List of top Questions asked in CAT

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:
1. Tensions and sometimes conflict remain an issue in and between the 11 states in South East Asia (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam).
2. China’s rise as a regional military power and its claims in the South China Sea have become an increasingly pressing security concern for many South East Asian states
3. Since the 1990s, the security environment of South East Asia has seen both continuity and profound changes.
4. These concerns cause states from outside the region to take an active interest in South East Asian security.

Choose the word that is most similar in meaning to the word "arduous" :

Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
1. Based in part on entries from Smyk’s grandfather’s journal, the piece outlines a sequence of flirtation, gifts of bread and vodka and, finally, a dowry negotiation to seal the deal.
2. In this brief animation, the Polish-born, UK-based filmmaker Ewa Smyk combines personal history and anthropology to explore how courtship and marriage unfolded in eastern Poland in the 1950s and ’60s.
3. Through these deeply personal production choices, Smyk’s work conveys a joy and charm rarely seen in stories depicting life in this time and place.
4. Her use of personal objects – including old notebooks and family photos – for the stop-motion animated treatment and traditional Polish music for the score lend an endearing layer to the viewing experience.
5. Poland has a rich cultural heritage that spans centuries.

Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
1. Presenting a flurry of animations that flow from one scene to the next, the UK director Marcus Armitage captures the diversity of daily experience in the county.
2. With its lively animations and immersive audio, That Yorkshire Sound thrusts viewers into the sights and sounds of Yorkshire in northern England.
3. The images move from rural areas, where farm animals squeal and bicycles spin through the suburbs, to the heart of its urban centers, abuzz with drinking, dancing, gambling and a bit of post-football match mayhem.
4. The resulting work is a fleeting yet overflowing tribute to life in this vibrant and historic slice of England.
5. Simultaneously, the clock seems to move from day to night over the course of the short, giving the impression of time flying through a full day over the course of two minutes.

The four sentences (labeled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.
1. The US philosopher John Rawls (1921-2002) is perhaps best known for his ‘veil of ignorance’ thought experiment, which he first laid out in his landmark work A Theory of Justice (1971).
2. However, as this TED-Ed video illustrates, A Theory of Justice does far more than just describe the thought experiment.
3. Rather, Rawls articulates the policies he believes should emerge from this initial conceit, outlining a democratic government with an economic structure that allows for equal opportunity and, ultimately, only as much inequality as would benefit society’s worst-off members.
4. With stylish visuals, the animation details the ideas and ideals outlined in A Theory of Justice, criticisms of the text raised by prominent thinkers, and the lasting impact of Rawls’s groundbreaking work more than half a century after its initial publication.

The four sentences (labeled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.
1. In this short from the YouTube series Howtown, the US reporter and producer Adam Cole sets out to separate the facts from doggone fiction regarding canine vision.
2. Working through the scientific literature with a series of experts, he discovers some truly fascinating insights into how dogs experience color and depth, as well as how sight and smell intertwine in a dog’s mind.
3. Between camera filters and clickbait, the digital world is rife with misleading information about how, exactly, dogs see the world.
4. His investigation also provides an illuminating look into the tools scientists currently possess to understand the interior worlds – or ‘Umwelts’ – of nonhuman animals, as well as the limitations that we may never be able to overcome.

A sum of money is divided among A, B, and C in the ratio 3:5:7 respectively. If B gets Rs. 300 more than A, then the total amount of money is:

A circle is inscribed in a square of side 10 cm. Find the area of the region between the square and the circle.

The simple interest accrued on an amount of Rs.25,000 at the end of three years is Rs.7,500. What would be the compound interest accrued on the same amount at the same rate in the same period?

