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How to Read Aeon Essays for CAT 2024?

Aeon essays are effective materials for strengthening VARC preparation for CAT 2024. Check strategy to read Aeon essays for CAT 2024.

June 26, 2024

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How to read Aeon Essays for CAT 2024: Aeon essays are crucial for developing reading and analysis skills in CAT aspirants. Aeon essays are known for their thorough and insightful investigation into specific subjects. These essays stand out for their curiosity-driven exploration, interesting writing style, and outstanding comprehension.

Each Aeon article is written after rigorous research and provides readers with insights across various fields such as science, philosophy, society, and culture. Candidates who prepare for the CAT VARC section referring to the Aeon essays develop strong reading skills. Moreover, they can easily understand and analyse the main idea of the RC passages presented in the CAT exam , which is crucial to accurately solving RC questions.

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Strategy to Read Aeon Essays for CAT 2024

PW CAT Online Coaching experts highly recommend candidates to regularly read Aeon essays on different topics to improve their reading skills and knowledge. Here are the strategies candidates must follow while reading Aeon essays:

Start with the Essay Headline

Candidates must start reading the essay right from its headline. By carefully reading and comprehending the headline or title of the essay, candidates can understand the central theme or topic that the author intends to explore. Candidates must also take note of keywords or phrases that provide clues about the essay’s subject matter and focus.

Understand the Brief of Essays

After grasping the headline, candidates must read the briefing or introduction provided beneath it. This section typically offers a brief overview or summary of what the essay is about. Candidates must focus on the main points or arguments that the author intends to present. This step helps in establishing a framework for understanding the structure and flow of the essay.

Read About the Author

Gain insights into the author’s background and expertise by reading about them. Understanding the author’s credentials, perspectives, and previous works provides context for interpreting their writing style and the viewpoints they may present in the essay. This step helps in anticipating the author’s approach and enhances comprehension of the essay’s content.

Learn New Words

While reading the Aeon essays, candidates must note down unfamiliar words or terms and look up their meanings. With this approach, candidates can expand their vocabulary by actively seeking out and learning new words. Understanding these words within the context of the essay assists in overall comprehension and enables candidates to grasp the author’s message more effectively.

Relate Words to Passage

Connecting the newly learned words to specific passages or sentences helps candidates memorise the words and learn their usage in English. This step ensures that you understand how these words contribute to the overall meaning of the essay. By relating words to the context in which they are used, candidates can assess their understanding of the author’s arguments or ideas.

Benefits of Aeon Essays for VARC Preparation

Aeon essays offer several benefits for CAT preparation. Incorporating Aeon essays into CAT preparation improves candidates’ understanding of passage, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills, which potentially improves performance in the VARC section of the CAT exam.

Notable benefits of Aeon essays for CAT preparation:

Aeon essays delve deeply into complex topics, providing thorough analyses that can enhance critical thinking skills.
Aeon covers a wide spectrum of subjects, including science, philosophy, society, and culture. This diversity helps CAT aspirants broaden their knowledge base, potentially encountering topics relevant to CAT’s VARC section.
By reading these essays, candidates can learn new words and their proper use in forming sentences, thereby improving their vocabulary skills.
The essays encourage readers to think critically and evaluate ideas from different angles. This skill is invaluable for the CAT VARC section.

Following a strategic approach to cover CAT syllabus topics is essential to enhance exam preparation. Join PW CAT Coaching Classes to effectively prepare for CAT under the guidance of experts and crack the exam with commendable scores.

How to read Aeon Essays for CAT FAQs

To effectively prepare for CAT, candidates must read nearly 50 Aeon essays during the preparation phase. Ideally, candidates should start with Aeon ideas, then read Aeon essays and lastly move to Aeon Psyche.

Aeon essays cover each topic with in-depth analysis. Typically, most Aeon essays have 3000 word counts.

To improve reading comprehension for CAT, candidates should cover various types of written content, including newspapers, novels, articles, Aeon essays, etc. Candidates should also learn new words and aim to grasp the main idea of the content.

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I am Bharathwaj from 2IIM. I have taken 8 CATs in the last 10 years, have been associated with CAT Preparation since 2015. I have managed to score a 99.21 percentile in the Verbal Section of CAT 2019. I attribute my score to Reading from a wide variety of sources and ability to not be under pressure during the exam (having completed an MBA helps in handling pressure, but to know more about my take on how to handle pressure better, head on here ).

