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CAT Syllabus 2023 Highlights
| Organization | Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) |
| Examination | Common Admission Test (CAT) |
| Category | Syllabus |
| Selection Process | Written Exam, Interview, Documentation Verification |
| Category | https://iimcat.ac.in/ |
CAT Exam pattern 2023
Particulars | Details |
Exam Window | Three Sessions |
Mode of Conduct | Computer-based |
Sections |
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Test Duration | 120 Minutes |
Total No. of Questions | 66 |
Duration of each section of CAT | 40 Minutes |
Type of Questions | MCQs & Non-MCQs |
Expected Marking Scheme | -1 for each wrong answer +3 for every correct answer |
Sectional-Division
Sections | No. of Questions | Duration | Marks |
Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) | 24 | 40 minutes | 72 |
Quantitative Ability (QA) | 22 | 40 minutes | 66 |
Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR) | 20 | 40 minutes | 60 |
Marks Calculation
- If the university has no method to convert marks/ CGPA to percentages, it is done through direct conversion. The achieved CGPA should be divided by the highest CGPA possible and multiplied by 100.
- If grades or CGPA are allotted instead of marks, the conversion method provided by the university should be used to convert the marks to percentages.
CAT 2023: Marking Scheme
Section | MCQ | TITA Questions | Marks(MCQ) | Marks(TITA) |
Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension | 20-21 | 4-5 | +3, -1 | +3, no negative |
Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning | 20-21 | 2-3 | +3, -1 | +3, no negative |
Quantitative Ability | 20-21 | 4-5 | +3, -1 | +3, no negative |
Check CAT Topic-wise weightage 2023
| Name of chapters | 2017 (Slot 1) | 2017 (Slot 2) | 2018 (Slot 1) | 2018 (Slot 2) | 2019 (Slot 1) | 2019 (Slot 2) | 2020 (Slot 1) | 2020 (Slot 2) | 2020 (Slot 3) |
| Averages | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Coord. Geometry | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Exponents | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Functions | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Geometry | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Inequalities | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Logarithm | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mensuration | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Mixtures | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Number Theory | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| Percentages | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| P&C | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Polynomials | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Profit & Loss | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Progressions | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quad. Equations | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| Races | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Ratio & Prop. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Set Theory | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Seq. & Series | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Simple Interest | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| TSD | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Time & Work | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Trigonometry | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Download CAT MBA Syllabus 2023
Syllabus | Topics | Weightage |
Verbal Ability | Questions like Para jumbles, Summary Based, Sentence exclusion. | Questions – 8 to 10 |
Reading Comprehension | RC passages | Almost 16 questions in the VARC section are based on RCs. |
Quantitative Ability | Number System, Algebra, Geometry, Arithmetic, Mensuration. | Arithmetic and Algebra dominate the section, with nearly 8 questions from each area. |
Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning | Seating Arrangement, DI-based reasoning, Grid-Based DI, Graphs. Tables, Data Caselets | An almost equal number of sets are from DI and LR. |
VARC Section
VARC Syllabus | ||
Fill in the blanks | Para Completion and inference | Verbal Logic |
Verbal Reasoning | Subject-verb agreement | Para Jumbles |
Sentence completion | Foreign language words used in English | Different usage of the same word |
Grammar | Reading Comprehension | Idioms |
Syllogisms | Analogies | Antonyms |
Jumbled paragraphs | Sentence correction | One word substitution |
Parts of speech | Preposition | Types of Clauses |
Phrases Modifiers | Errors in tenses | Articles usage |
DILR Syllabus | ||
Blood Relations | Clocks and Calendars | Syllogism |
Series | Statements | Venn Diagram |
Proposition | Data Arrangement | Data Structures |
Direction Sense | Family Tree | Tables |
Coding-Decoding | Binary Logic | Pie Charts |
Assumptions | Seating Arrangement | Data Sufficiency |
Puzzles | Sets & Caselets | Bars & Line Graphs |
QA Syllabus | ||
Geometry | Ratios and Proportion | Inequalities |
Trigonometry | In-equations Quadratic and linear equations | Work and Time |
Algebra | Surds and Indices | Percentages |
Mensuration | Time-Speed-Distance | Logarithms |
Partnership (Accounts) | Number System | Square Root and Cube Root |
Profit & Loss | Geometric Progression | Probability |
Mean, mode, median | Binomial theorem | Simple interest and compound interest |
CAT Quantitative Aptitude Syllabus 2023
Arithmetic | Algebra | Number system | Modern Maths | Geometry |
Mixtures & Allegations | Higher Order Equation | LCM & HCF | Permutations | Circles |
Averages | Graphs | Base System | Combinations | Quadrilaterals |
| Percentages | Linear Equations | Factors | Probability | Mensuration |
| Races | Inequalities | Divisibility | Functions | Trigonometry |
| Profits and Loss | Logarithms | Digits | Sequences & Series | Triangles |
| Pipers and Cisterns | Maxima and MInima | Complex Numbers | Progressions | Polygons |
Ratio & Proportion | Quadratic Equations | Higher Powers | Set Theory | Coordinate Geometry |
Time & Work | Remainder Theorem | Venn Diagram | ||
Speed, Time & Distance | Trailing Zeroes | |||
| Trains and Boats | Surds and Indicies | |||
Simple & Compound Interest |