CAT 2022 Slot 1 analysis: The exam paper was moderate lengthy and time-consuming

The first slot of the CAT 2022 exam for admission to postgraduate management programmes has concluded. According to students and experts, the difficulty level of the exam ranged from moderate to lengthy and time-consuming. The candidates found the questions from Quantitative Aptitude (QA) to be moderate. However, they found the diagram questions to be hard.

Sumit Singh Gandhi, CEO of CATKing, called the CAT 2022 exam paper a big surprise. According to Mr. Gandhi, questions from para completion are being asked again in CAT 2022 which were similarly asked in the XAT exam; however, they were not asked in CAT for a really long time. In CAT 2022 slot 1, four sets of five questions were asked from DILR, while modulus-based questions from Algebra were present in the Quantitative section.

Students who took the recent CAT exam noted that the logical reasoning, paragraph and summary questions, data interpretation, jumbled sentences and paraphrasing questions made up the majority of the slot 1 paper. Out of these question types, VARC section questions had more weightage than those from DILR and QA sections, according to student reviews.