CAT 2-Week Plan
A complete 14-day plan covering 31 highest-weightage topics — prioritised by subject weight, not alphabet. No signup, no fees.
- Days
- 14
- Topics
- 31
- Subjects
- 3
- Cost
- Free
How to actually use your 14 days
One fast, weight-prioritised pass over what actually appears on the paper.
This 2-week plan gives you 14 days to work through 31 weighted CAT topics across 3 subjects — roughly 2.2 new topics a day at 6–8 hours of focused study. That pace is brisk but survivable if you protect your highest-weight subjects first.
CAT marks are not spread evenly across subjects. QA, DILR, and VARC carry the heaviest weightage in recent papers, so this plan front-loads them — so they get your first and best hours, before fatigue sets in. Cover weight 4–5 topics properly. Touch weight-3 topics only if you finish early; skip weight 1–2 entirely.
14 days is enough for one disciplined pass over the high-weight portion of CAT, not the full 31-topic syllabus. The trap is starting too slow. Begin with the heaviest subjects on day one — you do not have a buffer week.
What to prioritise & cut
Cover weight 4–5 topics properly. Touch weight-3 topics only if you finish early; skip weight 1–2 entirely.
Mock tests & revision
Sit two or three timed previous-year papers in the second half and review every wrong answer the same day.
Weekly rhythm
Front-load new learning into the first 60% of days; reserve the last 40% for previous-year papers and error review.
Week-by-week schedule
| Week | Days | Topics covered |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1–7 | VARC: Reading Comprehension (w5)DILR: Data Interpretation Tables (w5)QA: Percentages (w5)VARC: Critical Reasoning (w5)DILR: Logical Reasoning Arrangements (w5)QA: Profit-Loss (w5)VARC: Verbal Ability (w4)DILR: Logical Reasoning Puzzles (w5)QA: Time-Work (w5)VARC: Summary (w4)DILR: Data Interpretation Charts (w4)QA: Time-Distance (w5)VARC: Para Jumbles (w4)DILR: Data Interpretation Graphs (w4)QA: Equations (w5)VARC: Grammar (w4) |
| 2 | 8–14 | DILR: Blood Relations (w4)QA: Triangles (w5)VARC: Odd Sentence (w3)DILR: Caselets (w4)QA: Ratio (w4)VARC: Vocabulary (w3)DILR: Data Sufficiency (w4)QA: Inequalities (w4)DILR: Direction (w3)QA: Functions (w4)QA: Circles (w4)QA: Coordinate (w4)QA: Permutations (w4)QA: Probability (w4)QA: Logarithms (w3) |
Subject-wise topic split
Each topic shows its weightage (1–5 dots) and the concepts you'll cover. Higher-weight topics appear first.
VARC
8 topics- Reading Comprehension ●●●●●
Comprehending and answering questions from passages on diverse topics including humanities, business, science, and social issues.
- Critical Reasoning ●●●●●
Evaluating arguments, identifying assumptions, conclusions, and logical flaws in reasoning-based questions.
- Verbal Ability ●●●●○
Contextual usage of words, fill-in-the-blank, and sentence completion based on logical and semantic coherence.
- Summary ●●●●○
Identifying the main idea and picking the most accurate summary from multiple options for a given passage.
- Para Jumbles ●●●●○
Rearranging jumbled sentences to form a coherent paragraph by identifying logical flow and connectors.
- Grammar ●●●●○
Error identification, sentence correction, and application of standard English grammar rules.
- Odd Sentence ●●●○○
Identifying the sentence that does not logically fit into a paragraph from a set of jumbled sentences.
- Vocabulary ●●●○○
Synonyms, antonyms, contextual meanings, and word usage in high-frequency MBA entrance-level vocabulary.
DILR
9 topics- Data Interpretation Tables ●●●●●
Extracting and computing values from structured tabular data including schedules, registers, and statistical tables.
- Logical Reasoning Arrangements ●●●●●
Linear and circular seating arrangements, sequencing, and ranking puzzles with multiple conditional constraints.
- Logical Reasoning Puzzles ●●●●●
Complex puzzles involving tournaments, team selections, floor arrangements, and binary logic conditions.
- Data Interpretation Charts ●●●●○
Reading and interpreting pie charts, bar charts, and mixed chart types to answer calculation-based questions.
- Data Interpretation Graphs ●●●●○
Analysing line graphs, radar graphs, and other graph formats for trends and comparative values.
- Blood Relations ●●●●○
Family tree problems with coded relationship terms, generating accurate conclusions from given connections.
- Caselets ●●●●○
Paragraph-based data interpretation where information is embedded in a descriptive passage rather than a chart or table.
- Data Sufficiency ●●●●○
Determining whether given statements provide enough information to answer a question without actually solving it.
- + 1 more topic on the full roadmap →
QA
14 topics- Percentages ●●●●●
Percentage conversions, successive percentage changes, and applications in profit-loss, SI-CI, and ratio problems.
- Profit-Loss ●●●●●
CP-SP relationships, discount and marked price, and gain/loss percentage calculations in business scenarios.
- Time-Work ●●●●●
Work equivalence, efficiency-based problems, pipes and cisterns, and work-sharing in partnerships.
- Time-Distance ●●●●●
Speed-time-distance relationships, average speed, relative speed, train problems, and boats in streams.
- Equations ●●●●●
Linear and quadratic equations, forming equations from word problems, and simultaneous equation solving.
- Triangles ●●●●●
Properties of triangles, congruence, similarity, angle bisectors, medians, centroid, and Pythagorean theorem.
- Ratio ●●●●○
Ratio simplification, proportion, direct and inverse variation, and ratio-based mixture and alligation problems.
- Inequalities ●●●●○
Quadratic inequalities, modulus inequalities, and number line-based inequality reasoning problems.
- + 6 more topics on the full roadmap →
Why a 14-day plan beats a 1,200-page prep book
| Dimension | Typical CAT book | This 2-Week Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Time to start | Hours of reading before any study starts | Seconds — plan is already here |
| Personalisation | One-size-fits-all | Fits exactly your 14 days |
| Freshness | Printed months ago | Updated for the 2026 cycle · verified 2026-04-06 |
| Weightage signal | Author guess | Derived from last 5 years' papers |
| Cost | ₹500–2,500 | ₹0 |
| Sign-up required | Often (with a trial trap) | None |
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CAT 2-Week Plan — common questions
Is 14 days enough to prepare for CAT? +
14 days is enough for one disciplined pass over the high-weight portion of CAT, not the full 31-topic syllabus. The honest answer depends on your starting point, but this 2-week plan is built to get the most from the time you have: one fast, weight-prioritised pass over what actually appears on the paper.
How many hours a day does this CAT 2-week plan need? +
Plan for 6–8 hours of focused study, covering about 2.2 new topics a day. Front-load new learning into the first 60% of days; reserve the last 40% for previous-year papers and error review.
What should I skip if I am short on time? +
Cover weight 4–5 topics properly. Touch weight-3 topics only if you finish early; skip weight 1–2 entirely.
When should I start mock tests on this plan? +
Sit two or three timed previous-year papers in the second half and review every wrong answer the same day.
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