CAT 2025 Slot 3 Question Paper with Solutions PDF

CAT 2025 Question Paper Slot 3: VARC questions

Directions for question: The given sentence is missing in the paragraph below. Decide where it best fits among the options 1, 2, 3, or 4 indicated in the paragraph.

Sentence: Productivity gains, once expected to feed through to broader living standards, now primarily serve to enhance returns to wealth. Paragraph: Economists now argue that inequality is no longer a by-product of growth but a condition of it. ____ (1) ____. Unlike wages, wealth reflects not just income but also access to assets, favourable institutional conditions - such as low interest rates - and public policies like low taxes and housing shortages. ____ (2) ____. In other words, wealth depends on political choices in ways that income currently does not. It's not just the inequality itself that is the issue but the erosion of mechanisms that once constrained it. ____ (3) ____. Wealth and income inequality are linked, but where wages have stagnated and collective bargaining has weakened, capital income - derived from profits, rents and interest - has been boosted by design. ____(4)

1. Option 1

2. Option 2 

3. Option 3

4. Option 4

Correct Answer: 4

 Question: Choose the one option below that comes closest to being the opposite of "utilitarianism".

1. The council followed a prioritarian approach, assigning greater moral weight to improvements for the worst-off rather than to maximising total welfare across the affected population.

2. The authors advocated an absolutist stance, following exceptionless rules regardless of outcomes and evaluating choices by broadest societal benefit.

3. The committee adopted a non-egoist framework, ranking policies by their contribution to overall social welfare and treating self-interest as a derivative concern within institutional evaluation.

4. The policy was cast as deontological ethics, selecting the option that delivered the highest total benefit to citizens while presenting duty as a secondary consideration in public decisionmaking. 

Correct Answer:1

CAT 2025 Question Paper Slot 3: DILR Question

Three countries - Pumpland (P), Xiland (X) and Cheeseland (C) - trade among themselves and with the (other countries in) Rest of World (ROW). All trade volumes are given in IC (international currency). The following terminology is used:

- Trade balance = Exports - Imports

- Total trade = Exports + Imports

- Normalized trade balance = Trade balance / Total trade, expressed in percentage terms The following information is known.

1. The normalized trade balances of P, X and C are 0%, 10%, and -20%, respectively.

2. 40% of exports of X are to P. 22% of imports of P are from X.

3. 90% of exports of C are to P; 4% are to ROW.

4. 12% of exports of ROW are to X, 40% are to P.

5. The export volumes of P, in IC, to X and C are 600 and 1200, respectively. P is the only country that exports to C.

Question: How much is exported from C to X, in IC? 

Correct Answer: 48

Question: How much is exported from P to ROW, in IC? 

Correct Answer: 200

CAT 2025 Question Paper Slot 3: Quantitative Aptitude Questions

Question. 57 ABCD is a trapezium in which AB is parallel to DC, AD is perpendicular to AB, and AB = 3DC. If a circle inscribed in the trapezium touching all the sides has a radius of 3 cm, then the area, in sq. cm, of the trapezium is

1) 48

2) 54

3) 30√3

4) 36√2

Correct Answer: 1

Question: For a 4-digit number (greater than 1000), sum of the digits in the thousands, hundreds, and tens places is 15 . Sum of the digits in the hundreds, tens, and units places is 16 . Also, the digit in the tens place is 6 more than the digit in the units place. The difference between the largest and smallest possible value of the number is 

1) 735

2) 3289

3) 4078

4) 811 

Correct Answer: 4

The below given table indicates section wise breakup of MCQ vs TITA questions in CAT 2025 slot 3 question paper:

Section	MCQs	TITA Questions
VARC	20	4
DILR	11	11
Quantitative Aptitude	19	3
Total	50	18

 

Check the below table for topic wise composition of CAT 2025 slot 3 question paper. As always, Quantitative Aptitude section was dominated by Arithmetic, VARC by passages and DILR with DI sets.

Section	Topic
Verbal Ability
Reading Comprehension	16
Para completion	2
Summary	2
Odd sentence	2
Jumbled paragraphs	2
DILR
Logical Reasoning (2 sets)	8
Data Interpretation (3 sets)	14
Quantitative Aptitude
Arithmetic	7
Algebra	4
Geometry	3
Modern Math	4
Numbers	4