Cat verbal ability (VA) and reading comprehension (RC) are two different units of the CAT VARC section.
While CAT reading comprehension is all about reading comprehension alone, cat verbal ability primarily comprises parajumbles, odd sentences, and para summary. Of late one new variety has been added to VA. It has been termed as ‘Fill in the missing sentence’. Many also call it paragraph completion. But conceptually and in approach, it is very similar to parajumbles and odd one out.
Barring the latest addition of paragraph completion, the VARC paper pattern has been pretty much consistent for the past eight years. However, if we take a look at the papers of pre 2015 era, we find that a number of questions came from grammar, vocabulary and a few other topics. Though grammar and vocabulary are no longer a part of CAT VARC, they are a very important part of the verbal section of other management entrance exams.
One more thing that all aspirants must know is that in the VA part there are some questions that are of non MCQ type. In other words, these are questions that don’t have options. One has to instead enter the right answer in a box given below the question.
Parajumbles and Odd One Out are non MCQ type of questions. They don’t carry any negative marking. If the answer is correct, you get full marks. If wrong, there is no negative marking. But for paragraph summary and for fill in the blanks (para completion) you are provided with options from which you have to choose your answer; there is negative marking if you mark the wrong option.
CAT 2020 Verbal Ability Paper Pattern & Syllabus
After going through the
previous year papers of CAT, we have seen that the CAT Verbal Ability Questions come primarily from the following areas.
- Parajumble
- Odd sentences
- Paragraph Summary
Parajumble and Odd sentences are TITA type and Summary questions are MCQ type.
CAT Verbal Ability Practice Questions
Parajumbles
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Odd One Out Sentence
CAT Odd One Out Question 1CAT Odd One Out Question 2CAT Odd One Out Question 3CAT Odd One Out Question 4CAT Odd One Out Question 5CAT Odd One Out Question 6CAT Odd One Out Question 7CAT Odd One Out Question 8CAT Odd One Out Question 9CAT Odd One Out Question 10CAT Odd One Out Question 11CAT Odd One Out Question 12CAT Odd One Out Question 13CAT Odd One Out Question 14CAT Odd One Out Question 15CAT Odd One Out Question 16CAT Odd One Out Question 17CAT Odd One Out Question 18CAT Odd One Out Question 19CAT Odd One Out Question 20CAT Odd One Out Question 21
Paragraph Summary
CAT Paragraph Summary Question 1CAT Paragraph Summary Question 2CAT Paragraph Summary Question 3CAT Paragraph Summary Question 4CAT Paragraph Summary Question 5CAT Paragraph Summary Question 6CAT Paragraph Summary Question 7CAT Paragraph Summary Question 8CAT Paragraph Summary Question 9CAT Paragraph Summary Question 10CAT Paragraph Summary Question 11CAT Paragraph Summary Question 12CAT Paragraph Summary Question 13CAT Paragraph Summary Question 14CAT Paragraph Summary Question 15CAT Paragraph Summary Question 16CAT Paragraph Summary Question 17CAT Paragraph Summary Question 18CAT Paragraph Summary Question 19CAT Paragraph Summary Question 20CAT Paragraph Summary Question 21CAT Paragraph Summary Question 22CAT Paragraph Summary Question 23CAT Paragraph Summary Question 24CAT Paragraph Summary Question 25CAT Paragraph Summary Question 26CAT Paragraph Summary Question 27
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