CAT 2015 Question Paper for VARC was rated easy to moderate. This section of CAT 2015 Question Paper was dominated by Reading Comprehension questions as 24 out of 34 questions were from RC. CAT 2015 question paper had no questions from vocabulary and grammar. Questions from Verbal Logic were based on para jumbles, summary, and odd sentences. An attempt of 25-27 questions with 90% accuracy was considered good to get 95 + percentile.
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According to the passage, all of the following stem from popular wisdom on language Except?
Which of the following can be used as parallel reasoning for the “spiders know how to spin webs” analogy as used by the author?
According to the passage, which of the following is unique to human beings?
According to the passage, complexity of language cannot be taught by parents or at school to children because
Which of the following best summarizes the passage?
Why author has referred to ‘preschooler’s tacit knowledge of grammar’?
Following World War II, which problem was the United States most concerned with regarding Latin America?
A key reason why Latin American rejected the Inter-American development Bank was that
Which of the following is most closely associated with the concept of a Marshall Plan for Latin America?
According to the passage, the fundamental change in U.S. foreign policy directed towards Latin America
All of the following statements are true, except?
Which of the inferences can be drawn if everything said in the passage were assumed to be true?
None of these problems are plaguing the education system in India Except
In the context of the passage, the term 'grizzled mandarins' means
One of the reasons contributing to India's poor performance on the education front is that
The only way in which the education system can be improved is by
Primary education
Education policy cannot be successfully implemented by any of the following Except?
Find the main idea of the passage?
According to the passage, internal conflicts are psychologically more interesting than external conflicts because
Which, according to the author, would qualify as interesting psychology?
According to the passage, which of the following options about the application of game theory to a conflict-of-interest situation is true?
The problem solving process of a scientist is different from that of a detective because
How Tic-tac-toe as a game is different from Chess?
Answer the following question on the basis of this paragraph and mark the correct option in the given box.
Parents usually do not insist that their children learn to walk by a certain age. Parents feel confident that the children will learn to walk within a reasonable period of time, when their bodies are ready for such an undertaking. Teachers should adopt the same attitude when teaching children in school how to rea(d) If teachers did this, children might learn to read much more quickly and experience less anxiety while doing so.
Which of the following best describes the Essence or structure of the passage?
(a) How children learn one kind of activity is described and then this method is recommended for
teaching children another kind of activity.
(b) Two different views of how children should be taught to read are compared and contraste(d)
(c) A view of how children should be taught is described and then criticize(d)
(d) Contrasting views of parents and teachers on how quickly children actually learn are described
and then analyze(d)
(e) The amount of time it take for children to learn one kind of activity is described and then used to predict how long it will take them to learn another kind of activity.
The sentences given, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. Sentence 1 and 6 are fixed starting and ending of the paragraph.
1. Amount of published information available varies widely by industry.
(a) Unfortunately for the researcher, many industries do not meet these criteria, and there may be little published information available.
(b) Generally, the problem the researcher will face in using published data for analysing an economically meaningful industry is that they are too broad or too arranged to fit the industry.
(c) However, it is always possible to gain some important information about an industry from published sources and these sources should be aggressively pursue(d)
(d) Larger the industry, the older it is, and the slower the rate of technological change, better is the available published information.
6. If a researcher starts searching for data with this reality in mind, the uselessness of broad data will be better recognized and the tendency to give up will be avoide(d)
In the following question a paragraph from which the last sentence has been delete(d) From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Trade protectionism, disguised as concern for the climate, is raising its hea(d) Citing competitiveness concerns, powerful industrialized countries are holding out threats of a levy on imports of energy intensive products from developing countries that refuse to accept their demands. The actual source of protectionist sentiment in the OECD countries is, of course, their current lacklustre economic performance, combined with the challenges posed by the rapid economic rise of China and India — in that order.
(1) Climate change is evoked to bring trade protectionism through the back door.
(2) OECD countries are taking refuge in climate change issues to erect trade barriers against these
two countries.
(3) Climate change concerns have come as a convenient stick to beat the rising trade power of China
and Indi(a)
(4) Defenders of the global economic status quo are posing as climate change champions.
(5) Today’s climate change champions are the perpetrators of global economic inequity.
Answer the following question on the basis of this paragraph and mark the correct option in the given box.
Whatever their disadvantage with respect to distributing education tax dollars equally among school districts, in one respect at least, local property taxes are superior to state taxes as a means of funding public schools. Because local property taxes provide public schools with a direct source of revenue, these public schools are relatively free from competition for tax dollars with other government services. School administrators do not have to compete for a share of the state tax dollars, which are already being spent on health, criminal justice, public safety, and transportation. They are not placed in the position of having to argue that school programs must have priority over other public services financed by state taxes.
Which of the following statements best expresses essence of the passage?
(a) Education is more important than other government services, such as criminal justice or public
safety.
(b) The disadvantage of local property taxes is that they do not equally distribute tax dollars spent on education.
