CAT 2020 Slot-2 Analysis:
The second slot of CAT 2020 took place between 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. According to inputs of students, the difficulty of the second slot was similar to 1st slot and the overall pattern is the same as 1st. The conduct of the test in three slots was nearly smooth and without glitches.
| Section | Number of Questions | Duration | MCQs | TITA |
| VARC | 26 | 40 min | 21 | 5 |
| DILR | 24 | 40 min | 18 | 6 |
| QA | 26 | 40 min | 18 | 8 |
| Total | 76 | 120 min | 57 | 19 |
Similar to the earlier slot, the test started with VARC followed by DILR which is followed by QA. One can’t skip the section and should complete 40min in each section to proceed to the next section.
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Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension:
The VARC section in all three slots is similar to the majority of the RC’s asking Inference type of questions. The overall difficulty is Moderate-Tough. There were two passages with 5 questions each and two passages with 4 questions each. Verbal is easier compared to RC, it has 3 Para Summary, 3 Para Jumbles, 2 odd sentences out type questions. A decent attempt would be 17-19 questions with 85% accuracy.
| Areas of Questions | Topic | Number of questions | Overall Difficulty level |
| RC I | International Waters | 4 | Easy-Medium |
| RC II | Energy Technology | 5 | Medium-Hard |
| RC III | Aggression-theories and models | 4 | Easy-Medium |
| RC IV | Study of Visual culture | 5 | Medium-Difficult |
| Verbal Ability | |||
| Para Summary | 3 | 2 Medium, 1 easy | Easy-Medium |
| Para Jumbles | 3 | 2 Easy-Medium, 1 Medium-Hard | Medium |
| Odd sentence out | 2 | 2 Easy-Medium | Easy-Medium |
| Over All | 26 | Medium-Hard |
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Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning:
DILR is surely the toughest section in all three slots and the difficulty level of slot 2 is slightly more than slot 1. So, one can expect a marginal increase in the score during normalisation. Like slot 1, there were a total of 24 questions in 5 sets with 6 questions each in two sets and 4 questions each in 3 sets.
The overall difficulty of this section is more that of CAT 2019 and similar to 2018.
| Set Type | Topic | Number of Questions | Overall Difficulty |
| Data Interpretation | Elections | 6 | Medium |
| Data Interpretation | Décor of four cities over two years | 4 | Medium-Hard |
| Logical Reasoning | Parking lot | 4 | Easy-Medium |
| Logical Reasoning | Scheduling of seminars | 6 | Hard |
| Logical Reasoning | Arrangements | 4 | Medium-Hard |
| Over All | 24 | Hard |
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Quantitative Aptitude:
This section is a relief after two back-back difficult sections but the approach to this section with a positive attitude was very important. The level of difficulty of this section is similar to that of CAT 2019.
| Topic | No of questions | Difficulty |
| Numbers | 1 | 1 Easy-Medium |
| Algebra | 7 | 3 Easy, 3 Medium-Hard, 1 Hard |
| Arithmetic | 9 | 4 Easy, 4 Medium, 1 Hard |
| Geometry | 5 | 3 Easy-Medium, 2 Medium-Hard |
| Modern Math | 4 | 3 Easy, 1 Medium |
| Over All | 26 | Easy-Medium |
CAT Score Vs Percentile:
Based on the feedback received from CrackU students and our team, the estimated marks vs percentile for individual sections and overall is as follows:
| Percentile | VARC | DILR | QA | Total |
| 99.5 | 46 | 35 | 46 | 115 |
| 99 | 41 | 30 | 41 | 105 |
| 95 | 36 | 23 | 37 | 93 |
| 90 | 32 | 18 | 33 | 80 |
| 85 | 27 | 15 | 29 | 72 |
| 80 | 23 | 14 | 27 | 65 |
| 70 | 19 | 11 | 21 | 60 |
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Note: These are only expected percentiles as per our deep understanding and actual percentiles may vary from these.
