CAT 2020 exam was conducted on November 29, 2020. The Morning Session (Slot 1) was rated from moderate to difficult in terms of overall difficulty. The candidates felt DILR sets were of moderate difficulty with only a few time-consuming questions.CAT 2020 DILR Slot 1 question paper comprised 6 sets- 4 DI sets with six questions each and two LR with four questions each
- QA was comparatively easier with 50% of questions based on various topics of Arithmetic. VARC was the trickiest and the most time-consuming.
Candidates preparing for CAT 2025 can download CAT DILR question paper with the answer key PDF for the Slot 1 exam conducted on November 29, 2020, to get a better idea about the type of questions asked in the paper and the difficulty level of questions.
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CAT 2020 DILR Slot 1 Question Paper with Solution PDF
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The local office of the APP-CAB company evaluates the performance of five cab
drivers, Arun,Barun, Chandan, Damodaran, and Eman for their monthly payment
based on ratings in five different parameters (P1 to P5) as given below:
P1: timely arrival
P2: behaviour
P3: comfortable ride
P4: driver’s familiarity with the route
P5: value for money
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Based on feedback from the customers, the office assigns a rating from 1 to 5 in each of these
parameters. Each rating is an integer from a low value of 1 to a high value of 5. The final
rating of a driver is the average of his ratings in these five parameters. The monthly payment
of the drivers has two parts - a fixed payment and final rating-based bonus. If a driver gets a
rating of 1 in any of the parameters, he is not eligible to get bonus. To be eligible for bonus a
driver also needs to get a rating of five in at least one of the parameters.
The partial information related to the ratings of the drivers in different parameters and the
monthly payment structure (in rupees) is given in the table below:
The following additional facts are known.
1. Arun and Barun have got a rating of 5 in exactly one of the parameters. Chandan has got a
rating of 5 in exactly two parameters.
2. None of drivers has got the same rating in three parameters
Question 1:
If Damodaran does not get a bonus, what is the maximum possible value of his final rating?
If Eman gets a bonus, what is the minimum possible value of his final rating?
If all five drivers get bonus, what is the minimum possible value of the monthly payment (in rupees) that a driver gets?
If all five drivers get bonus, what is the maximum possible value of the monthly payment (in rupees) that a driver gets?
Four institutes, A, B, C, and D, had contracts with four vendors W, X, Y, and Z during the ten
calendar years from 2010 to 2019. The contracts were either multi-year contracts running for
several consecutive years or single-year contracts. No institute had more than one contract
with the same vendor. However, in a calendar year, an institute may have had contracts with
multiple vendors, and a vendor may have had contracts with multiple institutes. It is known
that over the decade, the institutes each got into two contracts with two of these vendors, and
each vendor got into two contracts with two of these institutes.
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The following facts are also known about these contracts.
I. Vendor Z had at least one contract in every year.
II. Vendor X had one or more contracts in every year up to 2015, but no contract in any year
after that.
III. Vendor Y had contracts in 2010 and 2019. Vendor W had contracts only in 2012.
IV. There were five contracts in 2012.
V. There were exactly four multi-year contracts. Institute B had a 7-year contract, D had a
4-year contract, and A and C had one 3-year contract each. The other four contracts were
single-year contracts.
VI. Institute C had one or more contracts in 2012 but did not have any contract in 2011.
VII. Institutes B and D each had exactly one contract in 2012. Institute D did not have any
contract in 2010.
Question 5:
In which of the following years were there two or more contracts?
Which of the following is true?
In how many years during this period was there only one contract?
What BEST can be concluded about the number of contracts in 2010?
Which institutes had multiple contracts during the same year?
Which institutes and vendors had more than one contract in any year?
In a certain board examination, students were to appear for examination in five subjects:
English, Hindi, Mathematics, Science and Social Science. Due to a certain emergency
situation, a few of the examinations could not be conducted for some students. Hence, some
students missed one examination and some others missed two examinations. Nobody missed
more than two examinations.
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The board adopted the following policy for awarding marks to students. If a student
appeared in all five examinations, then the marks awarded in each of the examinations were
on the basis of the scores obtained by them in those examinations.
