Easy Ways to Improve and Expand Your Vocabulary

Looking for tips for improving your vocabulary? Whether you are trying to strengthen and broaden your vocabulary for school or personal growth, the key is a commitment to regularly learning new words.Why expand your knowledge and use of words? You’ll be able to communicate (speak and write) more clearly and concisely, people will understand you … Read more

THE EIGHT PARTS OF SPEECH

There are eight parts of speech in the English language: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. The part of speech indicates how the word functions in meaning as well as grammatically within the sentence. An individual word can function as more than one part of speech when used in different circumstances. Understanding … Read more

List Of 50 Idioms

Every language has its own collection of wise sayings. They offer advice about how to live and also transfer some underlying ideas, principles and values of a given culture / society. These sayings are called “idioms” – or proverbs if they are longer. The use of these idioms and proverbs in a language adds colour … Read more

Data sufficiency problems on number properties

Data Sufficiency is not a common topic in CAT since a last few years,but it does appear in other entrances.Data sufficiency questions that deal with number properties are very difficult to handle (even for people who find problem-solving number properties questions manageable)! They feel that such questions are time consuming and often involve too many … Read more

Solving Questions with irregular polygons

First, take a look at the question itself: The hexagon above has interior angles whose measures are all equal. As shown, only five of the six side lengths are known: 10, 15, 4, 18, and 7. What is the unknown side length?         (A) 7 (B)10 (C) 12 (D) 15 (E) 16 There … Read more

Using ingenuity on remainder questions

We know various types of  remainder questions and discussed how to tackle them. You may also have examined the concepts of general divisibility and divisibility specifically applied to remainder. There is one concept, however, that we haven’t discussed yet, and that is using ingenuity on remainder questions. Say “x” gives you a remainder of 2 when … Read more

3 Step method to solve complex algebra problems

If you have been practicing algebra questions for a while, you will realize that not every question can be solved using pure algebra, especially at higher levels. There will be questions that will require logic and quite a bit of thinking on your part.  These questions tend to throw test-takers off – students often complain, “Where do I start … Read more

Solving Complex Word Problems

In studying for the CAT, we often come across a strategy for how to handle complex questions – simplify them until they become a problem that we know how to solve. But how exactly does one simplify a complicated CAT question? Let’s try to understand this with an example today: Twenty-four men can complete a job in sixteen … Read more

Solving Conclusion Questions in CR

The conclusion of the argument is the position taken by the author. CR questions  sometimes have more than one conclusion – One would be the conclusion of the argument i.e. the author’s conclusion. The argument could mention another conclusion which could be the conclusion of a certain segment of people/ some scientists/ some researchers/ a … Read more

When to ignore Geometry Diagrams

You have probably heard people talk about the importance of diagrams in many  Quant questions  – coordinate geometry, races, time-speed-distance problems, sets, etc. We even suggest you to make diagrams when they are not given on such questions. But sometimes, the Testmakers give such diagrams that we wish we were not given the diagram at all. In … Read more

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