CAT 2016 Question Paper Analysis & Tips for CAT 2021- Check Difficulty Level, Section-Wise Weightage

Overall difficulty level of the question paper

Moderate- Difficult

Total number of questions in CAT 2016

100

Total number of questions in Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension

34

Total number of questions in Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning

32

Total number of questions in Quantitative Ability

34

Overall difficulty level of the Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension section

Easy-Moderate

Overall difficulty level of the Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning section

Moderate- Difficult

Overall difficulty level of the Quantitative Ability section

Moderate- Difficult

High weightage topics in the Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning section

Summary, Odd sentence out

High weightage topics in the Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning section

Venn Diagram, Data Interpretation

High weightage topics in the Quantitative Ability section

Geometry, Modern Math

Good Attempts

68 to 72

Section

Analysis by CollegeDekho Experts

Expert Remarks to Score Good Marks

VARC

• The RCs were from familiar areas like Economics & Environmental Studies. 

• The VARC section was easier than the rest of the sections but it was lengthy.

• VA part was dominated by Verbal Logic. 

• The trick to answering the RC questions was to choose the options having a high rate of accuracy. 

DILR

• 4 sets in this section were easy while one was moderately difficult.

• Most of the DI questions were calculation intensive.

• There were no DS questions in slot 1.

• To do well in this section, you have to do a lot of DI practice.

• Candidates should also be able to choose which set to attend first.

QA

• There were around 7-8 MCQ questions and the rest were MCQs. 

• Most of the questions were easily doable using the help of formulas. 

• Around 10 questions were from Algebra. 

• Options were very helpful to answer the questions in this section. 

• Time management is also the key to excel in this section.

Overall difficulty level of the question paper

Moderate- Difficult

Total number of questions in CAT 2016

100

Total number of questions in Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension

34

Total number of questions in Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning

32

Total number of questions in Quantitative Ability

34

Overall difficulty level of the Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension section

Moderate

Overall difficulty level of the Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning section

Moderate- Hard

Overall difficulty level of the Quantitative Ability section

Moderate

High weightage topics in the Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning section

Odd one out, Para-jumble

High weightage topics in the Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning section

Set Theory, Data Interpretation

High weightage topics in the Quantitative Ability section

Arithmetic, Modern Math, Number System

Good Attempts

66+

Section

Analysis by CollegeDekho Experts

Expert Remarks to Score Good Marks

VARC

• One RC was difficult. Other RCs were majorly factual.

• The summary and para jumbled questions were really easy.

• Around 2 questions in RC were inference based. 

• Candidates needed to have a good understanding of the type of RCs to score well in this section.

• They should be able to choose which question to answer and which to leave. 

DILR

• Three DI sets were difficult while the fourth one was moderately difficult.  

• More than 17 questions were easily doable.

• Candidates needed to read the instructions provided in the DI set carefully and then answer carefully.

QA

• This section was dominated by questions on Geometry and Arithmetic.

• There were only 7 TITA questions this year.

• A good candidate was able to solve more than 18 questions with 90% accuracy.

• Speed, formulas were the key to answering questions in this section.

Section

Number of Questions

Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning

32

Quantitative Ability

34

Verbal Ability and Reading comprehension

34

Total

100