NinetynineCAT RC · Science & Technology questions 138 since 2017
Across the 24 CAT papers from 2017 to 2025, RC · Science & Technology was asked 138 times, in 18 of the 24 papers. CAT asks about 5.8 RC · Science & Technology questions per paper on average; in 2022–2025 it was 4.7 per paper, against 6.1 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 · Science & Technology was asked 138 times, in 18 of the 24 papers.
- RC · Science & Technology is the 2nd most-asked of the 9 CAT VARC topics, with 21.5% of all VARC questions since 2017.
- CAT asks about 5.8 RC · Science & Technology questions per paper on average; in 2022–2025 it was 4.7 per paper, against 6.1 in the four years before (falling).
- The heaviest year for RC · Science & Technology was CAT 2018, with 31 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 · Science & Technology questions come in CAT each year?
| Year | Questions | Slots that year | Per slot |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAT 2017 | 21 | 2 | 10.5 |
| CAT 2018 | 31 | 2 | 15.5 |
| CAT 2019 | 9 | 2 | 4.5 |
| CAT 2020 | 9 | 3 | 3.0 |
| CAT 2021 | 12 | 3 | 4.0 |
| CAT 2022 | 16 | 3 | 5.3 |
| CAT 2023 | 4 | 3 | 1.3 |
| CAT 2024 | 20 | 3 | 6.7 |
| CAT 2025 | 16 | 3 | 5.3 |
RC · Science & Technology ideas CAT has repeated
- Locating a detail the passage states directly — science and technology passages 8 questions, 2017–2024
- Spotting the one claim the passage does not support — science and technology passages 30 questions, 2017–2025
- Why a line, example or reference is in the passage — science and technology passages 16 questions, 2017–2025
- Drawing out what the passage implies but never states — science and technology passages 20 questions, 2017–2025
- The central idea or primary purpose — science and technology passages 13 questions, 2017–2025
- Which new fact would strengthen or weaken the argument — science and technology passages 10 questions, 2018–2025
- Which new fact would strengthen or weaken the argument — society and politics passages 11 questions, 2018–2024
All RC · Science & Technology questions, newest first
CAT 2025
- CAT 2025 Slot 2 · Passage 2 Time and again, whenever a population [of Mexican tetra fish] was… (4 questions)
- CAT 2025 Slot 2 · Passage 3 In [my book "Searches"], I chronicle how big technology companies have… (4 questions)
- CAT 2025 Slot 2 · Passage 4 Different sciences exhibit different science cultures and practices… (4 questions)
- CAT 2025 Slot 1 · Passage 1 Understanding the key properties of complex systems can help us… (4 questions)
CAT 2024
- CAT 2024 Slot 3 · Passage 1 There is a group in the space community who view the solar system not… (4 questions)
- CAT 2024 Slot 3 · Passage 4 Fears of artificial intelligence (AI) have haunted humanity since the… (4 questions)
- CAT 2024 Slot 2 · Passage 3 The history of any major technological or industrial advance is… (4 questions)
- CAT 2024 Slot 2 · Passage 4 (. . .) There are three other common drivers for carnivore-human… (4 questions)
- CAT 2024 Slot 1 · Passage 1 Landing in Australia, the British colonists weren't much impressed… (4 questions)
CAT 2023
- CAT 2023 Slot 2 · Passage 1 The Second Hand September campaign, led by Oxfam . . . seeks to… (4 questions)
CAT 2022
- CAT 2022 Slot 3 · Passage 1 As software improves, the people using it become less likely to… (4 questions)
- CAT 2022 Slot 3 · Passage 2 Nature has all along yielded her flesh to humans. First, we took… (4 questions)
- CAT 2022 Slot 2 · Passage 1 [Octopuses are] misfits in their own extended families . . . They… (4 questions)
- CAT 2022 Slot 2 · Passage 3 When we teach engineering problems now, we ask students to come to a… (4 questions)
CAT 2021
- CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Passage 2 Keeping time accurately comes with a price. The maximum accuracy of a… (4 questions)
- CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Passage 4 Back in the early 2000s, an awesome thing happened in the New X-Men… (4 questions)
- CAT 2021 Slot 1 · Passage 4 Cuttlefish are full of personality, as behavioral ecologist Alexandra… (4 questions)
CAT 2020
- CAT 2020 Slot 2 · Passage 3 In a low-carbon world, renewable energy technologies are hot business… (5 questions)
- CAT 2020 Slot 1 · Passage 2 In the late 1960s, while studying the northern-elephant-seal… (4 questions)
CAT 2019
- CAT 2019 Slot 2 · Passage 3 The magic of squatter cities is that they are improved steadily and… (5 questions)
- CAT 2019 Slot 1 · Passage 3 Scientists recently discovered that Emperor Penguins—one of… (4 questions)
CAT 2018
- CAT 2018 Slot 2 · Passage 2 Grove snails as a whole are distributed all over Europe, but a… (4 questions)
- CAT 2018 Slot 2 · Passage 3 The complexity of modern problems often precludes any one person from… (5 questions)
- CAT 2018 Slot 2 · Passage 5 NOT everything looks lovelier the longer and closer its inspection… (5 questions)
- CAT 2018 Slot 1 · Passage 1 The only thing worse than being lied to is not knowing you’re being… (5 questions)
- CAT 2018 Slot 1 · Passage 2 “Everybody pretty much agrees that the relationship between elephants… (5 questions)
- CAT 2018 Slot 1 · Passage 5 When researchers at Emory University in Atlanta trained mice to fear… (4 questions)
- CAT 2018 Slot 1 · Passage 6 Choose the option that best captures the author's position (3 questions)
CAT 2017
- CAT 2017 Slot 2 · Passage 2 During the frigid season... it's often necessary to nestle under a… (6 questions)
- CAT 2017 Slot 2 · Passage 3 The end of the age of the internal combustion engine is in sight… (6 questions)
- CAT 2017 Slot 2 · Passage 4 Typewriters are the epitome of a technology that has been… (3 questions)
- CAT 2017 Slot 2 · Passage 6 The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries… (3 questions)
- CAT 2017 Slot 1 · Passage 4 Scientists have long recognised the incredible diversity within a… (3 questions)
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