Spotting the one claim the passage does not support — society and politics passages

CAT has tested this idea 40 times across 15 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 1 · VARC Q8	the printing press's effects; which effect it did NOT have	D
CAT 2017 Slot 2 · VARC Q1	creativity and cities; which is NOT a reason cities promote creativity	D
CAT 2017 Slot 2 · VARC Q14	electric cars; which point about them the author does NOT make	D
CAT 2018 Slot 2 · VARC Q10	meritocracy vs team diversity; which is NOT a reason the author critiques meritocracy	D
CAT 2018 Slot 2 · VARC Q16	metric fixation; which outcome is NOT a consequence of metric fixation	C
CAT 2018 Slot 2 · VARC Q18	metric fixation; which is NOT a possible feature of no child left behind	D
CAT 2018 Slot 2 · VARC Q2	service delivery in indian education; which is NOT a way the author says to improve it	D
CAT 2019 Slot 2 · VARC Q10	google-cyark heritage scans; which argument the scanning firms would LEAST use	C
CAT 2019 Slot 2 · VARC Q12	squatter cities; which is NOT a stated reason they are environment-friendly	D
CAT 2019 Slot 2 · VARC Q15	squatter cities; which is NOT an inferable reason cities are good to live in	D
CAT 2019 Slot 2 · VARC Q19	language and identity; which factor is NOT responsible for language changing us	D
CAT 2019 Slot 2 · VARC Q3	relocating bureaucrats; which reason decentralisation supporters would LEAST cite	D
CAT 2019 Slot 2 · VARC Q5	relocating bureaucrats; which is NOT a stated reason relocation has failed	A
CAT 2020 Slot 1 · VARC Q2	anarchism as political idea; which argument the author does not make	B
CAT 2020 Slot 2 · VARC Q10	social costs of renewable energy; which statement would not support the argument	D
CAT 2021 Slot 2 · VARC Q6	endangered oral languages; which is not listed as a cause of language decline	A
CAT 2021 Slot 2 · VARC Q8	endangered oral languages; which claim about them cannot be inferred	A
CAT 2022 Slot 2 · VARC Q10	engineering ideals and marginalised groups; quoted reasons for the discrimination, except	A
CAT 2022 Slot 2 · VARC Q11	technical ideals in medicine; negative outcomes listed, except	A
CAT 2022 Slot 2 · VARC Q12	reforming engineering pedagogy; changes the author would approve of, except	A
CAT 2022 Slot 3 · VARC Q14	america's rural-to-urban shift; which statement does not contradict the quoted line	A
CAT 2022 Slot 3 · VARC Q15	social disorganisation and crime in chicago; which inference is not valid	D
CAT 2023 Slot 2 · VARC Q13	netflix, dubbing and european production; all are true except	D
CAT 2023 Slot 2 · VARC Q5	deneen on the self-destruction of liberalism; author's objections to him, except	A
CAT 2023 Slot 2 · VARC Q6	deneen on liberalism's decline; the one claim the author would not disagree with	B
CAT 2023 Slot 2 · VARC Q7	deneen on liberalism's decline; quoted evidence of decline, except	B
CAT 2023 Slot 3 · VARC Q9	cultural property laws and looted antiquities; advice to poor source countries, except	D
CAT 2024 Slot 2 · VARC Q3	opening up peer review data; the one benefit the passage does not claim	A
CAT 2024 Slot 2 · VARC Q4	publishing referee reports; the objection that is not raised against it	C
CAT 2024 Slot 2 · VARC Q5	unpaid peer review; the motive not listed for why academics review	C
CAT 2024 Slot 3 · VARC Q10	language extinction rates in the americas; the reason that cannot be inferred	D
CAT 2024 Slot 3 · VARC Q12	loss when a language dies; the scenario that is not an example of that loss	B
CAT 2024 Slot 3 · VARC Q21	ai mastering language; the outcome the author does not call dire	B
CAT 2024 Slot 3 · VARC Q22	language as 'the operating system of our civilisation'; the reason not given for it	D
CAT 2024 Slot 3 · VARC Q9	liberal arts and language preservation; the benefit the author does not claim	C
CAT 2025 Slot 2 · VARC Q16	big tech's use of language; the quote that does not show a claim-reality gap in ai	D
CAT 2025 Slot 2 · VARC Q17	chatbot prose as 'a beige office building'; the reason that is not behind the comparison	D
CAT 2025 Slot 3 · VARC Q18	1878 and 1982 forest acts; the feature the two acts do not share	A
CAT 2025 Slot 3 · VARC Q20	colonial forestry in india; the fact that would not weaken the passage's narrative	B
CAT 2025 Slot 3 · VARC Q23	dams, displacement and river ecology; the statement that is not a valid inference	B

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