How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for CAT (VARC CAT BOOK), 11th edition, by acknowledged CAT trainers Arun Sharma and Meenakshi Upadhyay, is designed to help business school aspirants tackle the verbal ability and reading comprehension section of CAT and other MBA entrance examinations with ease. Now equipped with a brand-new section on ‘The CAT Experience’ which contains solved mock tests, this edition also contains a new chapter on ‘Missing Sentence of the Paragraph’. The book also contains fully solved CAT papers (VARC section) from 2022 and 2023, which will aid the aspirants in their journey to success. With many helpful and time-saving tips and tricks, it gives clear guidance to the readers on how to attempt various types of questions in a time-bound and confident manner.
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Salient Features
📚 New section titled ‘The CAT Experience’ containing 3 solved mock tests.
📚 Inclusion of solved CAT 2022 and 2023 papers (VARC section).
📚 Addition of a new chapter titled ‘Missing Sentence of the Paragraph’.
📚 Revised and updated content as per the current exam trends.
📚 Additional reading material added online.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Building Skills for Reading Comprehension
1. Introduction Read More and More
2. The Seven Dimension Approach to Better Reading Skills
3. Theory of Reading Comprehension
4. Illustrative CAT Passages (Solved)
5. Level of Difficulty- I
6. Level of Difficulty-II
7. Previous Years’ Questions from CAT
Part 2: Verbal Ability
1. Word List I—High Frequency Words
2. Word List II—Medium Frequency Words
3. Word List III—Low Frequency Words
4. Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes and Foreign Words
5. Words and Phrases often Confused
6. Synonyms
7. Antonyms
8. Odd Man Out
9. Analogies
10. Fill in the Blanks
Block 1: Theory
Block 2: LODs and CAT Questions
11. Level of Difficulty—I
12. Level of Difficulty—II
13. Previous Years’ Questions from CAT
Block 1: Theory
14. Paragraph Jumbles
Block 1: LODs and CAT Questions
15. Level of Difficulty—I
16. Level of Difficulty—II
17. New TITA Type Questions
18. TYPE I AND II Exercises on Paragraph Jumbles
19. Previous Years’ Questions from CAT
20. Sentence Correction
21A. Phrasal Verbs
21B. Phrasal Verbs
22. Paragraph Completion/ Last Sentence of the Paragraph
23. Missing Sentence of the Paragraph (new)
24. Irrelevant Statement Questions
25. Summary of the Passage Questions
Part 3: Verbal Reasoning
1. Critical Reasoning/Paragraph Comprehension
2. Previous Years’ Questions from CAT
Part 4: The CAT Experience (new)
Part 5: CAT Papers with Solutions
1. CAT Paper 2022 (Shift 1) VARC Section Questions and Solutions
2. CAT Paper 2022 (Shift 2) VARC Section Questions and Solutions
3. CAT Paper 2022 (Shift 3) VARC Section Questions and Solutions
4. CAT Paper 2023 (Shift 1) VARC Section Questions and Solutions
5. CAT Paper 2023 (Shift 2) VARC Section Questions and Solutions
6. CAT Paper 2023 (Shift 3) VARC Section Questions and Solutions