Given Below Is The CAT Syllabus and The Topics You Need To Cover For The VA RC Section (Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension)

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Given below is the CAT Syllabus and the topics you need to cover for the VA RC section (Verbal

Ability and
Reading Comprehension)

Different Categories of Passages

Writing Styles

Tone of Writing

Types of Questions
Reading Comprehension
Reading Skills

Types of Passages

Accuracy in RC

RC – The Game of Thrones Way

The Articles – A, An, The

Parts of Speech in English

Sentence Construction in English

Punctuations

Modifiers Grammar

Subject-Verb Agreement

Verbs Tenses

Sentence Correction

Word Usage

Logical Deduction

Statements & Assumptions

Courses of Action

Verbal Reasoning Parajumbles (Basic Rules, Extra tips)

Para Completion

Sentence Exclusion

Fact Inference Judgment


Syllogism

Basic Assumption And Inference

Strengthen and Weaken an Argument

Paragraph Summary

Method of Reasoning and Boldfaced Critical Reasoning

Flawed and Paradox

Parallel, Further Application, Evaluate

Fallacies and Strong Weak Arguments

Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation

Level 1 topics of CAT syllabus for LRDI section

 Coding – Decoding
 Number Series
 Letter Series
 Symbol Series
 Symbol based Logic
 Number & Alphabet Analogies
 Odd one out
 Direction Sense
 Blood Relations and Family Tree
 Crypt arithmetic (Verbal Arithmetic)
 Inequalities and Conclusions – Coded Inequalities
 Data Sufficiency
 Approximation of Values

Level 2 topics of CAT syllabus for LRDI section

 Bar Graphs
 Pie Charts
 Tables
 Binary Logic – True / False statements based questions
 Pan Balance / Spring Balance
 Linear and Circular Seating Arrangements
 Matrix and Grid based Arrangements
 Games and Tournaments (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
 Sequential Output / Input-Output
 Logical Conditions (If this, then that)
 Logical Grouping – Questions based on Team Formation
 Critical Path
 Cubes based problems
 Matchstick / Coin picking based problems
 Dice Related Problems
 Order and Ranking
 Quant Based LR Puzzles

Given below are some of the topics that you should cover in Number System

 Basics of Numbers
 Properties of Numbers
 Divisibility Rules
 Divisibility and Factors
 Highest Common Factor and Lowest Common Multiple
 Finding Out Last Digit
 Finding Out Last Two Digits
 Number of trailing zeroes
 Special cases of Factorials – Highest Power in a prime, rightmost non zero digit
 Finding out Remainders
o Based on basic divisibility rules
o Based on Binomial Theorem
o Based on Simplifying the Dividend (Single and / or Multiple Divisors)
o Fermat's Theorem
o Euler's Theorem
o Pattern Recognition and cyclicity of remainders
o Wilson's Theorem
 Base Systems
o Conversion of Bases
o Addition / subtraction / multiplication in different bases

Arithmetic Topics

Part 1 – Basic concepts from the syllabus that you need to solve any question

 Averages
 Mean Median Mode
 Percentages
 Ratio and Proportion
 Simple and Compound Interest

Part 2 – High probability areas of CAT syllabus on which questions can be asked in the CAT 2019 exam

 Installments
 Profit and Loss
 Mixtures and Alligations
 Time Speed and Distance
o Basic Concepts
o Linear and Circular Races
o Boats and Stream
o Relative Speed
o Escalator Based Questions
 Time and Work
o Pipes and Cisterns

Part 3 – Concepts from CAT syllabus that you should know but are unlikely to be asked
in the CAT
 Calendars
 Clocks
 Stocks and Shares

Given below are some of the topics that you can and should go through to get a good grasp on the Algebra section.

 Basics Algebraic Formulae


 Linear Equations
o Problems on ages
o Number of integer solutions
 Quadratic Equations
o Finding out roots
o Maxima and Minima
 Higher Degree Equations
o Descartes Rule of Signs
 Inequalities
 Logarithm
 Functions
o Modifications of graphs
o Smallest value in a maximum function

As far as the topics and syllabus for Geometry is concerned, this list below should be helpful

 Lines and Angles


 Triangles – Basic Concepts
o Area, Angles
o Similar Triangles
o Special Triangles (30-60-90, 45-45-90, 30-30,120)
 Polygons
 Circles
 Solids / Mensuration – 3D Geometry
 Co-ordinate Geometry
 Trigonometry

Given below is a list of topics that are included in Modern Math section of CAT syllabus:

 Sequence and Series


 Binomial Theorem
 Set Theory
o Venn Diagram based on 2 / 3 sets
o Venn Diagram based on 4 sets
o Maxima and Minima related to values in a set
o 'At least n' type of problems
 Permutation and Combination
o Fundamental Principles of Counting
o Distribution of Objects
o Problems based on Grids
o Rank of a word in a dictionary
 Probability

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