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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 26th Jan, 2021

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Top study materials/ books which you can follow for CAT are listed below section wise  :-

QUANTITATIVE ABILITY

-)How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT by  Arun Sharma:-

*it is the best  book  for your Aptitude for your cat examination .
*it covers all the topics according to your cat syllabus.
*it has elaborative examples so that it's easy for you to understand them .
* questions are divided into 3 levels of difficulty

DATA INTERPRETATION AND LOGICAL REASONING (DILR) :-

-)Logical reasoning and data interpretation for cat by K. Sinha Nishit:-

* the best thing about this book is it starts with your fundamental and basics and then goes to advanced level too, you get each topics with explained examples .
*it has questions divided into three difficulty  levels, so that you can start from basic and move ahead step by step

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-) how to prepare for data Interpretation for cat by arun sharma :-

*it has  strategies and concepts which you need  to solve questions  accurately and quickly.
*it has exercises which are designed in a manner to help you boost your logical thinking etc.

VERBAL ABILITY AND READING COMPREHENSION

-) word power made easy by norman lewis:-
*it is one of the best books that you can get for improving your vocabulary .
* it helps you in learning correct usage of words etc.
* at the end of each chapter you get review exercises

-) mastering the verbal ability for cat by ajay singh:-
*it has more than around 200 passages for your practice .
*it also contains test papers of other B-School as well, etc.

-) How to prepare for verbal ability and reading comprehension for the cat by arun sharma and meenakshi upadhyay:-
*it is written in a very lucid manner.
* it has past year question papers analysis .
* you get topicwise segregation  in this book along with mock papers for your practice.

For detailed information go through our page the link for the same is provided below

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/best-books-for-cat-preparation

Also, follow the below steps :-

*Make a routine and religiously follow it as it will help you to utilise the time in the best possible way and  avoid procrastination and laziness .

*Keep short breaks of 20 to 25 minutes after every 1.5 to 2 hours between your studies in your routine .Half of the time of your studies must be for practicing questions

* Plan your studies, and set daily, weekly and monthly goals and meet them without any fail.

*Solve previous  year question papers of CAT :-it will let you know the examination pattern, type and difficulty level of questions, also concepts behind the question often gets repeated, so you should definitely solve year papers . You can get cat previous year question papers at https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-question-papers

*Once you are done with complete CAT syllabus then go through CAT mock test papers , it will let you know your preparation level and and weak areas so that you can work on them and perform well in your examination

For detailed information go through

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat/amp

Top books for AEEE i. e Amrita Engineering entrance examination is provided below:-

PHYSICS

-) NCERT Physics
-) understanding Physics by DC Pandey
-)Concepts of Physics by HC Verma

CHEMISTRY

-) Chemistry  NCERT for 11 and 12th
-)Chemistry by Pradeep
-) organic Chemistry by OP Tandon

MATHS
-) NCERT XI AND XII Mathematics
-) Mathematics by RD Sharma
-)Pearson Guide to Complete Mathematics for JEE by SL Loney

You can get the complete details at
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/best-books-for-aeee-2020

Thank you

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