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This CAT Reading list is created by me, as a result of spending several thousand hours in reading thousands of articles and picking articles that can help a CAT Aspirant in VARC Preparation for CAT, and has about 1000+ articles in this collection. Most of the articles in this list are going to be much longer than your passage that appears in CAT. It is done intentionally to help one retain the understanding from reading an article and not facts. It is a collection of all articles I have shared across since 2018 on a daily basis. This will also get updated as and when I post new articles. We are also planning to have a weekly list of articles.

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Bookmark this CAT Reading List page. (press ctrl + D if on a PC, or press the star on the right of the url bar, if on chrome either on mobile or pc). Keep coming back to it on a daily basis. Reading everyday helps tremendously in your CAT Preparation in two ways to start with: 1. Your VARC Prep takes care of itself. 2. You get more time to spend on Quantitative Aptitude and DI LR Sections.

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Reading List | This Week | April 3rd Week 2024

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Reading list from 3rd Week of April! In case you have missed any of the articles from last week, check out this post! Read on to Nail CAT VARC!

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Technology, Industry and Science ( part 1 50+ articles | part 2 60+ articles)
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If a cat could talk

Felines walk the line between familiar and strange. we stroke them and they purr, then in a trice they pounce.

by David Wood + BIO

Saturday was a small snake. Each morning for six days, Berzerker — half-Siamese, half-streetcat, with charcoal fur and a pure white undercoat — had deposited a new creature on the doormat. On this last day, the snake was as stiff as a twig; rigor mortis had already set in. I wondered if there was a mortuary under the porch, a cold slab on which the week’s offerings had been laid out. What were these ritualistic offerings all about? Gift, placation, or proof of lethal skill? Who knows. On the seventh day he rested.

When I look at any one of my three cats — when I stroke him, or talk to him, or push him off my yellow pad so I can write — I am dealing with a distinct individual: either Steely Dan Thoreau, or (Kat) Mandu, or Kali. Each cat is unique. All are ‘boys’, as it happens. All rescued from the streets, neutered and advertised as mousers, barn cats: ‘They will never let you touch them,’ I was told. Each cat is a singular being — a pulsing centre of the universe — with this colour eyes, this length and density of fur, this palate of preferences, habits and dispositions. Each with his own idiosyncrasies.

At first, they were truly untouchable, hissing and spitting. A few weeks later, after mutual outreaching, they were coiling around my neck, with heavy purring and nuzzling. They do indeed hang out in my barn — I live on a farm — and are always pleased to see me at their daily feed. Steely Dan, unlike the other two, will walk with me for miles. Just for the company, I suspect. Occasionally he will turn up at the house and demand to be let in. He is a favourite among my friends for his free dispensing of affection. But the rift between our worlds opens wide again when he shreds the faux leather sofa with his claws. When scolded, he is insouciant.

‘When I play with my cat,’ Montaigne mused, ‘how do I know that she is not playing with me rather than I with her?’

Since the Egyptians first let the wild Mau into their homes, cats and humans have co-evolved. We have, without doubt, been brutal — eliminating kittens of the wrong stripe, as well as couch-potato cats that gave the rats a pass, cats that could not be trained, and cats that refused our advances. My Steely Dan, steely eyed professional killer of birds and mice (and snakes, lizards, young rabbits, voles, and chipmunks), lap-lover, walking companion extraordinaire, is the product of trial by compatibility. This sounds like a recipe for compliance: domestication should have rooted out the otherness of the feline. But it did not.

The Egyptians domesticated Felis silvestris catus 10,000 years ago and valued its services in patrolling houses against snakes and rodents. But later they deified it, even mummifying cats for the journey into the afterlife. These days we don’t typically go that far — though cats and cat shelters are frequently the subjects of bequests. We remain fascinated both by our individual cats and cats as a species. They are a beloved topic for publishers, calendars and cartoons. Cats populate the internet: there are said to be 110,000 cat videos on YouTube. Lolcats tickle us at every turn. But isn’t there something profoundly unsettling about the whiskered cat lying on a laptop (or somesuch), speaking its bad English? Lolcats make us laugh, but the need to laugh intimates disquiet somewhere.

P erhaps because we selected cats for their internal contradictions — friendly to us, deadly to the snakes and rodents that threatened our homes — we shaped a creature that escapes our gaze, that doesn’t merely reflect some simple design goal. One way or another, we have licensed a being that displays its ‘otherness’ and flaunts its resistance to human interests. This is part of the common view of cats: we value their independence. From time to time they might want us, but they don’t need us. Dogs, by contrast, are said to be fawning and needy, always eager to please. Dogs confirm us; cats confound us. And in ways that delight us.

