Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension For Cat By Arun [upd] May 2026
Rohan stared at the thick, orange-covered book on his desk. Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for CAT by Arun Sharma. To him, it looked less like a book and more like a door that refused to open.
By the end of his prep, Rohan found himself reading The Economist, Aeon essays, and even Supreme Court judgments with curiosity, not dread. When D-Day arrived, the CAT’s VARC section felt familiar. He finished with 8 minutes to spare—a miracle for the boy who once read like he was wading through mud. Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension For Cat By Arun
The book didn’t begin with a drill. It began with a story—about how the author once struggled with a 1200-word passage on ancient Greek warfare. The solution wasn’t speed-reading tricks. It was understanding structure . Arun Sharma broke down reading into a formula: . Suddenly, every paragraph became a map. Rohan stared at the thick, orange-covered book on his desk
He was an engineer. Numbers were his friends. But words? They slipped through his fingers like sand. In mock tests, his RC scores were a desert—dry, barren, and full of mirages. He’d read a passage on post-modernist art or economic policy, and by the time he reached the questions, his mind was a foggy echo chamber. By the end of his prep, Rohan found
“The problem isn’t your intelligence,” his mentor had said. “It’s your approach. Read Arun Sharma. Not just the exercises—read the strategy sections.”
Years later, as a product manager in Bengaluru, Rohan still has that orange-covered book on his shelf. Worn, underlined, dog-eared. A reminder that sometimes, the door you’re afraid to open leads to the room you were always meant to find. Arun Sharma’s book works not because it has “secrets,” but because it builds systematic thinking—breaking reading into manageable patterns and replacing fear with familiarity. For any CAT aspirant, it’s not just a book; it’s a mentor that scales with you.
The result? A 98.7 percentile in VARC. And a quiet realization: the book hadn’t just taught him verbal ability. It had taught him how to think in a foreign language—the language of arguments, assumptions, and author intent.