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CAT questions for practice - The CAT previous year question papers are best source of preparation as a time bound test requires speed and accuracy which can be achieved only through practice. The previous year CAT questions help candidates understand the difficulty level of the exam and key insights like type of questions, topic wise weightage and marking scheme.
The CAT exam 2025 will be conducted on November 30, 2025. Aspirants must have completed the CAT 2025 syllabus by now and it is time step into the next phase, i.e. practice sessions. Dedicate October and November to CAT mock test and question paper practice sessions. It is important to also solve official CAT questions during the preparation phase to know what is the difficulty level of the actual exam. After completing a topic, solve a few CAT practice questions from the same to know how well you have understood the topic.
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To help CAT 2025 aspirants prepare well for the exam, Shiksha.com has curated CAT question bank for practice on the basis of official CAT question papers of previous years. These CAT practice questions given below will give the aspirant an experience of actual CAT exam. Before solving the CAT questions, have a look the latest exam pattern.
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CAT Exam Pattern 2025 Overview
The table below explains the latest CAT exam pattern 2025. Every CAT mock test is designed on the basis of the following structure to provide the candidate with the experience of the actual exam. In CAT 2024, there were 22 questions in DILR section. It is expected that CAT 2025 will also have the same number of questions in DILR.
| CAT Exam Features |
Details |
|---|---|
| Number of sections |
Three - VARC, DILR, Quantitative Aptitude (to be answered in the same sequence) |
| Number of questions |
VARC – 24 DILR -22 QA- 22 Total - 68 |
| Types of question |
MCQ |
| Examination mode |
Online |
| Sectional time-limit |
40 minutes |
| Total marks |
204 |
| Marks per question |
3 |
| Negative marking |
-1 (no negative marking for TITA and unattempted questions) |
| Exam duration |
120 minutes |
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CAT Questions for Quantitative Aptitude
1. A number of two digits exceed the number formed by reversing the digits by 18. If the sum of the digits is 10, find the number.
(a) 73
(b) 46
(c) 64
(d) 82
Answer: (c)
2. Five years ago, the ratio of the ages of a father and daughter is 5:3 and sum of their present age is 74 years. What will be the ratio of their ages after nine years?
(a) 29:19
(b) 27:17
(c) 27:19
(d) 54:37
Answer: (c)
3. Mohit and Aman are sharing a flat in Delhi, with an arrangement of equally dividing the household expenses. Aman went to Rohtak, where a sale was going on and bought chairs for the house, worth Rs. 300 on 30% discount. But he lost them on his way back and had to buy new ones, after he reached Delhi. How much did he end up spending on the chairs?
(a) Rs. 460
(b) Rs. 270
(c) Rs. 510
(d) Rs. 360
Answer: (d)
Check here: CAT Quantitative Aptitude questions for practice with solutions PDF
CAT Questions for DILR
Direction for Question 1 to 4: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
Four persons (1) Rohit, (2) Jugeet, (3) Hemraj and (4) Durgesh each had some initial money with them. They all were playing bridge in a way that the loser doubles the money of each of the other three persons from his share. They played four rounds and each person lost one round in the order 1, 2, 3 and 4 as mentioned above. At the end of fourth round each person had Rs. 3200.
1. What was the amount with Rohit to start with?
(a) Rs. 6000
(b) Rs. 3400
(c) Rs. 6600
(d) Rs. 2800
Answer: (c)
2. What was the amount with Jugeet at the end of first round?
(a) Rs. 6800
(b) Rs. 7200
(c) Rs. 6400
(d) Rs. 8000
Answer: (a)
3. Who had the lowest amount at any round of play throughout the tournament?
(a) Rohit
(b) Jugeet
(c) Hemraj
(d) Durgesh
Answer: (a)
4. What was the amount with Hemraj at the end of the second round?
(a) Rs. 3600
(b) Rs. 7200
(c) Rs. 1600
(d) Rs. 6800
Answer: (b)
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CAT Questions for VARC
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.
Q 5:
1. It became evident that the mosquitoes were developing an immunity to the poison and a different approach is required to combat this challenge.
- One way of destroying the mosquitoes is by spraying and a powerful poison called DDT was developed that could be sprayed on ponds and stagnant water.
- DDT can be sprayed by hand or spread by an aeroplane over areas that are difficult to reach.
- For a time, DDT worked wonders in reducing the number of mosquitoes but the promise of DDT did not last long.
Answer: 2341
Q 6:
1.An undaunted train burglary was committed the day before yesterday in a sleeper class compartment of Super Express between town-2 and town-3 at around 3 p.m.
- The majority of the travellers were in rest and just then round four reprobates entered the compartment with fatal weapons and started to beat and loot the travellers.
- A few travellers attempted to oppose them however without any result, two of them sustained serious wounds.
4.In the wake of drawing loads of fortitude, one of the travellers gathered courage and pulled the alarm chain.
Answer: 1234
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CAT 2024 aspirants can download section wise CAT sample papers by Shiksha free of cost. Practice these CAT sample questions collated by MBA experts to increase your chances of scoring high in the exam.
