How to prepare for verbal ability and reading comprehension - Sharma Arun, Upadhyay Meenakshi 2014

How to prepare for verbal ability and reading comprehension - Sharma Arun, Upadhyay Meenakshi 2014

Preface to the fifth edition

Acknowledgements

The Online CAT: From a VA/RC Perspective

Part 1: Building skills for reading comprehension

Section 1: Reading Comprehension

The seven dimension approach to better reading skills

Theory of Reading Comprehension

Illustrative CAT Passages (Solved)

Section 2: LOD Exercises

Level of Difficulty—I

Level of Difficulty—II

Level of Difficulty—III

Previous years’ questions from CAT

Part 2: Verbal Ability

Section 1: Vocabulary

Word list I—High frequency words

Word List II—Medium Frequency Words

Word list III—Low frequency words

Roots, prefixes, suffixes and foreign words

Words and Phrases often Confused

Section 2: Vocabulary-based questions

Section 3: Fill in the Blanks

Sentence Completion

Level of Difficulty—I

Level of Difficulty—II

Previous years’ questions from CAT

Section 4: Paragraph Jumbles

Paragraph Jumbles

Practice exercises on paragraph jumbles

Level of Difficulty—I

Level of Difficulty—II

Level of Difficulty—III

Previous years’ questions from CAT

Section 5: Sentence Correction

Sentence Correction

Fact, inference, and judgement

Section 6: New verbal question types in CAT

Paragraph Completion/ Last sentence of the paragraph

Irrelevant statement questions

Part 3: Verbal reasoning

Section 1: Critical reasoning

Critical Reasoning/Paragraph comprehension

Previous years’ questions from the CAT

Section 2: Syllogisms

Section 3: Binary Logic

Verbal reasoning based on binary logic

Section 4: Logical deductions

Logical deductions

Part 4: CAT papers (Real and sample)

Section 1: CAT papers

Section 2: Model test paper for verbal ability and reading comprehension

Model Test paper