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 2018 Slot 1 paper with passages on plastic pollution and happiness, DILR sets on ATMs and committees, and quant on compound interest, logarithms and trains.
The actual CAT 2017 Slot 2 paper: RC on creativity, electric vehicles and Vikings, DILR sets like Funky Pizzeria and tea tasting, and QA on mixtures, geometry and functions.
The full CAT 2017 Slot 1 paper: VARC passages on maps and malls, DILR sets on airlines and platforms, and QA on ages, logarithms and geometry.
Actual CAT 2021 Slot 2 VARC questions: RC on knowledge in philosophy, oral languages, nationalist ideology and truth and power, plus para-jumbles, an odd sentence and a summary.
Actual CAT 2021 Slot 2 DILR sets: the Chango game, an object-distribution puzzle, an orders bar chart by category and Ravi's delivery-rating caselet, each with a worked solution.
CAT 2021 Slot 2 Quantitative Aptitude PYQ spanning remainders, logarithms, quadratic roots, trapezium geometry, mixtures, compound interest and route counting, with worked and video solutions.
CAT 2021 Slot 1 DILR caselets covering a sales bar chart, an acquaintance network, a raw material buying and selling puzzle and a journal scheduling set.
Actual CAT 2021 Slot 1 VARC passages on tea history, Maya personhood and cuttlefish behaviour, alongside summary, odd-sentence-out and para-jumble items, each worked out step by step.
Actual CAT 2021 Slot 1 Quantitative Aptitude questions on modulus, logarithms, sequences, geometry, compound interest, mixtures, work and trains, explained step by step.
Real CAT 2020 Slot 3 DILR sets on land division, a Hi-Lo bidding game, grocery deliveries, a school survey and a blood-test puzzle, each fully explained.
VARC section of CAT 2020 Slot 3, with a reading comprehension passage on travel and transport, a para-summary, para-jumbles and an odd-sentence-out question.
The Quantitative Aptitude section of CAT 2020 Slot 3, covering arithmetic, algebra, logarithms, number theory and coordinate geometry, with worked solutions for most problems.
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A mock is somebody’s guess at the exam. A previous-year paper is the exam.
Every paper here was set by the exam body itself, so its difficulty is the one you will actually meet.
A few years of one exam show which chapters it leans on. Practise them untimed in Normal mode, where each answer is checked as you give it.
Sit the same paper as a Simulated test once you know it, then move on to full-length mocks.
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