🐈 CAT Exam 2020-21 Preparation, Exam Dates, Results & Discussion – PaGaLGuY (Part 1)

MBA CAT 2024
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How much raw score for 95 percentile in slot 2?

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Anybody remembers di set of construction expenses of dormitory slot 2?Please share the answers

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Is there any way I can calculate my raw score in VARC?

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Those who remember answer, please comment.

SLOT 2:

Passage 1: During the frigid season, even as we retreat indoors to escape the cold, it’s often necessary to nestle under a blanket to try to stay warm. The temperature difference between the blanket and the air outside is so palpable that we often have trouble leaving our warm refuge. Many plants and animals similarly hunker down, relying on snow cover for safety from winter’s harsh conditions. The small area between the snowpack and the ground, called the subnivium (from the Latin nivis for snow, and sub for below), might be the most important ecosystem that you have never heard of. The subnivium is so well-insulated and stable that its temperature holds steady at around 32°F (0°C). Although that might still sound cold, a constant temperature of 32°F can often be 30 to 40 degrees warmer than the air temperature during the peak of winter. Because of this large temperature difference, a wide variety of species – birds such as the ruffed grouse and willow ptarmigan, mammals such as shrews and mice, and many species of mosses and grasses – depend on the subnivium for winter protection. For many organisms living in temperate and Arctic regions, the difference between being under the snow or outside it is a matter of life and death. Consequently, disruptions to the subnivium brought about by climate change will affect everything from population dynamics to nutrient cycling through the ecosystem. The formation and stability of the subnivium requires more than a few flurries. Winter ecologists have suggested that eight inches of snow is necessary to develop a stable layer of insulation. Depth is not the only factor, however. More accurately, the stability of the subnivium depends on the interaction between snow depth and snow density 1. What is the purpose of the passage? . Imagine being under a stack of blankets that are all flattened and pressed together. When compressed, the blankets essentially form one compacted layer. In contrast, when they are lightly placed on top of one another, their insulative capacity increases because the air pockets between them trap heat. Greater depths of low-density snow are therefore better at insulating the ground. Both depth and density of snow are sensitive to temperature. Scientists are now beginning to explore how climate change will affect the subnivium, as well as the species that depend on it. At first glance, warmer winters seem beneficial for species that have difficulty surviving subzero temperatures; however, as with most ecological phenomena, the consequences are not so straightforward. Research has shown that the snow season (the period when snow is more likely than rain) has become shorter since 1970. When rain falls on snow, it increases the density of the snow and reduces its insulative capacity. Therefore, even though winters are expected to become warmer overall from future climate change, the subnivium will tend to become colder and more variable with less protection from the above-ground temperatures.


Ques 1 :  What is the purpose of the passage? 

Ques 2 :  The author would support which of the following actions? 

Ques 3:   All of the following are true except.

Ques 4:  Author has given examples of crowberry and alpine azalea to demonstrate.

Ques 5:  . Which of the following can be inferred.

Ques 6:  Author mentions blankets as a device to.

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SLOT 2: 

