanced study smartly with knowledge of syllabus.

Hello Almas,

JEECUP happens to be the official gateway to the UP Polytechnic College. JEECUP 2020 is divided into groups (A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I, J and K) and the syllabus and the exam pattern differs from course to course. JEECUP is going to be held in offline mode. 100 questions are to be asked with the students needing to complete them in 3 hours.

For Group K5 (Information Technology), the syllabus is expected to be based on ITI (2 year’s course) trade-wise and Class 10 ^th , 11 ^th & 12 ^th as per the course syllabus of the UP Board.

Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics will carry a weightage of 40% while Information Technology will carry a weightage of 60%.

Since topics in JEECUP 2020 are mostly based on the UP Board Syllabus for Class 10 ^th & 12 ^th , the textbooks prescribed by the board are recommended.

Moreover, there are a few books available which can guide one properly:

1. Uttar Pradesh Polytechnic Entrance Exam by Dr. Lal and Jain

2.  UP Polytechnic  Entrance Exam Guide by Vidya Editorial Board

3. Uttar Pradesh  Polytechnic  Exam Physics/Chemistry/ Mathematics with Previous Years' Solved Papers by Arihant Publications

Hope this helps. Careers360 wishes you the best for your future endeavours!

Regards

IPMAT has 2 sections Quantitative Aptitude and Verbal Ability. Now QA has 60 marks allotted and VA has 40 marks. Each correct answer gets you 4 marks and a wrong answer takes away 1 mark in the form of negative marking. Though there has been no official release of any syllabus, based on examinations over the years, it has been concluded that few topics are the most covered,

QA:

Number system, LCM & HCF, Percentage, Quadratic Equations, Binomial Theorem, Functions, Mensuration, Permutation and Combination, Probability, Profit, Loss and Discounts, Simple and Compound Interest, Progressions, Ratio and Proportion, Mixtures and Alligations, Logarithms, Time, Speed and Distance, Time and Work, Trigonometry, Geometery, Problems on Ages, Series and Unitary Method, Set Theory, Data Interpretation and Equations.

VA:

Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Grammar, Sentence Rearrangement, Sentence Correction, Sentence Completion, Correct Usage of words and phrases and verbal analogies.

To prepare all these topics, you need to practise as many as sample papers as you can.

2 books that are available in the market and are best are:

1. Crack the IIM Indore IPM by DueNorth Academy

2. Wiley's ExamXpert IIM-IPM by Wiley India.

You can check our sample papers at: https://bschool.careers360.com/download/ipmat-sample-papers-previous-years