CAT 2021 Slot 3 question paper with solutions
All 66 questions of CAT 2021 Slot 3, section by section, each with its answer and a step-by-step solution. Sections: VARC (24), DILR (20), Quant (22).
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VARC · 24 questions
RC passage 1The Price of Accurate Timekeeping Q5–Q8RC passage 2Pinker, Chomsky and The Language Instinct Q9–Q12RC passage 3Soft Robots and the Nano-Sentinels Q13–Q16RC passage 4The Making of the Unconscious Q17–Q20
- Q1The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · Para Jumbles
- Q2Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · Odd One Out
- Q3The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · Para Summary
- Q4Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · Odd One Out
- Q5None of the following statements can be inferred from the passage EXCEPT that:CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · RC Inference Questions
- Q6The author makes all of the following arguments in the passage, EXCEPT that:CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · RC Detail and Fact Based Questions
- Q7“It’s a bit like fuel use in a car. Just because I’m using more fuel doesn’t mean that I’m going faster or further . .…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · Purpose & structure
- Q8Which one of the following sets of words and phrases serves best as keywords of the passage?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · RC Main Idea and Central Theme
- Q9Which one of the following statements best summarises the author’s position about Pinker’s book?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · Argument & viewpoint
- Q10According to the passage, all of the following are true about the language instinct EXCEPT that:CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · RC Detail and Fact Based Questions
- Q11On the basis of the information in the passage, Pinker and Chomsky may disagree with each other on which one of the…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · RC Detail and Fact Based Questions
- Q12From the passage, it can be inferred that all of the following are true about Pinker’s book, “The Language Instinct”,…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · RC Inference Questions
- Q13Which one of the following statements best captures the sense of the first paragraph?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · RC Main Idea and Central Theme
- Q14Which one of the following scenarios, if false, could be seen as supporting the passage?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · Critical Reasoning
- Q15Which one of the following statements, if true, would be the most direct extension of the arguments in the passage?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · Strengthen and Weaken Arguments
- Q16Which one of the following statements best summarises the central point of the passage?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · RC Main Idea and Central Theme
- Q17Which one of the following statements best describes what the passage is about?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · RC Main Idea and Central Theme
- Q18“The enrichments of literary and intellectual language led to an altered understanding of the meanings that underlie…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · RC - Questions
- Q19Which one of the following sets of words is closest to mapping the main arguments of the passage?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · Purpose & structure
- Q20All of the following statements may be considered valid inferences from the passage, EXCEPT:CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · RC Inference Questions
- Q21The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · Para Summary
- Q22The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · Para Jumbles
- Q23The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · Para Summary
- Q24The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · VARC · Para Jumbles
DILR · 20 questions
Set 1Testing Bottles for Impurity Q1–Q4Set 2Project Schedules of Four Employees Q5–Q8Set 3Javelin Throw Event Q9–Q14Set 4Reviewers Selecting Questions Q15–Q20
- Q15 ml of content from bottle A is mixed with 5 ml of content from bottle B. The resultant mixture, when tested, detects…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Caselet DI
- Q2There are four bottles. Each bottle is known to contain only P or only I. They will be considered to be “collectively…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Caselet DI
- Q3There are four bottles. It is known that three of these bottles contain only P, while the remaining one contains 80% P…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Caselet DI
- Q4There are four bottles. It is known that either one or two of these bottles contain(s) only P, while the remaining…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Caselet DI
- Q5Which of the following statements is/are true? I: The total project-month was the same for the four employees. II: The…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Reasoning Based DI
- Q6Which employees did not work in multiple projects for any of the months in 2020?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Reasoning Based DI
- Q7The project duration, measured in terms of the number of months, is the time during which at least one employee worked…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Reasoning Based DI
- Q8The list of employees in decreasing order of annual completion index is:CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Reasoning Based DI
