Drawing out what the passage implies but never states — literature and the arts passages

CAT has tested this idea 8 times across 7 papers, from 2020 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.

QuestionWhat it asksAnswer
CAT 2020 Slot 2 · VARC Q1the study of visual culture; what 'epiphenomena' means in the last sentenceB
CAT 2020 Slot 3 · VARC Q2travel writing and empire; which kind of writing travel writing most resemblesC
CAT 2020 Slot 3 · VARC Q3travel writing and empire; why victorian women travellers gained self-developmentA
CAT 2022 Slot 1 · VARC Q1chinese fangzhipin and fuzhipin copies; which copy a chinese museum would value as originalA
CAT 2022 Slot 2 · VARC Q14the emergence of musicking; which argument about it is validC
CAT 2024 Slot 1 · VARC Q18streaming and lost films; what the line on cinema's ephemerality suggestsA
CAT 2025 Slot 1 · VARC Q10electronic music; what 'sui generis' means from its context in paragraph 3A
CAT 2025 Slot 2 · VARC Q3literary geography; valid conclusion from the claim about bridging arts and sciencesD

Part of RC · Arts & Culture (41 questions since 2017).