The central idea or primary purpose — society and politics passages

CAT has tested this idea 14 times across 9 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 Q12	press vs iphone; the passage's main conclusion about the new technology	B
CAT 2017 Slot 1 · VARC Q13	america's retail apocalypse and dying malls; the central idea	C
CAT 2017 Slot 2 · VARC Q13	the end of the internal combustion engine; which option reflects the author's argument	C
CAT 2017 Slot 2 · VARC Q16	cars, autonomy and public transport; the conclusion the author reaches	C
CAT 2017 Slot 2 · VARC Q3	creativity as a social process in cities; the central idea	A
CAT 2018 Slot 2 · VARC Q19	metric fixation; the main idea the author wants to highlight	C
CAT 2018 Slot 2 · VARC Q5	technology and public service delivery; the passage's main purpose	B
CAT 2020 Slot 1 · VARC Q5	anarchism as political idea; which set of concepts is closest to its concerns	D
CAT 2020 Slot 2 · VARC Q13	social costs of renewable energy; the main argument of the last paragraph	C
CAT 2022 Slot 2 · VARC Q9	technical-social dualism in engineering teaching; the author's central claim	D
CAT 2022 Slot 3 · VARC Q13	chicago school on social disorganisation and crime; the author's fundamental conclusion	D
CAT 2022 Slot 3 · VARC Q16	migration, social disorganisation and crime; pick the phrases encapsulating the passage	C
CAT 2023 Slot 3 · VARC Q12	patrimony laws and archaeology; state the central paradox of such laws	C
CAT 2025 Slot 3 · VARC Q21	twentieth-century dam building; set of terms closest to the key arguments	A

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