CAT shift two analysis 2025: Is paper difficult compared to shift one? Check section-wise analysis
CAT shift two analysis 2025: As per candidates, the questions in VARC were moderately difficult, DILR- Tricky, Quantitative Ability- Lengthy. Check analysis of shift two
The Common Admission Test (CAT 2025) is being held today, October 30, the candidates who had appeared in shift two analysed the difficulty level of the paper as moderate. As per candidates, the questions in VARC were moderately difficult, DILR- Tricky, Quantitative Ability- Lengthy. Live Updates: CAT Analysis shift-wise
CAT 2025 Analysis: Section-wise analysis of shift one
According to Sumit Singh Gandhi, CEO CATKing Educare-
- VARC saw the return of parajumbles like before, RCs were lengthy hence looked scary but doable.
- QA was dominated by arithmetic and Algebra, a little more questions of geometry.
- DILR as predicted by CATKing had Spider chart, Routes and Network and Caselet based Questions.
- IIM Kozhikode gave a fair exam on similar lines of 2023 . (IIM Calcutta )
- RC 29 Similar especially for Quants and DILR.
As per Ramnath Kanakadandi, Senior Course Director, T.I.M.E, "Overall, the morning Slot of CAT 2025 was slightly difficult as compared to CAT 2024 in terms of difficulty level due to lengthy nature of Quant question calculations."
Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
The Reading comprehension and Verbal Ability questions were mixed up in the sequencing, similar to the pattern in CAT ‘24. There were 4 RC passages with 4 questions each. The RC sets were of a moderate difficulty level, with one difficult set.
In VA, there were 2 questions each from Para Formation (which made a comeback after disappearing last year), Para Summary, Sentence Placement, Para Odd One Out (2 different presentations: One of them was the usual finding the odd statement and marking it in the answer, While the second one needed the candidate to eliminate the odd statement and then arrange the remaining statements into the logical paragraph and mark that sequence in the answer box). This section (VA) was of a Moderate difficulty level, with a couple of difficult questions.
Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
There were 22 questions across 5 sets, similar to last year’s pattern. The Spider+Bar was the must attempt set. Students should have identified this upfront and solved it. The other caselets were slightly tricky and two of them were difficult. The time consumption on the second caselet attempt (apart from the Spider+Bar set) would have been decidedly higher.
Quantitative Ability
There were no surprises in this section. It had 22 Questions. These questions were from the regular set of topics as seen in the previous CATs, with a majority of questions from Arithmetic and Algebra. Numbers and Modern math had only one question each, while Geometry had 3 Qs. Students who had practised adequately with T.I.M.E. study material and attended the lectures provided would have been able to manage them comfortably. Overall, the morning Slot of CAT 2025 was slightly difficult as compared to CAT 2024 in terms of difficulty level due to lengthy nature of Quant question calculations.
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