A shopkeeper buys 120 red balloons, 80 blue balloons, and 100 green balloons. The cost of 5 red balloons is the same as that of 4 blue balloons or 2 green balloons. He sells all the balloons at a profit of 20% on the total cost price. If he sells 40 red balloons, 30 blue balloons, and 50 green balloons at a discount of 10% on the marked price, and the rest at the marked price, then his overall profit percentage is:

Let A be the largest positive integer that divides all the numbers of the form\( (2^{k}+3^{k}+5^{k})\) and B be the largest positive integer that divides all the numbers of the form \((3^{k}+4^{k}+5^{k}) \), where k is any positive integer. Then (A + B) equals

The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.
Medieval portolan charts of the Mediterranean and later navigation charts from Holland served practical navigational purposes effectively. Detailed city plans from historical works such as Braun and Hogenberg's "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" and John Speed's depictions of English cities provide valuable insights into their historical layouts and sizes. Similarly, John Ogilby's "Britannia, Volume the First," published in 1675, offers extensive details on England's road network as it existed nearly three centuries ago. However, early maps often fall short of modern standards, which require precise representations of distances, elevations, and clearly distinguishable symbols. Cartography did not achieve the level of exactitude seen in later centuries until the 18th century.

The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.
Promoting increased plastic recycling is comparable to trying to stop a collapsing skyscraper by hammering a nail. It's a futile effort to find recycling centers and feel a sense of accomplishment when we manage to recycle, yet it fails to tackle the root cause: the rampant production of single-use plastics. These items, like grocery bags used for mere minutes but enduring for hundreds of years in our ecosystems, illustrate a profound misuse of technology. The real solution lies in eliminating the production of single-use plastics altogether, rather than relying on insufficient recycling efforts to address a problem that should never have been created in the first place.

A mixture contains lemon juice and sugar syrup in equal proportion. If a new mixture is created by adding this mixture and sugar syrup in the ratio 1 : 3, then the ratio of lemon juice and sugar syrup in the new mixture is

Let a,b,c be non-zero real numbers such that b2<4ac, and f(x)=ax2+bx+c. If the set S consists of all integers m such that f(m)<0, then the set S must necessarily be

Let f(x) = ax² + bx + c, where a, b, and c are real numbers with a ≠ 0. If the graph of f(x) intersects the x-axis at two distinct points with x-coordinates p and q (p < q), then the equation ax² + bx + c + 1 = 0 has:

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences:
1. The development of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized various industries, from healthcare to finance, by automating complex tasks and improving efficiency.
2. However, concerns about AI's ethical implications, such as privacy violations and algorithmic biases, have also been raised as its usage becomes more widespread.
3. AI systems rely on vast amounts of data to train algorithms, which can sometimes lead to unintended consequences if the data is biased or incomplete.
4. Despite these challenges, AI continues to be integrated into everyday applications, driving innovation and shaping the future of technology.
Choose the sequence of the four numbers that best forms a coherent paragraph:

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:
1.Man has used poisons for assassination purposes ever since the dawn of civilization, against individual enemies but also occasionally against armies.
2. These dangers were soon recognized, and resulted in two international declarations—in 1874 in Brussels and in 1899 in The Hague—that prohibited the use of poisoned weapons.
3. The foundation of microbiology by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch offered new prospects for those interested in biological weapons because it allowed agents to be chosen and designed on a rational basis.
4. Though treaties were all made in good faith, they contained no means of control, and so failed to prevent interested parties from developing and using biological weapons.

The passage below contains four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.
The Impressionists openly rejected any philosophical connotations, although their avant-garde approach to painting had important philosophical implications. By drastically diverging from the conventional perspectives of artists on visual reality, they created a logical new mode of artistic expression. Greek painters even made the connection between abstract ideas and concrete shapes, demonstrating their concrete comprehension of the cosmos. This materialistic perspective dominated painting far into the nineteenth century. By contrast, the Impressionists felt that the fundamental element of visual reality was light, not substance. This viewpoint is aptly expressed by the philosopher Taine, who said, "The chief 'person' in a picture is the light in which everything is bathed."
The Impressionists held that all solid objects were connected by light and that any divisions between them were artificial. Solid objects were merely surfaces reflecting light. This alteration altered how color and outline were handled. It was discovered that color resulted from light vibrations on a colorless surface, refuting the earlier belief that color was an intrinsic feature of objects. Originally intended to indicate the edges of an item, outline is currently only used to indicate the boundaries of often overlapping patterns. Impressionist paintings saw the world as a sequence of surfaces reacting to light, rather than as a collection of distinct objects. Filtered light frequently produces the mosaic of colors seen in an Impressionist painting.According to Mauclair, "light becomes the sole subject of the picture," with the objects it illuminates playing a supporting role. This shift means that painting is no longer only a visual art form. This ground-breaking new approach to art appreciation ignored all external ideas, whether they were moral, spiritual, or psychological, as well as any emotions that went beyond the purely aesthetic. The subjects of Impressionist paintings—people, places, and things—did not convey deeper meanings or tell tales. Instead, they merely served as elements of a light pattern that the painter used as inspiration from nature to create on canvas.

