CAT DILR Questions with Solutions PDF

CAT DILR questions are highly scoring as attempting 2-3 sets with high can also help boost the overall score. CAT question paper has a total of 22 questions from DILR. Candidates find CAT DILR questions on Tables and Caselets, Charts and Graphs, and Games and Tournaments.

In the CAT exam, apart from the DILR questions, a good hold on DILR concepts indirectly helps in data analysis skills for Quant section. Some of the key themes for CAT DILR section include Team Formations, Network Diagrams, and Data Interpretation growth rates / Logic-based DI. This article hosts some CAT Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning questions with solutions PDFs. Candidates can practice these CAT Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning questions with varied difficulty levels for a holistic preparation for the CAT 2026 exam.

CAT DILR Questions with Solutions

Sample CAT DILR Questions with Solutions

Find four sets from CAT DILR section below:

CAT DILR Questions: SET 1

• Topic: Scheduling & Assignment (LR)

• Difficulty: Easy

Caselet

A premier B-school has organised a special 5-day lecture series from Monday to Friday. Exactly one lecture is delivered each day. The lectures cover five different subjects: Finance, Marketing, Strategy, Operations, and HR. These lectures are delivered by five distinct guest professors: Dr. P, Dr. Q, Dr. R, Dr. S, and Dr. T.

The scheduling of the lectures is subject to the following administrative constraints:

1. Dr. R teaches Strategy but does not teach on Wednesday.

2. The Marketing lecture is delivered on Thursday by Dr. T.

3. The Operations lecture is scheduled exactly two days before Dr. S’s lecture.

4. Dr. P delivers his lecture on Monday, but he teaches neither HR nor Finance.

5. The Finance lecture is scheduled for the day immediately following Dr. R's lecture.

Questions

Q1. Who delivers the HR lecture?

1. Dr. P

2. Dr. Q

3. Dr. S

4. Dr. T

Q2. Which subject is taught on Wednesday?

1. HR

2. Finance

3. Strategy

4. Operations

Q3. On which day does Dr. R deliver his lecture?

1. Tuesday

2. Wednesday

3. Thursday

4. Friday

Q4. Which of the following combinations of Day – Professor – Subject is definitively correct?

1. Monday – Dr. P – HR

2. Wednesday – Dr. S – Finance

3. Friday – Dr. Q – Operations

4. Tuesday – Dr. R – Finance

CAT DILR Questions: SET 2

• Topic: Matrix & Mathematical Reasoning (Quant LR)

• Difficulty: Medium

Caselet

A highly secure bank vault features 9 safety lockers arranged in a 3x3 grid (Rows 1 to 3 from top to bottom, and Columns 1 to 3 from left to right). An eccentric billionaire has placed a certain number of gold coins in each locker.

It is known that every locker contains a distinct integer number of gold coins ranging from 1 to 9. The arrangement of the coins satisfies the following conditions:

1. The sum of the coins in Row 1 is 15, and the sum of the coins in Column 3 is 24.

2. The locker at (Row 1, Column 3) contains the maximum possible number of coins among all 9 lockers.

3. The locker at the bottom-left corner, i.e., (Row 3, Column 1), contains exactly 1 coin.

4. The sum of the coins along the main diagonal from (Row 1, Column 1) to (Row 3, Column 3) is 18.

5. The number of coins in the central locker at (Row 2, Column 2) is a prime number.

6. The sum of the coins in Column 1 is 11, and the total sum of the coins in Row 3 is an even number.

Questions

Q5. How many gold coins are placed in the locker at (Row 2, Column 3)?

1. 6

2. 7

3. 8

4. 9

Q6. (TIT What is the total sum of the gold coins placed in all the lockers of Row 2?

Q7. Which of the following lockers contains exactly 3 gold coins?

1. (Row 2, Column 1)

2. (Row 3, Column 2)

3. (Row 1, Column 2)

4. (Row 3, Column 3)

Q8. What is the absolute difference between the number of gold coins in (Row 1, Column 2) and (Row 2, Column 1)?

1. 2

2. 3

3. 4

4. 5

CAT DILR Questions: SET 3

• Topic: Missing Data Interpretation & Arithmetic Logic (DI)

• Difficulty: Medium

Caselet

A nationwide retail conglomerate launched an aggressive expansion drive across its four operational zones: North, South, East, and West. The expansion took place over three consecutive years: 2021, 2022, and 2023. By the end of 2023, the conglomerate had successfully opened exactly 250 new stores.

An incomplete summary report of the new stores opened is provided below:

During an internal audit, the following additional facts were uncovered:

1. The total number of new stores opened across all four zones in 2022 was exactly 10 less than the total number of stores opened in 2023.

2. In the South zone, the number of stores opened in 2021 was exactly equal to the number of stores opened in 2022.

3. The West zone opened exactly twice as many stores in 2023 as it did in 2022.

Questions

Q9. How many new stores were opened in the East zone in 2022?

1. 20

2. 25

3. 30

4. 35

Q10. What is the ratio of stores opened in the West zone in 2021 to the stores opened in the North zone in 2022?

1. 5 : 4

2. 4 : 3

3. 3 : 2

4. 5 : 6

Q11. Which zone recorded the highest number of new store openings in the year 2023?

1. North

2. South

3. East

4. Both South and West

Q12. (TIT What was the total number of new stores opened in the West zone across all three years combined?

CAT DILR Questions: SET 4

• Topic: Games, Logic, and Deductions (LR)

• Difficulty: Difficult

Caselet

As a team-building exercise, four colleagues—Aman, Brij, Chirag, and Danish—are playing a digital codebreaker game. Their objective is to guess a 4-digit secret passcode. It is known that the passcode consists of four distinct digits chosen from 1 to 9 (0 is not use.

The game system provides feedback after every guess based on two metrics:

• Perfect Match: A digit in the guess is part of the secret passcode AND is in the exact correct position.

• Partial Match: A digit in the guess is part of the secret passcode BUT is in the wrong position.

Each colleague made exactly one guess. The system evaluated their guesses and generated the following feedback log:

• Guess 1 (Aman): 4 8 1 5

• Feedback: 1 Perfect Match, 2 Partial Matches.

• Guess 2 (Brij): 3 1 8 6

• Feedback: 2 Perfect Matches, 0 Partial Matches.

• Guess 3 (Chirag): 8 2 7 5

• Feedback: 0 Perfect Matches, 2 Partial Matches.

• Guess 4 (Danish): 4 7 9 2

• Feedback: 2 Perfect Matches, 0 Partial Matches.

Questions

Q13. (TIT What is the exact 4-digit secret passcode?

Q14. Which digit is located in the hundreds place (second from the left) of the secret passcode?

1. 1

2. 7

3. 8

4. 9

Q15. What is the sum of all the digits in the secret passcode?

1. 15

2. 17

3. 19

4. 20

Q16. Which of the following digits is definitely NOT present in the secret passcode?

1. 1

2. 2

3. 5

4. 8