In welcoming one animal to police our domestic borders against other creatures that threatened our food or health, did we violate some boundary in our thinking? Such categories are ones we make and maintain without thinking about them as such. Even at this practical level, cats occupy a liminal space: we live with ‘pets’ that are really half-tamed predators.

It is something of an accident that a cat’s lethal instincts align with our interests

From the human perspective, cats might literally patrol the home, but more profoundly they walk the line between the familiar and the strange. When we look at a cat, in some sense we do not know what we are looking at. The same can be said of many non-human creatures, but cats are exemplary. Unlike insects, fish, reptiles and birds, cats both keep their distance and actively engage with us. Books tell us that we domesticated the cat. But who is to say that cats did not colonise our rodent-infested dwellings on their own terms? One thinks of Ruduyard Kipling’s story ‘The Cat That Walked by Himself’ (1902), which explains how Man domesticated all the wild animals except for one: ‘the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.’

Michel de Montaigne, in An Apology for Raymond Sebond (1580) , captured this uncertainty eloquently. ‘When I play with my cat,’ he mused, ‘how do I know that she is not playing with me rather than I with her?’ So often cats disturb us even as they enchant us. We stroke them, and they purr. We feel intimately connected to these creatures that seem to have abandoned themselves totally to the pleasures of the moment. Cats seem to have learnt enough of our ways to blend in. And yet, they never assimilate entirely. In a trice, in response to some invisible (to the human mind, at least) cue, they will leap off our lap and re-enter their own space, chasing a shadow. Lewis Carroll’s image of the smile on the face of the Cheshire cat, which remains even after the cat has vanished, nicely evokes such floating strangeness. Cats are beacons of the uncanny, shadows of something ‘other’ on the domestic scene.

O ur relationship with cats is an eruption of the wild into the domestic: a reminder of the ‘far side’, by whose exclusion we define our own humanity. This is how Michel Foucault understood the construction of ‘madness’ in society — it’s no surprise then that he named his own cat Insanity. Cats, in this sense, are vehicles for our projections, misrecognition, and primitive recollection. They have always been the objects of superstition: through their associations with magic and witchcraft, feline encounters have been thought to forecast the future, including death. But cats are also talismans. They have been recognised as astral travellers, messengers from the gods. In Egypt, Burma and Thailand they have been worshipped. Druids have held some cats to be humans in a second life. They are trickster figures, like the fox, coyote and raven. The common meanings and associations that they carry in our culture permeate, albeit unconsciously, our everyday experience of them.

But if the glimpse of a cat can portend the uncanny, what should we make of the cat’s own glance at us? As Jacques Derrida wondered: ‘Say the animal responded?’ If his cat found him naked in the bathroom, staring at his private parts — as discussed in Derrida’s 1997 lecture The Animal That Therefore I Am — who would be more naked: the unclothed human or the never clothed animal? To experience the animal looking back at us challenges the confidence of our own gaze — we lose our unquestioned privilege in the universe. Whatever we might think of our ability to subordinate the animal to our categories, all bets are off when we try to include the animal’s own perspective. That is not just another item to be included in our own world view. It is a distinctive point of view — a way of seeing that we have no reason to suppose we can seamlessly incorporate by some imaginative extension of our own perspective.

This goes further than Montaigne’s musings on who is playing with whom. Imaginative reversal — that is, if the cat is playing with us — would be an exercise in humility. But the dispossession of a cat ‘looking back’ is more disconcerting. It verges on the unthinkable. Perhaps when Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote (of a larger cat) in Philosophical Investigations (1953) that: ‘If a lion could talk we would not understand him,’ he meant something similar. If a lion really could possess language, he or she would have a relation to the world that would challenge our own, without there being any guarantee of translatability. Or if, as T S Eliot suggested in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939) , cats named themselves as well as being given names by their owners (gazed on by words, if you like), then the order of things — the human order — would be truly shaken.

Yet the existence of the domestic cat rests on our trust in them to eliminate other creatures who threaten our food and safety. We have a great deal invested in them, if now only symbolically. Snakebites can kill, rats can carry plague: the threat of either brings terror. Cats were bred to be security guards, even as their larger cousins still set their eyes on us and salivate. We like to think we can trust cats. But if we scrutinise their behaviour, our grounds for doing so evaporate.

