How to Prepare for Logical Reasoning for CAT

About the Book: How to Prepare for Logical Reasoning for CAT

A comprehensive book dealing with the logical reasoning aspect of the CAT. It is ideal for CAT aspirants who feel that their Logical Reasoning skills are a bit on the weaker side or those who want to give the exam but feel that their Logical Reasoning has some serious flaws.

Author Arun Sharma has complied the most comprehensive guide to the Logical Reasoning section of the Common Aptitude Test. In the new format of the CAT, there are only two sections one of which is Logical Reasoning. This makes the subject a very important one which every CAT-aspirant must surpass in order to achieve a good standing in the examination. It is also the section where most aspirants take a fall. In How to Prepare for Logical Reasoning for CAT, each section begins with the basics and moves on to tougher questions within logical reasoning. It also covers the verbal ability sections within logical reasoning. The book also has many previous year papers, solved and unsolved, to give test takers a chance to practice over and over the many different types of questions asked in the Logical Reasoning section of the CAT. As the saying goes…Practice Makes Perfect.

Table of Contents

Section 1: LOGICAL REASONING
1. Important Concepts in Logical Reasoning
2. Logical Reasoning based on Arrangements
3. Logical reasonings based on Rankings
4. Team Formations
5. Quantitative Reasoning
6. Puzzle Test
Section 2: VERBAL REASONING
1. Syllogisms
2. Logical Deductions
3. Set Theory, Venn Diagrams and Network Diagrams
4. Binary Logic
5. Critical Reasoning
Section 3: REASONING EXERCISES BASED ON LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY
1. Level of Difficulty (LOD)—I
2. Level of Difficulty (LOD)—II
3. Level of Difficulty (LOD)—III
PART II: REASONING QUESTION TYPES FROM OTHER MBA EXAMS
1. Sequences and Series
2. Blood Relations
3. Direction Test
4. Statement and Conclusions
5. Statement and Assumptions
6. Assertion and Reason
7. Statement—Courses of Action
8. Mathematical Operations
PART III: REASONING ARCHIVES
Section 1: PAST YEARS' SOLVED QUESTIONS FROM THE CAT
1. CAT 2008
2. CAT 2007
3. CAT 2006
4. CAT 2005
5. CAT 2004
6. CAT 2003 Repeat
7. CAT 2003 Cancelled
8. CAT 2002
9. CAT 2001
10. CAT 2000
11. CAT 1999
Section 2: PAST YEARS' SOLVED QUESTIONS FROM THE XAT
1. XAT 2012
2. XAT 2011
3. XAT 2010
4. XAT 2009
5. XAT 2008
Section 3: PAST YEARS' SOLVED QUESTIONS FROM THE IIFT
1. IIFT 2011
2. IIFT 2010
3. IIFT 2009
4. IIFT 2008
5. IIFT 2007
Section 4: PAST YEARS' SOLVED QUESTIONS FROM THE SNAP
1. SNAP 2011
2. SNAP 2010
3. SNAP 2009
4. SNAP 2008
5. SNAP 2007
6. SNAP 2006
Model Test Paper ( Based on the Latest Online Pattern)

About the Author: Arun Sharma

Arun Sharma has also written How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for CAT, Quicker Maths, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning for CAT and The Complete CAT Digest. He has also compiled a book with answers to common management aptitude tests.