CAT Analysis 2025: CAT shift-wise analysis; answer key, result tentative release dates

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CAT answer key 2025 is likely to be released by first week of December and will be available on the official portal- iimcat.ac.in. The candidates can check and download CAT answer key PDF on the IIM CAT portal- iimcat.ac.in.To download CAT answer key 2025 PDF, candidates need to visit the official website- iimcat.ac.in and click on CAT answer key PDF link. CAT answer key will be available for download on the screen, save and download CAT answer key PDF to be used for further reference.  

CAT result 2024- December 19
CAT result 2023- December 21
CAT result 2022- December 21
CAT result 2021- January 3
CAT result 2020- January 2. 

Going by the past years' trends, CAT result is expected to be announced between December 20 to 26, 20 to 25 calendar days from the conduct of CAT on November 30. CAT result once announced, is available on the official website- iimcat.ac.in. 

CAT shift three was held from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM. The candidates who had appeared in slot three analysed the paper as moderately difficult. Section-wise VARC and DILR appeared to be a bit difficult and tricky. 

Going by the past years' trends, CAT result is expected to be announced between December 20 to 26, 20 to 25 calendar days from the conduct of CAT on November 30. CAT result once announced, is available on the official website- iimcat.ac.in. 

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.

CAT answer key 2025 is likely to be released by first week of December and will be available on the official portal- iimcat.ac.in. The candidates can check and download CAT answer key PDF on the IIM CAT portal- iimcat.ac.in.To download CAT answer key 2025 PDF, candidates need to visit the official website- iimcat.ac.in and click on CAT answer key PDF link. CAT answer key will be available for download on the screen, save and download CAT answer key PDF to be used for further reference. 

CAT answer key 2025 is likely to be released by first week of December and will be available on the official portal- iimcat.ac.in. The candidates can check and download CAT answer key PDF on the IIM CAT portal- iimcat.ac.in.To download CAT answer key 2025 PDF, candidates need to visit the official website- iimcat.ac.in and click on CAT answer key PDF link. CAT answer key will be available for download on the screen, save and download CAT answer key PDF to be used for further reference. 

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.  

• Income Inequality & Economic Growth- 4
• Electronic Music- 4
• Law & Mental Health- 4
• Noise & Social Order- 4.  

• VARC- 24 questions
• DILR- 22 questions
• QA- 22 questions. 

CAT shift two has just been concluded. The section-wise paper analysis will be available soon. CAT unofficial answer key for shift two will be released soon. To download CAT unofficial answer key, candidates need to visit the unofficial portals and click on CAT unofficial answer key link. CAT 2025 unofficial answer key PDF will appear on the screen for download, save CAT unofficial answer key PDF and take a print out. 

• Visit the unofficial portals that is featuring CAT shift-wise answer key
• Click on CAT 2025 slot one unofficial answer key PDF link
• CAT 2025 slot one unofficial answer key PDF will appear on the screen for download
• Save CAT slot one unofficial answer key PDF and take a print out
• Now analyse the answer key document and get your probable marks. 

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. 

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.

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, as analysed by Ramnath Kanakadandi, Senior Course Director, T.I.M.E. 

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, as analysed by Ramnath Kanakadandi, Senior Course Director, TIME.  

The shift two of CAT 2025 has started. The CAT shift two will conclude at 2:30 PM. The candidates who had appeared in shift one analysed the paper as moderately difficult. As per the initial reactions from candidates, the questions from Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC), Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) and Quantitative Aptitude (QA) were a bit difficult and tricky. 

The CAT 2025 shift two will begin at 12:30 PM. The shift two will be held from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm. The candidates need to report at the exam centre half an hour to an hour before the exam. For the CAT exam to begin at 8:30 am, the candidates should report by 8 am, for the 12:30 pm shift, the candidates should report between 11:30 am to 12 noon, report by 4 pm for the 4:30 pm shift.   

After reviewing the challenges made on CAT answer key, the CAT final answer and result will be released. CAT result is likely to be announced by January first week. The candidates can check and download CAT scorecard on the official website- iimcat.ac.in.  

• Visit the official website- iimcat.ac.in
• Click on CAT answer key objection window link
• Choose questions you wish to raise objections
• Upload answers and supporting documents PDF
• Pay CAT answer key objection window fee
• Click on submit
• Save CAT answer key PDF and take a print out. 

To download CAT answer key 2025 PDF, candidates need to visit the official website- iimcat.ac.in and click on CAT answer key PDF link. CAT answer key will be available for download on the screen, save and download CAT answer key PDF to be used for further reference 

CAT answer key 2025 is likely to be released by first week of December and will be available on the official portal- iimcat.ac.in. The candidates can check and download CAT answer key PDF on the IIM CAT portal- iimcat.ac.in. 

• Visit the unofficial portals that is featuring CAT shift-wise answer key
• Click on CAT 2025 slot one unofficial answer key PDF link
• CAT 2025 slot one unofficial answer key PDF will appear on the screen for download
• Save CAT slot one unofficial answer key PDF and take a print out.

CAT unofficial answer key is available on various private portals. The candidates can check and download answer key from unofficial portals. They can check marks through unofficial answer key.  

As per the initial reactions from candidates, the questions from Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC), Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) and Quantitative Aptitude (QA) were a bit difficult and tricky. There were a total of 66 questions in CAT 2025 slot one. 

The male candidates need to wear casual trousers, pants, jeans. They are advised to wear slippers. The female candidates should wear leggings/trousers and choose simple sandals. 

Do not bring any restricted items to the exam center. All sorts of electronic devices- smart phone, Bluetooth devices, earphones, pagers are not allowed at the exam centre. The exam center will not provide any storage for banned items, and if any such item is brought, it will have to be stored outside the venue at the candidate’s own risk. 

The candidates need to report at the exam centre half an hour to an hour before the exam. For the CAT exam to begin at 8:30 am, the candidates should report by 8 am, for the 12:30 pm shift, the candidates should report between 11:30 am to 12 noon, report by 4 pm for the 4:30 pm shift. 

The Common Admission Test (CAT 2025) is scheduled to be held in three shifts; shift one from 8:30 am to 10:30 am, shift two- 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm, shift three- 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm. 

CAT 2025 shift one will be closed soon. CAT shift one was held from 8:30 am to 10:30 am. The candidates who had appeared for CAT can check paper analysis which will be available soon. CAT is being held in three shifts; shift one from 8:30 am to 10:30 am, shift two from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm, shift three from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm.