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.
The actual CAT 2023 Slot 1 Quantitative Aptitude section, covering logarithms, surds, mixtures, compound interest, clock angles and circle geometry, with a worked solution for every question.
The full CAT 2023 Slot 3 paper: VARC passages on climate history and art repatriation, DILR sets on dealers and police routes, and QA from algebra to geometry.
The actual CAT 2023 Slot 3 Quantitative Ability questions on logarithms, quadratics, factors, work, mixtures, boats and streams and polygon geometry, each with a worked solution.
The CAT 2023 Slot 2 DILR section: coin sacks in a grid of boxes, a random draw among three participants, Odsville firm timelines and entertainment park ride scheduling.
The CAT 2023 Slot 3 DILR section as a previous-year set: a student caselet, online and offline registrations, AC dealer sales and a police station network.
Actual CAT 2023 Slot 3 VARC questions, with RC passages on Ghosh, Pinker, the Euphronios krater and romantic aesthetics, plus para-jumbles and summaries.
Actual CAT 2023 Slot 2 VARC questions: passages on Oxfam's campaign, liberalism, Positivist history and translation, plus para-jumbles, odd sentence out and para-summary.
The actual CAT 2023 Slot 1 DILR section, with sets on a dean election, restaurant ratings for gig workers, a visa processing office and a housing complex layout.
The CAT 2023 Slot 1 VARC section, with passages on human geography, postcolonial literature, Sahlins and wolves in France, plus para-jumble, odd sentence and summary questions.
The actual CAT 2018 Slot 2 DILR section, with sets on college accreditation, smartphone brands, a sports club, ticket classes, interviews, letter codes and currency exchange.
The real CAT 2018 Slot 2 VARC section: RC passages on e-governance, meritocracy, metric fixation and Saturn's rings, plus para-jumbles, summaries and odd-sentence questions.
The actual CAT 2018 Slot 1 quant section, spanning arithmetic, algebra, logarithms, progressions, geometry and set theory, with worked solutions for most questions.
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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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