CAT Previous Year Question papers are one of the most important CAT preparation tools. IIM are releasing CAT question papers every year since 2017. CAT previous papers are of great help and serve as CAT preparation guide since by attempting the CAT Previous Year Question Papers with Solutions, you become familiarized with the exact type of CAT questions, their difficulty level, the time that you need to solve them and where you are making mistakes. For your benefit MBAUniverse.com has prepared series of CAT Previous Year Question Papers with Solutions. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to ‘Previous Year Paper’ section and after free registration, you can attempt CAT previous year question papers for CAT 2024, CAT 2023 and previous years.
But before you proceed to attempt the previous year CAT question papers, understand what actually is CAT Previous year question paper, how it helps to assess and improve your CAT preparation level, how many CAT question papers do CAT toppers take and other key details about CAT papers.
CAT Previous Question Paper is the actual CAT paper released by IIMs with answers. The CAT previous papers are the best guide to prepare for CAT exam. The CAT previous papers are divided into same number of sections with same number of questions of actual CAT exam difficulty level. All the CAT toppers studying at IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow, Kozhikode found CAT previous papers the most important part of their preparation and have recommended to take more papers just like taking the actual exam and analysing mistakes in each paper. MBAUniverse.com offers CAT previous papers since 2017 with answers.
CAT previous year question paper exam pattern varies slightly across years. Check CAT 2024 exam pattern below.
Table: CAT 2024 Exam Pattern for Slot 1, 2, 3
| Section No. | Section Name | Duration | MCQs | TITA | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension | 40 min | 20 | 4 | 24 |
| II | Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning | 40 min | 12 | 10 | 22 |
| III | Quantitative Ability | 40 min | 14 | 8 | 22 |
| Total | - | 120 min | 46 | 22 | 68 |
There are many CAT exam previous year papers with answers on MBAUniverse.com. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to ‘Previous Year Paper’ section and after free registration, you can attempt CAT previous year question papers for CAT 2024, CAT 2023 and previous years. Check step by step process to take CAT previous year papers below.
You can take CAT previous paper online on MBAUniverse.com. To take the CAT question paper, you need to take following simple steps:
CAT toppers lay high importance to CAT previous question papers in their preparation strategy and found that they are the most important part of CAT preparation when it comes to assess your preparation level and to find your strong and weak areas where you need improvement.
Rahul Gupta, CAT topper with 100 percentile and IIM Ahmedabad pass out student of PGP 2020-22 batch, says, “Mocks played a huge role in improving my performance as I got to know my strengths and weaknesses by analyzing my past performance and to work on my test strategy as well.”
Tanuj Ruia, CAT topper with 99.69 percentile and IIM Bangalore pass out student of MBA 2020-22 batch took 30 Mocks before the exam and invested close to seven hours to analyse each of them to check his mistakes. Sharing how Mocks helped him to crack CAT, Tanuj says, “I used to attempt the mocks as if I was actually giving CAT. I gave close to 30 mocks. After the mocks, I made it a point to analyse each and every question.”
Sruthy S Kumar, CAT topper with 97.71 percentile and IIM Lucknow pass out student of MBA 2020-22 batch concentrated on taking as many mocks as possible. Sharing the importance of Mocks in CAT preparation, Sruthy says, “Everyone serious about CAT needs to take at least 20+ mocks. Initially, taking a mock test and reviewing it used to take me almost an entire day and gradually I was able to analyse in 3 hours or so.”
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