The passage below contains four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.
Artificial intelligence has been growing quite fast of late and has altered health, finance, transport, and entertainment. In its scope and definition, AI is an all-round technology involving machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision. This has made machines undertake in large, major aspects that were under human intelligence: speech recognition and image interpretation, among many complex decision-makings.
Probably the first huge breakthrough in AI would be the field of deep learning—machine learning dealing with neural networks having many layers. Algorithms from deep learning have proven tremendously successful in tasks like image and speech recognition, where they have greatly surpassed human performance. For instance, AI-powered diagnosis tools can identify diseases such as cancer and diabetic retinopathy at greatly improved accuracy levels, hence greatly helping medical professionals in their work. AI in finance has indeed been a revolution. Algorithms are capable of analyzing huge reams of data at incredible speeds, notating patterns and trends that the human eye could never perceive. In this way, higher accuracy in risk assessment, fraud detection, and personalized financial advice can be reached. Even more, AI-driven trading systems trade at really amazing speed for the optimization of an investment strategy to the very last drop of maximum return. Another domain in which AI has made very big strides is transportation. Several companies across the world are developing and testing autonomous vehicles equipped with advance sensors and AI algorithms. There are several advantages of self-driving cars: they can reduce traffic accidents, improve fuel efficiency, and provide better mobility for the people who couldn't drive themselves. Moreover, AI could make public transport systems more efficient, less congested, by optimizing routes and schedules. It is constantly reshaping the very face of entertainment through content creation and consumption. Recommendation algorithms are running on any streaming service or social media to analyze user preferences to suggest yet more personalized content that allows for more engagement and satisfaction. AI-generated art, music, and literature are on their way up, expanding creativity into new frontiers and challenging conventional ideas of authorship and originality. The fast pace at which AI is developing is associated with ethical and social concerns. With respect to data privacy, bias of algorithms, and work displacement, if handled properly, that would go in line with the equitability of AI benefits. There needs to be increased cooperation from policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders on working out frameworks that support openness, accountability, and inclusiveness as AI goes on to gain more relevance. AI is a very powerful tool that transforms many dimensions of modern life. It opens up possibilities for innovative and vast efficiency improvements but at the same time bears requirements—thoughtful and responsible—to meet the challenges presented by this new technology. Great promise lies ahead of us in the future of AI, and exactly how its potential bearing on society will be shaped depends on how we go about using those capabilities while keeping their

The passage below contains four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.
The Industrial Revolution was the period of immense technological, social, and economic changes in the late 18th century; it was basically based on the shift from agrarian economies toward a more industrialized and urban society. In this phase, new manufacturing processes were developed, hence marking the emergence of factories and mass production of goods. Influential inventions—the steam engine, spinning jenny, and power loom—transformed industries and significantly increased productivity during this time period.
One of the most pronounced effects of the Industrial Revolution was in the labor area. All along, people remained in villages and worked in agriculture, but then factories came, demanding lots of labor and seeing to mass migration into towns. This process of urbanization was accompanied by immense growth of the city but also gave rise to serious social problems. The process of industrialization corresponds to enormous growth in cities, entailing problems of overcrowding, bad living conditions, and exploitation of workers where large numbers were women and children often laboring for long hours under hazardous conditions. It changed the economic landscape of the time as well. Extension of trade and growth of markets enhanced the potentialities of production.
It generated enormous wealth for entrepreneurs and industrialists, giving birth to a new class of bourgeoisies. This newfound wealth was not, however, so equally distributed. Where the industrialist or the factory owner was minting money, a number of workers were being paid peanuts to work in most appallingly dreadful conditions. It is this mismatched economic distribution that manned social tensions and laid the path for labor movements coupled with calls for reforms. The environment paid a huge price, such as air and water pollution due to coal becoming the pivot of energy, and forest clearing and depletion of natural resources. Notwithstanding these problems created for laissez-faire by the Industrial Revolution, it laid the foundation for modern industrial society and stimulated innovations that continued to shape the world in the ensuing centuries. In all, the Industrial Revolution was an age of high complexity and great development with serious difficulties. Its inheritance has been novelty and human toughness, pointing to both the potential for progress and the potential for sustainable and equitable development.

