CAT 2024 Overall Exam Analysis: Change In Exam Pattern, Slot 3 Easier Than Other Two Slots – News18

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CAT 2024 Overall Exam Analysis: Comparing across slots, slot 2 was slightly more difficult than slot 1. However, slot 3 was the easiest of all, experts said

The Common Admission Test or CAT 2024 saw a change in the exam pattern with an increase in the number of questions in the DILR section. Furthermore, Para Formation questions were missing this year in the VARC section after appearing in the MBA entrance exam for at least 10 consecutive years, according to experts. Conducted on November 24 (Sunday), students claimed that the CAT 2024 third slot exam was easier compared to the first two slots.

“The exam threw a curveball by changing the pattern of the paper,” said Ramnath Kanakadandi, Senior Course Director, T.I.M.E. “The number of questions in the DILR section increased from 20 last year to 22 this year, with two sets of 5 questions each and three sets of 4 questions each,” he added.

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“The other change in the pattern of the paper was in the VARC section in which the Para Formation questions were missing this year after appearing in the CAT for at least 10 consecutive years. In addition to this, this time, the VA questions were interspersed with RC passages and could have caused a minor inconvenience to students who expected RC passages to appear as a block,” he added.

Meanwhile, comparing across slots, slot 2 was slightly more difficult than slot 1. However, Slot 3 was the easiest of all, experts said. “The VARC section of Slot 3 was relatively easier than the morning and afternoon slots,” Kanakadandi said. The pattern remained the same across three slots with 16 questions from Reading Comprehension, and 8 from Verbal Ability, he added.

According to Gautam Puri Co-Founder and MD, Career Launcher slot 1 was comparatively difficult compared to slot 2. “Collecting the responses from multiple test takers, the CAT 2024 slot 2 paper can be considered moderately difficult. The slot 2 CAT 2024 paper was almost similar to the difficulty level of the first slot of the day. Overall, Slot 2 of CAT 24 was easier than Slot 1 and 2 of CAT 23,” he said.