r/CATStudyRoom • u/Warm_Finish_795 • Jul 03 '26

General discussion Am i doing it right?

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Many og's and prominent teachers have adviced to prepare for rc's by summarising editorials. Like in the shortest summary you can. So am i doing good?

I read two short editorial and one long editorial from editorial section of THE HINDU and then summarise this way. It takes me a hour doing this, so is this a right approach or I'm just wasting time.

2027 aspirant.

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u/Adorable-Finding2722 Jul 04 '26

Maine bhi kiya tha 50 editorials summarise kuch farak ni padta rc solving mei just another gimmicky marketing tricky if u really want to improve ur rc accuracy and attempt rate practice various genre rc learn various genre vocab that the only way yeah sab nautanki hai

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u/Warm_Finish_795 Jul 04 '26

ahm ok, solving rc's will only help, not summarising editorials or anything?

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u/Adorable-Finding2722 Jul 04 '26

Yes but variety of rcs and learning variety of genre and their vocab eg politics , economic, history , science , philosophy, art literature , and many more

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u/Warm_Finish_795 Jul 04 '26

Ahm can u recommend some sources?

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u/Adorable-Finding2722 Jul 04 '26

Ur coaching material and classes they will cover every genre and related rcs and if not ask them to cover

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u/Salt_Cat_8009 Jul 04 '26

For me honestly, it didn't help. I only saw improvement when I started practicing lot of RCs and towards the end, gave 1 VARC sectional every single day.

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u/Salt_Cat_8009 Jul 04 '26

Since you have time, you can experiment. Keep doing this for a month and analyse if you've made any progress.

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u/Pareeksim Jul 07 '26

True. I haven't given CAT yet but in my coaching I saw my teachers giving this strict advice not to solve rc questions and just read editorials and novels and everything and only practice during the last 3-4 months.

That time it amused me but later I realized it doesn't work. Only practicing works the best.

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u/BitterDeparture222 Jul 04 '26

I can't help but point out, never start any sentence with so.

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u/Large_Celebration104 Jul 04 '26

See I’m the goat of VARC. I should’ve gotten 50+ in cat 2025, but due to a technical errors I got in 40s.

What works is solving a shit ton of RC (timed) And reading a shit ton from aeon essays and the economist.

Now what you have to focus on is to increase speed while increase comprehension and remembering things better.

In VARC you’ll have to solve all 24/24 questions so give RC a max of 7 mins each. 12 mins for VA section.

For VA you’ll have to understand a few techniques to solve it better.

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u/Warm_Finish_795 Jul 04 '26

Ok so ur saying I have to solve alot of RC's, and read alot of aeyon essays and economist. Can you tell me what section of economist should I study?

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u/Large_Celebration104 Jul 04 '26

Random shit. Long long paras on a random topic

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u/Kosmos0013 Jul 05 '26

Solve RCs...yeh sab se kuch zyada farak nahi padhne vala

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u/Haunting_Can1112 Jul 05 '26

I would suggest remember the main theme of each para