Look into the eyes of a cat for a moment. Your gaze will flicker between recognising another being, and staring into a void

It is something of an accident that a cat’s lethal instincts align with our interests. They seem recklessly unwilling to manage their own boundaries. Driven as they are by an unbridled spirit of adventure (and killing), they do not themselves seem to have much appreciation of danger. Even if fortune smiles upon them — they are said to have nine lives, after all — in the end, ‘curiosity kills the cat’. Such protection as cats give us seems to be a precarious arrangement.

N o story of a cat’s strangeness would be complete without touching on the tactile dimension. We stroke cats, and they lick us, coil around our legs, nuzzle up to us and pump our flesh. When aroused, they bite and plunge their claws innocently and ecstatically through our clothes into our skin. Charles Baudelaire expresses this contradictory impulse, somewhere between desire and fear, in his poem ‘Le Chat’ (1857): ‘Hold back the talons of your paws/Let me gaze into your beautiful eyes.’ A human lover would be hard put to improve on a normal cat’s response to being stroked. Unselfconscious self-abandonment, unmistakable sounds of appreciation, eyes closing in rapture, exposure of soft underbelly. Did the human hand ever find a higher calling? Baudelaire continues: ‘My hand tingles with the pleasure/Of feeling your electric body’. It feels like communion, a meeting of minds (or bodies), the ultimate in togetherness, perhaps on a par with human conjugal bliss (and simpler).

But the claws through the jeans give the game away. The cat is not exploring the limits of intimacy with a dash of pain, a touch of S&M. He is involuntarily extending his claws into my skin. This is not about ‘us’, it’s about him, and perhaps it always was — the purring, the licking, the pumping. Cats undermine any dream of perfect togetherness. Look into the eyes of a cat for a moment. Your gaze will flicker between recognising another being (without quite being able to situate it), and staring into a void. At this point, we would like to think — well, that’s because she or he is a cat. But cannot the same thing happen with our friend, or child, or lover? When we look in the mirror, are we sure we know who we are?

Witch’s cats were called familiars, an oddly suitable term for cats more generally — the strange at the heart of the familiar, disturbing our security even as they police it and bring us joy. They are part of our symbolic universe as well as being real physical creatures. And these aspects overlap. Most cats are unmistakably cut from the same cloth. But this only raises more intensely the question of this cat, its singular irreplaceability. I might well be able to replace Steely as a mouser, to find another sharp set of teeth. Steely II might equally like his tummy rubbed and press his claws into my flesh. And to my chagrin, Steely I and Steely II could each offer themselves in this way to my friends, as if I were replaceable. I was once offered a replacement kitten shortly after my ginger cat Tigger died. I was so sad that I toyed with the idea of giving the kitten the same name, and pretending that Tigger had simply been renewed. In the end, I could not. But the temptation was real.

To quote Eliot again:

You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter When I tell you a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. First of all, there’s the name that the family use daily But I tell you, a cat needs a name that’s particular, A name that’s peculiar, and more dignified, But above and beyond there’s still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will guess; The name that no human research can discover — But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.

Cats, one at a time, as our intimates, our familiars, as strangers in our midst, as mirrors of our co-evolution, as objects of exemplary fascination, pose for us the question: what is it to be a cat? And what is it to be this cat? These questions are contagious. As I stroke Steely Dan, he purrs at my touch. And I begin to ask myself more questions: to whom does this appendage I call my hand belong? What is it to be human? And who, dear feline, do you think I am?

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The VARC (Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension) section of CAT evaluates your proficiency in English through questions on reading comprehension, verbal ability, and critical reasoning. It typically comprises passages followed by questions, sentence rearrangement, summary writing, and questions on grammar and vocabulary. Here’s how to approach each component effectively:

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Daily Reading Practice: Read diverse materials daily, including newspapers, magazines, novels, and academic journals. This helps build a strong vocabulary and improve comprehension skills.
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Parajumbles: Focus on understanding the logical flow of ideas. Practice regularly and use techniques like identifying introductory and concluding sentences, and looking for connectors.
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Practice with Variety: Practice CR questions from different sources to get exposed to a variety of question types and difficulty levels.

The VARC section of the CAT exam can be a daunting challenge, but with the right strategy and dedicated practice, it is possible to excel. By incorporating daily reading, active engagement with texts, strategic practice of verbal ability questions, and thorough preparation for critical reasoning, you can improve your VARC score and move closer to your dream of joining an elite business school like IIM Ahmedabad.

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Essay Name: A thickness in the air By: Ben Alderson-Day (Edited by Pam Weintraub)

Sarah was in her late teens when it first happened. A normal Thursday, it was early morning and pitch-black outside.

Read the full essay here: https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-it-possible-to-feel-a-presence-without-sensory-cues

Summary and Theme

The article delves into the phenomenon of feeling a presence without sensory cues, often referred to as 'felt presence' (FP). It examines the psychological and neurological underpinnings of why individuals may sense an unseen entity, particularly during states like sleep paralysis, grief, or extreme survival situations. The theme explores the boundaries between perception and belief, the role of the brain's temporoparietal junction in generating these experiences, and the implications for our understanding of consciousness and the self.

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Sleep paralysis: A temporary inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon waking.
Hypnagogic hallucinations: Vivid, dream-like experiences that occur as one is falling asleep.
Proprioception: The sense of the relative position of one's own parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement.
Temporoparietal junction (TPJ): A region of the brain where the temporal and parietal lobes meet, involved in processing of the self and others.
Phantom boarder: A phenomenon where individuals feel a presence in a specific location, often associated with Parkinson's disease.
Tulpamancy: A practice of creating a sentient companion or entity through mental and imaginative processes.

Essay Name: The empty basket By: Ha-Joon Chang (Edited by Sam Haselby)

In 1986, I left my native South Korea and came to Britain to study economics as a graduate student at the University of Cambridge.

Read the full essay here: https://aeon.co/essays/why-everyone-needs-to-learn-some-economics

The article discusses the importance of understanding economics in a modern society. It draws parallels between the evolution of British food culture from conservative to diverse and the need for a similar diversity in economic thought. The author argues that economics, like cuisine, should not be monolithic but rather a blend of various schools of thought. The theme emphasizes that economics is not just an academic subject but a language of power that shapes our lives, policies, and society. The author advocates for economic literacy among citizens to foster a more democratic and informed society, especially in the wake of the 2007-08 financial crisis.

Monocropping: The agricultural practice of growing a single crop year after year on the same land, in the article used metaphorically to describe the dominance of one school of thought in economics.
Neoclassical economics: A mainstream approach to economics that focuses on the determination of goods, outputs, and income distributions in markets through supply and demand.
Keynesian economics: An economic theory of total spending in the economy and its effects on output and inflation developed by John Maynard Keynes.
Schumpeterian: Pertaining to the economic theories of Joseph Schumpeter, particularly those concerning economic innovation and the business cycle.
Behaviouralist: Relating to or concerned with the study of behavior, especially in economics, concerning market decisions.
Egalitarian policies: Policies that aim for equal rights and opportunities for all people.

Essay Name: Inventing heaven By: Stephen Case (Edited by Pam Weintraub)

The Description of Heaven (1623), by the astronomer Conrad Aslachus, feels close to many ideas about the afterlife still common in Christianity today: heaven is ‘a stately citie, where we shall be secure from all hurt,’ he wrote.

Read the full essay here: https://aeon.co/essays/how-heaven-became-a-place-among-the-stars

The article explores the historical transformation of the Christian concept of heaven from a specific location within the cosmos to a more abstract, non-physical realm. It traces how early Christian interpretations of heaven were influenced by Greek and Roman philosophy, particularly the works of Plato and Aristotle, and how these views were later challenged by the new cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo. The theme reflects on the interplay between religious belief and scientific understanding, highlighting how the physical dislocation of heaven in the Christian cosmology paralleled shifts in astronomical knowledge and led to a reimagining of the afterlife that aligns more closely with the original Christian teachings.

Empyrean: The highest part of heaven, thought by the ancients to be the realm of pure fire and by medieval Christians to be the abode of God and the angels.
Aristotelian: Relating to Aristotle or his philosophy, which posited an Earth-centered universe with a fixed outer sphere of stars.
Cosmology: The science of the origin and development of the universe.
Asceticism: Severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
Theodicy: The vindication of divine goodness and providence in view of the existence of evil.
Soteriology: The doctrine of salvation in Christian theology.
Eschatology: A part of theology concerned with the final events of history, or the ultimate destiny of humanity.

