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CAT 2025 · Slot 1

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136 min · 68 questions · 204 marks

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CAT 2021 · Slot 1

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CAT 2020 · Slot 1

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CAT 2019 · Slot 1

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CAT 2025 · Slot 1 1 section

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48 min · 24 questions · 72 marks

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CAT 2021 · Slot 1 1 section

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CAT 2020 · Slot 1 1 section

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52 min · 26 questions · 78 marks

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CAT 2019 · Slot 1 1 section

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68 min · 34 questions · 102 marks

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CAT 2017 · Slot 1 1 section

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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which of the following best describe what the passage is trying to do?
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Early maps did NOT put north at the top for all the following reasons EXCEPT
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
According to the passage, early Chinese maps placed north at the top because
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
It can be inferred from the passage that European explorers like Columbus and Megellan
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which one of the following about the northern orientation of modern maps is asserted in the passage?
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The role of natural phenomena in influencing map making conventions is seen most clearly in
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The printing press has been likened to the Internet for which one of the following reasons?
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
According to the passage, the invention of the printing press did all of the following EXCEPT
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Steve Jobs predicted which one of the following with the introduction of the iPhone?
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
“I’m still waiting to see if the iPhone can do what the printing press did for religion and democracy.” The author uses which one of the following to indicate his uncertainty?
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author attributed the French and American revolutions to invention of the printing press because
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The main conclusion of the passage is that the new technology has
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The central idea of this passage is that :
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Why does the author say in paragraph 2, ‘the massive distribution centers Amazon has opened across the country, often not too far from malls the company helped shutter’?
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
In paragraph 1, the phrase “real estate developers once stumbled over themselves to courts” suggests that they
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author calls the mall an ecosystem unto itself because
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Why does the author say that the mall has been America’s public square?
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author describes ‘Perfume clouds in the department stores’ in order to
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which of the following best sums up Ehrlich and Raven’s argument in their classic 1969 paper?
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
All of the following statement are true according to the passage EXCEPT
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The author discusses Mayr, Ehrlich and Raven to demonstrate that
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The central point in the first paragraph is that the economics benefits of the Olympic Games
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Sports facilities built for the Olympics are not fully utilised after the Games are over because
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author feels that the Games place a burden on the host city for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best captures the author’s position. To me, a “classic” means precisely the opposite of what my predecessors understood : a work is classical…
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best captures the author’s position. A translator of literary works needs a secure hold upon the two languages involved, supported by a good m…
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best captures the author’s position. For each of the past three years, temperatures have hit peaks not seen since the birth of meteorology, an…
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, from a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in thi…
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The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, from a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in thi…
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The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, from a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in thi…
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The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, from a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in thi…
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. 1. People who study children’s language spend a lot of time…
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. 1. Neuroscientists have just began studying exercise’s impa…
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. 1. The water that made up ancient lakes and perhaps an ocea…
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
In the author’s view, cities promote human creativity for all the following reasons EXCEPT that they
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author uses ‘ironic’ in the third paragraph to point out that
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The central idea of this passage is that
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Jane Jacobs believed that cities that are more creative.
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The 1968 study is used here to show that
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author’s conclusions about the most ‘creative cities ‘in the US (paragraph 6) are based on his assumption that
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The purpose of this passage is to
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
All of the following statements are true EXCEPT
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Based on this extract, the author would support which one of the following actions?
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
In paragraph 6, the author provides the examples of crowberry and alpine azalea to demonstrate that
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
In paragraph 1, the author uses blankets as a devise to
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which of the following statements best reflects the author’s argument?
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author points out all of the following about electric cars EXCEPT
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
According t the author, the main reason for Tesla’s remarkable sales is that
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MBA CAT 2017 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author comes to the conclusion that
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