Passage 2: The end of the age of the internal combustion engine is in sight. There are small signs everywhere: the shift to hybrid vehicles is already under way among manufacturers. Volvo has announced it will make no purely petrol-engined cars after 2019; the British government expects the all-electric future to arrive by 2040; and Tesla has just started selling its first electric car aimed squarely at the middle classes: the Tesla 3 sells for $35,000 in the US, and 400,000 people have put down a small, refundable deposit towards one. Several thousand have already taken delivery, and the company hopes to sell half a million more next year. This is a remarkable figure for a machine with a fairly short range and a very limited number of specialised charging stations. Some of it reflects the remarkable abilities of Elon Musk, the company’s founder, as a salesman, engineer, and a man able to get the most out his factory workers and the governments he deals with. An LA Times investigation concluded that his enterprises have benefited from nearly $5bn in government subsidies, while the workers who actually build the cars used to have to put in 12-hour shifts, six days a week. The share price suggests that the company is bigger than Ford, though it makes a tiny fraction of the number of cars – and most years loses enormous sumsof money. Mr Musk is selling a dream that the world wants to believe in. This last may be the most important factor in the story. The private car is – like the smartphone – a device of immense practical help and economic significance, but at the same time a theatre for myths of unattainable self-fulfilment. The one thing you will never see in a car advertisement is traffic, even though that is the element in which drivers spend their lives. Every single driver in a traffic jam is trying to escape from it, yet it is the inevitable consequence of mass car ownership. The sleek and swift electric car is at one level merely the most contemporary fantasy of autonomy and power. But it might also disrupt our exterior landscapes nearly as much as the fossil fuel-engined car did in the last century. Electrical cars would of course pollute far less than fossil fuel-driven ones; instead of oil reserves, the rarest materials for batteries would make undeserving despots and their dynasties fantastically rich. Petrol stations would disappear. The air in cities would once more be breathable and their streets as quiet as those of Venice. This isn’t an unmixed good. Cars that were as silent as bicycles would still be as dangerous as they are now to anyone they hit without audible warning. The dream goes further than that. The electric cars of the future will be so thoroughly equipped with sensors and reaction mechanisms that they will never hit anyone. Just as brakes don’t let you skid today, the steering wheel of tomorrow will swerve you away from danger before you have even noticed it. There is still some way to go yet, as witnessed in the case last year of a Tesla owner who watched a film at the wheel and was driven at high speed into the side of an articulated lorry that may have looked to the sensor like a patch of grey sky. But it’s reasonable to suppose that there will be cars that can surmount most human stupidities within the next five or 10 years. This is where the fantasy of autonomy comes full circle. The logical outcome of cars which need no driver is that they will become cars which need no owner either. Instead, they will work as taxis do, summoned at will but only for the journeys we actually need. This the future towards which Uber, another Silicon Valley firm that has attained an immense valuation despite almost breathtaking losses, is working. The ultimate development of the private car will be to reinvent public transport. Traffic jams will be abolished only when the private car becomes a public utility. What then will happen to our fantasies of independence? We’ll all have to take to electrically powered bicycles. 


Ques 1:  What is the main reason for Tesla’s remarkable sales? 

Ques 2:  Which of the following is the author’s conclusion? 

Ques 3:  All of the following are true except.

Ques 4:  The author points out all about electric cars except.

Ques 5:  In para 6, author mentions electrically powered bicycles to argue 

Ques 6:  In paras 5 & 6, author gives examples of Uber to argue.

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SLOT 2: 

Passage 3: Typewriters are the epitome of a technology that has been comprehensively rendered obsolete by the digital age. The ink comes off the ribbon, they weigh a ton, and second thoughts are a disaster. But they are also personal, portable and, above all, private. Type a document and lock it away and more or less the only way anyone else can get it is if you give it to them. That is why the Russians have decided to go back to typewriters in some government offices, and why in the US, some departments have never abandoned them. Yet it is not just their resistance to algorithms and secret surveillance that keeps typewriter production lines – well one, at least – in business (the last British one closed a year ago). Nor is it only the nostalgic appeal of the metal body and the stout well-defined keys that make them popular on eBay. A typewriter demands something particular: attentiveness. By the time the paper is loaded, the ribbon tightened, the carriage returned, the spacing and the margins set, there's a big premium on hitting the right key. That means sorting out ideas, pulling together a kind of order and organising details before actually striking off. There can be no thinking on screen with a typewriter. Nor are there any easy distractions. No online shopping. No urgent emails. No Twitter. No need even for electricity – perfect for writing in a remote hideaway. The thinking process is accompanied by the encouraging clack of keys, and the ratchet of the carriage return. Ping!


Ques 1: What is the passage trying to do? 

Ques 2:  Why do some governments still use typewriters? 

