CAT 3-Month Plan
A complete 90-day plan covering 31 highest-weightage topics — prioritised by subject weight, not alphabet. No signup, no fees.
- Days
- 90
- Topics
- 31
- Subjects
- 3
- Phases
- 3
Phase-by-phase plan
12 weeks totalA 90-day plan only works when you sequence it. Here is how the 3-Month Plan breaks down — foundation, depth, then mocks.
- 1
Foundation
4 weeksConcept pass across full syllabus
Subject-wise notesTopic-wise quizzesWeekly recaps - 2
Advanced + practice
4 weeksHigher-difficulty problems, PYQs
Last 5 years PYQsTopic-wise problem journalsWeak-topic drill - 3
Mock cycle + revision
4 weeks6-8 full-length mocks + per-mock analysis
Bi-weekly mocksFinal revision sheetLast-mile cheatsheets
Week-by-week schedule
| Week | Days | Topics covered |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1–7 | VARC: Reading Comprehension (w5)DILR: Data Interpretation Tables (w5)QA: Percentages (w5) |
| 2 | 8–14 | VARC: Critical Reasoning (w5)DILR: Logical Reasoning Arrangements (w5)QA: Profit-Loss (w5) |
| 3 | 15–21 | VARC: Verbal Ability (w4)DILR: Logical Reasoning Puzzles (w5)QA: Time-Work (w5) |
| 4 | 22–28 | VARC: Summary (w4)DILR: Data Interpretation Charts (w4)QA: Time-Distance (w5) |
| 5 | 29–35 | VARC: Para Jumbles (w4)DILR: Data Interpretation Graphs (w4)QA: Equations (w5) |
| 6 | 36–42 | VARC: Grammar (w4)DILR: Blood Relations (w4)QA: Triangles (w5) |
| 7 | 43–49 | VARC: Odd Sentence (w3)DILR: Caselets (w4)QA: Ratio (w4) |
| 8 | 50–56 | VARC: Vocabulary (w3)DILR: Data Sufficiency (w4)QA: Inequalities (w4) |
| 9 | 57–63 | DILR: Direction (w3)QA: Functions (w4)QA: Circles (w4) |
| 10 | 64–70 | QA: Coordinate (w4)QA: Permutations (w4)QA: Probability (w4) |
| 11 | 71–77 | 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 90-day plan beats a 1,200-page prep book
| Dimension | Typical CAT book | This 3-Month Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Time to start | Hours of reading before any study starts | Seconds — plan is already here |
| Personalisation | One-size-fits-all | Fits exactly your 90 days |
| Freshness | Printed months ago | Rebuilt every deploy · verified 2026-05-23 |
| 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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