- Q9Which two players got the double?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Caselet DI
- Q10Who won the silver medal?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Caselet DI
- Q11Who threw the last javelin in the event?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Caselet DI
- Q12What was the final score (in m) of the silver-medalist?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Caselet DI
- Q13Which of the following can be the final score (in m) of P8?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Caselet DI
- Q14By how much did the gold medalist improve his score (in m) in the second phase?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Caselet DI
- Q15How many questions were DEFINITELY created by Amal?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Caselet DI
- Q16How many questions were DEFINITELY created by Komal?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Caselet DI
- Q17How many questions were DEFINITELY created by the SMEs?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Caselet DI
- Q18How many questions were DEFINITELY disapproved by Bimal?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Caselet DI
- Q19The approval ratio of a reviewer is the ratio of the number of questions (s)he approved to the number of questions…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Caselet DI
- Q20How many questions created by Amal or Bimal were disapproved by at least one of the other reviewers?CAT 2021 Slot 3 · DILR · Caselet DI
Quant · 22 questions
- Q1If a certain weight of an alloy of silver and copper is mixed with 3 kg of pure silver, the resulting alloy will have…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Averages, Mixture and Alligation
- Q2Anil can paint a house in 12 days while Barun can paint it in 16 days. Anil, Barun, and Chandu undertake to paint the…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Time and Work
- Q3Mira and Amal walk along a circular track, starting from the same point at the same time. If they walk in the same…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Time Speed and Distance
- Q4A four-digit number is formed by using only the digits 1, 2 and 3 such that both 2 and 3 appear at least once. The…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Permutation and Combination
- Q5In a triangle ABC, ∠ BCA=50^(∘) . D and E are points on AB and AC, respectively, such that AD = DE. If F is a point on…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Triangles
- Q6For a real number a , if (log_15a+log_32a)/( (log_15a ) (log_32a ))=4 then a must lie in the rangeCAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Logarithms
- Q7The arithmetic mean of scores of 25 students in an examination is 50. Five of these students top the examination with…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Averages, Mixture and Alligation
- Q8One part of a hostel's monthly expenses is fixed, and the other part is proportional to the number of its boarders.…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Linear Equations
- Q9One day, Rahul started a work at 9 AM and Gautam joined him two hours later. They then worked together and completed…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Time and Work
- Q10The total of male and female populations in a city increased by 25% from 1970 to 1980. During the same period, the…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Percentage
- Q11Let ABCD be a parallelogram. The lengths of the side AD and the diagonal AC are 10 cm and 20 cm, respectively. If the…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Quadrilaterals
- Q12A park is shaped like a rhombus and has area 96 sq m. If 40 m of fencing is needed to enclose the park, the cost, in…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Quadrilaterals
- Q13If 3x+2 | y |+y=7 and x+ | x |+3y=1 , then x+2y isCAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Inequalities & Modulus
- Q14In a tournament, a team has played 40 matches so far and won 30% of them. If they win 60% of the remaining matches,…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Percentage
- Q15A shop owner bought a total of 64 shirts from a wholesale market that came in two sizes, small and large. The price of…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Linear Equations
- Q16Consider a sequence of real numbers x_1,x_2,x_3,ldots such that x_n+1=x_n+n-1 for all n≥ 1 . If x_1=-1 then x_100 equalsCAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Sequences and Series
- Q17A tea shop offers tea in cups of three different sizes. The product of the prices, in ₹, of three different sizes is…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Linear Equations
- Q18The number of distinct pairs of integers ( m,n ) satisfying | 1+mn |< | m+n |<5 isCAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Inequalities & Modulus
- Q19The cost of fencing a rectangular plot is ₹200 per ft along one side, and ₹100 per ft along the three other sides. If…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Maxima and Minima
- Q20If n is a positive integer such that ( 7√(10) ) ( 7√(10) )²cdots ( 7√(10) )ⁿ>999 , then the smallest value of n isCAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Surds and Indices
- Q21Bank A offers 6% interest rate per annum compounded half yearly. Bank B and Bank C offer simple interest but the…CAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Simple Interest and Compound Interest
- Q22If f ( x )=x²-7x and g ( x )=x+3 , then the minimum value of f ( g ( x ) )-3x isCAT 2021 Slot 3 · Quant · Functions