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CAT Correspondence Course - For Students Residing Abroad

Course Material for CAT - IIMs' Entrance Test Prepared by IIM Graduates

If you are residing outside India in the US, UK, Europe, Japan, Middle East Asia, or Far East Asia and are planning to take the Common Admissions Test, you can register for 2IIM's CAT Correspondence Course and receive the study material by courier.

The CAT correspondence course that 2IIM offers provides comprehensive study material prepared by the alumni of the IIMs and is self explanatory. The course material covers all areas tested in the Common Admission Test (CAT) - viz., Quantitative reasoning, Verbal reasoning, Reading comprehension, and Data Interpretation. The study material has been prepared with extreme care to provide you with the necessary ammunition to face CAT.

Refresher Books in Math, English and Data Interpretation

1. CAT Quantitative Reasoning (Math)

• 3 Refresher books covering all relevant topics - starting from Number systems, Percentages to Permutation & Combination to Geometry to Functions.
  • A total of 27 topics from Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry.
  • The refresher books contain introduction and explanation on concepts in each topic followed by adequate number of solved examples which cover a wide range of questions that appear from these chapters in CAT.
  • Solved examples in the refresher books include questions that are replicas of questions that appeared in previous CATs. Such questions are separately identified for your convenience.
  • Solved examples are followed by several exercise problems. These problems are provided with answers and detailed explanatory solutions.
  • Shortcuts or alternate methods to solve quant questions are provided alongside the solved examples wherever possible.
  
  
• A book of Chapterwise Tests in Math.
  • Each test comprises 30 to 60 oft-repeated questions.
  • The Speed Tests are to be taken after you complete each chapter.
  • The tests have been designed to help you consolidate what you have learnt in the respective topic.
  • Speed Tests help you identify ways of solving a question in the quickest possible time, when multiple choices are provided.
  • Explanatory answers along with correct answers to each question is provied
  
  
• Quant Proficiency Tests in select Math topics
  • These tests test your proficiency in 1 to 3 chapters in mathematics.
  • These tests are to be taken as part of your final revision, about two months before CAT.
  • These tests are designed to acquaint you with a variety of CAT - like questions and to help you master concepts in Math and skillfully employ smart techniques in answering these questions.
  
  To know more about what is exactly covered in each of the Math topics

2. CAT Verbal Ability (English Section)

• Refresher book on Sentence Correction. Emphasises on how to spot common errors in sentences. Includes Speed Tests on Sentence Correction.
• Refresher book on Sentence Re-arrangement. Includes Exercises and Tests on Sentence Re-arrangement.
• A Word list with around 2500 words. Includes commonly used Non-English Foreign Words. Also includes Alphabet-wise tests on vocabulary.
• Proficiency test in Sentence Correction.

3. Reading Comprehension (RC)

Reading Comprehension questions have been a regular feature in all CAT tests in the past. The level of difficulty of the passages and the questions that appear in CAT have been getting tougher over past two years. We have redesigned and included a lot of passages to reflect this changing trend in CAT.

• Tips and techniques on attempting RC questions
• Speed Test in Reading Comprehension with over 50 passages and 300 questions from various topics.

4. Data Interpretation (DI)

• A Refresher book on DI with introduction to various types of questions that typically appear in Data Interpretation - viz. Tables, Pie Charts, Bar Charts, Line Graph ...
• A Refresher book on Data Sufficiency with emphasis on common traps in the DS section.
• The refresher book on DI includes Speed Tests on Data Interpretation (DI).
• The refresher book on DS includes Speed Tests on Data Sufficiency (DS).

CAT - Full Length Tests

1. CAT Comprehensive Tests (CCTs)

20 full length CAT Comprehensive Tests with answer keys and detailed explanatory answers.

2. Mock CAT Series

10 Mock CAT Tests will be provided. These will be mailed to you in the last week of September 2008.

Course Structure and Assistance

CAT Correspondence Course Structure

The study material for CAT correspondence course is sent in two packs. The first pack when you sign up and the second pack in the last week of September 2008.

Web based assistance

During the tenue of the course, you can send in your queries related to preparing for the Common Admission Test (CAT) through e-mail to us and one of our faculty members will respond to your queries.

Fees for 2IIM's CAT correspondence course

The total fee for students residing outside India to enrol for the CAT correspondence course will include courier charges to send the material outside India. The fee including the courier charges is Rs.10,250 (Indian Rupees Ten Thousand Two Hundred Fifty Only). Please note that the Fees DOES NOT INCLUDE local duties and taxes such as customs duty payable at the destination. These are to be borne by the student.

Alternatively, you could choose to pay Euros 185 through the Paypal Gateway given below.

How to enrol for the CAT correspondence program?

Students residing outside India can register for the course online and pay by credit card.

We will process your application and will despatch the first lot of study material within 3 working days of receipt of the registration. We usually use a reputed international courier such as Blue Dart and depending upon the destination the first lot of study material will reach you between 3 days to 10 days from the date of despatch.

Online tracking of your shipment
As soon as the study material is despatched from our end, we will send you the Airway Bill number by email and you will be able to track your shipment.

The entire study material for CAT correspondence will reach you in 2 lots. The first one being despatched within 3 working days of registration, the last one in the last week of September 2008. Please refer to the course structure to know the details of the material that will be sent in each of these packets.

We suggest that you send an email to prep@2iim.com as soon as you complete your online registration process with your name, address, email id and the invoice number that was generated when you made the payment. This will help us to expedite the process of despatching the study material to you.

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