CAT 2026 - VARC + DILR Method Sheet with Raj Gaurav

Quant 98.93 percentile. VARC 75.

Two years of vocabulary lists and the VARC number didn't move once. Turned out I was reading for content when the questions were asking about structure, and choosing DILR sets on gut feel in the first thirty seconds.

What's inside:

• The paragraph map. One word per paragraph while you read, and why that string of words is the passage.
• Where to slow down and where to sprint. Most people do this backwards.
• What each question type is actually asking, and the trap sitting inside it.
• The 5 signatures of a wrong option. The half-right one, where the first half of the sentence is correct and the second half isn't, costs most people more marks than anything else in the section.
• The 5 questions I ask in the first four minutes of DILR, before I solve anything.
• The 5 set archetypes and the opening move for each.
• The three-minute walk-away rule, which is the single thing that stopped me losing whole sections.
• 30-day routines for both.

I'm Raj. I left a software job at Cognizant for an MBA at IIT Kanpur. This is what I actually did.

Free. If it helps, send it to someone who's prepping.