NinetynineCAT Para Summary questions 48 since 2017
Across the 24 CAT papers from 2017 to 2025, Para Summary was asked 48 times, in 18 of the 24 papers. CAT asks about 2.0 Para Summary questions per paper on average; in 2022–2025 it was 2.5 per paper, against 1.8 in the four years before (rising). Below is how often it appeared each year, the ideas CAT keeps reusing, and every question with its answer.
Key facts
- Across the 24 CAT papers from 2017 to 2025, Para Summary was asked 48 times, in 18 of the 24 papers.
- Para Summary is the 5th most-asked of the 9 CAT VARC topics, with 7.5% of all VARC questions since 2017.
- CAT asks about 2.0 Para Summary questions per paper on average; in 2022–2025 it was 2.5 per paper, against 1.8 in the four years before (rising).
- The heaviest year for Para Summary was CAT 2020, with 9 questions across 3 slots.
Counted from all 24 CAT papers 2017–2025 (1,830 questions), one topic tag per question. How we tag.
How many Para Summary questions come in CAT each year?
| Year | Questions | Slots that year | Per slot |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAT 2017 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 |
| CAT 2018 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 |
| CAT 2019 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 |
| CAT 2020 | 9 | 3 | 3.0 |
| CAT 2021 | 9 | 3 | 3.0 |
| CAT 2022 | 9 | 3 | 3.0 |
| CAT 2023 | 6 | 3 | 2.0 |
| CAT 2024 | 9 | 3 | 3.0 |
| CAT 2025 | 6 | 3 | 2.0 |
All Para Summary questions, newest first
CAT 2025
- CAT 2025 Slot 3 · VARC Q7 Para Summary: That which we call 'knowledge of the past' is…
- CAT 2025 Slot 3 · VARC Q14 Para Summary: The mindful Indian shoppers are returning to the…
- CAT 2025 Slot 2 · VARC Q13 Para Summary: In our attempts to shape the world around us to…
- CAT 2025 Slot 2 · VARC Q14 Para Summary: Parker Brothers' capitalist intent led to them…
- CAT 2025 Slot 1 · VARC Q7 Para Summary: Aging leads to less effective apoptosis, and…
- CAT 2025 Slot 1 · VARC Q16 Para Summary: Artists in a globalised world must navigate…
CAT 2024
- CAT 2024 Slot 3 · VARC Q1 Para Summary: Marxism has internal contradictions due to which…
- CAT 2024 Slot 3 · VARC Q3 Para Summary: A new framework of rules and procedures for…
- CAT 2024 Slot 3 · VARC Q20 Para Summary: The tradwife, with her vintage dress and…
- CAT 2024 Slot 2 · VARC Q1 Para Summary: Physicists have successfully buried their…
- CAT 2024 Slot 2 · VARC Q22 Para Summary: Comedians are being prevented from saying what…
- CAT 2024 Slot 2 · VARC Q24 Para Summary: As part of conducting information warfare as per…
- CAT 2024 Slot 1 · VARC Q2 Para Summary: New technological developments have prompted…
- CAT 2024 Slot 1 · VARC Q13 Para Summary: Learning linguistic and visual signs at an early…
- CAT 2024 Slot 1 · VARC Q22 Para Summary: Animals can show emotions which are typically…
CAT 2023
- CAT 2023 Slot 3 · VARC Q23 Para Summary: There is an increasing number of predatory birds…
- CAT 2023 Slot 3 · VARC Q24 Para Summary: Though long-standing, the pressure to appear…
- CAT 2023 Slot 2 · VARC Q23 Para Summary: Protection from heat waves is important but…
- CAT 2023 Slot 2 · VARC Q24 Para Summary: People create counterfactual alternatives to…
- CAT 2023 Slot 1 · VARC Q23 Para Summary: Disinformation, which is mediated by technology…
- CAT 2023 Slot 1 · VARC Q24 Para Summary: Colonialism surged in the 16^th century due to…
CAT 2022
- CAT 2022 Slot 3 · VARC Q18 Para Summary: All jokes target someone and one should be able…
- CAT 2022 Slot 3 · VARC Q20 Para Summary: Media has encouraged mass production; images are…
- CAT 2022 Slot 3 · VARC Q23 Para Summary: While adoption of the written alphabet was…
- CAT 2022 Slot 2 · VARC Q18 Para Summary: We now have the evidence in support of the…
- CAT 2022 Slot 2 · VARC Q21 Para Summary: Rather than freeing us, digital technology is…
- CAT 2022 Slot 2 · VARC Q23 Para Summary: Museums are left with the moral responsibility…
- CAT 2022 Slot 1 · VARC Q17 Para Summary: Petitioning has been important to democratic…
- CAT 2022 Slot 1 · VARC Q18 Para Summary: Arbitrary distinctions between inanimate and…
- CAT 2022 Slot 1 · VARC Q23 Para Summary: Medieval historical sources selectively promoted…
CAT 2021
- CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC Q22 Para Summary: Some believe that hard work has been glorified… answer only
- CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC Q23 Para Summary: Most Brazilians feel they have benefitted from… answer only
- CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC Q24 Para Summary: Intuitions are automatic processes and are… answer only
- CAT 2021 Slot 2 · VARC Q18 Para Summary: The purpose of an unlikely alliance between the…
- CAT 2021 Slot 2 · VARC Q23 Para Summary: Preprints of research are frowned on by some…
- CAT 2021 Slot 2 · VARC Q24 Para Summary: The obsession with original thought, how it can…
- CAT 2021 Slot 1 · VARC Q17 Para Summary: When the auditory speech signal does not match… answer only
- CAT 2021 Slot 1 · VARC Q23 Para Summary: Developing countries are being forced to invent… answer only
- CAT 2021 Slot 1 · VARC Q24 Para Summary: The environment in poor countries has tended to… answer only
CAT 2020
- CAT 2020 Slot 3 · VARC Q19 Para Summary: Genetic theory has a wide range of theoretical… answer only
- CAT 2020 Slot 3 · VARC Q21 Para Summary: Disinterestedness is different from indifference… answer only
- CAT 2020 Slot 3 · VARC Q24 Para Summary: From the belief that humans invented language to… answer only
- CAT 2020 Slot 2 · VARC Q21 Para Summary: Thomas Hobbes theorized the voluntary surrender… answer only
- CAT 2020 Slot 2 · VARC Q22 Para Summary: While decisions based on intuition can be made… answer only
- CAT 2020 Slot 2 · VARC Q23 Para Summary: Distinguishing between urban and rural areas… answer only
- CAT 2020 Slot 1 · VARC Q20 Para Summary: Biologists have questioned the long-standing… answer only
- CAT 2020 Slot 1 · VARC Q22 Para Summary: Voice recognition has started to feature… answer only
- CAT 2020 Slot 1 · VARC Q23 Para Summary: Europe has consistently changed in keeping with… answer only
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