deep : Is it advisable to attempt very calculation intensive questions which hav e answers options very close to each other?

samthomas : they shouldn't be taken up in the first scan ( round). If you don't get sufficient qs and still has time left from the time all otted to DI, go for it. cognizant1 : How can solve calculation based questions (DI) in less time? rajeshsaraf : Try to approximate as much as possible. vickydonor : how many hours of preparation required for qa and di? rajeshsaraf : If you are a beginner, then 5 hrs/day other wise 3 hrs/day would b e adequate. shubhrana : Sir iam solving all aimcats papers at home also will it good for imp roving my score in cat asim : Yes.After an AIMCAT paper is available to you post the test, answer all t he unattempted questions giving yourself some time limit. after that, attempt all the difficult/undoable question s without any time limit and spend a lot of time trying to crack them on your own. Then only look up their solutions. even for those questions that you could solve, try different approaches first and only then look up the solutions. finally consider all your wrong attempts and analyse them for the reason s why you made a mistake in each one of them. learn from your mistakes and observe your weak areas. Improve on them by spending more time on them and developing your basics which are weak