CAT 2024 will be held on November 24 in three sessions. Know week-wise CAT 2024 exam preparation plan, question paper pattern.
Students can predict their overall performance by using CAT 2024 Percentile Predictor tool before the declaration of the actual result.
Try NowVagisha Kaushik | September 24, 2024 | 11:11 AM IST
NEW DELHI: The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2024 will be conducted 60 days from now, on November 24. The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta will organize the exam for admission to management programmes offered by the IIMs, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), and other participating B-schools.
As per the CAT 2024 exam pattern, the MBA entrance exam will be held in three sessions. The duration of the exam will be two hours or 120 minutes. The question paper will comprise three sections – Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC), Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR), and Quantitative Aptitude (QA).
Based on the past years’ trends, there will be a total of 66 questions in the exam carrying 198 marks. Students will get 40 minutes to attempt each question. The exam will be administered in the computer-based test (CBT) mode.
Candidates appearing for the CAT exam 2024 can prepare for the test by segregating topics amongst the weeks in the following manner:
Week 1
Week 1 | Quantitative Aptitude | DILR | VARC |
Day 1 | Basic Numbers, Classification, conversions (Decimal to a Fraction), Base conversion | Bar Graph | Nouns |
Day 2 | Unit digit and last two digits | Pie Chart | Pronouns |
Day 3 | Divisibility and Remainders | Line Graph | Verbs |
Day 4 | Practice Set -1 | ||
Day 5 | Factors and Trailing Zeroes) | Tables | Conjunction |
Day 6 | HCF and LCM | Spider | Articles |
Day 7 | Percentage | Caselett | Prepositions |
Week 2
Week 2 | Quantitative Aptitude | DILR | VARC |
Day 8 | Practice Set -2 | ||
Day 9 | Profit and Loss | Data Interpretation | Reading |
Day 10 | Simple Interest and Compound Interest | Blood Relation | Tenses |
Day 11 | Loans and Installments | Ranking | Tenses |
Day 12 | Practice set -3 | ||
Day 13 | Linear equation | Direction | Tenses |
Day 14 | Quadratic Equation | Cubes | Sentence correction based on tenses |
Week 3
Week 3 | Quantitative Aptitude | DILR | VARC |
Day 15 | Polynomials | Cubes | Subject verb agreement |
Day 16 | Practice Set - 4 | ||
Day 17 | Inequalities | Linear Arrangement | Learn new words and their uses |
Day 18 | Functions and Graph | Linear Arrangement | Conditionals |
Day 19 | Maxima and Minima | Circular Arrangement | Sentence improvement based on Articles |
Day 20 | Practice Set - 5 | ||
Day 21 | Logarithm and Modulus | Circular Arrangement | Cloze test based on articles, tenses, prepositions etc. |
Week 4
Week 4 | Quantitative Aptitude | DILR | VARC |
Day 22 | Average | Distribution | Sentence correctionc |
Day 23 | Strategy to prepare problems involving ages | Distribution | RC and PYQs |
Day 24 | Practice Set - 6 | ||
Day 25 | Mixtures | Selection | RC and PYQs |
Day 26 | Ratio and proportion | Selection | RC and PYQs |
Day 27 | Ratio in partnership | Miscellaneous | RC and PYQs |
Day 28 | Practice Set - 7 |
Week 5
Week 5 | Quantitative Aptitude | DILR | VARC |
Day 29 | Time and Work | Miscellaneous | Strategy to solve the problems based on RC and PYQs Part-5 |
Day 30 | Time, Speed and Distance | Decision Making | Active and Passive Voice |
Day 31 | Train, Boat and Stream | Decision Making | Direct and Indirect Speech |
Day 32 | Practice Set - 8 | ||
Day 33 | Linear Races and Circular Races | Venn diagram | Verbal Analogies |
Day 34 | Escalators | Venn diagram | Participles |
Day 35 | PnC: Basics, Counting and Arrangements | Syllogism | Parallelism |
Week 6
Week 6 | Quantitative Aptitude | DILR | VARC |
Day 36 | Practice Set - 9 | ||
Day 37 | PnC: Selections and Groupings, Distributions | Syllogism | Comparison |
Day 38 | PnC: Ranking and Derrangements | Logical Deduction | One word substitution |
Day 39 | Probability | Data sufficiency in LR | Synonyms and Discussion on PYQs |
Day 40 | Practice Set - 10 | ||
Day 41 | Geometry | Data sufficiency in LR | Synonyms and Discussion on PYQs |
Day 42 | Geometry | Games and Tournaments | Antonyms and Discussion on PYQs |
Week 7
Week 7 | Quantitative Aptitude | DILR | VARC |
Day 43 | Geometry | Games and Tournaments | Antonyms and Discussion on PYQs |
Day 44 | Practice test - 11 | ||
Day 45 | Mensuration | Binary Logic | Parajumbles and PYQs S |
Day 46 | Mensuration | Binary Logic | Parajumbles and PYQs S |
Day 47 | Mensuration | Logical Connectives | Parajumbles and PYQs S |
Day 48 | Practice Set - 12 | ||
Day 49 | Coordinate | Geometry Inequalities | Idioms and Phrases and PYQs |
Week 8
Week 8 | Quantitative Aptitude | DILR | VARC |
Day 50 | Set Theory | Mathematical Grid | Idioms and Phrases and PYQs |
Day 51 | Sequence and Series | Picking up of Coins | Critical Reasoning |
Day 52 | Practice Set - 13 | ||
Day 53 | Statistics | Clocks | Critical Reasoning |
Day 54 | Complex Numbers | Calendars Critical | Reasoning |
Day 55 | Data Sufficiency | Sequences | Critical Reasoning |
Day 56 | Practice Set - 14 |
Week 9
Week 9 | Quantitative Aptitude | DILR | VARC |
Day 57 | Data Sufficiency | Roots and Network | Misc Part-1 |
Day 58 | Data Sufficiency | Number Series | Misc Part-2 |
Day 59 | Miscellaneous | Alphabetical and alphanumerical series | Misc Part-3 |
Day 60 | Practice Set - 15 |
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