CAT practice questions
Real exam-style sets with worked solutions. Pick an answer, check it, and read how to get there.
Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension
All VARC →The Hidden Margins of the Nudge
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
Knowledge on Trust
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
The Value of Dead Wood
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
The Restorer's Hand
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
Misfits and Missing Lines
In the first three questions, find the sentence that does not belong with the others. In the last two, choose the sentence that best completes the paragraph.
Putting Paragraphs in Order
Each question gives sentences that, when properly ordered, form a coherent paragraph. Find the order and type it as a sequence of sentence numbers.
Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning
All DILR →Quarterly Sales of Five Products
A consumer-goods company sells five products. The table shows the sales of each product in the four quarters of a financial year.
Headcount and Salaries by Department
A company has five departments. The first table gives the number of employees in each department in 2024 and 2025; the second gives the average monthly salary per employee in each department.
Showroom Sales with Missing Figures
A car dealer has four showrooms: North, South, East and West. The table shows the number of cars each showroom sold in each quarter of a year, but some figures are missing.
Six Friends in a Row
Six friends — A, B, C, D, E and F — sit in a row of six seats numbered 1 to 6 from left to right. All of them face the same direction.
Eight Friends at a Round Table
Eight friends — Aarav, Bhavya, Chirag, Dev, Esha, Farhan, Gauri and Harsh — sit around a circular table at equal distances from one another. Each faces either towards the centre or away from it, and each has a different profession: Doctor, Engineer, Lawyer, Architect, Banker, Professor, Scientist and Entrepreneur.
Seven Floors, Seven Cities
Seven people — Ishaan, Kavya, Meera, Nikhil, Pooja, Rohan and Tanvi — live in a seven-storey building, one on each floor, numbered 1 (the lowest) to 7 (the top). Each has a different favourite city: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Jaipur, Pune and Lucknow. On the board, floor 1 is on the left and floor 7 on the right.
Quantitative Ability
All Quant →Algebra: Equations, Inequalities, Functions and Logs
Five questions on quadratic equations, inequalities, functional equations and logarithms.
Arithmetic I: Percentages, Profit and Interest
Five questions on percentages, profit and loss, and simple and compound interest.
Arithmetic II: Ratios, Mixtures, Work and Speed
Five questions on ratio and proportion, mixtures, time and work, and time, speed and distance.
Geometry and Mensuration
Five questions on triangles, circles, coordinate geometry, and areas and volumes.
Maxima and Minima: Finding the Best Value
Five questions on the greatest and least values of an expression.
Modern Maths: Counting, Probability, Progressions and Sets
Five questions on permutations and combinations, probability, progressions and set theory.