CAT VARC Preparation with Practicals!

Find hands-on practical advice for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for CAT with key concept explanations, reading techniques and in-depth analysis of RC texts.

CAT VARC Preparation courses for aspirants

Our VARC Course For CAT Makes The Section Easy!

Your VARC preparation for CAT shouldn’t just be practising questions blindly. You deserve direction, discussion and clarity.

Are you someone who can bring down the choices from four or five to two, and then realise that you don’t know how to narrow it down to the correct answer? Do you often find that your final answer was the wrong one? This is a common issue and you’re not alone. To bridge the gap between explanations that are too long and confusing and ones that don’t give enough context for you to understand, Takshzila steps in with balanced but exhaustive explanations to both the correct and the incorrect choices.

Whether it is para completion, para summary, critical reasoning or reading comprehension for CAT preparation, what stands out in our courses is the quality of practice questions and their answer explanations. We help you identify nuances amongst the choices to easily rule out wrong options the next time around.

You won’t find phrases such as “the paragraph makes it obvious” in our answer keys. We understand the value of explanations for someone who is looking at them for answers. Get a taste of thorough explanations for all the areas with our VARC CAT prep course.

Practical Based CAT Reading Comprehension Course

Online coaching classes for CAT often stop with simple advice on skill-improvement and reading speed tricks. To truly make a difference in your RC prep, you need identification of problem areas, consistent work on reading ability and difficulty levels, and of course, efficiency in answering RC questions.

We go the extra mile – instead of empty advice, we give you hands-on guidance through group chats, share relevant and qualitative reading materials, hold workshops to improve comprehension skills, and have many practical lessons to help you better your speed, accuracy and retention. In this way, we instil in you an actual love for reading that lasts well beyond your CAT prep era.

  • Second-to-none knowledge of subject matter
  • Practicals for all theoretical concepts
  • Reading sessions on tough passages
  • Introductory reading articles on all relevant subjects
  • Perfect difficulty levels of exercises & mocks

Past year trends

Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension For CAT Decoded

In CAT ‘22, ‘21 and ‘20, VARC was the first section with a time limit of 40 minutes. CAT ‘22 and ‘21 had 24 questions each, while CAT ‘20 had 26 questions. Reading comprehension formed the bulk of the questions and the other questions included critical reasoning, para summary and parajumbles. The break-up of questions is given in the table below.

Topics 2022 2021 2020
Reading Comprehension 16 16 18
Para-Summary 3 3 3
Para-Completion 2 0 0
Para-Jumbles 3 5 5

Marking scheme is +3/–1 for MCQs and +3/0 for TITA (where you have to type the answer). In CAT ‘22, a net score of around 38 to 40 would have fetched you 99%tile, while 30 to 32 would have gotten you 95%tile and 26 to 28 would have been enough for 90%tile.

Our CAT VARC preparation covers not only all these types of questions, but also vocabulary and grammar because other tests, such as XAT, IIFT, SNAP, NMAT include an exhaustive range of such topics as well.

Details Of Our VARC Course For CAT

CAT Reading Comprehension Course
Our Reading Comprehension segment of the course includes theory and practical lessons on:

  • Previewing a text
  • Understanding paragraphs
  • Transition words, phrases and keywords in context
  • Identifying the main idea and argument
  • Tone and style or writing in passages
  • Drawing inferences

Practical lessons teach you to use your theoretical learning in real-time reading.

There are also practice exercises that take you from Very Easy -> Easy -> Medium and all the way to -> Tough. Another highlight of our RC course is its categorisation based very closely to the actual CAT VARC topic selection. So, instead of random articles, you will find relevant and close-to-CAT reading on Arts & Humanities, History, Social Sciences, Philosophy, Science, Finance & Economics, and Political & Current affairs.

CAT Verbal Ability Video Lectures
Questions other than RC fall under Verbal Ability and include topics such as critical reasoning and paragraph-based questions.
The VA part of our course prepares you by first giving you a theoretical foundation with video lectures and then helping you apply that learning in practice exercises. All the exercises come with detailed explanations. You will feel tutored on each concept with these basic-to-advanced lectures. Bonus: we also offer a course on Grammar because aside from CAT, other tests still include Grammar questions in their English sections.

