NinetynineCAT RC · Humanities & Philosophy questions 54 since 2017
Across the 24 CAT papers from 2017 to 2025, RC · Humanities & Philosophy was asked 54 times, in 9 of the 24 papers. CAT asks about 2.3 RC · Humanities & Philosophy questions per paper on average; in 2022–2025 it was 1.7 per paper, against 3.4 in the four years before (falling). 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 · Humanities & Philosophy was asked 54 times, in 9 of the 24 papers.
- RC · Humanities & Philosophy is the 4th most-asked of the 9 CAT VARC topics, with 8.4% of all VARC questions since 2017.
- CAT asks about 2.3 RC · Humanities & Philosophy questions per paper on average; in 2022–2025 it was 1.7 per paper, against 3.4 in the four years before (falling).
- The heaviest year for RC · Humanities & Philosophy was CAT 2019, with 8 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 RC · Humanities & Philosophy questions come in CAT each year?
| Year | Questions | Slots that year | Per slot |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAT 2017 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 |
| CAT 2018 | 5 | 2 | 2.5 |
| CAT 2019 | 8 | 2 | 4.0 |
| CAT 2020 | 9 | 3 | 3.0 |
| CAT 2021 | 12 | 3 | 4.0 |
| CAT 2022 | 8 | 3 | 2.7 |
| CAT 2023 | 8 | 3 | 2.7 |
| CAT 2024 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 |
| CAT 2025 | 4 | 3 | 1.3 |
RC · Humanities & Philosophy ideas CAT has repeated
- What the author would agree or disagree with — philosophy and psychology passages 5 questions, 2020–2023
- Locating a detail the passage states directly — philosophy and psychology passages 11 questions, 2017–2023
- Spotting the one claim the passage does not support — philosophy and psychology passages 21 questions, 2017–2025
- Why a line, example or reference is in the passage — philosophy and psychology passages 8 questions, 2019–2023
- Drawing out what the passage implies but never states — philosophy and psychology passages 9 questions, 2019–2025
- The central idea or primary purpose — philosophy and psychology passages 9 questions, 2017–2025
- Which new fact would strengthen or weaken the argument — philosophy and psychology passages 6 questions, 2019–2025
All RC · Humanities & Philosophy questions, newest first
CAT 2025
- CAT 2025 Slot 3 · Passage 2 Imagine a world in which artificial intelligence is entrusted with the… (4 questions)
CAT 2023
- CAT 2023 Slot 3 · Passage 2 Steven Pinker's new book, "Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems… (4 questions)
- CAT 2023 Slot 3 · Passage 4 Understanding romantic aesthetics is not a simple undertaking for… (4 questions)
CAT 2022
- CAT 2022 Slot 1 · Passage 2 Stoicism was founded in 300 BC by the Greek philosopher Zeno and… (4 questions)
- CAT 2022 Slot 1 · Passage 3 Critical theory of technology is a political theory of modernity with… (4 questions)
CAT 2021
- CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Passage 1 Today we can hardly conceive of ourselves without an unconscious. Yet… (4 questions)
- CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Passage 3 Starting in 1957, [Noam Chomsky] proclaimed a new doctrine: Language… (4 questions)
- CAT 2021 Slot 2 · Passage 1 It has been said that knowledge, or the problem of knowledge, is the… (4 questions)
CAT 2020
- CAT 2020 Slot 2 · Passage 4 Aggression is any behavior that is directed toward injuring, harming… (4 questions)
- CAT 2020 Slot 1 · Passage 4 Vocabulary used in speech or writing organizes itself in seven parts… (5 questions)
CAT 2019
- CAT 2019 Slot 1 · Passage 5 As defined by the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, topophilia is the affective… (5 questions)
- CAT 2019 Slot 1 · Passage 6 The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries… (3 questions)
CAT 2018
- CAT 2018 Slot 1 · Passage 4 Economists have spent most of the 20th century ignoring psychology… (5 questions)
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