NinetynineSpotting the one claim the passage does not support — literature and the arts passages
CAT has tested this idea 17 times across 8 papers, from 2019 to 2025. Solve one, and the others are the same method with different numbers or wording, which is why repeated concepts are the most efficient thing to practise.
| Question | What it asks | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| CAT 2019 Slot 1 · VARC Q1 | aladdin's authorship and hanna diyab; which item is NOT evidence for the diyab theory | D |
| CAT 2019 Slot 1 · VARC Q16 | british folk music; which item is NOT a cause of plurality in the folk tradition | B |
| CAT 2019 Slot 1 · VARC Q19 | british folk music; which claim about 1940s/60s folk revivalism cannot be inferred | B |
| CAT 2019 Slot 1 · VARC Q5 | aladdin's authorship; which detail does NOT support the passage's authorship claim | D |
| CAT 2020 Slot 2 · VARC Q2 | the study of visual culture; which inference from the passage is not valid | B |
| CAT 2020 Slot 3 · VARC Q1 | travel writing and empire; what does not shape feminist readings of victorian women travellers | C |
| CAT 2022 Slot 1 · VARC Q2 | copies, the ise shrine and freiburg minster; which stated similarity is wrong | D |
| CAT 2022 Slot 1 · VARC Q3 | chinese and western ideas of the original; which scenario does not follow from the argument | C |
| CAT 2022 Slot 1 · VARC Q4 | the west's 'unassailable original'; consequences of that value, except | B |
| CAT 2023 Slot 1 · VARC Q5 | indian ocean novels; which claim does not contribute to the 'remapping' | C |
| CAT 2023 Slot 1 · VARC Q6 | indian ocean novels; which statement about the region's migration is not true | C |
| CAT 2023 Slot 1 · VARC Q7 | indian ocean novels; pick the odd pair whose stated relationship the passage denies | A |
| CAT 2023 Slot 1 · VARC Q8 | indian ocean novels vs mainstream english fiction; which would not weaken the claim | A |
| CAT 2025 Slot 1 · VARC Q12 | electronic music; what the Stravinsky definition does not do in paragraph 1 | A |
| CAT 2025 Slot 2 · VARC Q2 | place in literature; the statement whose falsity would not contradict the passage | D |
| CAT 2025 Slot 2 · VARC Q4 | literary geography; which claim is not true of the second paragraph's argument | D |
| CAT 2025 Slot 3 · VARC Q3 | hallucinatory tribal imagination; the fact that would not weaken the passage's claim | A |
Part of RC · Arts & Culture (41 questions since 2017).