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About CAT Exam
Common Admission Test or CAT is a national level management aptitude test which is conducted by the IIMs for admission to the MBA courses offered by its 21 campuses and over 1,200 B-schools in India. Over three lakh candidates apply for CAT exam every year.
CAT Exam Paper Pattern
| Sections as per IIM CAT Exam Paper 2023 | No. of Ques. | Time in Minutes | Time in mins. for PwD students |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) | 24 | 40 minutes | 53 minutes 20 seconds |
| 2Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR) | 20 | 40 minutes | 53 minutes 20 seconds |
| 3Quantitative Aptitude (QA) | 22 | 40 minutes | 53 minutes 20 seconds |
| 4TOTAL | 66 | 120 minutes | 160 minutes |
- Important point to note here is you need to solve bare minimum number of questions to score above 80 percentile in CAT exam. Read our posts related to previous year CAT Exam analysis on Instagram to get better idea about Marks vs. Percentile in CAT Exam.
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cat exam - important topics and weightage
- RC: 4 passages with 4 questions each
- Verbal Ability: 2 Parajumbles + 2 Parasummary + 2 Paracompletion + 2 Odd one out
| SLOT 1 | SLOT 2 | SLOT 3 |
|---|---|---|
| 1Return of wolves’ predation in a French region - Easy to Moderate |
Second-hand Shopping and Fast Fashion - Easy to Moderate |
Colonialism and Global Warming (The Nutmeg’s Curse) - Easy to Moderate |
| 2Current economies of North and South Korea - Easy to Moderate |
Translated Streaming in Europe - Easy to Moderate |
Understanding Romantic Aesthetics - Easy to Moderate |
| 3Indian Ocean Literature - Moderate to Difficult |
Why Liberalism Failed (Book Review) - Moderate to Difficult |
Cultural Patrimony Laws - Moderate to Difficult |
| 4Modern materialism versus ancient societies - Moderate to Difficult |
What is Historical Fact - Moderate to Difficult |
Rationality by Steven Pinker - Moderate to Difficult |
| 5Good Attempts: 16-18 | Good Attempts: 17-19 | Good Attempts: 16-18 |
- 4 sets of 5 questions per set
| SLOT 1 | SLOT 2 | SLOT 3 |
|---|---|---|
| 1Professors in departments - Easy to Moderate |
5 firms – Funds raised in consecutive years - Easy to Moderate |
Number of enrollments in offline and online courses - Easy to Moderate |
| 2Gig workers and Restaurants, Mathematical Reasoning Involved Measures of central tendency - Easy to Moderate |
Draw competition - Easy to Moderate |
Six Police Stations with map (route based) - Easy to Moderate |
| 3Houses on sale - Moderate to Difficult |
3 friends visited a park. Many rides. Scheduling questions - Moderate to Difficult |
Projects and scores of 3 boys and 3 girls - Moderate to Difficult |
| 4Visa Office Special Equation handling - Moderate to Difficult |
Nine Boxes – sudoku type puzzle - Moderate to Difficult |
AC Company – 4 Dealers - Moderate to Difficult |
| 5Good Attempts: 9-11 | Good Attempts: 10-12 | Good Attempts: 9-11 |
| Topic | SLOT 1 | SLOT 2 | SLOT 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1Arithmetic | 7 | 7 | 8 |
| 2Algebra | 8 | 8 | 4 |
| 3Numbers | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4Modern Math | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 5Geometry & Mensuration | 4 | 2 | 3 |
tarkashastra course content for cat exam
- Pre-recorded Videos targetting CAT 2024 Exam
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- Topic-wise Tests
- Sectional Mocks
- Adaptive Full Length Mocks of CAT
- Full Length Mocks for all MBA Entrance Exams
- QA -Percentage
- QA -Ratio-Proportion
- QA -Averages
- QA -Profit Loss
- QA -Simple Interest Compound Interest
- QA -Time & Work
- QA -Time Speed Distance
- QA -Number System
- QA -Algebra
- QA -Logarithm
- QA -Linear Equations
- QA -Quadratic Equations
- QA -Permutation Combination
- QA -Probability
- QA -Progression
- QA -Set Theory
- QA -Geometry
- QA -Data Sufficiency
- QA -Data Interpretation
- VARC -Grammar (15 videos)
- VARC -Spot the Error
- VARC -Sentence Improvement
- VARC -Fill in the blanks (preposition based)
- VARC -Improve underlined/bracketed part of the statement
- VARC -Vocabulary (2+ videos)
- VARC -Verbal Analogy
- VARC -Fill in the blanks (vocab based)
- VARC -Phrase/Idiom based questions
- VARC -Reading Comprehension
- VARC -Para-jumbles
- DILR - Total 20+ videos on all important and relevant topics
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