CAT 7 Months Planner for Non-Working Aspirants

There are 3 types of non-working aspirants:

(1)  College-Going aspirants whose online classes follow a strict schedule. (Mostly 9 am to 4 pm: They need to follow same time-table as Working Professionals (Check out Time-Table for Working Professionals)

(2) College going but with no classes (with 1Lakh fees/year)

(3) Those who lost their job due to Covid or working at home with leisure.

Below time-table is for ii) & iii). First type can follow the working plan.

Note: The plan is strictly for serious aspirants aiming for 99+ in CAT.

First, you need to evaluate how you can achieve 99%ile. There are two ways –

1) You are damn good in two of the sections, for example, QA & VA, QA & LRDI, or VA & LRDi, while average at the third

One example of a Past CAT score of an iQuanta student :

QA : 99.7

LRDi : 99.9

VA : 88

Overall : 99.68  (IIM C)

2) You are equally good at all the three sections QA, LRDI, and VA. (Balanced Prep)

With 97.5%ile+ in all the three sections will land you close to 99%ile overall. And 99%ile in all three sections will land you more than 99.7+%ile overall.

So evaluate yourself, and then make a plan on these lines.

Considering that you start your preparation from the last week of April onwards, you have roughly 210-215 days till 28th November.

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Basically, you need to put in extra effort to reach your goal because those having working experience have a bit of an edge over non-working people and for that, you have got more time than working people to compensate.

You need to put at least  6-7 hours /day (along with the any Classes you follow like iQuanta CAT Full Course. (Please change according to your requirement if you feel exhausted)

CAT New Batch Starting from May : Check here: CAT Course Details

First, I would recommend you to make a list of al the topics that come in CAT with their weightage. Pen down all your strengths and weaknesses.

Following are the Important areas from each subject : 

1. Quant chapters:

Approx number of Questions asked : (Considering 2 hours CAT exam)

=> Arithmetic ( 8-9 Questions)

=> Algebra ( 5-6 Questions)

=> Geometry (5-6 Questions)

Other important topics:

=> Numbers ( 1-3 question but this topic is going to be your base for all other topics, some concept that you’ll learn in this topic will help you not only in Quant but some DI sets as well)

=> Series, logs ,P and C (3-4) Question)

=> Miscellaneous (1-2 Questions)

(Considering you want to complete your portion in this order only; change if you wish to)

Chapter Wise Plan: (Starting from 1st May)

As iQuanta is starting the New CAT 2023 Batch from May, so it will be useful for those who are enrolled too as well as to those who are starting the preparation around this time. (If you want to be a part of this course, you can enroll for Brahmastra CAT Full Course at www.iQuanta.in)

For iQuanta CAT New Batch Enrolled students, the Flow of Course will be like:
1) Live Conceptual class
2) Application class
3) 20 Question Assignment in Dashboard
4) Practice session on that topic with other students
5) CAT Level Material to solve (50 per topic | Easy to difficult)

Then move to next Topic

Numbers [1st May – 25th May]

(3-4 hours per day for 3-4 weeks (25 days) learning concepts and solving sums from past papers as well :

[26th May to 9th July]

• Arithmetic (3-4 hours per day for 45 daysFrom this point you can start taking Mocks along with your preparation, so that you get familiar to sitting for a 2-3 hour exam

[9th to 24th July]

• Modern Maths(3-4 hours per day for 16 days.)[25th July to 26th August]
• Algebra (3-4 hours per day) for 32 days

[27th August to 16th September] 

• Geometry and Mensuration(3-4 hours per day ) for the next 20 days

    [17th September to 30th September]

• Leftover topics (3-4 hours per day ) for 14 days Revise leftover topics and practice[iQuanta Course is desgined in a way that your whole syllabus will get covered by August End, while one month is adjusted for your Practice and Solidification of Concepts]
• Crash Course [1st October to 26th November]

Revise the whole CAT syllabus again with the fast-paced Crash course for 60 days prior to the main exam.

• Keep solving and practising questions on CAT Preparation-iQuanta Group daily and whenever you see the questions, because solving randomly prepares you better than solving them chapter-wise for a competitive exam. (Most Important)

Source:

1. From any standard material, you have in hand, along with iQuanta Sessions. Follow CAT Preparation Group posts/Events. Try to attempt questions there and ask doubts in case. (Most important)
2. Solve CAT Past papers : https://www.iquanta.in/test/cat-previous-papers
3. You may join iQuanta CAT 2023 Course which is of immense help to develop concept and methodology to tackle CAT questions. Regular sessions by iQuanta till CAT will help you remain stuck to your plan and be regular which is the most important part of CAT Preparation : Consistency. New Batch classes are starting this week. Click on the link below to join.
   
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4. For more detailed CAT Overall Strategy: follow this link.
5. For detailed CAT Quant strategy : follow this link . 

Verbal Area:

1. Reading comprehension
2. Critical Reasoning
3. Para Jumbles and Odd one Out
4. Paragraph Summary

RC and Verbal Area (Starting from 1st May-28th Nov): 

• Keep a daily practice of reading for at least 30 mins. Basically, read some editorials and also try to summarise from what you read.
• Reading comprehension (2 hours daily).  Start with at least 3 passages per day then increase to 4-5 passages once you gain Accuracy. Likewise, till November you will be able to complete almost 300+ passages).
• Here quantity is not important, quality is, focusing that you gain at least 90% Accuracy.
• Sentence Correction, Critical Reasoning, Para jumbles, and Para completions. (It’s up to you how to do it. Generally, one should keep 2 days for each topic above).

Source :

1. 1. Mocks and Sectionals of iQuanta and any standard Test series.
   2. 250 Genre Wise CAT RCs.
   3. CAT Preparation Group/iQuanta Events.
   4. CAT Past papers (https://www.iquanta.in/test/cat-previous-papers)
   5. You can follow this post for detailed CAT VARC Strategy 
   6. For an extra edge help you may join iQuanta CAT Course. 

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