Official previous-year papers
Actual previous-year papers, slot by slot. Work through one in Normal practice, with every answer marked as you go, or sit it as a Simulated test against the paper’s own clock.
CAT 2021 Slot 2 in full: counting and mixture problems in Quant, the Chango and food-delivery caselets in DILR, and philosophy-heavy RC in VARC.
The actual CAT 2021 Slot 1 paper across QA, VARC and DILR, from logarithm and modulus problems to a cuttlefish RC passage and network caselets.
The full CAT 2021 Slot 3 previous-year paper across QA, DILR and VARC: arithmetic, logarithms and geometry, reasoning caselets, and reading and verbal ability questions, with solutions for most.
CAT 2021 Slot 3 DILR caselets on reviewer question selection, javelin throw rankings, employee project schedules and bottle purity, presented as the original previous-year section with most solutions explained.
Reading passages, para-jumbles, odd-sentence-out and paragraph summary questions from the CAT 2021 Slot 3 VARC section, presented as the original previous-year set with explanations for most of it.
The CAT 2021 Slot 3 Quant section with arithmetic, absolute-value algebra, logarithms, functions, geometry and counting questions from the real paper.
The CAT 2020 Slot 3 previous year paper, covering QA topics from logarithms to circular races, VARC passages and para-jumbles, and DILR sets on games and puzzles.
The second-slot CAT 2020 paper, from race and chord problems to bead-grid and seminar sets and argument-based passages, with worked solutions for most questions.
The original CAT 2020 Slot 1 paper covering QA, DILR and VARC, from logarithms and cone mensuration to cab-driver evaluation sets and an RC passage on anarchy.
The real CAT 2019 Slot 2 paper: RC on bureaucracy and squatter cities, QA on logarithms, polygons and ratios, and DILR sets on rainfall, rifle shooting and doctors' schedules.
The CAT 2019 Slot 1 paper with VARC passages on Aladdin and topophilia, LRDI sets like the game show and archery tournament, and QA on geometry, interest and work.
Real CAT 2018 Slot 2 questions: RC on e-governance, metric fixation and Saturn's rings, DILR sets on accreditation and amusement parks, and QA on logs, mixtures and inequalities.
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Every paper here was set by the exam body itself, so its difficulty is the one you will actually meet.
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