Common Admission Test 2025 ( CAT )
Exam On - 30 Nov '25
CAT Reading Comprehension may pose challenge, if you are not well equipped to handle it in short time. Here are some key tips to crack CAT RC passages.
RC Strategy for CAT 2025: How to Read Less & Score More
CAT Reading Comprehension or RC is the most challenging section of the exam for majority of test takers. The passages are long and dense. The first glance of it may give the jitters. But there is no escape from CAT RC as 12-14 questions are passage based. So, what to do. First of all, let us be very clear that preparing for CAT VARC requires months. There is no way out, but to read more and more.
CAT 2025 aspirants would have been advised in the beginning of this year to start reading and do a lot of it. Now is the time to improve on the skills developed in previous months.
Having read a lot is not enough to crack the CAT VARC section. There are 24 questions in this section out of which 12-14 are RC based so effectively, there are 4-5 RC passages. Most of the times the passages are from unfamiliar topics. Reading all the passages and answering the questions can take up all 40 minutes and one would fall short of attempting rest of the questions. Here’s what is to be done:
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Listed below are the CAT RC topics of last few years. You would notice that the topics are from diverse fields and for most of you from unknown territory. Since it is time for practice and mock tests, you can practice some related topics.
| CAT Year |
CAT RC Passages |
|---|---|
| CAT 2024 |
Utility & Human Economics Entertainment/ Netflix Australian Species Craftsmanship Spice Trade Unintended Consequences of Technology Peer Review of Research Carnivore-Human Conflict Impact of AI Languages Chinese Moutai Saving outer space and other planets |
| CAT 2023 |
Wolf: Environmentalists vs Farmer Philosophy: Change in Work Culture Indian Ocean-based Geographical Literature Human Behavior Garments, Fashion Industry & Pollution Netflix Dubbing of titles for Europe: Good or Bad for Europe? Liberalism is Dying Facts & Interpretation in History Romantic Aesthetics/ Philosophy Cultural Property Law: Exploration of Sites Nutmeg Curse: Environment Degradation Rational Thinking |
| CAT 2022 |
Ghosts & their mysteries how we can’t find their history Chinese Copy of articles Two levels of emotional thinking STOICS Music Engineering technology Octopus Philosophy Social reorganization increasing crime rate Software if more easy humans are not capable to get solutions) Indian history American migration/urbanization increasing |
| CAT 2021 |
Mayan Civilization Utopia and Dystopia Marshmallow Experiment Evolution of Tea as a Drink Language/ Indigenous People Why Fiction Trumps Truth Colonialism/Nationalism Knowledge and Problems of Knowledge is a Scandal to Philosophy Nanotechnology Language Instinct Time Accuracy Entropy Unconscious and Psychoanalysis |
| CAT 2020 |
Anarchism Migration of Northern Seals Currency of Tang Dynasty Grammar/Vocabulary Investing in Renewable Energy Technologies Piracy in International Trade Freudian Models of Aggression A Study of Visualisation Travel Writing and Feminism During Colonial Times The Need for Economic Literacy in the General Population Screen Time and Undercurrents of Social Class An Analysis of Human Nature |
CAT preparation for VARC requires extra effort because there are no set rules of reading and interpreting the passages. It requires keep observation and eye for detail. To prepare for the section of CAT 2025 and crack it with high accuracy, candidates must practice as many RC passages as possible. In the next 2 months, they must focus on how to read less and score more in CAT VARC.
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