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CAT question papers are released within a week of the exam in the form of a PDF as a response sheet and answer key. Candidates who have appeared for the test are able to access the CAT question paper and answer key. The question paper of every slot is released on the same day along with candidate response sheet and official answer to all question. If any candidate needs previous year CAT question papers for preparation purpose, then they can download them from Shiksha website. We have hosted last five years' CAT question papers for aspirants to download and practice. These official CAT question papers are available for download free. You can download the CAT question paper PDFs at this link: https://www.shiksha.com/mba/cat-exam-question-papers Candidates must check and practice the latest CAT question paper to know the latest exam pattern and difficulty level.
The CAT VARC section is dominated by RC questions. Out of 24 questions about 14-16 are based on Reading Comprehension passages and the rest of them are based on parajumbles, para completion, etc.
CAT has about 12-16 RC question. Since, it is not mandatory to solve all the questions, candidates can maximize their scores by leaving out the questions related to the passage they find the toughest. There is negative marking in CAT so candidates must ensure that they mark only the correct options or do not mark any option at all.
The key change in CAT question paper 2024 was increase in number of questions in DLIR section. Till 2023, the DILR section used to have 20 questions. In 2024, it had 22 questions. The time limit for it was the same and no other section had less questions. Which means, in CAT 2024, candidates had to attempt 68 questions instead of 66 to solve in the same time (120 minutes). DILR sectional time limit was 40 minutes as in previous years. There was no other change in CAT 2024, the difficulty level was same as previous years.
No, it is not mandatory to attempt all the questions in CAT. Candidates can choose to attempt questions as per their preparation. It is not possible also to attempt all the questions due to time limitation and difficulty level. Reading dense RC passages often take up a lot of time. In DILR and QA too, some questions are time taking and calculation intensive due to which not much time is left in hand to attempt all questions. The aim of every test taker should be to attempt about 2/3rd of the total questions in all the sections of CAT.
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CAT cut offs do not flutuate much. For the past few years, the CAT exam cut offs for IIMs or other top colleges have not seen much change. If there is any change at all, it is in decimals. However, that decimal point too can make or mar admission chances. CAT cut offs for 2026 admission will largely
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CAT cut offs for IIM admission 2026 batch will not change. They will remain high between 92-100 percentile. Top 6 IIM cut offs will be between 98-100, while the cut offs for rest of them will be between 92-97.
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There will be no option of result evaluation in CAT 2025. Candidates cannot challenge the scorecard. Marks and percentiles printed on CAT 2025 result cum scorcard will be final.
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CAT result is not released offline. Candidates have to download it from the iimcat.ac.in website only. The scorecard is available for download for 1 year.
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As the Manipal University CAT Cutoff 2025 is not out yet, according to the Manipal University CAT Cutoff 2024, the qualifying cutoff was 25 percentile for General category candidates under the All India quota. The CAT cutoff for 2023 was also the same. So, going by the previous years' cutoff trends,
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The Jaipur National University CAT Cutoff 2025 will be released soon. In the meantime, according to the Jaipur National University CAT Cutoff 2024, students needed to secure overall 70 percentile and 40 percentile sectional for admission to the MBA/PGDM course. In 2023, and 2022, the cutoff was also
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The Jaipur National University CAT Cutoff 2025 will be released soon. In the meantime, according to the Jaipur National University CAT Cutoff 2024, students needed to attain 70 percentile overall and 40 percentile sectional. In 2023 and 2022, the cutoff was the same, indicating that the CAT Cutoff 2
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The K J Somaiya Institute of Management CAT Cutoff 2024 was released for admission to the MBA/ PGDM courses. The CAT Cutoff 2024 was 84 for the Master of Business Administration (MBA) course at K J Somaiya Institute of Management. Students who are aiming for admission have to attain qualifying cut
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The IMT Nagpur CAT Cutoff 2025 will soon be released by the institute for admission to the MBA/PGDM courses. In the meantime, judging from the IMT Nagpur CAT Cutoff 2024, the qualifying CAT percentile was 85 for all categories under the All India quota. The institute also accepts the cutoff of vario
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Till 2014, there were only two sections in CAT. Quantitative Aptitude was clubbed with Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning was clubbed with Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension. In 2015, the Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning were clubbed together and Quantitative Aptitude and Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension made two individual sections. Since 2015, the sectional segregation has remained the same but the number of questions have come down from 100 to 66. The exam duration has also been reduced. Until 2019, the CAT exam was of 180 minutes and the total number of questions were 100. However, in 2020, the question paper structure was revised due to COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, the total number of questions came down to 76. In 2021 and 2022, the number of questions were further lowered to 66. For the last two years, CAT is conducted for 2 hours, and the number of questions is 66. In CAT 2024 however, the number of questions were increased to 68.
The latest CAT question paper structure is: Total questions: 68 Number of sections: 3 Order of sections - 1. VARC 2. DILR 3. Quantitative Aptitude Sectional time limit: 40 minutes VARC questions: 24 DILR questions: 22 Quantitative Aptitude questions: 22.