CAT RC · Society, History & Politics questions 179 since 2017

Across the 24 CAT papers from 2017 to 2025, RC · Society, History & Politics was asked 179 times, in 20 of the 24 papers. CAT asks about 7.5 RC · Society, History & Politics questions per paper on average; in 2022–2025 it was 5.7 per paper, against 9.0 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.

How many RC · Society, History & Politics questions come in CAT each year?

RC · Society, History & Politics ideas CAT has repeated

• What the author would agree or disagree with — history and anthropology passages 6 questions, 2018–2023
• What the author would agree or disagree with — society and politics passages 9 questions, 2018–2025
• Locating a detail the passage states directly — literature and the arts passages 6 questions, 2019–2025
• Locating a detail the passage states directly — history and anthropology passages 7 questions, 2017–2025
• Locating a detail the passage states directly — society and politics passages 15 questions, 2017–2025
• Spotting the one claim the passage does not support — history and anthropology passages 21 questions, 2017–2024
• Spotting the one claim the passage does not support — society and politics passages 40 questions, 2017–2025
• Why a line, example or reference is in the passage — history and anthropology passages 9 questions, 2017–2025
• Why a line, example or reference is in the passage — society and politics passages 18 questions, 2017–2025
• Drawing out what the passage implies but never states — history and anthropology passages 12 questions, 2017–2025
• Drawing out what the passage implies but never states — society and politics passages 16 questions, 2017–2025
• The central idea or primary purpose — history and anthropology passages 5 questions, 2017–2025
• The central idea or primary purpose — society and politics passages 14 questions, 2017–2025
• The author's tone or attitude — mixed subjects 3 questions, 2020–2024

All RC · Society, History & Politics questions, newest first

CAT 2025

• CAT 2025 Slot 3 · Passage 3 In 1982, a raging controversy broke out over a forest act drafted by… (4 questions)
• CAT 2025 Slot 3 · Passage 4 Over the course of the twentieth century, humans built, on average… (4 questions)
• CAT 2025 Slot 1 · Passage 4 How can we know what someone else is thinking or feeling, let alone… (4 questions)

CAT 2024

• CAT 2024 Slot 3 · Passage 2 Languages become endangered and die out for many reasons. Sadly, the… (4 questions)
• CAT 2024 Slot 2 · Passage 1 The job of a peer reviewer is thankless. Collectively, academics spend… (4 questions)
• CAT 2024 Slot 2 · Passage 2 [S]pices were a global commodity centuries before European voyages… (4 questions)

CAT 2023

• CAT 2023 Slot 3 · Passage 1 The biggest challenge [The Nutmeg's Curse by Ghosh] throws down is to… (4 questions)
• CAT 2023 Slot 3 · Passage 3 In 2006, the Met [art museum in the US] agreed to return the… (4 questions)
• CAT 2023 Slot 2 · Passage 2 Over the past four centuries liberalism has been so successful that it… (4 questions)
• CAT 2023 Slot 2 · Passage 3 The Positivists, anxious to stake out their claim for history as a… (4 questions)
• CAT 2023 Slot 1 · Passage 1 Many human phenomena and characteristics – such as behaviors, beliefs… (4 questions)
• CAT 2023 Slot 1 · Passage 2 For early postcolonial literature, the world of the novel was often… (4 questions)
• CAT 2023 Slot 1 · Passage 3 [Fifty] years after its publication in English [in 1972], and just a… (4 questions)
• CAT 2023 Slot 1 · Passage 4 RESIDENTS of Lozère, a hilly department in southern France, recite… (4 questions)

CAT 2022

• CAT 2022 Slot 3 · Passage 3 Interpretations of the Indian past . . . were inevitably influenced by… (4 questions)
• CAT 2022 Slot 3 · Passage 4 Sociologists working in the Chicago School tradition have focused on… (4 questions)
• CAT 2022 Slot 2 · Passage 2 We begin with the emergence of the philosophy of the social sciences… (4 questions)

CAT 2021

• CAT 2021 Slot 2 · Passage 2 It's easy to forget that most of the world's languages are still… (4 questions)
• CAT 2021 Slot 2 · Passage 3 I have elaborated . . . a framework for analyzing the contradictory… (4 questions)
• CAT 2021 Slot 2 · Passage 4 Many people believe that truth conveys power. . . . Hence sticking… (4 questions)
• CAT 2021 Slot 1 · Passage 1 The sleights of hand that conflate consumption with virtue are a… (4 questions)
• CAT 2021 Slot 1 · Passage 2 For the Maya of the Classic period, who lived in Southern Mexico and… (4 questions)
• CAT 2021 Slot 1 · Passage 3 We cannot travel outside our neighbourhood without passports. We must… (4 questions)

CAT 2020

• CAT 2020 Slot 3 · Passage 1 Mode of transportation affects the travel experience and thus can… (5 questions)
• CAT 2020 Slot 3 · Passage 2 Although one of the most contested concepts in political philosophy… (4 questions)
• CAT 2020 Slot 3 · Passage 3 [There is] a curious new reality: Human contact is becoming a luxury… (4 questions)
• CAT 2020 Slot 2 · Passage 2 174 incidents of piracy were reported to the International Maritime… (4 questions)
• CAT 2020 Slot 1 · Passage 1 The word ‘anarchy’ comes from the Greek anarkhia, meaning contrary to… (5 questions)
• CAT 2020 Slot 1 · Passage 3 Few realise that the government of China, governing an empire of some… (4 questions)

CAT 2019

• CAT 2019 Slot 2 · Passage 1 Around the world, capital cities are disgorging bureaucrats. In the… (5 questions)
• CAT 2019 Slot 2 · Passage 2 War, natural disasters and climate change are destroying some of the… (5 questions)
• CAT 2019 Slot 2 · Passage 4 For two years, I tracked down dozens of . . . Chinese in Upper Egypt… (4 questions)
• CAT 2019 Slot 2 · Passage 5 British colonial policy . . . went through two policy phases, or at… (5 questions)
• CAT 2019 Slot 2 · Passage 6 The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries… (3 questions)
• CAT 2019 Slot 1 · Passage 1 In the past, credit for telling the tale of Aladdin has often gone to… (5 questions)

CAT 2018

• CAT 2018 Slot 2 · Passage 1 Will a day come when India’s poor can access government services as… (5 questions)
• CAT 2018 Slot 2 · Passage 6 Choose the option that best captures the author's position (3 questions)
• CAT 2018 Slot 1 · Passage 3 The Indian government has announced an international competition to… (5 questions)

CAT 2017

• CAT 2017 Slot 2 · Passage 1 Creativity is at once our most precious resource and our most… (6 questions)
• CAT 2017 Slot 2 · Passage 5 Despite their fierce reputation, Vikings may not have always been the… (3 questions)
• CAT 2017 Slot 1 · Passage 1 Understanding where you are in the world is a basic survival skill… (6 questions)
• CAT 2017 Slot 1 · Passage 2 I used a smartphone GPS to find my way through the cobblestoned maze… (6 questions)

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