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CAT PYQ: Previous Year Question Papers

The Common Admission Test is the entrance examination for the postgraduate management programmes of the IIMs and many other business schools. It has three sections: VARC, DILR and Quantitative Ability.

  • Conducted byIndian Institutes of Management (one IIM organises it each year)
  • Papers in the archive5
  • Years covered2021 to 2025

Last reviewed: 4 October 2026

CAT PYQ papers by year

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CAT 2025

CAT 2024

CAT 2023

CAT 2022

CAT 2021

CAT subjects and chapters

Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension

  • Reading Comprehension
  • Para Jumbles
  • Para Summary
  • Odd Sentence Out and Sentence Placement
Chapter-wise questions

Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning

  • Tables, Charts and Caselets
  • Arrangements and Puzzles
  • Games and Tournaments
  • Venn Diagrams and Networks
Chapter-wise questions

Quantitative Ability

  • Arithmetic
  • Algebra
  • Geometry and Mensuration
  • Number System and Modern Mathematics
Chapter-wise questions