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Topic-wise Questions from CAT Previous Year Papers
Go through the CAT questions from all available past year CAT papers conducted by IIM colleges. All these questions are included with detailed solutions and can be attempted in the CAT year-wise questions format.
Check out the Section-wise Topic previous year CAT Questions in below.
Overall Score Vs Percentile In CAT
Planning to score 99 percentile in CAT? CAT 2025 is expected to conducted on 30th November 2025 by IIM Kozhikode. CAT 2024 exam is conducted on 24th November 2024 by IIM Calcutta for a total of 2024 marks. So, check out last year's CAT score vs percentile.
| Percentile | Marks in 2025 | Marks in 2024 | Marks in 2023 | Marks in 2022 | Marks in 2021 |
| 99.9 | 110 | 127 | 101.43 | 109 | 124 |
| 99.5 | 96 | 103.97 | 84.29 | 92 | 110 |
| 99 | 85 | 95.13 | 76.15 | 84 | 98 |
| 97 | 70 | 78.9 | 61.45 | 72 | 82 |
| 95 | 64 | 70 | 54.86 | 62 | 73 |
| 90 | 53 | 58 | 44.36 | 49 | 60 |
| 80 | 40 | 44 | 35.5 | 36.02 | 45 |
| 70 | 30 | 25.3 | 28 | 29 | 37 |
| 60 | 26 | 19.5 | 21 | 22 | 29 |
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100 Percentile in CAT Previous Year Paper 2024
14 candidates scored 100 percentile in CAT 2024 exam. Maruti sir is one of them, with a perfect score of 100 percentile in the quant section and 179.92 marks overall.
100 Percentile in CAT Previous Year Paper 2023
14 candidates scored 100 percentile in CAT 2023 exam. Maruti sir is one of them, with a perfect score of 100 percentile in the quant section and 150.99 marks overall.
100 Percentile in CAT Previous Year Paper 2022
11 candidates scored 100 percentile in CAT 2022 exam. Maruti sir is one of them, with a perfect score of 66/66 in the quant section and 145 marks overall.
100 Percentile in CAT Previous Year Paper 2021
9 candidates scored 100 percentile in CAT 2021 exam. Maruti sir is one of them, with an impeccable 99.99%ile in both Quant and VARC sections and 161 marks (after scaling) overall.
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Benefits of Solving CAT PYQs
Solving CAT PYQs is widely considered the most important part of CAT preparation because:
- Paper setter's mindset :Solving old papers helps you understand how the paper setter tries to trick you and teaches you the specific "reasoning" they look for.
- Spot repeating topics: While questions are never exactly the same, the core concepts often are. By looking at past 5 years of PYQs, you’ll see which topics, like "Games and Tournaments" or Algebra repeats every year so you can focus your study time there.
- Build Speed: You only get 40 minutes per section. Practicing with actual PYQs is the best way to get used to that ticking clock and build the mental stamina you need for the full 2-hour exam.
- Helps in Question Selection: In CAT, knowing what to skip is just as important as knowing what to solve. Past papers help you spot "time-trap" questions that are too hard, so you can skip them and solve easier questions first.
- Find Weaknesses: You might think you're great at Reading Comprehension, but past papers might reveal that you're actually struggling with specific "inference" questions, letting you fix those gaps before the actual exam.
Steps to Download CAT Previous Year Papers PDF's
- Visit the "Cracku CAT Previous Papers" page
- Scroll down to find the year for which papers you are looking for
- Select the slot and click on the "PDF" button
- Open the downloaded PDF and try to solve the questions
- If you are not able to understand text solutions, click on the "Video Solution" button below the question
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CAT Previous Papers Analysis 2025
The section-wise difficulty level of all the 3 CAT slots is given below
Sections | Total Questions | Difficulty Level | No of MCQ Questions | No of TITA Questions |
| Slot 1 | 68 | Moderate-Difficult | 45 | 23 |
| Slot 2 | 68 | Moderate-Difficult | 45 | 23 |
| Slot 3 | 68 | Moderate-Difficult | 45 | 23 |
Major Changes in CAT Past Year Papers
| Changes | Year |
| No major changes in the CAT exam pattern | 2025 |
| Total questions in DILR increased from 20 to 22 and PJ removed from VARC | 2024 |
| No major changes in the CAT exam pattern | 2023 |
| No major changes in the CAT exam pattern | 2022 |
| Further reduction in the number of questions to 66 from 76 | 2021 |
| No. of exam slots changed to three from two. The total number of questions was decreased to 76 (from 100). |
2020 |
| An on-screen calculator is introduced | 2015 |
Sectional-time limit introduced. QA & DI, LR &VA; were the two sections. |
2011 |
| The CAT exam went online | 2009 |
Year-wise CAT papers - IIM Conducted
| CAT Papers | Conducted By |
| CAT 2025 Previous Year Question Paper | IIM Kozhikode |
| CAT 2024 Previous Year Question Paper | IIM Calcutta |
| CAT 2023 Previous Year Question Paper | IIM Lucknow |
| CAT 2022 Previous Year Question Paper | IIM Bangalore |
| CAT 2021 Previous Year Question Paper | IIM Ahmedabad |
| CAT 2020 Previous Year Question Paper | IIM Indore |
| CAT 2019 Previous Year Question Paper | IIM Kozhikode |
| CAT 2018 Previous Year Question Paper | IIM Calcutta |
| CAT 2017 Previous Year Question Paper | IIM Lucknow |
| CAT 2016 Previous Year Question Paper | IIM Bangalore |
| CAT 2015 Previous Year Question Paper | IIM Ahmedabad |
| CAT 2014 Previous Year Question Paper | IIM Indore |
How To Utilize CAT Previous Papers
These are a great reference to understand the kind of questions that can appear in the exam. CAT don't have defined syllabus, so going through the old quesion papers can give the candidates the topics tests and the difficulity level.
- Take them as topic wise tests
- Attempt them as sectional tests
- Take full-length CAT previous papers as mock
- Watch video solutions for difficult questions
- Analyse mistakes and improve Concept & Practice Gaps
