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CAT 2023 Analysis: Slot 1,2,3 Overall Analysis
Let’s have a quick CAT 2023 analysis with the help of this video. IMS expert faculty analyzed the CAT 2023 exam to help students understand the CAT previous year’s exams.
Structure of CAT 2023
| Section Name | Number of MCQs | Number of TITAs | Total |
| VA-RC Section | 20 | 4 | 24 |
| DI-LR Section | 12 | 8 | 20 |
| QA Section | 14-15 | 7-8 | 22 |
| Total | 46-47 | 19-20 | 66 |
- Odd sentence out reappeared in Verbal Ability
- LRDI – 4 sets of 5 questions each constant
- QA was more difficult compared to CAT 2022 – Toughest QA in the last 5 years
CAT 2023 Analysis: Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension
RC: 4 passages with 4 Questions each
Verbal Ability: 2 Parajumbles + 2 Summary + 2 Para-completion + 2 Odd one
| Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 | |
| Easy | Return of wolvesโ predation in a French region | Second-hand Shopping and Fast Fashion | Colonialism and Global Warming (The Nutmegโs Curse) |
| Current economies of North and South Korea. | Translated Streaming in Europe | Understanding Romantic Aesthetics | |
| Difficult | Indian Ocean Literature | Why Liberalism Failed (Book Review) | Cultural Patrimony Laws |
| Modern materialism versus ancient societies | What is Historical Fact | Rationality by Steven Pinker | |
| Good Attempts: 16-18 | Good Attempts: 17-19 | Good Attempts: 16-18 |
CAT 2023 Analysis: Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning
4 sets of 5 questions of each
| Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 | |
| Easy | Professors in departments | 5 firms – Funds raised in consecutive years | Number of enrollments in offline and online courses |
| Gig workers and Restaurants, Mathematical Reasoning Involved Measures of central tendency |
Draw competition | Six Police Stations with map (route based) | |
| Difficult | Houses on sale | 3 friends visited a park. Many rides. Scheduling questions |
Projects and scores of 3 boys and 3 girls |
| Visa Office Special Equation handling | Nine Boxes – sudoku type puzzle | AC Company – 4 Dealers | |
| Good attempts: 9-11 | Good attempts: 10-12 | Good attempts: 9-11 |
Quantitative Aptitude
| Area | Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 |
| Arithmetic | 7 | 7 | 8 |
| Algebra | 8 | 8 | 4 |
| Modern Math | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Geometry | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| Numbers | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Good attempts | 9-11 | 9-11 | 9-11 |
CAT 2023 Analysis: Initial Estimates: Percentiles Overall
| Percentile | Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 |
| 99.9%ile | 102 | 105 | 101 |
| 99.5%ile | 89 | 91 | 87 |
| 99%ile | 80 | 81 | 77 |
| 98%ile | 71 | 73 | 70 |
| 95%ile | 57 | 59 | 56 |
| 90%ile | 49 | 50 | 48 |
| 85%ile | 40 | 41 | 39 |
| 80%ile | 36 | 36 | 35 |
Revised Estimates will be released 2-3 days after the CAT Response Sheet is released incorporating student performance data.
Please do not make any B-School application decision based on initial estimate. They serve only as a first indicator of likely performance
Initial Estimates: Percentiles Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension
| Percentile | Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 |
| 99.9%ile | 48 | 50 | 46 |
| 99.5%ile | 44 | 46 | 42 |
| 99%ile | 40 | 42 | 38 |
| 98%ile | 36 | 38 | 34 |
| 95%ile | 30 | 32 | 28 |
| 90%ile | 25 | 26 | 23 |
| 85%ile | 21 | 22 | 20 |
| 80%ile | 19 | 20 | 18 |
Initial Estimates: Percentiles Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
| Percentile | Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 |
| 99.9%ile | 36 | 38 | 36 |
| 99.5%ile | 32 | 34 | 32 |
| 99%ile | 28 | 30 | 28 |
| 98%ile | 25 | 26 | 25 |
| 95%ile | 19 | 20 | 19 |
| 90%ile | 16 | 17 | 16 |
| 85%ile | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| 80%ile | 11 | 11 | 11 |
Initial Estimates: Percentiles Quantitative Aptitude
| Percentile | Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 |
| 99.9%ile | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| 99.5%ile | 30 | 30 | 30 |
| 99%ile | 27 | 26 | 26 |
| 98%ile | 23 | 23 | 23 |
| 95%ile | 18 | 18 | 18 |
| 90%ile | 15 | 14 | 14 |
| 85%ile | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 80%ile | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Revised Estimates from our earlier analysis
