Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore is all set to conduct Common Admission Test (CAT) 2020 on November 29, 2020. Candidates don’t have much time left for the exam. So, this is the time to boost up preparation and to do so, the best source is CAT past year questions papers.
The CAT previous year question papers can help the candidates in following ways:
- Know the important topics from where the questions come in the exam.
- Understand the level of questions.
- Learn time management.
- Increase confidence to attempt the exam.
Here are previous year question papers of CAT exam and their solutions that the candidates must practice before the exam:
CAT question papers 2019 – Click here to download
CAT question paper 2018, shift 1 – Click here to download
CAT question paper 2018, shift 2 – Click here to download
Some of the important topics that come in CAT each year are as follows:
Quantitative analysis (QA): Arithmetic (Time, Work and Distance, P&L, Ratios, Equations, AMA and SI-CI), Geometry and Mensuration, Numbers, Algebra, Trigonometry, and Permutations & Combinations.
Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR): Blood Relations, Puzzles, Data Sufficiency, Graphs Related, Seating Arrangement, and Data Arrangement, Tables and Caselets, Clocks & Calendars, Assumption & Binary Logic, and Syllogisms and Venn Diagrams.
Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC): Para-Summary, Para-Jumbles, Odd Sentences, Reading Comprehension Passages, Sentence Completion and Correction, Word Usage (Vocabulary), and Fill in the blanks.
Although every year the exam pattern of CAT remains the same with slight changes in the number of questions asked in each of the 3 sections of VARC, DILR, and QA, this year some more changes have been made.
CAT 2020 exam will be held in 3 shifts instead of 2 and the time duration of the exam has been reduced from 3 hours to 2 hours. Every 3 sections of the exam will have a 40 minutes time cap. After 40 minutes the systems shall automatically move to the next section.
Until last year the total number of questions asked in the exam was 100, however this year the number of questions might be reduced as the time limit has been deducted by 1 hour.
The admit card for Common Admission Test was released on 28 October at iimcat.ac.in and is available for download until the exam day. The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2020 is one of the most popular MBA entrance exams in India. This exam is the only gateway for the candidates to take admission in the MBA courses offered by the Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) across the nation.
