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Fundamentals of TIME Speed & Distance (TDS) A perennial favorite of CAT setters, problems on Time, speed and distance are always found in good numbers in cat Paper and others entrance exams. While the other entrance exam stick to the “standard” problems of TSD like those involving trains crossing or boats and streams, CAT usually have unusual & innovative problems on TSD. Of late, CAT has a castlet of two or three questions based on TSD of people running in complex Geometry figures. While students find the variety of problems that appear in TSD a little difficult to digest, the irony is that there is just one formula in maths, that of speed, which everyone I familiar with. Thus to master TSD, one just needs to recollect the funds of ratio and proportion and see if these can be applied orally and avoid to use of equations. Learning Objectives for CAT Paper in this section: - Proportionality between Time, Speed and distance
- Average Speed
- Relative speed
- Problems on trains crossing
- Problems on boats and stream
- Circular motion
- Clocks
- Work
Data Representation A major part of a students daily routine is to analyze data. The amount of data that a manager comes across is mind-boggling, to say the least. Financial data as in P&L sheet, cost sheets, marketing and sales data, divided across product groups and regions and further across quarters and years, compared with previous years’ figures; competition and market information of market shares, value wise and volume wise; data on productivity; data on performance appraisal; data on each and every process that you can image. There exit an entire department. In most companies, MIS which generates and students every conceivable data that one can imagine. For a student to gather worthwhile information from this overwhelming amount of data, the data needs to be presented in a lucid and concise manner. Duplicating data has needs to be avoided and at the same time no detail has to be lost out. The data representation should immediately be able to provide the overall scenario and also should be sufficient to compute any detailed information. This is where data representation plays a very important role. In CAT Paper when reading a table, or for that matter any representation of data, it is imperative that you read everything about the data i.e the heading for the data, the column headings, any foot notes, units of the data, etc. and not giving just a cursory glance to the actual numbers. Fundamentals of vocabulary Various methods have been suggested by the English language experts to go about vocabulary for CAT Paper: Association: Try to associate the words with people, images, events, pages etc. for example, take the word ‘prolific’. You can associate it with john Grisham or may be Jeffrey archer who wrote a many number of books every year and gets them published. Therefore they are prolific authors. Another important step is to utter the new words in your everyday conversation. Networking: this networking doesn’t refer to the social networking. Rather it refers to looking at words in groups. These groups can be theme based, root based or antonyms and synonyms based. Flash cards: you will be provided with flash cards on which high-frequency words will be printed. These cards are easy to carry and use. Fix a target regarding the number of words to be done everyday or every weeks. Make sentences using these words. Keep revising at frequent intervals. Riya is an author and faculty by profession, imparts education/training for Common Admission Test (CAT) exam. For online coaching or study material of Entrance Exam, please visit http://www.careerlauncher.com/smartcatcracker
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