CAT 2025 to be Conducted by IIM Kozhikode? What to Expect

CAT 2025 will be conducted most likely by IIM Kozhikode. Official announcement can be expected anytime soon. The institute conducted CAT previously in 2019. Check here what to expect from CAT exam 2025 if IIM Kozhikode conducts it.

IIM Kozhikode will be conducting CAT 2025. There is no official notification yet but going by trend of CAT exam, this year’s exam convening institute will be IIM Kozhikode. The CAT exam is convened by one of the top 6 IIMs on rotational basis. Since IIM Kozhikode conducted CAT 2019, it should be conducting CAT 2025.  

The difficulty level of CAT exam varies every year as every CAT convening campus prepares the question paper on its own parameters of difficulty level and approach. So, the CAT exam preparation strategy changes with change in the CAT convening institute. Now, if IIM Kozhikode conducts CAT 2025, what would be the difficulty level?

IIM Kozhikode: Expected Difficulty Level of CAT 2025?

IIM Kozhikode last conducted the CAT in 2019 and the difficulty level was moderate to high. CAT 2025 can be expected to be moderate to High. In CAT 2019, the exam was of 180 minutes and 100 questions. Check below section wise difficulty level and number of good attempts to analyse what to expect in CAT 2025.

Section Name	Total Number of Questions	Number of Multiple Choice Questions	Number of TITA Questions	Level of Difficulty
Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension	34	27	07	Medium
Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning	32	24	08	Medium
Quantitative Ability	34	23	11	Medium
TOTAL	100	74	26	Medium

Basis the CAT 2019 question paper, let’s look at what to expect in CAT 2025, if IIM Kozhikode conducts the exam.

CAT VARC: What to expect in 2025

• You can expect dominance of RC in this section, like always.
• Parajumbles were absent last year when IIM Calcutta set the paper, but they can be expected this year.
• Most of the questions will be inference based, but will not be too difficult to comprehend. 
• Can expect odd sentence parasummary and sentence completion questions.

CAT DILR: What to expect in 2025

• In 2024, DILR had 22 questions, equally divided into DI and LR.
• If IIM Kozhikode sets the CAT 2025 question paper, then you can expect a mix of medium and easy questions in this section.
• Questions of both DI and LR will appear in sets. There is unlikely to be any standalone question.
• Some of the sets can be tricky and time consuming, identifying and skipping those sets would be the key.
• You can expect a couple of Type in the Answer (TITA) questions.

CAT Quantitative Aptitude: What to expect in 2025

• Quantitative Aptitude section will be moderate in terms of difficulty level, but there can be several calculation intensive questions.
• You can expect Arithmetic to dominate this section There will be 2-3 questions on Modern Math, Geometry and Algebra.
• You can expect TITA questions in Quantitative Aptitude section of CAT 2025.
• Chance of surprise questions is less.

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