The course also includes a comprehensive CAT mock test series to benchmark your performance and to fine-tune your strategy. The VARC Self Study bundle has 8 VARC section tests modelled on the latest CAT pattern. If you buy a Self Study bundle of all three sections, you will also get 15 CAT based full length tests and 10 tests directly based on the latest patterns of XAT, IIFT, SNAP, NMAT.

A comprehensive course to master verbal ability and reading comprehension for CAT.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The VARC section does not have a vast amount of theory. To cover the theoretical inputs it will take less than 25 to 30 hours i.e. about a month if you devote 1 hour daily. However, that is not enough. Students may neglect this section since English is a familiar language and they feel that they don’t need to learn anything new. But scoring well in VARC is a bigger issue for most students than scoring well in QA. This section is a skill based section. And to develop skills, you will need continuous practice of about 3 to 4 months, assuming you spend 1 hour daily.

You might feel that joining a course for VARC is unnecessary because there is little to no theory to it. But VARC is not about theory, it is about application of skill level in a short amount of time. This needs skill building and insight into language. Textbooks can only take you so far, and in the end you will need a teacher and an expert to guide you through the challenging phases. To understand arguments, to identify your strengths in VA and RC and to become stronger in the English section for such competitive tests, we believe that a tutor-led classroom structure still holds the highest position in education.

There are two avenues to clear your doubts:
1. a Telegram group exclusive to paid students, and
2. live class interaction
The Telegram group is a vibrant ongoing chat forum where you can post your doubts 24×7. Say you are watching one of our CAT verbal ability video lectures and a doubt crops up, pick up your phone and post to the Telegram group and a teacher will give you a detailed explanation. More often than not, the active student community itself pitches in and a lively healthy discussion ensues. Students of live class courses can also ask doubts in their live class interactions. Some periodic live classes are open even to the self-study students to interact with the faculty members.

If by improvement in English you mean better spoken english, better communication, writing mails, talking to people, public speaking, then you are mistaking CAT VARC preparation for an English proficiency course. The CAT VARC course is primarily for clearing entrance tests that include an English section. If you would like to work on overall English improvement, we have an English Proficiency Improvement Course (EPIC). You can check its details here .

The theory remains same for both CAT and GMAT, but the weightage of different topics differ and even in questions of the same topic, there are nuanced differences. The structure of GMAT verbal reasoning is more or less fixed and has questions on just three topics – 13-14 questions on RC, 9-10 questions on critical reasoning and 12-13 questions on sentence correction (grammar based). In CAT there is no defined structure and weightage of different topics is liable to change. For the past many years there are no Grammar based questions and the section usually has 16 questions of RC, 3-5 questions on para-summary or para-completion and 3-5 questions on para-jumbles. Furthermore, questions in GMAT RCs tend to be inference-based, whereas questions asked in CAT are a mix of fact- and inference-based. In summary, you have to learn the same theory, but while practising questions, you need to practise different sets of material.

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Benchmark Yourself Against What Is Tested

One must always be aware of what one is up against. And there is no better way than to have a look at past year CAT papers. Unlike QA or even DI for that matter, verbal ability and reading comprehension for CAT is not knowledge based but rather skill based. All of us have the basic knowledge to attempt this section. So what’s holding you back? Below, we provide you the VARC section of CAT 2022, of each of the three slots. Find some quality time to focus and attempt the questions to get to know the true difficulty level of CAT.

  • Link to VARC section of CAT 2022 – Slot 1
  • Link to VARC section of CAT 2022 – Slot 2
  • Link to VARC section of CAT 2022 – Slot 3

Check Out Our CAT Verbal Ability Video Lectures

Today there are plenty of coaching options available for CAT prep. What can help you decide? A peek into what is on offer. We show you exactly what happens in our live lessons with free-to-view trials. Have a look at an actual class of the course you’re interested in.

Our entire course lesson plan is available here: description page here

The first one or two lessons for each course are available as Trial, and once you create an account with us, click on ‘start a free trial’ on the top-right just below the course image and you have access to two complete lessons for each of the courses under the banner.

We also have a YouTube channel where you can watch introductory videos (linked below). 

The second video here is from our CAT Reading Comprehension course and gives you an insight into the practicals of RC.

See what we mean? Why wait, when all you need is right here under one roof! Join us and get started on CAT prep today!