How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for the CAT

Overview
How to Prepare for Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension for the CAT Common Admission Test is a book that is designed with the intent of enabling students to clear the CAT. This book contains all the necessary info that is required to tackle the questions in this examination. Written by veteran CAT trainers, this book is also beneficial for students preparing for XAT, IRMA, MAT, IIFT, and XLRI.

This book consists of five parts, which have been further divided into smaller sections. The first part is Building Skills For Reading Comprehension, which contains two sections-Reading Comprehension, and LOD Exercises. The second part is Verbal Ability, and consists of five sections, which include Fill In The Blanks, Vocabulary-Based Questions, Vocabulary, Paragraph Jumbles, and Sentence Correction. The third part is Verbal Reasoning, and has four sections which include Syllogisms, Binary Logic, Logical Deductions, Previous Year Questions From The CAT, and Critical Reasoning/ Paragraph Comprehension. The fourth part is named Mock Tests, consisting of two papers of different difficulty levels. The fifth part CAT Papers, consists of two sections, which include CAT Papers, and Sample Papers On 2009 Pattern.

Title	How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for the CAT
Author	Arun Sharma
Publisher	Tata McGraw - Hill Education
Publishing Date	2011
Pages
Price	575 /-
Price @ Flipkart	374 /-

Key Features

Provides exhaustive practice on Reading Comprehension questions

Covers all vocabulary-based question types (antonyms, synonyms, etc)

Adopts a scientific approach to solve CAT problems in the allotted time frame

Five options incorporated in questions (as per latest pattern)

Innovative chapters like 'Words and Phrases Often Confused' and 'Fact, Inference and Judgement'

Section on root words, origin of words, prefixes, suffixes, etc

Mock test papers for practice 

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