CAT 2011 STUDY MATERIAL GUIDE
With CAT exam starting a fresh leaf every year, students are left scrambling for stuff on the Internet. Some are successful and some just stumble again and again on crappy websites. CAT 2011, is no different.
To help students not familiar with some genuine and good resources, given below is a list of some helpful resources which a student can or rather must use for his preparation for CAT 2011.
CAT ONLINE PREPARATION RESOURCES
1) Pagalguy – No need to stress that it is the biggest and arguably the best MBA preparation resource hub on the Internet, especially for CAT 2011. The paradox or irony is that your competitors help you in your preparation and vice versa. It shows the bonhomie that exists with respect to the CAT exam.The quant thread is a must participate and other threads are also quite cool. Ask anything and get the best answer, that is what Pagalguy is all about i.e. caring and sharing.
2) Test Funda – Well, if Pagalguy is about all issues eccentric to CAT, Test Funda is what addresses the core. It has BOTH free and paid resources for students and the free resources are no mean feat by any means. The mocks conducted by Test Funda have exactly the same interface as the CAT online exam, which is definitely a positive thing. Even the color of the window has been kept the same and the content is top class. They provide content in paper, CD and online format which is again a definite advantage. You can and should also subscribe to their daily and weekly updates like word list etc. It helps you build up your vocab and hones your skills likewise. It’s free and it’s there for CAT 2011.
3) Total Gadha aka TG – Apart from the idisyncratic name, the stuff here is also on the same lines (in a positive way). Great tutorials, good free stuff, awesome paid stuff and a nice CBT club make up for a nice package overall. Let us just say it straight, without the number system e-book (paid) of TG, the preparation for CAT is not complete. We are choosing this particular book out of others available because it has stuff that we have not read elsewhere, at least with the same quality standards. Their CBT club is a real bargain for the quality it offers really. You get 8 mocks, plus tonnes of stuff for a 1000 bucks…now that is just 100+ for a Mock (a mock can be given twice), which is a real bargain (keeping the quality in tact) if you ask us. More on mocks below.
CAT 2011 OFFLINE RESOURCES
4) CL/TIME/IMS/TestFunda – Well, though there are plenty of institutes are there on the Internet providing quality education, the studies cannot be complete without the material and test series of a coaching institute.
5) Arun Sharma Books - Quality and Relevance. These two words sum up the review of his material. If you join Pagalguy, you will find that there is a separate thread for his Quant book with loads of participation. The only negative part about his books is that there are some printing errors which can topple your mind “yaar, ye aaaya kaise”. But those are far too few to refrain from buying his stuff. You can buy the books over here at a discount.
That about sums it up, there are some others which you will find as you go deeper into the CAT 2011 journey. We are trying to get MbaGlue up and running, let’s see when it becomes potent enough to figure on this list.
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