CAT 2023 Actual Questions Verbal Section VARC
There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit. Question: Sentence: This philosophical cut at one’s core beliefs, values, and way of life is difficult enough. Paragraph: The experience of reading philosophy is often … Read more
The weight of society’s expectations is hardly a new phenomenon but it has becomeparticularly draining over recent decades, perhaps because expectations themselvesare so multifarious and contradictory. The perfectionism of the 1950s was rooted in thenorms of mass culture and captured in famous advertising images of the ideal whiteAmerican family that now seem self-satirising. In that … Read more
Comprehension:The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose thebest answer for each question.The biggest challenge [The Nutmeg’s Curse by Ghosh] throws down is to the prevailingunderstanding of when the climate crisis started. Most of us have accepted . . . that it startedwith the widespread use of coal at the … Read more
Q1-4. The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.The Second Hand September campaign, led by Oxfam . . . seeks to encourage shopping at local organisations and charities as alternatives to fast fashion brands such as Primark andBoohoo in the name of saving our … Read more
Q1-4. The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.The Positivists, anxious to stake out their claim for history as a science, contributed the weight of their influence to the cult of facts. First ascertain the facts, said the positivists, thendraw your conclusions from them. … Read more
Q1-4. The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.Over the past four centuries liberalism has been so successful that it has driven all its opponents off the battlefield. Now it is disintegrating, destroyed by a mix of hubris andinternal contradictions, according to Patrick Deneen, … Read more
Q1-4. The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.Umberto Eco, an Italian writer, was right when he said the language of Europe is translation. Netflix and other deep-pocketed global firms speak it well. Just as the EU employs a smallarmy of translators and interpreters … Read more
Q1. There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit. Sentence: Dualism was long held as the defining feature of developing countries in contrast to developed countries, where frontier technologies and high productivity were … Read more
Q1. 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. Q2. Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, … Read more
Q1. The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. People spontaneously create counterfactual alternatives to reality when they think “if only” or “what if” and imagine how the past could have been different. The mind computes counterfactuals for many reasons. Counterfactuals explain … Read more
Comprehension:The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose thebest answer for each question.In 2006, the Met [art museum in the US] agreed to return the Euphronios krater, amasterpiece Greek urn that had been a museum draw since 1972. In 2007, the Getty [artmuseum in the US] agreed to return 40 … Read more
The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose thebest answer for each question.Understanding romantic aesthetics is not a simple undertaking for reasons that are internal tothe nature of the subject. Distinguished scholars, such as Arthur Lovejoy, Northrop Frye andIsaiah Berlin, have remarked on the notorious challenges facing any attempt to … Read more
Question 1 There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit. Sentence: This philosophical cut at one’s core beliefs, values, and way of life is difficult enough. Paragraph: The experience of reading philosophy is often … Read more
The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question. For early postcolonial literature, the world of the novel was often the nation. Postcolonial novels were usually [concerned with] national questions. Sometimes the whole story of the novel was taken as an allegory of the nation, … Read more
The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question. RESIDENTS of Lozère, a hilly department in southern France, recite complaints familiar to many rural corners of Europe. In remote hamlets and villages, with names such as Le Bacon and Le Bacon Vieux, mayors grumble about … Read more