If you ask the CAT aspirants "Which section of CAT do you think as your weakest section?" more than 85% of them have the same answer: Quant. Quant or Quantitative aptitude as it is generally known has been a nightmare for the majority of the students irrespective of their educational background.

Lets try to understand the reasons behind this. If we look at the type of people writing CAT they are majorly final year graduates or people working for one year or more.

Since CAT is open for all types of educational backgrounds graduates with backgrounds like Arts or Commerce are those who have not done maths for the last 3 - 4 years. And surely a fear about the subject has remained in them right from their school days. So though the syllabus remains to be in the fundamentals of class Xth or XIth level but a change in the approach makes it a whole new learning.

On the other hand students from science background and even engineering have never done any calculation without using a calculator. Throughout their graduation days and beyond they have done even two digit additions with a calculator. So when they find themselves in a situation where calculator is not allowed and u have to do big and bad looking calculations they find themselves lost out. The biggest danger students normally face is that they tend to give up on this section - fallaciously believing that they stand no chance in this area.