CAT 2023 Slot 3 Quant Question Paper with Solution: PDF Download

Updated on Aug 16, 2026 22:25 IST

By Abhishek Dhawan, Deputy Manager - MBA & BBA Content

Quantitative Aptitude section of CAT 2023 Slot 3 question paper was tougher than the rest two sections. This section had maximum questions from Arithmetic and included SICI, Time and Work, Time-Speed-Distance, Ratio Proportion, and Profit & Loss.

The key to scoring well in this section of CAT exam is to be thorough with formulae and ability to do quick calculation. Arithmetic questions are mostly easy to crack in comparison to Geometry or Algebra questions. CAT 2026 aspirants can download CAT 2023 Slot 3 Quant Question Paper PDF, below:

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CAT 2023 Slot 3 Question Paper with Solutions

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Candidates preparing for CAT 2026 must also practice previous years’ CAT question papers to gain control on all the Quant topics. The exam will be held on November 29 so candidates must go through past years’ papers to check out high weightage topics of CAT Quants.

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CAT 2023 Slot 3 Quant Questions with Solutions

Question: 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

Correct Answer - 36 days

Question: Let an=46+8n and bn=98+4n be two sequences for natural numbers n≤100. Then, the sum of all terms common to both the sequences is

A. 15000

B. 14900

C. 14602

D. 14798

Correct Answer -14900

Question: A merchant purchases a cloth at a rate of Rs. 100 per meter and receives 5 cm length of cloth free for every 100 cm length of cloth purchased by him. He sells the same cloth at a rate of Rs. 110 per meter but cheats his customers by giving 95 cm length of cloth for every 100 cm length of cloth purchased by the customers. If the merchant provides a 5% discount, the resulting profit earned by him is

A. 4.2%

B. 15.5%

C. 16%

D. 9.7%

Correct Answer - 15.5%

Question: The population of a town in 2020 was 100000. The population decreased by y% from the year 2020 to 2021, and increased by x% from the year 2021 to 2022, where x and y are two natural numbers. If population in 2022 was greater than the population in 2020 and the difference between 𝑥 and 𝑦 is 10 , then the lowest possible population of the town in 2021 was

A. 74000

B. 75000

C. 72000

D. 73000

Correct Answer - 73000

CAT 2023 Slot 3 Quant Question Paper: MCQ & TITA Weightage

Quant section of CAT 2023, slot 3 had 8 TITA questions. Given the difficulty level of the section, if a candidate can attempt 9 to 11 questions with 75-80% accuracy will be considered good attempt.

Section name	Number of MCQs	Number of TITA
Quantitative Ability	14	8

Candidates preparing for CAT 2026, must practice a good number of TITA questions in Quants as most of them are fairly straightforward and doable.

CAT 2023 Slot 3 Quant Question Paper: Topic-wise Weightage

CAT 2023 Slot 3 Quant Question Paper was dominated by Arithmetic. There were 8 questions from Arithmetic and rest were divided into Algebra, Geometry, Modern Math and Numbers. Check the below table for topic wise difficulty level of CAT 2023 Slot 3 Quant Question Paper:

Area/Q Type	No. of Questions	Difficulty Level
Arithmetic	8	Medium to High
Algebra	4	Medium to High
Geometry	3	Medium to High
Modern Math	4	Medium to High
Numbers	3	Medium to High

CAT Question Paper FAQs

Check below Frequently Asked Question (FAQs) on CAT question papers:

Commonly asked questions

Q: Which topics have the highest weightage in CAT exam?

In CAT Quantitative Aptitude, Arithmetic has the highest weightage with 7-8 questions in every shift. In VARC, Reading Comprehension has the maximum weightage with about 16 questions. In DILR, the number of questions are equally distributed.

Q: Which CAT slot has the toughest question paper?

Difficulty level in CAT exam is not specific to any of the three slots. The difficulty level across slots may vary every year. Know how the CAT scores are normalised: https://www.shiksha.com/mba/articles/understanding-cat-normalization-process-blogId-9386.

Q: Is it compulsory to attempt all sections in CAT?

While it is not mandatory to attempt all sections in CAT, the IIMs and all top B School consider sectional percentiles too for selecting candidates for admission. Thus, you cannot afford to skip a CAT section all together. You can skip some questions though.