NinetynineCAT 2025 Slot 3 question paper with answers and solutions
CAT 2025 Slot 3 had 68 questions: 24 in VARC (40 minutes), 22 in DILR (40 minutes), 22 in QA (40 minutes). 23 of them were TITA (type in the answer, no options). 68 have a worked solution here. Every question is tagged by topic, and answers are CAT's official key.
Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) 24 questions · 40 min
| Question | Topic | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Passage 1 | Q3–Q6 · Once a society accepts a secular mode of creativity, within which the… | RC · Arts & Culture | 4 questions |
| Passage 2 | Q8–Q11 · Imagine a world in which artificial intelligence is entrusted with the… | RC · Humanities & Philosophy | 4 questions |
| Passage 3 | Q17–Q20 · In 1982, a raging controversy broke out over a forest act drafted by… | RC · Society, History & Politics | 4 questions |
| Passage 4 | Q21–Q24 · Over the course of the twentieth century, humans built, on average… | RC · Society, History & Politics | 4 questions |
| Q1 | Five jumbled sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), related… | Odd Sentence Out | TITA |
| Q2 | Five jumbled sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), related… | Odd Sentence Out | TITA |
| Q7 | Para Summary: That which we call 'knowledge of the past' is… | Para Summary | MCQ |
| Q12 | The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given below… | Para Jumbles | TITA |
| Q13 | Sentence Placement: Option 2 | Sentence Placement | MCQ |
| Q14 | Para Summary: The mindful Indian shoppers are returning to the… | Para Summary | MCQ |
| Q15 | Sentence Placement: Option 3 | Sentence Placement | MCQ |
| Q16 | The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given below… | Para Jumbles | TITA |
Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR) 22 questions · 40 min
| Question | Topic | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Set 1 | Q1–Q4 · Anu, Bijay, Chetan, Deepak, Eshan, and Faruq are six friends. Each of… | Charts & Tables | 4 questions |
| Set 2 | Q5–Q9 · Aurevia, Brelosia, Cyrenia and Zerathania are four countries with… | Quant-based Puzzles | 5 questions |
| Set 3 | Q10–Q13 · Anirbid, Chandranath, Koushik, and Suranjan participated in a puzzle… | Charts & Tables | 4 questions |
| Set 4 | Q14–Q17 · Seven children, Aarav, Bina, Chirag, Diya, Eshan, Farhan, and Gaurav… | Arrangements | 4 questions |
| Set 5 | Q18–Q22 · Three countries — Pumpland (P), Xiland (X) and Cheeseland (C) — trade… | Charts & Tables | 5 questions |
Quantitative Ability (QA) 22 questions · 40 min
| Question | Topic | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | A triangle ABC is formed with AB = AC = 50 cm and BC = 80… | Geometry | TITA |
| Q2 | In an arithmetic progression, if the sum of fourth, seventh… | Progressions & Series | TITA |
| Q3 | ABCD is a trapezium in which AB is parallel to DC , AD is… | Geometry | MCQ |
| Q4 | If ( x ^ 2 + 1 x ^ 2 ) = 25 and x > 0 , then the value of… | Logarithms & Exponents | MCQ |
| Q5 | The monthly sales of a product from January to April were… | Percentages & Profit-Loss | MCQ |
| Q6 | Rahul starts on his journey at 5 pm at a constant speed so… | Time, Speed & Distance | MCQ |
| Q7 | The sum of all possible real values of x for which log _ x… | Logarithms & Exponents | MCQ |
| Q8 | The ratio of the number of coins in boxes A and B was 17:7… | Ratio, Mixtures & Averages | TITA |
| Q9 | If 12 ^ 12 x × 4 ^ 24 x + 12 × 5 ^ 2 y = 8 ^ 4 z × 20 ^ 12 x… | Logarithms & Exponents | TITA |
| Q10 | Teams A, B, and C consist of five, eight, and ten members… | Time & Work | MCQ |
| Q11 | If f ( x ) = ( x ^ 2 + 3 x ) ( x ^ 2 + 3 x + 2 ) , then the… | Equations | MCQ |
| Q12 | The average salary of 5 managers and 25 engineers in a… | Ratio, Mixtures & Averages | MCQ |
| Q13 | In a school with 1500 students, each student chooses any one… | Inequalities & Modulus | TITA |
| Q14 | In a class of 150 students, 75 students chose physics, 111… | Set Theory | MCQ |
| Q15 | For real values of x , the range of the function f ( x ) = 2… | Functions & Graphs | MCQ |
| Q16 | Ankita walks from A to C through B, and runs back through… | Time, Speed & Distance | TITA |
| Q17 | The sum of all the digits of the number ( 10 ^ 50 + 10 ^ 25… | Number Systems | MCQ |
| Q18 | In A B C , A B = A C = 12 ~cm and D is a point on side B C… | Geometry | MCQ |
| Q19 | The rate of water flow through three pipes A, B and C are in… | Time & Work | MCQ |
| Q20 | For a 4-digit number (greater than 1000), sum of the digits… | Number Systems | MCQ |
| Q21 | Let p, q and r be three natural numbers such that their sum… | Inequalities & Modulus | TITA |
| Q22 | Vessels A and B contain 60 litres of alcohol and 60 litres… | Ratio, Mixtures & Averages | TITA |
Topic mix of CAT 2025 Slot 3
| Topic | Section | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Charts & Tables | DILR | 13 |
| RC · Society, History & Politics | VARC | 8 |
| Quant-based Puzzles | DILR | 5 |
| Arrangements | DILR | 4 |
| RC · Arts & Culture | VARC | 4 |
| RC · Humanities & Philosophy | VARC | 4 |
| Geometry | QA | 3 |
| Logarithms & Exponents | QA | 3 |
| Ratio, Mixtures & Averages | QA | 3 |
| Inequalities & Modulus | QA | 2 |
| Number Systems | QA | 2 |
| Odd Sentence Out | VARC | 2 |
| Para Jumbles | VARC | 2 |
| Para Summary | VARC | 2 |
| Sentence Placement | VARC | 2 |
| Time & Work | QA | 2 |
| Time, Speed & Distance | QA | 2 |
| Equations | QA | 1 |
| Functions & Graphs | QA | 1 |
| Percentages & Profit-Loss | QA | 1 |
| Progressions & Series | QA | 1 |
| Set Theory | QA | 1 |