CAT 2023 will be held on Sunday, November 26, 2023.
As per the announcement made earlier, the paper had two sections - Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation and Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning, with 30 questions in each section. The sections were available sequentially, each having a time limit of 70 minutes to answer 30 questions. Thus, it was mandatory to spend the stipulated time on the prescribed section and it was only when the time ended for the first section that it was possible to move to the second section.
Although we have been maintaining that previous pattern of CAT don't guarantee you a set pattern this time even but yes there is no harm to have a look on last year analysis. Following page on last year CAT will give you some idea on CAT pattern.
The total duration of the test was two hours and thirty five minutes, including a 15-minute tutorial provided to the candidates before the start of the test to familiarize them with the layout, screens and navigation.
The overall structure of the paper was as follows:
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Section |
No. of Questions |
Time in minutes |
Difficulty Level |
Possible Attempts |
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Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation |
30 |
70 |
Tough |
18 - 20 |
|
Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning |
30 |
70 |
Moderate |
22- 24 |
|
Total |
60 |
140 |
|
40 - 45 |
Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation
- There were 21 questions of QA and 9 questions of DI in both the slots. The difficulty level was high and the questions were designed to test the grasp of fundamentals. There were questions from regular topics like Number System, Algebra, Geometry, Modern Math and Geometry. Questions in Data Interpretation area were also not simple and involved convoluted calculations. All the questions in DI came in sets of 3. DS was absent from both the slots.
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Section |
Topic |
No. of Questions |
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Quantitative Ability |
Number System |
2 - 3 |
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Algebra |
6 - 7 |
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Arithmetic |
3 - 4 |
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Modern Math |
2 - 3 |
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Geometry and Mensuration |
5 - 6 |
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Data Interpretation |
Bar Graphs |
0 |
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Pie Charts |
0 |
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Table based |
2 |
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Combinations of Graphs |
1 |
Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning
- The questions in this section were of moderate difficulty level. The trick here was to aim for high accuracy by correctly identifying the questions that one was confident of solving correctly. RC’s were manageable, not being inordinately lengthy or abstract. At most only one of the three given passages was tough. There was a balanced mix of questions from the various areas of Verbal Ability. All the questions in LR came in sets of 3. Slot-2 saw as many as 3 questions on tone/style of the passage/author. This question type was missing in slot-1.
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Section |
Topic |
No. of Questions |
Description |
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Reading Comprehension |
Reading Comprehension |
10 ( 4 + 3 + 3 ) |
At least one RC in each set was unique and all the passages were of moderate level. |
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English Usage |
Sentence Correction |
2 |
4 statements were given - one had to identify the combination of correct/incorrect statements |
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Para-jumble |
2 - 3 |
5 sentence type |
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Para-completion |
3 |
Moderate - tough , last line missing type |
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FIB |
1 |
Easy-moderate , 2 blanks type |
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Word Usage |
1 - 2 |
Simple words , use of phrasal verbs |
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Para-jumble (Odd sentence out) |
1 - 2 |
4 statements out of which 3 could be arranged in a sequence |
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Logical Reasoning |
Data Arrangement |
( 3 + 3 +3 ) |
All the three sets were arrangement problems |
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Seating Arrangement |
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Logic Based |
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