NinetynineCAT RC · Arts & Culture questions 41 since 2017
Across the 24 CAT papers from 2017 to 2025, RC · Arts & Culture was asked 41 times, in 9 of the 24 papers. CAT asks about 1.7 RC · Arts & Culture questions per paper on average; in 2022–2025 it was 2.3 per paper, against 1.0 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, RC · Arts & Culture was asked 41 times, in 9 of the 24 papers.
- RC · Arts & Culture is the 7th most-asked of the 9 CAT VARC topics, with 6.4% of all VARC questions since 2017.
- CAT asks about 1.7 RC · Arts & Culture questions per paper on average; in 2022–2025 it was 2.3 per paper, against 1.0 in the four years before (rising).
- The heaviest year for RC · Arts & Culture was CAT 2022, with 12 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 RC · Arts & Culture questions come in CAT each year?
| Year | Questions | Slots that year | Per slot |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAT 2017 | 3 | 2 | 1.5 |
| CAT 2018 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 |
| CAT 2019 | 5 | 2 | 2.5 |
| CAT 2020 | 5 | 3 | 1.7 |
| CAT 2021 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 |
| CAT 2022 | 12 | 3 | 4.0 |
| CAT 2023 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 |
| CAT 2024 | 4 | 3 | 1.3 |
| CAT 2025 | 12 | 3 | 4.0 |
RC · Arts & Culture ideas CAT has repeated
- Spotting the one claim the passage does not support — literature and the arts passages 17 questions, 2019–2025
- Why a line, example or reference is in the passage — literature and the arts passages 8 questions, 2019–2025
- Drawing out what the passage implies but never states — literature and the arts passages 8 questions, 2020–2025
- The central idea or primary purpose — literature and the arts passages 4 questions, 2020–2025
- Which new fact would strengthen or weaken the argument — literature and the arts passages 3 questions, 2019–2024
All RC · Arts & Culture questions, newest first
CAT 2025
- CAT 2025 Slot 3 · Passage 1 Once a society accepts a secular mode of creativity, within which the… (4 questions)
- CAT 2025 Slot 2 · Passage 1 This book takes the position that setting in literature is more than… (4 questions)
- CAT 2025 Slot 1 · Passage 2 Often the well intentioned music lover or the traditionally-minded… (4 questions)
CAT 2024
- CAT 2024 Slot 1 · Passage 4 In the summer of 2022, subscribers to the US streaming service HBO MAX… (4 questions)
CAT 2022
- CAT 2022 Slot 2 · Passage 4 Humans today make music. Think beyond all the qualifications that… (4 questions)
- CAT 2022 Slot 1 · Passage 1 The Chinese have two different concepts of a copy. Fangzhipin… (4 questions)
- CAT 2022 Slot 1 · Passage 4 Stories concerning the Undead have always been with us. From out of… (4 questions)
CAT 2020
- CAT 2020 Slot 2 · Passage 1 The claims advanced here may be condensed into two assertions: [first… (5 questions)
CAT 2019
- CAT 2019 Slot 1 · Passage 4 "Free of the taint of manufacture" – that phrase, in particular, is… (5 questions)
CAT 2017
- CAT 2017 Slot 1 · Passage 6 The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries… (3 questions)
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