Ques 3:  The author praises typewriters for all of the following reasons except. 

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 SLOT 2: 

Passage 4: Creativity is at once our most precious resource and our most inexhaustible one. As anyone who has ever spent any time with children knows, every single human being is born creative; every human being is innately endowed with the ability to combine and recombine data, perceptions, materials and ideas, and devise new ways of thinking and doing. What fosters creativity? More than anything else: The presence of other creative people. The big myth is that creativity is the province of great individual geniuses. In fact creativity is a social process. Our biggest creative breakthroughs come when people learn from, compete with, and collaborate with other people. Cities are the true fonts of creativity. They’ve been so all along: Classical Athens, Renaissance Florence, fin de siècle Vienna and Paris, and post-World War II New York City all experienced the incredible flowerings of genius in multiple fields that they did to no small degree because they were cities. With their diverse populations, dense social networks, and public spaces where people can meet spontaneously and serendipitously, they spark and catalyze new ideas. With their infrastructure for finance, organization and trade, they allow those ideas to be swiftly actualized. As for what staunches creativity, that’s easy, if ironic. It’s the very institutions that we build to manage, exploit and perpetuate the fruits of creativity — our big bureaucracies, and sad to say, too many of our schools. Creativity is disruptive; schools and organizations are regimented, standardized and stultifying. The education expert Sir Ken Robinson points to a 1968 study reporting on a group of 1,600 children who were tested over time for their ability to think in out-of-the-box ways. When the children were between 3 and 5 years old, 98 percent achieved positive scores. When they were 8 to 10, only 32 percent passed the same test, and only 10 percent at 13 to 15. When 280,000 25-yearolds took the test, just 2 percent passed. By the time we are adults, our creativity has been wrung out of us. I once asked the great urbanist Jane Jacobs what makes some places more creative than others. She said, essentially, that the question was an easy one. All cities, she said, were filled with creative people; that’s our default state as people. But some cities had more than their shares of leaders, people and institutions that blocked out that creativity. She called them “squelchers.” Creativity (or the lack of it) follows the same general contours of the great socio-economic divide – our rising inequality – that plagues us. According to my own estimates, roughly a third of us across the United States, and perhaps a much as half of us in our most creative cities – are able to do work which engages our creative faculties to some extent, whether as artists, musicians, writers, techies, innovators, entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers, journalists or educators – those of us who work with our minds. That leaves a group that I term “the other 66 percent, ”who toil in low-wage rote and rotten jobs — if they have jobs at all — in which their creativity is subjugated, ignored or wasted. Creativity itself is not in danger. It’s flourishing is all around us – in science and technology, arts and culture, in our rapidly revitalizing cities. But we still have a long way to go if we want to build a truly creative society that supports and rewards the creativity of each and every one of us. 


Ques 1:  Cities promote human creativity for all of the following reasons except 

Ques 2:  Author’s conclusions about the most ‘creative cities’ in the US are based on the assumption that 

Ques 3:  What is the central idea of the passage 

Ques 4:  Jane Jacobs believed that cities that are more creative … 

Ques 5:  1968 study is used here to show 

Ques 6:  . Author uses ‘ironic’ in para 3 to point out: 

