Spotting the one claim the passage does not support — philosophy and psychology passages

CAT has tested this idea 21 times across 11 papers, from 2017 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 2017 Slot 2 · VARC Q21	typewriters; which is NOT a reason the writer praises them	D
CAT 2020 Slot 1 · VARC Q16	grammar after strunk and white; which claim cannot be inferred	B
CAT 2020 Slot 1 · VARC Q17	grammar: 'any noun plus any verb'; the only analogy that parallels this formula	D
CAT 2020 Slot 2 · VARC Q16	theories of aggression; which statement is not logically implied by the passage	C
CAT 2020 Slot 2 · VARC Q18	theories of aggression; which argument the passage does not discuss	A
CAT 2020 Slot 3 · VARC Q8	review of bregman's humankind; the only view actually expressed in the passage	D
CAT 2021 Slot 1 · VARC Q11	more's utopia as near-dystopia; which claim cannot be inferred	B
CAT 2021 Slot 1 · VARC Q12	more's utopia as near-dystopia; which argument the passage does not make	A
CAT 2021 Slot 2 · VARC Q16	truth versus power; the only statement on political power the author would support	B
CAT 2021 Slot 2 · VARC Q4	the scandal of knowledge; which argument the author does not discuss	B
CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC Q10	pinker's language instinct; which claim about the language instinct is untrue	A
CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC Q11	pinker's language instinct; which inference about pinker's book is wrong	D
CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC Q4	the unconscious, 1700-1900; which inference is not valid	A
CAT 2022 Slot 1 · VARC Q11	critical theory of technology; which statement contradicts the passage's arguments	B
CAT 2022 Slot 1 · VARC Q6	stoic vs epicurean views of emotion; which statement, if false, would contradict the passage	A
CAT 2022 Slot 1 · VARC Q7	stoic meditation and distance from emotion; which is not an implication of the quoted lines	A
CAT 2022 Slot 1 · VARC Q9	critical theory of technology from marx to habermas; all can be inferred except	A
CAT 2022 Slot 2 · VARC Q6	formal and informal institutions; all these inferences are false except	A
CAT 2023 Slot 3 · VARC Q14	defining romanticism; which statement the passage does not support	A
CAT 2023 Slot 3 · VARC Q7	pinker and the greeks on rational thinking; all are part of it except	C
CAT 2025 Slot 3 · VARC Q10	ai and moral judgement; the claim that cannot reasonably be inferred	A

Part of RC · Humanities & Philosophy (54 questions since 2017).