C-DAC C-CAT study guide
C-DAC C-CAT · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
C-CAT (also written CCAT) is the entrance test used for admission to the Post Graduate Diploma programmes offered through C-DAC's Education & Training activity. C-DAC describes that activity as aimed at creating skilled manpower in Electronics and ICT, delivered through its own training centres - Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mohali, Mumbai, Noida, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram - plus a network of Authorised Training Centres. The C-DAC C-CAT study guide has 4 sections and about 1,589 words.
01English Language: Precision Grammar and Controlled Vocabulary
Section A of the C-CAT pairs English with quantitative aptitude, and the English half rewards precision rather than literary flair. Expect error spotting and sentence correction, vocabulary items (synonyms, antonyms, one-word substitution), idioms, spelling, cloze or sentence completion, para jumbles, and one or two short reading passages.
398 words, about 2 min02Reasoning: Pattern Recognition Under Time Pressure
Section B of the C-CAT is the reasoning paper: a large bank of short, independent items to be cleared in roughly an hour. Nothing is solved by long formal proofs; nearly everything yields to a recognised pattern.
402 words, about 2 min03Quantitative Aptitude: Arithmetic Reasoning for Section A
The quantitative half of Section A is arithmetic reasoning rather than formal mathematics. The recurring topics are the number system (HCF, LCM, divisibility, remainders), percentages, ratio and proportion, averages, profit and loss, simple and compound interest, time–speed–distance, time and work, pipes and cisterns, mensuration, elementary algebra, permutations and combinations, probability, and data interpretation.
409 words, about 2 min04Computer Fundamentals and Programming: Section C Essentials
Section C tests computer fundamentals and programming logic, with C as the reference language. Questions divide broadly into number systems and Boolean algebra, hardware, memory and operating-system basics, and C semantics: data types, operators, control flow, arrays, strings, functions, pointers, structures and recursion.
380 words, about 2 min