Spotting the one claim the passage does not support — history and anthropology passages

CAT has tested this idea 21 times across 13 papers, from 2017 to 2024. 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 2017 Slot 1 · VARC Q2	orientation of early maps; which is NOT a reason north was kept off the top	B
CAT 2017 Slot 2 · VARC Q24	vikings and the antler trade; which statement about them is NOT true	A
CAT 2018 Slot 1 · VARC Q12	india's second world war; which is NOT listed as an outcome of the war	D
CAT 2019 Slot 2 · VARC Q20	british colonial policy in india; which inference paragraph 1 does NOT support	B
CAT 2019 Slot 2 · VARC Q21	colonial modernity in india; which statement would NOT support the passage's argument	D
CAT 2020 Slot 2 · VARC Q9	modern piracy; which factor the author does not blame for its rise	D
CAT 2021 Slot 1 · VARC Q3	review of a history of tea; who did not promote tea drinking in britain	B
CAT 2021 Slot 2 · VARC Q11	ghar/bahir in indian nationalism; which claim about the material/spiritual split is false	C
CAT 2022 Slot 1 · VARC Q15	the undead through to the enlightenment; statements that if false would fit the passage, except	D
CAT 2022 Slot 3 · VARC Q12	orientalism, romanticism and colonial india; all statements are true except	C
CAT 2022 Slot 3 · VARC Q9	orientalism and readings of the indian past; what scholars should do, except	A
CAT 2023 Slot 1 · VARC Q1	geographic vs cultural causes of human phenomena; all can be inferred except	C
CAT 2023 Slot 1 · VARC Q2	geography and human phenomena; reasons non-geographers ignore geography, except	A
CAT 2023 Slot 1 · VARC Q4	geography and human phenomena; author's criticisms of non-geographer scholars, except	B
CAT 2023 Slot 2 · VARC Q12	history as a corpus of ascertained facts; descriptions of the 'common-sense view', except	A
CAT 2023 Slot 2 · VARC Q9	positivists and the 'cult of facts' in history; which would not weaken the facts claim	B
CAT 2023 Slot 3 · VARC Q1	ghosh's 'the nutmeg's curse' on colonialism and climate; what is not a reason policies fail	C
CAT 2023 Slot 3 · VARC Q3	'the nutmeg's curse' review; all can be inferred except	A
CAT 2024 Slot 2 · VARC Q10	white peppercorns reaching medieval europe; the one outcome that is likely	A
CAT 2024 Slot 2 · VARC Q8	medieval demand for spices; the conclusion the passage cannot support	A
CAT 2024 Slot 2 · VARC Q9	spices losing their allure in europe; the cause that did not contribute	C

Part of RC · Society, History & Politics (179 questions since 2017).