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Passage 5: Despite their fierce reputation, Vikings may not have always been the plunderers and pillagers popular culture imagines them to be. In fact, they got their start trading in northern European markets, researchers suggest. Combs carved from animal antlers, as well as comb manufacturing waste and raw antler material has turned up at three archaeological sites in Denmark, including a medieval marketplace in the city of Ribe. A team of researchers from Denmark and the U.K. hoped to identify the species of animal to which the antlers once belonged by analyzing collagen proteins in the samples and comparing them across the animal kingdom, Laura Geggel reports for LiveScience. Somewhat surprisingly, molecular analysis of the artfacts revealed that some combs and other material had been carved from reindeer antlers. Their results were published earlier this month in the European Journal of Archaeology. Given that reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) don’t live in Denmark, the researchers posit that it arrived on Viking ships from Norway. Antler craftsmanship, in the form of decorative combs, was part of Viking culture. Such combs served as symbols of good health, Geggel writes. The fact that the animals shed their antlers also made them easy to collect from the large herds that inhabited Norway. Since the artifacts were found in marketplace areas at each site it’s more likely that the norsemen came to trade rather than pillage. Most of the artifacts also date to the 780s, but some are as old as 725. That predates the beginning of Viking raids on Great Britain by about 70 years. (Traditionally, the so-called “Viking Age” began with these raids in 793 and ended with the Norman conquest of Great Britain in 1066.) Archaeologists had suspected that the Vikings had experience with long maritime voyages might have preceded their raiding days. Beyond Norway, these combs would have been a popular industry in Scandinavia as well. It’s possible that the antler combs represent a larger trade network, where the Norsemen supplied raw material to craftsmen in Denmark and elsewhere. 


Ques 1:  Main Purpose 

Ques 2:  Except .....

Ques 3: ????

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SLOT 2:

Summary Questions:


Ques 1: 

 The question below contains a paragraph followed by alternative summaries. Choose the alternative that best captures the essence of the paragraph. 


North American walnut sphinx moth caterpillars (Amorpha juglandis At first, scientists suspected birds were simply startled by the loud noise. But a new study presented at the ) look like easy meals for birds, but they have a trick up their sleeves—they produce whistles that sound like bird alarm calls, scaring potential predators away. International Symposium on Acoustic Communication by Animals in Omaha in July suggests a more sophisticated mechanism: the caterpillar’s whistle appears to mimic a bird alarm call, sending avian predators scrambling for cover. When pecked by a bird, the caterpillars whistle by compressing their bodies like an accordion and forcing air out through specialized holes in their sides. The whistles are impressively loud, considering they are made by a two-inch long insect. They have been measured at over 80 dB from 5 cm away from the caterpillar, similar to the loudness of a garbage disposal. 


Ques 2:

 The question below contains a paragraph followed by alternative summaries. Choose the alternative that best captures the essence of the paragraph. 


Both Socrates and Bacon were very good at asking useful questions. In fact, Socrates is largely credited with coming up with a way of asking questions. “the Socratic method.” Which itself is at the core of the “scientific method.” Popularized by Bacon during the Enlightenment–a period of European history when “evidence” and “faith” had an almighty bun fight and the balance of power between church, state and citizen was questions…….. 


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 The question below contains a paragraph followed by alternative summaries. Choose the alternative that best captures the essence of the paragraph. 


Having a common reference point like a dictionary helps facilitate communication, but when the dictionary is treated as the ultimate source of linguistic authority, we become too focused on satisfying definitions instead of interpreting the content of speech. Thinking in terms of language-games widens our considerations, and can help elucidate nuanced ideas and situations. 

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(Slot 1) Anybody remembers DI-LR set that had five teams that shifted employees after every month? One of the answers was (1,0)

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Any body did the assets and gold coins set in slot 2..please share the answers

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Slot 1. What was the answer to the question log3(x)=log12(y)=a and G is the geometric mean of x and y?


Options were root2a, a/2 and two others

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Elective question came in slot 2.... Remember answer anyone????

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 How's this possible ?? All questions have been uploaded here on Nov 24 -25 . http://www.ch-india.com/?s=cat 


 Note: I am not sure whether this was uploaded on Nov 24-25 as the dates are mentioned or the dates are wrong.  


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Does cat release answer key?

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Does anyone remember answers to DILR Queen Set ?

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What was d answer to the A, B,C 10,9,8 race question? Quants slot 2 question

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Does anyone remember answers to the restaurant set in DILR(forenoon session)??

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Can anyone please share the details of Malay Sir's GDPI class in Delhi? 

Thanks in advance

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Does anyone   remember the solutions for Tea Cup questions DILR slot 2 ?