How to prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for the CAT is a comprehensive text to help aspirants tackle the Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension section of the CAT. This new revised fifth edition has beenupdated with new contents and aims to be a complete resource for this secttion.

Table of Contents:
PART 1: Building Skills for Reading Comprehension Section 1: Reading Comprehension 1. Introduction 2. The Seven Dimension Approach to Better Reading Skills 3. Theory of Reading Comprehension 4. Illustrative CAT Passages (Solved) Section 2: LOD Exercises 5. Level of Difficulty—I 6. Level of Difficulty—II 7. Level of Difficulty—III 8. Previous Years’ Questions from CAT PART 2: Verbal Ability Section 1: Vocabulary 1. Word List I—High Frequency Words 2. Word List II—Medium Frequency Words 3. Word List III—Low Frequency Words 4. Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes and Foreign Words 5. Words and Phrases often Confused Section 2: Vocabulary-based Questions 6. Synonyms 7. Antonyms 8. Odd Man Out 9. Analogies Section 3: Fill in the Blanks Block 1: Theory 10. Sentence Completion Block 2: LODs and CAT Questions 11. Level of Difficulty—I 12. Level of Difficulty—II 13. Previous Years’ Questions from CAT Section 4: Paragraph Jumbles Block 1: Theory 14. Paragraph Jumbles 15. Practice Exercises on Paragraph Jumbles Block 2: LODs and CAT Questions 16. Level of Difficulty—I 17. Level of Difficulty—II 18. Level of Difficulty—III 19. Previous Years’ Questions from CAT Section 5: Sentence Correction 20. Sentence Correction 21. Fact, Inference, and Judgement Section 6: New Verbal Question Types in CAT 22A. Phrasal Verbs 22B. Phrasal Verbs 23. Paragraph Completion/ Last Sentence of the Paragraph 24. Irrelevant Statement Questions PART 3: Verbal Reasoning Section 1: Critical Reasoning 1. Critical Reasoning/Paragraph Comprehension 2 . Previous Years’ Questions from the CAT Section 2: Syllogisms 3. Syllogisms Section 3: Binary Logic 4. Verbal Reasoning Based on Binary Logic Section 4: Logical Deductions 5. Logical Deductions PART 4: CAT Papers (Real and Sample) Section 1: CAT Papers 1. CAT Paper 2006 2. CAT Paper 2007 3. CAT Paper 2008 Section 2: Model Test Paper for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension 4. Model Test Paper