CetKing Sometimes, while evaluating the answer choices in in strengthen/weaken questions, we unknowingly go beyond the options and make assumptions about what they may imply if we were to have additional pieces of data. What we have to remember is that we do not have this additional information – we have to judge each option on its … Read more
One of the variety of puzzle involves distributing fuel among vehicles to reach a destination. Let’s look at this type of question: A military car carrying an important letter must cross a desert. There is no petrol station in the desert, and the car’s fuel tank is just enough to take it halfway across. There … Read more
Usually, CAT questions that are based on your field of work or interests are simple to comprehend and relatively easy to answer correctly. But what happens when, say, an engineer gets a question based on psychiatry? Is he or she bound to fail? No. Remember that the CAT offers a level playing field for test takers from … Read more
Fortunately, and contrary to popular belief, the CAT isn’t “pure evil.” Wherever it provides opportunities for less-savvy examinees to waste their time, it also provides a shortcut for those who have put in the study time to learn it or who have the patience to look for the elevator, so to speak, before slogging up … Read more
We all know that we need to be very careful while reading CAT questions – that every word is important. Even small oversights can completely change an answer for you. This is what happens with many test takers who try to tackle this official question. Even though the question looks very simple, the way it is worded … Read more
Property: The circumcenter of a right triangle is the mid point of the hypotenuse. Let’s prove this first and then we will see its application. Say, we have a right triangle ABC right angled at B. Let’s draw the perpendicular bisector of AB which intersects AB at its mid … Read more
Hypothetically speaking, given a choice between a question on median and one on mean, which would you choose? (Not that we are fortunate enough to have a choice on test day, but no harm in dreaming!) It would be wiser to pick the question testing on median, and here is why: Median is the value at … Read more
Let’s look at the popular “pouring water puzzle”. Here is the puzzle: You have a 3- and a 5-liter water container – each container has no markings except for that which gives us its total volume. We also have a running tap. We must use the containers and the tap in such a way that … Read more
If you’re like many examinees, you’ve found yourself in this familiar situation. You KNOW the rules for exponents. You know them cold. When you’re multiplying the same base and different exponents, you add the exponents. When you’re taking one exponent to another power, you multiply those exponents. A negative exponent? Flip that term into the … Read more
Two triangles are congruent if they have: Exactly the same three side and Exactly the same three angles. But we don’t have to know all three sides and all three angles ……..usually three out of six is enough There are four ways to find if two triangles are congruent: SSS, SAS, ASA and AAS SSS (side, side, side) SSS stands … Read more
