CAT 2020 Slot 2 VARC questions, answer key and solutions

The Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section of CAT 2020 Slot 2: 26 questions in 40 minutes, 5 TITA and 21 MCQ. The answer key below is CAT's official one.

QQuestionTopicTypeAnswerSolution
Q1Passage 1 · Which one of the following best describes the word…RC · Arts & CultureMCQB
Q2Passage 1 · RC · Arts & Culture: artifacts are meaningful precisely because they…RC · Arts & CultureMCQB
Q3Passage 1 · “No amount of social analysis can account fully for the…RC · Arts & CultureMCQA
Q4Passage 1 · “Seeing . . . operates on the foundation of covenants with…RC · Arts & CultureMCQA
Q5Passage 1 · Which set of keywords below most closely captures the…RC · Arts & CultureMCQC
Q6Passage 2 · “A more eclectic history might have included the…RC · Society, History & PoliticsMCQA
Q7Passage 2 · We can deduce that the author believes that piracy can best…RC · Society, History & PoliticsMCQB
Q8Passage 2 · “Why toil away as a starving peasant in the 16th century…RC · Society, History & PoliticsMCQB
Q9Passage 2 · The author ascribes the rise in piracy today to all of the…RC · Society, History & PoliticsMCQD
Q10Passage 3 · RC · Science & Technology: Marginalised people in Africa, Asia and Latin…RC · Science & TechnologyMCQD
Q11Passage 3 · RC · Science & Technology: Renewable energy systems are not as profitable…RC · Science & TechnologyMCQD
Q12Passage 3 · Which one of the following statements, if true, could be an…RC · Science & TechnologyMCQD
Q13Passage 3 · Which one of the following statements best captures the main…RC · Science & TechnologyMCQC
Q14Passage 3 · Based on the passage, we can infer that the author would be…RC · Science & TechnologyMCQC
Q15Passage 4 · “[A]n enemy combatant may be subjected to torture in order…RC · Humanities & PhilosophyMCQA
Q16Passage 4 · All of the following statements can be seen as logically…RC · Humanities & PhilosophyMCQC
Q17Passage 4 · The author identifies three essential factors according to…RC · Humanities & PhilosophyMCQC
Q18Passage 4 · RC · Humanities & Philosophy: aggression in most societies is kept under…RC · Humanities & PhilosophyMCQA
Q19The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when…Para JumblesTITA2413
Q20The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when…Para JumblesTITA1342
Q21Para Summary: Thomas Hobbes theorized the voluntary surrender…Para SummaryMCQC
Q22Para Summary: While decisions based on intuition can be made…Para SummaryMCQD
Q23Para Summary: Distinguishing between urban and rural areas…Para SummaryMCQD
Q24Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given…Odd Sentence OutTITA2
Q25Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given…Odd Sentence OutTITA4
Q26The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when…Para JumblesTITA2143

Topics in this section

TopicQuestions
RC · Arts & Culture5
RC · Science & Technology5
RC · Humanities & Philosophy4
RC · Society, History & Politics4
Para Jumbles3
Para Summary3
Odd Sentence Out2

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