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.
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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
- Parajumble
- Odd sentences
- Paragraph Summary
Parajumble and Odd sentences are TITA type and Summary questions are MCQ type.
CAT Verbal Ability Practice Questions
Parajumbles
Odd One Out Sentence
Paragraph Summary
Download PDFs of CAT Verbal Ability
| CAT Parajumblee Practice Questions | |
| CAT Odd One Out Practice Questions | |
| CAT Paragraph Summary Practice Questions |