The passage below contains four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.
Sustainable development is the platform that links people, the planetary system, and the future. This has been done to explain what has been everything in a nutshell concerning sustainable development: it represents meeting today's needs without meddling with the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This has three pillars: economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental care.
Growth in an economy has been taken to mean an improvement in the standard of living and the creation of wealth simultaneously. On the other hand, it is disproportionate because its insatiable demands on natural resources will deplete them unless kept within limits. On a brighter note, environmental degradation has a scope to be checked. The end should thus be to strike a balance that supports economic development yet conserves the available natural resources for future generations. It means making people participate in society by giving opportunities and sharing resources equally. This also involves the reduction of inequalities and ensures that economic gains are well shared among these strata of people within the population structure. Economic growth, which does not lead to social inclusiveness, can increase disparities and trigger related social unrest or instability.
Environment protection is the process of preserving natural resources and natural ecosystems. Full detailing may differ from anti-pollution measures, sustainable management, and conservation of natural resources; the meaning remains the same—preservation of biodiversity at that particular time. The environment is basic to both aspects: it stands for the reason that a sound environment is a precondition for economic growth and social inclusion. The serious pursuit of sustainable development is required at each level of governance, business, and individual. It requires internal coherence at the policy and practice levels that provides transformative capacity toward sustainability. Other key levers for advancing sustainable development goals are innovation, education, and international cooperation.

Answer the questions based on the information given below.
6 trucks (numbered 1 to 6) have to transport certain number of articles (bags + balls). If an odd numbered truck fails to transport all the articles assigned to it then it is transported by next odd numbered truck and if an even numbered truck fails to transport the required number of articles then it is transported by next even numbered truck. The given table shows the number of articles to be transported by each of the truck, percentage/actual number of articles transported out of total number of articles to be transported, percentage/actual number of articles not transported out of total number of articles to be transported, by each of the six trucks.
Note: a) Equal number of articles has to be transported by each of the trucks.
b) The number of articles which were not transported by trucks 5 and 6, together were transported by a spare truck

Truck	Total number of articles to be transported	Percentage/actual number of articles transported	Percentage/actual number of articles not transported
1	-	-	1200
2	-	80%	-
3	-	4500	25%
4	-	-	2880
5	-	60%	-
6	-	5760	-

The given pie-chart shows the percentage distribution of number of balls transported by each of the given trucks out of total number of balls transported by all trucks together. Sum of number of bags transported by given 6 trucks is 12360.

Answer the questions based on the information given below.
Five persons – Prakash, Ritik, Sahil, Tushar and Dheeraj have some notes in denomination of Rs. 20, Rs. 50 and Rs. 100 but it is not necessary that person certainly has notes of all the given three denominations with them. The ratio of total amount with Sahil and Tushar is 2:3, respectively. Total amount with Tushar is 12.5% more than that with Prakash. Total amount with Ritik is Rs. 170 less than that with Prakash and Rs. 350 less than that with Dheeraj. Dheeraj has a total of Rs. 580 with him.
Additional information:
1.) Total number of notes with Prakash is more than 10 but less than 13 and Prakash has only Rs. 20 and Rs. 50 notes. The number of Rs. 50 notes with Prakash is more than the number of Rs. 20 notes.
2.) Ritik has only Rs. 20 and Rs. 50 notes and the number of Rs. 20 notes with him is more than number of Rs. 50 notes with him.
3.) Sahil has the notes of Rs. 20 and Rs. 100 denominations only.
4.) Tushar has only Rs. 50 and Rs. 100 notes and the number of notes that Sahil has is same as the number of notes that Tushar has.
5.) Dheeraj has the notes of all three denominations and the number of Rs. 20 notes that Ritik has is same as the number of Rs. 20 notes that Dheeraj has. Total number of notes that Prakash has is same as total number of notes that Dheeraj has.