That appears in the English/Verbal Ability section of CAT. It discusses the nature of questions that appear in the following sub-sections:
1)Reading and comprehension, 2)Grammar, 3)Vocabulary, 4)Parajumbles,5)Critical Reasoning
Commencing with a discussion on how the nature of questions have changed over the years in CAT, the chapter moves on to the specific type pf questions that appear in each sub-section. For example, the Reading Comprehension section comprises questions such as those on the title of the passage, tone of the author, who the author is, inference based and direct questions etc., each of these types of questions will be discussed.
Moving on to the grammar section, an overview of the nature of questions that appear such as those involving concepts such as parallelism, subject-verb agreement etc. are discussed.
The English section in CAT was considered to be fairly easy and highly scoring until a few years back. However, in recent years, the trend has changed and this no longer holds good .There has been a considerable change both in the nature of questions as well as their level of difficulty.
In line with the general trend in CAT, the number of questions has also been reducing .In fact, there used to be two sections for English earlier, one on Reading comprehension and the other for Verbal Ability/English Usage, Which has now been consolidated into just one section.
Importantly, the focus of the English section in CAT has undergone a change, meaning that the skill –set with which a student needs to do well has changed substantially. An impressive reading speed and knowledge of a wide variety of words, phrases or idioms of the language is no longer as important as the ability to comprehend the passages given in the Reading Comprehension section, thinking and being able to infer the answer.
As far as Verbal Ability is concerned, it is increasingly important to know the context in which a word is used and not its dictionary meaning
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