CAT 2012, Day 18: VA&LR continue to be tough

CAT 2012 completed 18 days of testing on November 3, 2012. Till now, 1,47,513 candidates have taken the exam. The exam, which took a different turn on the Day 17, did not see much change on the 18th Day. Only the focus of the tough areas was shifted from Quantitative Ability to Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning.

Ravish Tripathi, a CAT taker in the Noida test center, mentioned, The Quantitative Ability section was tough as usual but the other areas were not easy as well. I found the LR questions quite challenging. The RC passages were also ambiguous.

Anant, another CAT taker from Delhi, said: The Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning section was very tough according to my standard. The Data Interpretation questions were lengthy and calculation intensive. QA questions were tough as well.

The topics of the sections were as follows:

Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation
Geometry and algebra remained the top topics. The other topics were arithmetic, trigonometry, number systems, P&C, functions, Mensuration, time, speed & distance, etc. Topics of Data Interpretation were Venn Diagram, pie chart and case-lets.

Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning
Reading comprehension, para jumble, vocabulary, sentence correction, identifying the out of context sentences, grammar, etc were the topics from the Verbal Ability area.

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