Tuesday, May 4, 2021

MAT Preparation Tips: Section Wise Preparation Tips

Preparing for MAT exam requires consistency, focus, and hard work. The difficulty level of a MAT exam is lesser than CAT, but it can only be cracked with a high score if your strategies are smart. Like most the entrance exams, MAT is a test of speed and accuracy. Candidates need to solve 200 MCQs in 150 minutes. If the aspirant is aiming at Tier-I schools they need to score around 95 percentile, which is not very easy to achieve. Before you sit down to prepare, collect maximum information related to MAT. Understand the MAT pattern, MAT syllabus, and question paper, and make a study plan to target for each month and day.




Modes: CBT, PBT, IBT

SectionsLanguage Comprehension, Intelligence, and Critical Reasoning, Data Analysis and Sufficiency, Mathematical Skills, Indian and Global Environment

Time: 150 Minutes

Questions: 40 per Section

Marking: Negative 0.25 for 1 wrong answer

Type of Exam: MCQ

Here we will list down a few important tips, which you should bear in mind to be able to prepare for each section of the exam well. Since marks of every section are taken into calculation for overall percentile calculation, it is important to score well in each section.

Language Comprehension

This section aims at testing candidates’ verbal ability and English grammar. The section consists of 40 MCQs to be attempted in 25 to 30 minutes.

For this section work on the reading speed as this section consists of reading comprehension passages. Reading a passage takes time, but answers may be quite easy to find. So, read many books, newspapers, and magazines to improve reading speed. Go through a few sample questions to understand the time you take and to improve the working time on each of such questions.

The Grammar part includes questions on vocabulary, idioms, verbs, clauses, active and passive voice, punctuation, etc. Go back to your grammar books to recall the rules of usage and construction of sentences. Verbal Ability can be simply improved by practicing more and more sample papers once having covered all the topics of the syllabus.

Mathematical Skills

This section contains questions related to Quantitative Ability which are based on advanced level Mathematics. Being thorough with the concepts would help you get a high score in this section. With 40 questions to be attempted in 40 minutes, this section demands a lot of practical efforts to achieve speed with accuracy.

Practice a lot, to gain a good hold on fundamentals and theorems. Study each topic; prepare notes of formulae and theorems. Mental Maths must be strengthened to speed up calculations. Devote more time on topics like Vectors, Differential Equation, Trigonometry, Algebra, because they are difficult. All of this practice must be done at least three months prior to the exam. However, if you have been short of time and prepared less, then skip the questions that take longer to solve.

Data Analysis and Sufficiency

This section will have analytical questions like the interpretation of data, and statements. You need to take the test carefully, read the questions with concentration to arrive at conclusion. The tables and graphs sometimes throw tricky questions; therefore practicing a lot will help you arrive at accurate answers.  This question has 40 MCQs to be attempted in    35 minutes.

Cover the topics, Charts, Graphs, and Tables well. Questions may be confusing, so answer the questions in parts to analyze data. The questions that take more time to answer should be marked for later and attempt it after you have finished solving all other questions.

Intelligence and Critical Reasoning

Here questions related to logical reasoning skills are asked which would mostly include topics like Blood Relations, Matching Statements, Analogies, etc.  The section has 40 MCQs and the suggested time to solve this section should not be more than 35 minutes. Use shortcuts and other methods to quickly solve the section.

For Critical thinking, arrive at an answer only by analyzing the question, contradictory statements, and conclusion. Do not spend more than 1 minute on these questions. Practice these questions from sample questions.

Indian and Global Environment

This section requires least time to complete but is a very vague part of the syllabus. It includes Current Affairs and Events, Awards, festivals, who is who, Political events, Science, Technology, etc.  It contains 40MCQs that should be completed in 15 minutes.  Candidates need to thoroughly pursue current affairs and news to do well in this part. Read more books, magazines, blogs, news debates, Manorama Year Book and Competition Success Review, etc.

At last, it is important to state that exam takers must start to prepare as early as possible. It is good to begin as early as 6 months to be able to ace the topics with speed and accuracy.

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