Section-wise CAT 2023 Question Paper Analysis
Check out the CAT 2024 question paper analysis for each section provided below.
Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension
For RC,4 passages were given with 4 questions each. For Verbal Ability, there were 2 Parajumbles, 2 Summary, 2 Para-completion, 2 Odd one out questions.
| Difficulty Level | Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 |
|---|
| Easy | - Return of wolves’ predation in a French region
- Current economies of North and South Korea.
| - Second-hand Shopping and Fast Fashion
- Garments, Fashion Industry & Pollution
- Netflix Dubbing of titles for Europe→ Good or Bad for Europe?
- Facts & Interpretation in History
- Translated Streaming in Europe
| - Colonialism and Global Warming (The Nutmeg’s Curse)
- Understanding Romantic Aesthetics
- Cultural Property Law → Exploration of Sites
- Rational Thinking
|
| Difficult | - Indian Ocean Literature
- Modern materialism versus ancient societies
| - Why Liberalism Failed (Book Review)
- What is Historical Fact
| - Cultural Patrimony Laws
- Rationality by Steven Pinker
- Romantic Aesthetics/ Philosophy
|
| - | Good Attempts: 16-18 | Good Attempts: 17-19 | Good Attempts: 16-18 |
Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning
There were 4 sets of DI with 5 questions for each
| Difficulty Level | Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 |
|---|
| Easy | - Professors in departments
- Gig workers and Restaurants, Mathematical Reasoning
- Involved Measures of central tendency
| - 5 firms – Funds raised in consecutive years
- Draw competition
- Missing Values Based Table→ Company Starting/ Closing Years
| - Number of enrollments in offline and online courses
- Six Police Stations with map (route based)
|
| Difficult | - Houses on sale
- Visa Office Special Equation handling
| - 3 friends visited a park.
- Many rides. Scheduling questions
- Nine Boxes – sudoku type puzzle
- Rides & Timings
- Grid Based→two 3*3 tables (Mean, Median, Mode)
- Arrangement → Scores → two days average
| - Projects and scores of 3 boys and 3 girls
- AC Company – 4 Dealers
|
| - | Good attempts: 9-11 | Good attempts: 10-12 | Good attempts: 9-11 |
Quantitative Aptitude
| Difficulty Level | Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 |
|---|
| Easy | - Number System
- Surds
- Arithmetic
- TSD
- T&W
- Ratio
- SI CI
- PLD
- Mixture
- Clock
- Modern Math
- P&C
| - Number System
- Factors
- Divisibility
- Arithmetic
- TSD
- T&W
- Ratio
- SI CI
- PLD
- Mixture
- Average
| - Factors
- Indices
- Integral Values
- TSD
- T&W
- SI CI
- Percentage
- PLD
- Mixture
- Averages
|
| Difficult | - Algebra
- Log
- Equations
- Surds
- Sequence & Series
- Geometry & Mensuration
- Triangle
- Quadrilateral
- Coordinate Geo Circle
| - Algebra
- Log
- Equations
- Maxima Minima
- Sequence & Series
- Inequalities
- Geometry & Mensuration
- Rectangle
- Circle
- Coordinate Geo
| - Log
- Equations
- Functions
- Sequence & Series
- Algebraic Expression
- Circle
- Polygon
- Triangle
- Coordinate Geo
|
| - | Good attempts: 9-11 | Good attempts: 10-12 | Good attempts: 9-11 |
CAT 2023 Percentile vs Score
Overall Percentile vs Score
| Percentile | Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 |
|---|
| 99.9%ile | 102 | 105 | 101 |
| 99.5%ile | 89 | 91 | 87 |
| 99%ile | 80 | 81 | 77 |
| 98%ile | 71 | 73 | 70 |
| 95%ile | 57 | 59 | 56 |
| 90%ile | 49 | 50 | 48 |
| 85%ile | 40 | 41 | 39 |
| 80%ile | 36 | 36 | 35 |
Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension Percentile vs Score
| Percentile | Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 |
|---|
| 99.9%ile | 48 | 50 | 46 |
| 99.5%ile | 44 | 46 | 42 |
| 99%ile | 40 | 42 | 38 |
| 98%ile | 36 | 38 | 34 |
| 95%ile | 30 | 32 | 28 |
| 90%ile | 25 | 26 | 23 |
| 85%ile | 21 | 22 | 20 |
| 80%ile | 19 | 20 | 18 |
Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning Percentile vs Score
| Percentile | Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 |
|---|
| 99.9%ile | 36 | 38 | 36 |
| 99.5%ile | 32 | 34 | 32 |
| 99%ile | 28 | 30 | 28 |
| 98%ile | 25 | 26 | 25 |
| 95%ile | 19 | 20 | 19 |
| 90%ile | 16 | 17 | 16 |
| 85%ile | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| 80%ile | 11 | 11 | 11 |
Quantitative Aptitude Percentile vs Score
| Percentile | Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 |
|---|
| 99.9%ile | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| 99.5%ile | 30 | 30 | 30 |
| 99%ile | 27 | 26 | 26 |
| 98%ile | 23 | 23 | 23 |
| 95%ile | 18 | 18 | 18 |
| 90%ile | 15 | 14 | 14 |
| 85%ile | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 80%ile | 10 | 10 | 10 |
