CAT Time and Work Questions with Solutions PDF

Time and Work questions account for nearly 5 per cent to 10 per cent of the entire CAT question paper directly or indirectly. In each session of the CAT exam, candidates can expect 1-2 direct questions (this is roughly 15–25 per cent of all Arithmetic questions). The test-taker must aim to solve each question within 1.5 minutes.

Candidates find CAT Time and Work questions on Individual Efficiencies and Work Equivalence, Pipes and Cisterns with inlet/outlet combinations, and Alternate Days or Fractional Work schedules. A good hold on Time and Work also helps in advanced CAT topics like Time, Speed and Distance (specifically Escalator and Circular Track problems), Wages and Shared Partnerships, and DILR Application sets involving network scheduling, pipeline capacities, or logic-based DI optimisation.

This article has CAT Time and Work questions with solutions PDFs. Candidates can use the CAT Time and Work practice questions with three tier difficulty levels for complete preparation for the CAT 2026 exam.

Sample CAT Time and Work Questions with Solutions

Question 1 Difficulty: Easy

Q: Anil can paint a house in 12 days while Barun can paint it in 16 days. Anil, Barun, and Chandu undertake to paint the house for ₹ 24000 and the three of them together complete the painting in 6 days. If Chandu is paid in proportion to the work done by him, then the amount in INR received by him is. Options: Short Answer Type (TITA - Type In The Answer)

Question 2 Difficulty: Medium

Q: Gautam and Suhani, working together, can finish a job in 20 days. If Gautam does only 60% of his usual work on a day, Suhani must do 150% of her usual work on that day to exactly make up for it. Then, the number of days required by the faster worker to complete the job working alone is. Options: Short Answer Type (TITA - Type In The Answer)

Question 3 Difficulty: Medium

Q: Anil can paint a house in 60 days while Bimal can paint it in 84 days. Anil starts painting and after 10 days, Bimal and Charu join him. Together, they complete the painting in 14 more days. If they are paid a total of ₹ 21000 for the job, then the share of Charu, in INR, proportionate to the work done by him, is.

Answer Options:

1. 9150

2. 9200

3. 9000

4. 9100

Question 4 Difficulty: Difficult

Q: Teams A, B, and C consist of five, eight, and ten members, respectively, such that every member within a team is equally productive. Working separately, teams A, B, and C can complete a certain job in 40 hours, 50 hours, and 4 hours, respectively. Two members from team A, three members from team B, and one member from team C together start the job, and the member from team C leaves after 23 hours. The number of additional member(s) from team B, that would be required to replace the member from team C, to finish the job in the next one hour, is. 

Answer Options:

1. 2

2. 4

3. 1

4. 3

Question 5 Difficulty: Difficult

Q: Rahul, Rakshita and Gurmeet, working together, would have taken more than 7 days to finish a job. On the other hand, Rahul and Gurmeet, working together would have taken less than 15 days to finish the job. However, they all worked together for 6 days, followed by Rakshita, who worked alone for 3 more days to finish the job. If Rakshita had worked alone on the job then the number of days she would have taken to finish the job, cannot be. 

Answer Options:

1. 16

2. 21

3. 20

4. 17