These days there are so many entrance exams that students find themselves constantly preparing for. One of the main entrance exams that is very aspirational for management aspirants is the Common Admission Test. This is known to be a really renowned entrance exam in our country, and there are thousands and lakhs of students every year who wish to appear for the CAT exam. Considering that there are only a limited number of seats in reputed institutions that accept the CAT score and there are so many students who want to take admission, the composition of the exam is usually pretty high. This means that students have to truly do their best to make sure that they can cut through the cutoff criteria and get an admission into a reputed institution. In order for this, students try to make sure that they take the right kind of coaching from Hitbullseye, and they also focus on the various sections of the CAT exam. In this article today we will try and understand the CAT VARC section well. But students have this focus on every other aspect. To make sure they have good and solid preparation in place.

What Is the CAT VARC Section?

The Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension section is the first section of the CAT exam. This section has 24 questions that the students need to solve within the time duration of 40 minutes. Students need to understand that as CAT is a computer-based online exam, once the time duration is over, the computer screen will automatically move to the next section. Students need to pay attention to this and make sure that they are able to complete all 24 questions within the time duration. When it comes to the marking scheme of this section, students will find that there will be multiple-choice questions as well as type-in-the-answer-type questions in this section. For every correct answer, students will be given 3 marks, and for incorrect MCQ based questions, there will be a negative marking of 1 mark, and for the type-in-the-answer-type questions, there is no negative marking.

CAT VARC Syllabus 

After the students have a basic idea of what all is a part of the CAT VARC section, the next important thing for them is to understand that they need to have good knowledge about the section's syllabus. If the students know what all will be coming in the section, then they can systematically prepare for all of it. The first thing that is important is the reading comprehension for CAT. Students will see there are going to be a number of reading comprehensions in the exam that they have to quickly go through and answer the questions. The questions will be related to inference-based, summary based and vocabulary-related. Each reading comprehension can be around 400 to 500 words, which means students have to also work on their speed accordingly.

The next thing that will come in the exam is the verbal ability for CAT questions. In this part, students will find that mainly their grammar and vocabulary skills will be tested. Students will have different questions based on antonyms, synonyms, filling in the blanks, filling in the missing gap, error correction, sentence formation, rearranging the sentences, etc. that will test out the skills of the students. In order to prepare well for these types of questions, students need to make sure that they're going through the various books that are available. With the help of the different questions that the students will expose themselves to, they will understand how to become better in the section.

VARC Preparation For CAT

There are many different points that the students can actually keep in mind when they're preparing for this section. The first and essential thing for the students to do from day one is to read a lot. This might seem like a simple thing to many, but actually, to prepare for the CAT VARC the students need to know how to read well and understand. The more the students explore different books and solve various reading comprehensions and look into newspapers, the better their understanding of the language will become. In the end this is entirely a section that is based on the English knowledge skills of the students, and if they are good at it, then it can become a scoring section.

The other important thing for the students to realize is that there is enough material, both in the offline and online modes, that the students can utilize for their preparation. Once the students feel that they have covered their syllabus, then they can move to various model question papers and sample papers and see so much that is already available regarding the CAT VARC section. This will only improve the students' preparation and make them actually move ahead in a systematic manner. Students can also always go and revisit the previous year question papers and utilize them for knowing how well they can perform and what changes they need to make.

Conclusion

There is no substitute for hard work in the student's preparation journey. There are so many times when the students will see that they feel demotivated, but eventually when they pick themselves up and start their preparation again, they will be able to do well for themselves. The coaching institution can also motivate the students only to a certain extent, but it is eventually the intention and the hard work that students can put in that can make their preparation much smoother. All of this will help the students to realize that they have a larger goal that they have to fulfill and it will make them do well.

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Frequently Asked Questions 

1. How many sections are there in the CAT exam?

Students will find that there are three sections in the CAT exam. The first section is verbal ability and reading comprehension. The second section is data interpretation and logical reasoning, and the third section is quantitative aptitude.

2. How many questions are there in the CAT exam?

There are different numbers of questions in each section of the exam, but overall the CAT exam has 68 questions. The first section, which is CAT VARC, has 24 questions; the second section, which is DILR, has 22 questions; and the last section, which is just QA, has 22 questions.

3. Is the CAT exam easy?

The CAT exam is one of the most popular and highly renowned entrance exams; therefore, there is a lot of competition among the students. There is definitely a standard for the CAT exam, but with good and solid preparation, students can really do well.

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