If a student missed only one examination, then the marks awarded in that examination was
the average of the best three among the four scores in the examinations they appeared for.
If a student missed two examinations, then the marks awarded in each of these examinations
was the average of the best two among the three scores in the examinations they appeared for.
The marks obtained by six students in the examination are given in the table below. Each of
them missed either one or two examinations.
Question 11:
Who among the following did not appear for the Mathematics examination?
Which students did not appear for the English examination?
What BEST can be concluded about the students who did not appear for the Hindi examination?
What BEST can be concluded about the students who missed the Science examination?
How many out of these six students missed exactly one examination?
For how many students can we be definite about which examinations they missed?
Ten musicians (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J) are experts in at least one of the following
three percussion instruments: tabla, mridangam, and ghatam. Among them, three are experts
in tabla but not in mridangam or ghatam, another three are experts in mridangam but not in
tabla or ghatam, and one is an expert in ghatam but not in tabla or mridangam. Further, two
are experts in tabla and mridangam but not in ghatam, and one is an expert in tabla and
ghatam but not in mridangam.
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The following facts are known about these ten musicians.
1. Both A and B are experts in mridangam, but only one of them is also an expert in tabla.
2. D is an expert in both tabla and ghatam.
3. Both F and G are experts in tabla, but only one of them is also an expert in mridangam.
4. Neither I nor J is an expert in tabla.
5. Neither H nor I is an expert in mridangam, but only one of them is an expert in ghatam.
Question 17:
Who among the following is DEFINITELY an expert in tabla but not in either mridangam or ghatam?
Who among the following is DEFINITELY an expert in mridangam but not in either tabla or ghatam?
Which of the following pairs CANNOT have any musician who is an expert in both tabla and mridangam but not in ghatam?
If C is an expert in mridangam and F is not, then which are the three musicians who are experts in tabla but not in either mridangam or ghatam?
1000 patients currently suffering from a disease were selected to study the effectiveness of
treatment of four types of medicines -A, B, C and D. These patients were first randomly
assigned into two groups of equal size, called treatment group and control group. The
patients in the control group were not treated with any of these medicines; instead they were
given a dummy medicine, called placebo, containing only sugar and starch.
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The following information is known about the patients in the treatment group.
a. A total of 250 patients were treated with type A medicine and a total of 210 patients were
treated with type C medicine.
b. 25 patients were treated with type A medicine only. 20 patients were treated with type C
medicine only. 10 patients were treated with type D medicine only.
c. 35 patients were treated with type A and type D medicines only. 20 patients were treated
with type A and type B medicines only. 30 patients were treated with type A and type C
medicines only. 20 patients were treated with type C and type D medicines only.
d. 100 patients were treated with exactly three types of medicines.
e. 40 patients were treated with medicines of types A, B and C, but not with medicines of
type D. 20 patients were treated with medicines of types A, C and D, but not with medicines
of type B.
f. 50 patients were given all the four types of medicines. 75 patients were treated with
exactly one type of medicine.
Question 21:
The number of patients who were treated with medicine types B, C, and D, but not type A was:
How many patients were treated with medicine types B and D only?
The number of patients who were treated with medicine type D was:
CAT 2020 Question Paper Nov 29 Slot 1: Sectional Analysis
CAT 2020 Slot 1 was conducted between 8.30 am to 10:30 am. The overall difficulty level of this slot was reported to be moderate to difficult. Brief CAT 2020 Slot 1 DILR analysis is as follows:
- DILR section was of a moderate difficulty level. However, the questions were time-consuming and well spread out among topics.
- 10 Questions were asked from Data Interpretation, out of which 8 were MCQs and 2 were TITA type Questions.
- 14 Questions were asked from Logical Reasoning, out of which 10 were MCQs and 4 were TITA type Question
CAT 2020 Slot 1 QA was slightly easier in terms of difficulty, while the VARC section was the toughest section of the exam. Candidates can download CAT 2020 Slot 1 Question Papers and Solutions from the links below.
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