The Indian Institute of Management, IIM Lucknow has completed the Common Admission Test, CAT 2023. Now, the institute will issue the IIM CAT 2023 answer key soon. According to media reports, the CAT 2023 answer key is expected to be released in the first week of December. However, the official date and time regarding the answer key are yet to be announced by the institute. Once released candidates will be able to check the CAT 2023 answer key at iimcat.ac.in.

CAT 2023 Exam Analysis

CAT exam paper analysis by Bhushan Bapat, Head of Academics, CAT Division at Supergrads by Toprankers

Slot 1

The only change came in the topics on which the questions were asked especially in DILR & QA. Overall 66 questions were distributed as VARC-24, DILR - 20, and QA- 22. VARC saw the return of odd one-out questions. Overall it was easy to moderate. DI LR sets were lengthy and were based on a conceptual understanding of topics including statistics. Overall the level can be ranked as Moderate to tough.

QA presented Surprises with not as many questions as last year which could have been solved in no time i.e. level 1 questions. Still, the section was Moderate with a couple of tough questions on geometry and some tricky questions from Arithmetic and Algebra!!

VARC - 16 RC questions heavily using the word 'except' followed by 2 questions on Para Jumbles (TITA), 2 questions on Para Jumbles Odd Variety (TITA), 2 questions on Para Summary and 2 questions on Para Completion.

DILR - All four sets had 5 questions each with 2 sets having 4 out of 5 questions as TITA questions. No DI set, all were from LR with one from arrangement with a number of variables involved.

QA had questions from Geometry, Co-ordinate Geometry, finding roots and values, ratio and percentage, clock concept, TSD, Numbers.

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Slot 2

VARC - 16 RC questions heavy on critical reasoning. 2 passages tough with easy questions. 2 passages easy with tricky questions. 2 questions on Para Jumbles (TITA), 2 questions on Para Jumbles Odd Variety (TITA), 2 questions on Para Summary and 2 questions on missing sentence.

DILR - All four sets had 5 questions each with 2 sets having 4 out of 5 questions as TITA questions. One set on a 3x3 grid with a box having coins from 1 to 9 and median values are given. One set on 3 people taking rides from 9 am till 5 pm. One set on companies generating rev from start year till end year with some missing values. One set on 2-day average for three people getting numbers between 1-9.

QA had questions from Geometry, SICI, time and work, factor theory, ratio, and percentage, the difference between max possible and min possible values concept, TSD, Numbers, and averages.

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