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How to Read Aeon Essays for CAT 2024?
Join PW CAT Coaching Classes to effectively prepare for CAT under the guidance of experts and crack the exam with commendable scores. To effectively prepare for CAT, candidates must read nearly 50 Aeon essays during the preparation phase. Ideally, candidates should start with Aeon ideas, then read Aeon essays and lastly move to Aeon Psyche.
Essays
Aeon is a website that publishes longform essays on various topics by serious and creative thinkers. The essays are not related to the CAT exam, which is a computer-based test for admission to Indian business schools.
How to read Aeon Essays for the CAT
How to read Aeon Essays for the CAT Gejo Speaks 42.8K subscribers 3.3K 78K views 1 year ago
Daily Reads for VARC: Aeon Essays
Daily Reads for VARC: Aeon Essays Notes for CAT is part of 100 RCs for Practice Notes for Quick Revision. These Daily Reads for VARC: Aeon Essays sections for 100 RCs for Practice Notes are comprehensive and detailed yet concise enough to glance through for exam preparations. The Daily Reads for VARC: Aeon Essays Topic is one of the critical ...
How to Read Aeon Essays for CAT VARC
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How to read Aeon Essays for CAT 2024
In this video, Amit Rohra Sir discusses the step-by-step appoach to start reading the important Aeon essays which often come in CAT RC passages. Stay tuned to MBA Wallah channel for many more ...
CAT VARC- How to read Aeon essays
Learn how to read and understand Aeon essays for CAT VARC with this video and tips. Find out how to hunt for new words, relate them to your own understanding, and write them in your notebook.
On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly
When I look into the eyes of a cat, or even a chicken, and when they return the gaze, are we recognising these unspoken, forgotten, shared genetic memories? What of organisms that sense the world in other, nonvisual, ways?
A quantitative theory unlocks the mysteries of why we sleep
Adults sleep less than babies. Sperm whales sleep less again. A new mathematical theory unlocks the mysteries of slumber
CAT Exam reading comprehension sources
Learn how to ace in VARC section with AEON essays, a source of reading comprehension for CAT exam. Find tips, resources, books, mocks and schedule for CAT preparation.
1) How do you all use Aeon essays. Do you just pick a random ...
XAT 2024 - 99.75iler in VALR. I always used to go for random essays. It helps a lot in a long run. Also keep up with the consistency. Try going through one every day. English as a section can be a bit tricky in exam pressure cause due to the language, the options sometimes seem v close. So practice RCs really well.
Best Sources To Prepare For VA-RC
Aeon Essays is a magazine of ideas and culture that publishes in-depth essays on various topics. It is one of the common sources of VA-RC for CAT, along with other newspapers, websites, and books.
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CAT Verbal Ability Preparation- How to Read Aeon Essays? | VARC Strategy CATKing 489K subscribers Subscribed 225 7.8K views 1 year ago Aeon Essays on Animals | Others
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Find a collection of over 1000 articles curated by Bharath, a CAT topper and 2IIM teacher, to improve your VARC skills. Browse articles by category, such as technology, psychology, economy, fiction and more.
The uncanny familiar: can we ever really know a cat?
A philosophical exploration of the paradoxical relationship between humans and cats, from domestication to domination, from affection to alienation. The author, a professor of philosophy and an earth artist, shares his personal stories and insights about his three rescued cats.
How do you analyze Aeon essays for CAT preparation?
I find them quite challenging to analyze effectively. I would appreciate your insights and tips on how to analyze Aeon essays for CAT preparation…
Reading Aeon Essays : r/CATpreparation
To all those who are good at VARC, how did you guys deal with such long essays? Is there any technique to remember such enormous text?? Also, is there any alternative option to get good at RC?? 1 2 Share Add a Comment Sort by: Search Comments AutoModerator MOD • 5 min. ago • Stickied comment Moderator Announcement Read More » Vote ...
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How to Read CAT Like Aeon Essay Reading CAT passages effectively, especially those that are dense and thought-provoking like Aeon essays, requires specific strategies to enhance comprehension and critical thinking.
Daily Read 3: Essay Aeon
Document Description: Daily Read 3: Essay Aeon for CAT 2024 is part of Verbal Ability (VA) & Reading Comprehension (RC) preparation. The notes and questions for Daily Read 3: Essay Aeon have been prepared according to the CAT exam syllabus. Information about Daily Read 3: Essay Aeon covers topics like Essay 1, Essay 2, Essay 3 and Daily Read 3 ...
Aeon Essay Analysis for CAT 2023 VARC
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Daily Read 7: Essay Aeon
Document Description: Daily Read 7: Essay Aeon for CAT 2024 is part of Verbal Ability (VA) & Reading Comprehension (RC) preparation. The notes and questions for Daily Read 7: Essay Aeon have been prepared according to the CAT exam syllabus. Information about Daily Read 7: Essay Aeon covers topics like Essay 1, Essay 2, Essay 3 and Daily Read 7 ...
Is there anybody who has a list of Aeon Essays, that could be
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