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Discussing Your Strengths and Weaknesses
in the CAT Personal Interview
You should stop worrying about the procedure being too tough and being more of a psychoanalysis test. The IIM Personal Interview only aims to determine the following key factors:

1) Are your goals in line with what the institute can offer:

What are your goals? This is the most [...]

When schools consider their offer of admission to you, they will evaluate you on a number of factors. Once you have been shortlisted from your CAT preparation, you will have a Group Discussion (GD) and a Personal Interview (PI). Here are some do’s and don’ts when you are preparing for your Personal Interview!
Do’s
Do join way2freshers [...]

CAT Personal Interview:
What Does The Panel Look For In A Candidate?
The focus of a B-school interview can range from specific questions about your job to broad discussions on life. Approach the interview as a conversation to be enjoyed, not as a question-and-answer ordeal. It may be about your hobbies – your recent cross-country trip. This [...]

What are the possible topics for the Group Discussion (GD) on my CAT?
Topics in the CAT Group Discussion (GD)
On the Common Admission Test (CAT), you will be put in a Group Discussion of 8 to 10 candidates and evaluated by a panel.
You can read some tip and strategies on preparation for the CAT Group Discussions [...]

Worst Possible Things That Can Happen in a Group Discussion
Let’s paint a picture! So, you’re heading into your CAT Group Discussion. You’ve done everything to prepare yourself and more. Going through an abundance of tips and guides to ensure that you are a prime candidate. Yet, despite how confident you may feel and nailing every [...]

A panel will judge team members for their alertness and presence of mind, problem-solving abilities, ability to work as a team without alienating certain members, and creativity.

What The Panel Looks For:
All that one observes in a Group Discussion can be categorized into two broad areas: the Content and the Process.
The content is all about the [...]

# What does a Phillumenist collect?
1. Old coins
2. Flags of various nations
3. Match box labels
4. Empty cigarette boxes
Answer : C
# Who was the author of ‘Raghuvamsa’?
1. Kannadasan
2. Kalidasa
3. Sivadas
4. Shankaracharya
Answer : [...]

Lloyd’s is a world leader in which of the following industries?
1. Garment
2. Insurance
3. Commodity Trading
4. Banking
Answer : B
# Jeffrey Immelt took over as the CEO from a legend of which US corporate giant?
1. Oracle
2. Boeing
[...]

Which one of the following partnership in the domestic insurance sector is inCorrect?
1. HDFC - Standard Life
2. Birla - Sun Life
3. Tata - Allianz
4. Max - New York Life
Answer : C
# As per the latest National Readership Survey 2001, which newspaper has become [...]

Under what name is MTNL marketing its GSM based mobile telephony?
1. Swarna
2. Dolphin
3. Speed
4. Vayu
Answer : B
# What is the name of the branded petrol with cleansing additives that is being marketed by HPCL?
1. Power
2. Premium
[...]

# Which company’s famously advertised vision statement is ‘The Network is the Computer’?
1. Cisco Systems
2. Lucent Technologies
3. Sun Microsystems
4. Nortel Networks
Answer : C
# The software company I-flex Solutions was originally a division of which famous financial services company?
1. Citicorp
[...]

A study of a math program implemented in several pre-schools indicates that children who received the specialized Math Plus math education between the ages three and five had significantly higher math scores in 3rd and 4th grade than their classmates who did not receive this instruction. The proponents of the math argue that the introduction [...]

Directions : Each CAT sample logical reasoning question in this part of the assessment starts with a reading passage containing the information to be used to choose between correct and incorrect logical conclusions. These conclusions are based on the information in the passage. After this reading passage, you are given a lead-in phrase that [...]

Sample Question : Analytical Reasoning
Directions : All CAT sample analytical resoning questions are based on a passage or set of conditions. While answering a few of the questions, you would find it useful to draw a rough diagram. To answer any CAT sample analytical reasoning question choose the answer you think is most appropriate [...]

* How many ways can 4 prizes be given away to 3 boys, if each boy is eligible for all the prizes?
1. 256
2. 12
3. [...]

Races
1. In a kilometre race, A can give B a start of 100 m or 15 seconds. How long does A take to complete the race?
1. 150 seconds
2. 165 seconds
[...]

Directions: In this section you will be given two quantities, one in column A and one in column B. You are to determine a relationship between the two quantities and mark.
1. If the quantity in column A is catater than the quantity in column B.
2. If the quantity in [...]

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Diagram is illustrative and is not drawn to scale.
Quantity A: Measure of angle 2 + Measure of angle 3
Quantity B: 180 o
1. Quantity B is greater
2. Quantity A is greater
3. Quantity A equals Quantity B
4. Relationship Indeterminate
Ans : C
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Diagram is illustrative and is [...]

# Consider a rectangle. The length of its shorter side is 8, and the length of its diagonal is 16.
Quantity A: 30 o
Quantity B: measure of angle formed by diagonal and shorter side
1. Relationship Indeterminate
2. Quantity A equals Quantity B
3. Quantity A is greater
[...]

Directions:
In this section you will be given two quantities, one in column A and one in column B. You are to determine a relationship between the two quantities and mark.
1. If the quantity in column A is greater than the quantity in column B.
2. If the quantity in [...]

Directions:
Each of the CAT sample antonyms questions below consists of a word printed in Italics, followed by five words or phrase as choices. Choose the word or phrase which is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capitals and shade the alphabets marked in the grid on your answer sheet.
total question 80
Following are [...]

Directions:
Each reading passage in this section is followed by questions based on the content of the reading passage. Read the passage carefully and chose the best answer to each question. The questions are to be answered on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
1.) But man is not destined to vanish. [...]

Verbal Section: Analogy Sample Questions
Directions:
Each of the questions below consists of two words that have a certain relationship to each other, followed by five lettered pairs of related words. Select the lettered pair of words.
1. ANGLE : DECATE
1. area : square inch
[...]

Verbal Section : Sentence Completion Sample Questions
Directions:
Each sentence below has one or two blanks. Each blank shows that something has been omitted. Under each sentence five words are given as choice. Choose the one correct word for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentences as a whole.
1 The fact that [...]

As CAT 2007 nears, your tension mounts and anxiety rises. No matter how hard you study, your scores won’t increase.
But don’t panic just yet. Even if the above applies to you, remember that roughly 200,000 others are experiencing the same feelings.
Overview
You have approximately 90 days before the CAT (18 November 2007). This is not [...]

If you hope to attend an IIM, you’ll need to ace each section of CAT 2007. Being exceptionally good in two of the three, while still weak in the other, won’t earn you the much coveted seat you desire.
Yesterday, we provided an overview of the exam and discussed methods you can use to improve your [...]

With only 60 days to go for CAT 2007, my advice to students is to understand what can be achieved in this time, and work exclusively towards this goal.
But this is also a stage where a lot of doubts crop up in the minds of students. This article is an attempt to look at some [...]

Everybody knows that CAT is one of the most (if not the most) un-predictable exams held in India and abroad.
It has been observed that even the testing software used by education testing services to conduct the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) has a similar set of questions in one month. That means the GRE, despite being [...]

SECTION-I
NUMBER OF QUESTION =30
DIRECTIONS for Questions 1 to 5: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given
below.
Dream teams are formed by Television viewers by selecting five players from the sixteen players
namely P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7, P8, P9, P10, P11, P12, P13, P14, P15 and P16. The players belong [...]