All posts tagged: CAT VA

How to increase your accuracy on RC – 3

In the previous two posts, RC-1 and RC-2, we discussed 3 RCs from CAT 2017 Slot – 2 and executed a specific strategy — paragraph to questions — to solve CAT RCs that will increase your accuracy. In this final post of this series, we will solve the two remaining passages and fine-tune the methods discussed so far.

How to increase your accuracy on the Verbal Ability section

The Verbal Ability section of the CAT has always been one of those things that never fails gets my goat. To me it has never made any sense at all! Why do they want MBA aspirants to read passages by philosophers (and sometimes poets) and then answer questions set by non-philosophers or people who fancy themselves to be philosophers know at least three idioms in which the word “DONKEY” is used correctly and one in which it is incorrectly used — the one I marked as incorrect was — The Professor could talk the hind legs off a donkey — of course only a professor capable of that could make that question! keep unjumbling paragraphs when there can always be more than one way of arranging sentences to form a coherent paragraph. This is one of the big reasons why I like and respect the precisely designed Verbal Section of the GMAT and also teach a lot for the same! But be that as it may, we have a job at hand — to clear the …