CAT Syllabus 2025

CAT syllabus includes all the important topic of Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension, Data
Interpretation &Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude. It is prescribed by the IIM and topics
included test the candidate’s English Comprehension, Analytical skills and Reasoning Abilities.

The weightage of these three sections is as follows:

 Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension – 24 questions, 72 marks

 Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning – 22 questions, 66 marks
 Quantitative Aptitude – 22 questions, 66 marks

CAT VARC Syllabus

CAT VARC section is the first section of the CAT question paper. The section has two parts - Verbal
Ability and Reading Comprehension. Take a look at important VARC topics for CAT exam syllabus.

CAT VARC Topics 2025

Para completion and

Fill in the blanks Verbal logic
inference

Verbal reasoning Subject-verb agreement Parajumbles

Foreign language words used

Sentence completion Different usage of same word
in English

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

CAT DILR Syllabus

Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR) is the second section of the CAT question paper having 20
questions to be solved in 40 minutes. There are two sub sections - Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning. Take
a look at important CAT Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation topics.

CAT syllabus DILR

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

Check Out:
 Logical Reasoning topics for CAT
 CAT Data Interpretation (DI) solved questions for practice PDFs
 CAT Data Interpretation (DI) solved questions for practice PDFs- Part 2
 CAT Logical Reasoning (LR) solved questions for practice PDFs
 CAT Logical Reasoning (LR) solved questions for practice PDFs - Part 2

CAT Quantitative Aptitude Syllabus

Quantitative Aptitude is the last section of CAT question paper. It is usually the toughest questions. To master this
section, candidates need to be thorough with the fundamentals of Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry and Mensuration. It
is a calculation heavy section and thus one need a lot of practice to crack it. Take a look at the important topics
of CAT Quantitative Aptitude syllabus:
CAT Quantitative Aptitude Syllabus

Geometry Ratios and Proportion Inequalities

In-equations Quadratic and

Trigonometry Work and Time
linear equations

Algebra Surds and Indices Percentages

Mensuration Time-Speed-Distance Logarithms

Partnership (Accounts) Number System Square Root and Cube Root

Profit & Loss Geometric Progression Probability

Simple interest and compound

Mean, mode, median Binomial theorem
interest

CAT Quant Important Topics

Check the table below for chapter wise important topics that are a part of CAT Quantitative Aptitude
syllabus.

CAT Syllabus: Important Topics for Quantitative Aptitude

Averages, Mean Median Mode, Percentages,

Ratio and Proportion, Simple and Compound
Arithmetic Topics for CAT Interest, Profit and Loss Mixtures and
Allegations, Time and Work, Time Speed and
Distance
 Basics Algebraic Formulae, Linear Equations,
Problems on ages, Number of integer solutions,
Quadratic Equations, Finding out roots, Maxima
Algebra Topics for CAT and Minima, Higher Degree Equations,
Descartes Rule of Signs, Inequalities, Logarithm,
Functions, Modifications of Graphs, The
Smallest Value in a Maximum Function

Basics of Numbers, Properties of Numbers,

Divisibility Rules, Divisibility and Factors,
Highest Common Factor and Lowest Common
Multiple, Finding Out the Last Digit, Finding Out
Last Two Digits, Number of Trailing Zeroes,
Finding out Remainders based on, Basic
Number System Topics for CAT Divisibility Rules, Binomial Theorem, Simplifying
the Dividend (Single and/or Multiple Divisors),
Fermat’s Theorem, Euler’s Theorem, Pattern
Recognition and Cyclicity of Remainders,
Wilson’s Theorem, Base Systems, Conversion of
Bases, Addition / Subtraction / Multiplication in
different bases

Lines and Angles, Triangles – Basic Concepts,

Area, Angles, Similar Triangles, Polygons,
Geometry Topics for CAT
Circles, Solids / Mensuration – 3D Geometry,
Coordinate Geometry, Trigonometry

Sequence and Series, Binomial Theorem, Set

Modern Maths Topics for CAT Theory, Permutation and Combination,
Probability

CAT Reading Comprehension Passages of Previous Years

CAT Reading Comprehension questions form the two-third of the first section of CAT question paper.
There are about four to five RC passages with 12-14 questions. Check below, the Reading
Comprehension topics of CAT 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018:
CAT RC
Passage Slot 1 Slot 2 Slot 3
s

 Spice Trade  Impact of AI

 Utility & Human  Unintended  Languages
Economics Consequences of  Chinese
CAT  Entertainment/ Technology Moutai
2024
Netflix  Peer Review of  Saving outer
 Australian Species Research space and
 Craftsmanship  Carnivore-Human other planets
Conflict

 Romantic
Aesthetics/
 Wolf → Philosophy
 Garments, Fashion
Environmentalists  Cultural
Industry & Pollution
vs Farmer Property Law
 Netflix Dubbing of
 Philosophy → → Exploration
CAT titles for Europe→
Change in Work of Sites
2023 Good or Bad for
Culture  Nutmeg
Europe?
 Indian Ocean-based Curse→
 Liberalism is Dying
Geographical Environment
 Facts & Interpretation
Literature Degradation
in History
 Human Behavior  Rational
Thinking

 Social
reorganization
increasing
 Ghosts & their crime rate
mysteries how we  Software if
can’t find their  Music more easy
CAT
history  Engineering humans are
2022  Chinese Copy of technology not capable to
articles  Octopus get solutions)
 Two levels of  Philosophy  Indian history
emotional thinking  American
 STOICS migration /
urbanization
increasing
  Language/ Indigenous  Nanotechnolog
People y
 Mayan Civilization  Why Fiction Trumps  Language
 Utopia and Dystopia Truth Instinct
CAT  Marshmallow  Colonialism/Nationalis  Time Accuracy
2021
Experiment m Entropy
 Evolution of Tea as  Knowledge and  Unconscious
a Drink Problems of and
Knowledge is a Scandal Psychoanalysis
to Philosophy

 Travel Writing
and Feminism
During Colonial
Times
 Investing in Renewable  The Need for
 Anarchism
Energy Technologies Economic
 Migration of
 Piracy in International Literacy in the
CAT Northern Seals
Trade General
2020  Currency of Tang
 Freudian Models of Population
Dynasty
Aggression  Screen Time
 Grammar/Vocabula
 A Study of and
ry
Visualisation Undercurrents
of Social Class
 An Analysis of
Human Nature

 British Folk Music  Dense Cities

 Topophilia  Google and
 Emperor Penguins Archaeology
CAT
2019  Internet Shopping  Distributing No exam
and Choice Anxiety Bureaucracy
 Origin of Story of  Language & Culture
Alladin  British Colonial Policy
  Grover Snails
 Genetics  Meritocracy and
 India’s View on its Diversified Teams
Legacy of Second  Use of Technology in
CAT World War
2018
Essential Services No exam
 Plastic Pollution  Rings of Saturn and
 Elephant Society Their Age
 Consumer  Human Resource and
Behaviour Studies Learning

Check Out: CAT Verbal Ability (VA) questions with answers for practice PDFs