📖 CAT VARC — Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension

Chapters

1. Para Summary and Odd Sentence Out
   VARC has 24 questions, and about four of them are not reading comprehension: para summary, odd sentence out and para jumbles. In recent papers these arrive as type-in…
2. Critical Reasoning — Inference, Assumption and Tone
   Most of a CAT reading-comprehension set is not asking what the passage said. It is asking what follows from it, what it must be assuming, what would weaken it, and what…
3. Reading Comprehension: Main Idea, Structure, Tone & Inference
   Sixteen of the twenty-four VARC questions — two-thirds of the section — sit on four reading passages of roughly 450–600 words, four questions each, every one an MCQ at…
4. Practice Passages — Standards, and the Commons
   Two passages at CAT length and CAT difficulty, four questions each. Both are argumentative: each opens with a reading that is widely held, and then says the sequence…
5. Para-jumbles & Para-completion
   Of the eight Verbal Ability questions in CAT, two or three are para-jumbles: four or five sentences shown out of order, and the candidate types the correct sequence —…
6. Practice Passages — Evidence, and Restoration
   Two passages that are harder than the first pair, and harder in the way CAT is actually harder: not through vocabulary but through a turn. Each of these concedes…
7. Grammar, Usage and Vocabulary — In Context, Because That Is How CAT Asks
   CAT does not ask a grammar question. There is no spotting-errors item, no sentence improvement, no fill in the blank, and there has not been one since the section was…
8. Practice Items — Summary, Odd Sentence, Jumbles
   Eight items of the three non-RC types, each carrying its own paragraph: three para summaries, three odd-sentence-out sets and two para jumbles. In recent papers these…

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