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CAT Reading Comprehension Questions
RCs account for nearly a quarter of the total marks in CAT. Develop your ability to read between the lines by going through these RC questions.
VARC is the foremost section and covers the highest number of questions (24) in CAT exam. While Reading Comprehensions and Passages highly dominate this section with 16 questions, the rest of the section consists of verbal ability questions like Para Jumbles, Para Completions, Para Summary and Odd Sentence Out questions. Selecting the right RC set can significantly improve candidates' success in this section.
How to Prepare for CAT VARC?
While there is no preset syllabus given by VARC, candidates can take an idea of the syllabus by analyzing past year papers and molding their prepare accordingly. Here are the expert tips to best strategize your VARC prep:
Read! Read! Read!
Candidates should daily invest at least 1 to 2 hours on reading diverse topics to increase their area of knowledge. Increasing reading speed overtime and developing the habit of identifying inferences and underlying ideas in the passage is the key to score in RCs. Some of the top sources for diverse passages are- Indian Express, The Hindu, Aeon Essays, The Guardian.
Read Diverse Topics
Our experts suggest that candidates should read from diverse areas like history, politics, art, psychology, science, philosophy, literature, economics, abstract ideas etc. This will help them to expand the horizons of their knowledge ultimately making them feel a sense of familiarity with the RC sets in the exam.
Solving Past Year Sets for VA
To solve verbal ability based sets that of Para Jumbles, Para Completions, Para Summary and Odd Sentence Out, candidates will need to employ logics as well as grammar and vocabulary rules. They key is to practice past year sets to learn the pattern of these type of questions.
CAT-VARC Topic Wise Weightage
| Slots | Reading Comprehensions | RC Questions | Verbal Ability | VA Questions |
| Slot 1 | Return of wolves’ predation in a French region | 4 | Para Jumbles | 2 |
| Current economies of North and South Korea. | 4 | Para Completions | 2 | |
| Indian Ocean Literature | 4 | Para Summary | 2 | |
| Modern materialism versus ancient societies | 4 | Odd Sentence Out | 2 | |
| Slot 2 | Second-hand Shopping and Fast Fashion | 4 | Para Jumbles | 2 |
| Translated Streaming on Netflix in Europe | 4 | Para Completions | 2 | |
| Why Liberalism Failed | 4 | Para Summary | 2 | |
| What is Historical Fact | 4 | Odd Sentence Out | 2 | |
| Slot 3 | Colonialism and Global Warming | 4 | Para Jumbles | 2 |
| Understanding Romantic Aesthetics | 4 | Para Completions | 2 | |
| Cultural Patrimony Laws | 4 | Para Summary | 2 | |
| Rationality by Steven Pinker | 4 | Odd Sentence Out | 2 |
