by Sriram Krishnan | Oct 22, 2015 | Verbal
Although direct questions on application of punctuation in CAT are few and far between, it is still useful to know some of the rules pertaining to usage of punctuation. Here’s a quick little primer: Comma One of the main uses of the comma is to separate words/word...
by Shashank Prabhu | Oct 22, 2015 | Quant
Coordinate geometry is one of the rare topics from which problems appear in CAT. The questions are pretty simple and formula based but many a time, students do not know shortcuts and direct formulae that make their life a lot easier. One such concept is that of the...
by Shashank Prabhu | Oct 20, 2015 | Quant
In this article, we will be seeing how to calculate the number of paths along a grid. The previous article focused on calculating the number of squares and rectangles in an m*n grid. While simple grids can be easily solved using the permutations with repetition...
by Shashank Prabhu | Oct 19, 2015 | Quant
This is the first part of grids in which I will be covering number of squares and rectangles in an m*n grid. The next part will cover paths along a grid. This is an easy sub-topic from permutations and combinations and can be solved within seconds by application of...
by Shashank Prabhu | Oct 16, 2015 | LRDI
This is an interesting puzzle type, commonly found in the form of single questions or a set in the DI-LR section. It typically involves a game of sticks in which, two players (playing a logically perfect game) have to pick sticks till the time one stick remains. The...
