CAT 2024: The Common Admission Test (CAT 2024) exam date is November 24. CAT is scheduled to be conducted in three shifts; shift one from 8:30 am to 10:30 am, shift two- 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM, shift three- 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM. The CAT admit card 2024 has been released, the candidates can download the hall ticket on the official website- iimcat.ac.in.
The CAT paper will have a total of 66 questions. The questions are from Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC), Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR), Quantitative Aptitude (QA). Section-wise VARC consists of 24 questions, DILR- 20 questions, QA- 22 questions.
Syllabus of CAT
VARC
The VARC section consists questions from Fill in the Blanks, Para completion and inference, Verbal logic, Verbal reasoning, Subject-verb agreement, Parajumbles, Sentence completion, Foreign language words used in English, Different usage of same word, Grammar, Reading comprehension, Idioms, Syllogisms, Analogies, Antonyms, Jumbled paragraphs, Sentence correction, One word substitution, Parts of Speech, Preposition, Types of clauses, Phrases modifiers, Errors in tenses, Articles usage.
DILR
The DILR section consists of Blood Relations, Clocks and Calendars, Syllogism, Series, Statements, Venn Diagram, Proposition, Data Arrangement, Data Structures, Direction Sense, Family Tree, Tables, Coding-Decoding, Binary Logic, Pie Charts, Assumptions, Seating Arrangement, Data Sufficiency, Puzzles, Sets and Caselets, Bars and Line Graphs.
Quantitative Aptitude
The Quantitative Aptitude chapter consists of Geometry, Ratios and Proportion, Inequalities, Trigonometry, In-equations Quadratic and linear equations, Work and Time, Algebra, Surds and Indices, Percentages, Mensuration, Time-speed-distance, Logarithms, Partnership (Accounts), Number system, Square root and Cube root, Partnership (Accounts), Number System, Square root and cube root, Profit and Loss, Geometric Progression, Probability, Men, mode, median, Binomial Theorem, Simple interest and compound interest.
Important topics and weightage
VARC
| Reading Comprehension | 16 |
| VA-Parajumbles | 3 |
| VA-Summary | 3 |
| VA-Odd Sentence | 2 |
| Overall | 24 |
DILR
| Logical Reasoning | 12 |
| Data Interpretation | 8 |
| Overall | 20 |
Quantitative Aptitude
| Arithmetic | 10 |
| Algebra | 5 |
| Geometry | 3 |
| Modern Maths | 4 |
| Overall | 22 |
CAT marking scheme
The candidates will get +3 for correct answer and -1 for incorrect answer.
For details on CAT exam, please visit the official website- iimcat.ac.in.
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