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Sir/ma'm i want to clear cat exam with a good percentile and i am doing b.com 1st year(2012),please guide me how should i start my preparations to achieve my goal?

CAT exams are conducted by IIM each year
CAT exams are normally held in the month of October
Notifications are released in the month of July each year

Eligibilty to apply for the CAT exams is Graduation pass in any stream with minimum 50% marks

Questions will be asked from the Below Sections in CAT Exams:
Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation;
Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning

30 questions would be asked from each section.

For Preparation start studying the below books:
>> TIME Coaching CAT notes
>>The Pearson Guide To Verbal Ability And Logical Reasoning For The CATby Nishit K. Sinha
>> The Pearson Guide To Quantitative Aptitude And Data Interpretation For The CATby Nishit K. Sinha

HI

Preparation for CAT demands atleast 1 year of preparation

you need to have following eligibility for appearing for CAT

- You should be graduate from recognized institute or college
- you should have scored atleast 50% in your graduation, 45% for SC/ST
- You should not have any backlog

You can either prepare on your own or you can join any good coaching institute.

If you want to prepare on your own, you can start with following books

- R. S . Agarwal
- Arihant Publication
- Arun Sharma

If you want to join coaching, you may go for the following

- TIME
- IMS
- Career Launcher

These classes provides you good material to prepare.

Apart from material, you should solve as many mock papers as possible

All the best