S.C.A.L.E. VARC
Students who want VARC to become a strength
Master CAT VARC with India's most trusted verbal authors.
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Arun Sharma Academy
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S.C.A.L.E. VARC
VARC
- Format
- Self-paced
- Subjects
- VARC
- Access
- 385 days
- Mentors
- Meenakshi Upadhyay · Arun Sharma
What you receive
Everything included in this course.
- Setting Your School Right
- Build a strong foundation in reading and comprehension
- • Learn how to find main idea and supplementary ideas
- • Master skimming vs. scanning techniques
- • Understand basics of grammar and important vocabulary
- • Fundamental exercises for comprehension, vocabulary and grammar
- Core Concepts
- Deep dive into the VARC syllabus and question-solving techniques
- • Understand CAT trends and OMET patterns
- • Develop reading skills for identifying purpose, tone, and style
- • Learn core concepts of verbal ability chapters
- • Master critical reasoning and avoiding option traps
- Assisted Problem Solving
- Refine skills with advanced-level assignments and guided practice
- • Topic-wise reading assignments for vocabulary and comprehension
- • Solve LOD 2-level passages and Verbal ability questions
- • Video-assisted explanations for complex problems
- Learn from CAT
- Analyze and practice CAT-level questions from past years
- • Solve actual CAT questions from 2020 to 2024
- • Video solutions and trend analysis
- • Learn how CAT examiners frame questions
- • Simulate real exam conditions
- Exam Readiness
- Achieve peak performance with rigorous testing
- • 10 VARC Sectional Mocks simulating real CAT conditions
- • Performance analysis with detailed reports
- • Final prep strategy and booster sessions
- • Focus on high-scoring areas and weak topic revision
Inside the course
What you will learn and why it moves your score.
VARC is the section most aspirants treat as luck. It is not. Reading well is a trainable skill, and CAT rewards a specific kind of reading: fast, purposeful and able to separate the main idea from everything supporting it.
S.C.A.L.E. VARC is designed by Meenakshi Upadhyay, IIM Bangalore alumna and co-author of the bestselling VARC book, with Arun Sharma. It takes you from basic reading skills through the full VARC syllabus to actual CAT passages and sectional mocks.
The five phases
S — Setting your school right
Build the reading foundation the section depends on: finding the main idea and supporting ideas, sentence, paragraph and passage-level interpretation, and skimming versus scanning. Basic exercises in comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, idioms and phrasal verbs come first.
C — Core concepts
The full VARC syllabus with question-solving technique: CAT and OMET trends, purpose, tone and style, critical reasoning, and the core theory for para summary, para jumbles, odd sentence out, missing statements, last sentence, and fill in the blanks. Includes CAT-like passages with in-depth video explanations.
A — Assisted problem solving
Advanced comprehension sets with video explanations, topic-wise reading assignments for vocabulary and comprehension, and advanced verbal ability practice.
L — Learn from CAT
Actual CAT VARC questions from recent years, delivered as sectional tests with video solutions that explain each question and the trend it represents.
E — Exam readiness
VARC sectional mocks built on the latest CAT pattern, with video solutions and performance analysis, plus final strategy and revision of weak areas.
Who this course is for
- Students whose VARC score swings unpredictably between mocks
- Aspirants who read well but cannot eliminate the second-best option
- Non-native English speakers who want structure rather than vague advice to "read more"
- Anyone targeting a 99+ percentile in VARC
Arun Sharma
Founder & lead mentor · QA · DILR · VARC
IIM Bangalore
Alumnus, 1995
24x
CAT 99.9+ percentile
McGraw-Hill
Bestselling CAT author
30+ years
Teaching CAT
The thinking behind the course
Learn from the mentor who wrote the CAT books you already study from.
Arun Sharma's courseware is a default reference for CAT aspirants across India. The same exam thinking runs through every course here: clear concepts, deliberate practice and better decisions under exam pressure.
Written by the academy, published by McGraw-Hill
Also teaching on this course
Meenakshi Upadhyay
Student results
Real preparation journeys. Real B-school outcomes.
Hear from students who used the academy's teaching, mocks and mentoring to improve their CAT performance and convert leading B-schools.
CAT preparation is not just about academic knowledge. It is about developing a thought process for time management and increasing accuracy. Arun Sir and Meenakshi Ma’am made us aware of the dynamics of CAT while building the self-belief and confidence needed to perform.
Raghvendra Pratap SinghIIM KozhikodeThe program helped me get a good score and improve the areas that mattered during interviews. The classes taught not only logic and shortcuts, but also the ability to choose the right questions in the actual paper.
Nakul TyagiMDI GurgaonThe teachers were extremely helpful and I believe they are the USP of the institute. Arun Sharma Sir, Meenakshi Ma’am and Lokesh Sir guided us with the mental preparation for the exam, in addition to introducing innovative methods that made even the toughest problems feel manageable. Through their guidance and support, I cracked CAT and gained admission to IIM Ahmedabad.
Shantanu AgarwalIIM AhmedabadAs I celebrate my success in CAT, my deepest gratitude goes to the entire academy team for the constant support offered to me.
Himanshu SalgotraIIM CalcuttaI would like to thank Arun Sharma Sir for helping me realise my dream of getting into a premier B-school. Coming from a non-English background, I was always apprehensive about reaching an IIM. The guidance I received was extremely helpful and played a major role in my selection at one of the country’s best B-schools.
Sandeep MohantyIIM BangaloreIf getting into a good B-school is 51% about academic knowledge, then it is 49% about correct motivation.
Jai SaxenaFMS DelhiStories you can watch and read
Meet the people behind the outcome.
Hear students describe their CAT preparation and academy experience in their own words.
Questions, answered
Everything students ask before enrolling.
Still unsure whether this course fits your preparation stage? Send the enquiry form and a counsellor will talk it through with you.
I am not a strong reader. Should I still take this course?
Yes. The first phase is built for exactly that: basic reading skills, comprehension exercises, vocabulary and grammar before any CAT-level work.
Does the course cover OMETs as well as CAT?
Yes. The core phase includes syllabus, trends and patterns for other MBA entrance exams alongside CAT.
Are actual CAT questions included?
Yes. Recent CAT VARC questions are included as sectional tests with video solutions and trend analysis.
How much test practice is included?
VARC sectional mocks on the latest CAT pattern with video solutions and performance reports, alongside the assignments throughout the course.
Is it live or recorded?
Recorded and self-paced, so you can repeat any lesson as often as you need during the access period shown above.
Preparation and conversion messages
Messages shared after milestones, interviews and final conversions.
Ready when you are
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