Drawing out what the passage implies but never states — society and politics passages

CAT has tested this idea 16 times across 10 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 Q15	dying malls; what 'developers once stumbled over themselves to court' suggests	B
CAT 2017 Slot 2 · VARC Q6	ranking america's most creative cities; the assumption behind the author's conclusions	A
CAT 2018 Slot 1 · VARC Q20	quantified happiness; infer what the author would like economists to do	A
CAT 2018 Slot 2 · VARC Q1	technology and public service delivery in india; what 'band aids on a corpse' suggests	B
CAT 2018 Slot 2 · VARC Q13	meritocracy vs diversity; which team would best tackle rising obesity	B
CAT 2019 Slot 2 · VARC Q13	squatter cities; infer why calthorpe's pro-city statement 'still jars' with people	B
CAT 2019 Slot 2 · VARC Q16	chinese lingerie sellers in egypt and orientalism; what 'which way is oriental?' implies	A
CAT 2019 Slot 2 · VARC Q18	orientalism and the byline problem; what the author's critics would argue	B
CAT 2019 Slot 2 · VARC Q4	relocating bureaucrats; what the 'long pedigree' of the aim implies about the move	A
CAT 2019 Slot 2 · VARC Q6	google-cyark 3d scans of heritage sites; how to characterise dr watrall's stance	D
CAT 2019 Slot 2 · VARC Q9	google-cyark heritage scans; what thompson's copyright analogy amounts to	B
CAT 2020 Slot 1 · VARC Q1	anarchism as political idea; how individualist anarchists differ from free-market liberals	B
CAT 2020 Slot 2 · VARC Q12	social costs of renewable energy; what can be inferred from the first paragraph	D
CAT 2023 Slot 2 · VARC Q16	netflix's european output; infer which hypothetical show would travel best across the eu	C
CAT 2023 Slot 3 · VARC Q10	patrimony laws and archaeology; infer why source countries value archaeological sites	A
CAT 2025 Slot 3 · VARC Q22	dams as 'physical instantiation'; pair of terms that best substitutes for the word	D

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