NinetynineCAT Quant-based Puzzles questions 127 since 2017
Across the 24 CAT papers from 2017 to 2025, Quant-based Puzzles was asked 127 times, in 19 of the 24 papers. CAT asks about 5.3 Quant-based Puzzles questions per paper on average; in 2022–2025 it was 5.9 per paper, against 4.4 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, Quant-based Puzzles was asked 127 times, in 19 of the 24 papers.
- Quant-based Puzzles is the 2nd most-asked of the 9 CAT DILR topics, with 22.0% of all DILR questions since 2017.
- CAT asks about 5.3 Quant-based Puzzles questions per paper on average; in 2022–2025 it was 5.9 per paper, against 4.4 in the four years before (rising).
- The heaviest year for Quant-based Puzzles was CAT 2018, with 20 questions across 2 slots.
Counted from all 24 CAT papers 2017–2025 (1,830 questions), one topic tag per question. How we tag.
How many Quant-based Puzzles questions come in CAT each year?
| Year | Questions | Slots that year | Per slot |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAT 2017 | 12 | 2 | 6.0 |
| CAT 2018 | 20 | 2 | 10.0 |
| CAT 2019 | 4 | 2 | 2.0 |
| CAT 2020 | 10 | 3 | 3.3 |
| CAT 2021 | 10 | 3 | 3.3 |
| CAT 2022 | 22 | 3 | 7.3 |
| CAT 2023 | 20 | 3 | 6.7 |
| CAT 2024 | 14 | 3 | 4.7 |
| CAT 2025 | 15 | 3 | 5.0 |
Quant-based Puzzles ideas CAT has repeated
- Small integer counts per entity per day/match under sum and ordering clues 15 questions, 2022–2023
- Reconstruct individual values from mean, median, mode, range or min/max 19 questions, 2023–2024
- Weighted or total score across several parameters with qualification thresholds 22 questions, 2017–2021
- Managers/coaches give ratings to members of their groups; deduce assignments 10 questions, 2024–2025
- Currency exchange rates and conversions 9 questions, 2018–2025
- Letters coded as digits; decode from given coded words/sums 8 questions, 2018–2019
- Assign distinct numeric values to entities from ordering and ratio clues 13 questions, 2017–2025
All Quant-based Puzzles questions, newest first
CAT 2025
- CAT 2025 Slot 3 · Set 2 Aurevia, Brelosia, Cyrenia and Zerathania are four countries with… (5 questions)
- CAT 2025 Slot 2 · Set 1 The two most populous cities and the non-urban region (NUR) of each of… (5 questions)
- CAT 2025 Slot 1 · Set 2 At InnovateX, six employees, Asha, Bunty, Chintu, Dolly, Eklavya, and… (5 questions)
CAT 2024
- CAT 2024 Slot 2 · Set 2 Eight gymnastics players numbered 1 through 8 underwent a training… (5 questions)
- CAT 2024 Slot 2 · Set 4 An online e-commerce firm receives daily integer product ratings from… (4 questions)
- CAT 2024 Slot 1 · Set 5 Two students, Amiya and Ramya are the only candidates in an election… (5 questions)
CAT 2023
- CAT 2023 Slot 3 · Set 1 There are only three female students – Amala, Koli and Rini – and only… (5 questions)
- CAT 2023 Slot 2 · Set 2 Three participants – Akhil, Bimal and Chatur participate in a random… (5 questions)
- CAT 2023 Slot 2 · Set 3 Odsville has five firms – Alfloo, Bzygoo, Czechy, Drjbna and… (5 questions)
- CAT 2023 Slot 1 · Set 2 Five restaurants, coded R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 gave integer ratings to… (5 questions)
CAT 2022
- CAT 2022 Slot 3 · Set 2 Pulak, Qasim, Ritesh, and Suresh participated in a tournament… (5 questions)
- CAT 2022 Slot 3 · Set 3 In the following, a year corresponds to 1^st of January of that year… (2 questions)
- CAT 2022 Slot 2 · Set 1 A few salesmen are employed to sell a product called TRICCEK among… (5 questions)
- CAT 2022 Slot 1 · Set 3 The management of a university hockey team was evaluating performance… (5 questions)
- CAT 2022 Slot 1 · Set 4 Adhara, Bithi, Chhaya, Dhanavi, Esther, and Fathima are the… (5 questions)
CAT 2021
- CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Set 4 Each of the bottles mentioned in this question contains 50 ml of… (4 questions)
- CAT 2021 Slot 2 · Set 4 Ravi works in an online food-delivery company. After each delivery… (6 questions)
CAT 2020
- CAT 2020 Slot 1 · Set 1 The local office of the APP-CAB company evaluates the performance of… (4 questions)
- CAT 2020 Slot 1 · Set 3 In a certain board examination, students were to appear for… (6 questions)
CAT 2019
- CAT 2019 Slot 1 · Set 7 The following table represents addition of two six-digit numbers given… (4 questions)
CAT 2018
- CAT 2018 Slot 2 · Set 1 An agency entrusted to accredit colleges looks at four parameters… (4 questions)
- CAT 2018 Slot 2 · Set 4 Each of the 23 boxes in the picture below represents a product… (4 questions)
- CAT 2018 Slot 2 · Set 8 The base exchange rate of a currency X with respect to a currency Y is… (4 questions)
- CAT 2018 Slot 1 · Set 1 A company administers a written test comprising of three sections of… (4 questions)
- CAT 2018 Slot 1 · Set 5 An ATM dispenses exactly Rs. 5000 per withdrawal using 100, 200 and… (4 questions)
CAT 2017
- CAT 2017 Slot 2 · Set 3 At a management school, the oldest 10 dorms, numbered 1 to 10, need to… (4 questions)
- CAT 2017 Slot 2 · Set 8 A tea taster was assigned to rate teas from six different locations… (4 questions)
- CAT 2017 Slot 1 · Set 6 Simple Happiness index (SHI) of a country is computed on the basis of… (4 questions)
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