CAT Previous Year Questions

All of the following constitute a point of difference between the 'original' and 'modified' versions of the marshmallow test EXCEPT that:

In which one of the following scenarios would the cuttlefish's behaviour demonstrate self-control?

Which one of the following, if true, would best complement the passage's findings?

Which one of the following cannot be inferred from Alexandra Schnell's experiment?

All of the following statements can be inferred from the passage EXCEPT that:

Which sequence of words below best captures the narrative of the passage?

All of the following arguments are made in the passage EXCEPT that:

Following from the passage, which one of the following may be seen as a characteristic of a utopian society?

According to this book review, A Thirst for Empire says that, in addition to 'profit-motivated marketers', tea drinking was promoted in Britain by all of the following EXCEPT:

This book review argues that, according to Rappaport, tea is unlike other 'morality' products because it:

The author of this book review is LEAST likely to support the view that:

Today, 'conflat[ing] consumption with virtue' can be seen in the marketing of:

On the basis of the passage, which one of the following worldviews can be inferred to be closest to that of the Classic Maya?

Which one of the following, if true, would not undermine the democratising potential of the Classic Maya worldview?

Which one of the following best explains the 'additional complexity' that the example of the incense burner illustrates regarding personhood for the Classic Maya?

Which one of the following, if true about the Classic Maya, would invalidate the purpose of the iPhone example in the passage?

Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer. 1. The legal status of resources mined in space remains ambiguous; and while the market for asteroid minerals is currently nonexistent, this is likely to change as technical hurdles diminish. 2. Outer space is a commons, and all of it is open for exploration, however, space law developed in the 1950s and 60s is state-centric and arguably ill-suited to a commercial future. 3. Laws adopted by the US and Luxembourg are first steps, but they only protect firms from competing claims by their compatriots; a Chinese company will not be bound by US law. 4. Critics say the US is conferring rights that it has no authority to confer; Russia in particular has condemned this, citing the US' disrespect for international law. 5. At issue now is commercial activity, as private firms—rather than nation states—look to space for profit.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentence and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer. 1. The work is more than the text, for the text only takes on life, when it is realized and furthermore the realization is by no means independent of the individual disposition of the reader. 2. The convergence of text and reader brings the literary work into existence and this convergence is not to be identified either with the reality of the text or with the individual disposition of the reader. 3. From this polarity it follows that the literary work cannot be completely identical with the text, or with the realization of the text, but in fact must lie halfway between the two. 4. The literary work has two poles, which we might call the artistic and the aesthetic; the artistic refers to the text created by the author, and the aesthetic to the realization accomplished by the reader.

The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. McGurk and MacDonald (1976) reported a powerful multisensory illusion occurring with audio-visual speech. They recorded a voice articulating a consonant 'ba-ba-ba' and dubbed it with a face articulating another consonant 'ga-ga-ga'. Even though the acoustic speech signal was well recognized alone, it was heard as another consonant after dubbing with incongruent visual speech i.e., 'da-da-da'. The illusion, termed as the McGurk effect, has been replicated many times, and it has sparked an abundance of research. The reason for the great impact is that this is a striking demonstration of multisensory integration, where that auditory and visual information is merged into a unified, integrated percept.

The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. Developing countries are becoming hotbeds of business innovation in much the same way as Japan did from the 1950s onwards. They are reinventing systems of production and distribution, and experimenting with entirely new business models. Why are countries that were until recently associated with cheap hands now becoming leaders in innovation? Driven by a mixture of ambition and fear they are relentlessly climbing up the value chain. Emerging-market champions have not only proved highly competitive in their own backyards, they are also going global themselves.