(c) School administrators are not accustomed to arguing that their programs must have priority over
other government services.
(d) Financing education with local property taxes has the advantage of eliminating competition for
funding between schools and other public services.
(e) School administrators must be prepared to justify the funds they spend on education programs.
In the following question a paragraph from which the last sentence has been delete(d) From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Most people at their first consultation take a furtive look at the surgeon’s hands in the hope of reassurance. Prospective patients look for delicacy, sensitivity, steadiness, perhaps unblemished pallor. On this basis, Henry Perowne loses a number of cases each year. Generally, he knows it’s about to happen before the patient does: the downward glance repeated, the prepared questions beginning to falter, the overemphatic thanks during the retreat to the door.
(1) Other people do not communicate due to their poor observation.
(2) Other patients don’t like what they see but are ignorant of their right to go elsewhere.
(3) But Perowne himself is not concerne(d)’
(4) But others will take their place, he thought.
(5) These hands are steady enough, but they are large.
The sentences given, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. Sentence 1 and 6 are fixed starting and ending of the paragraph.
1. Intensity of competition in an industry is neither a matter of coincidence nor bad luck.
(a) The collective strength of these forces determines the ultimate profit potential in the industry where profit potential is measured in terms of long run returns on invested capital.
(b) Rather, competition in an industry is rooted in its underlying economic structure and goes well beyond the behavior of current competitors.
(c) Not all industries have the same potential.
(d) The state of competition in an industry depends on five basic competitive forces.
6. They differ fundamentally in their ultimate profit potential as the collective strength of the forces differs.
Answer the following question on the basis of this paragraph and mark the correct option in the given box.
Shakespeare wrote four types of plays: histories, comedies, tragedies, and tragicomedies. Some scholars contend that Shakespeare’s choice of three of these types of dramatic forms reflects his various psychological states. As a young man making a name for himself in London, he wrote comedies. Then, saddened by the death of his son, he turned to tragedies. Finally, seasoned by life’s joys and sorrows, he produced tragicomedies. But a look at the theater scene of his day reveals that Shakespeare was not so much writing out of his heart as into his pocketbook. When comedies were the vogue, he wrote comedies; when tragedies were the rage, he wrote tragedies; and when tragicomedies dominated the stage, he produced tragicomedies.
Which of the following statements best expresses essence of the passage?
(a) Examine Shakespeare’s life in light of his dramatic works
(b) Contest a theory that attempts to explain why Shakespeare wrote the kinds of plays he did
(c) Explain the terms “comedy,” “tragedy,” and “tragicomedy” as they are used in discussions of
Shakespeare’s plays
(d) Compare Shakespeare’s plays with the works of other dramatists of his day
(d) Discuss what is known about Shakespeare’s psychological states
The sentences given, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
(a) A few months ago I went to Princeton University to see what the young people who are going to be running our country in a few decades are like.
(b) I would go to sleep in my hotel room around midnight each night, and when I awoke, my mailbox would be full of replies—sent at 1:15 (a)m., 2:59 (a)m., 3:23 (a)m.
(c) One senior told me that she went to bed around two and woke up each morning at seven; she could afford that much rest because she had learned to supplement her full day of work by studying in her sleep.
(d) Faculty members gave me the names of a few dozen articulate students, and I sent them e-mails, inviting them out to lunch or dinner in small groups.
(e) As she was falling asleep she would recite a math problem or a paper topic to herself; she would then sometimes dream about it, and when she woke up, the problem might be solve(d)
In the following question a paragraph from which the last sentence has been delete(d) From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Mattancherry is Indian Jewry’s most famous settlement. Its pretty streets of pastel coloured houses, connected by first-floor passages and home to the last twelve saree-and-sarong-wearing, white-skinned Indian Jews are visited by thousands of tourists each year. Its synagogue, built in 1568, with a floor of blue-and-white Chinese tiles, a carpet given by Haile Selassie and the frosty Yaheh selling tickets at the door, stands as an image of religious tolerance.
(1) Mattancherry represents, therefore, the perfect picture of peaceful co-existence.
(2) India’s Jews have almost never suffered discrimination, except for European colonizers and each
other.
(3) Jews in India were always tolerant.
(4) Religious tolerance has always been only a façade and nothing more.
(5) The pretty pastel streets are, thus, very popular with the tourists.
The sentences given, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
(a) Four days later, Infosist announced its own bid for PepSoftware, and invited the firm’s board to a discussion.
(b) Furious that his own plans had been endangered, PepSoftware’s boss, Chandan Shah, called Infosist’s offer “diabolical”, and its boss, Laxman, a “sociopath”.
(c) In early June, PepSoftware said that it would buy J.(d)Soft, a smaller rival.
(d) Moreover, said Mr. Shah, he “could imagine no price nor combination of price and other conditions to recommend accepting the offer.”
(e) On June 12th, PepSoftware turned Infosist down.
CAT 2015 VARC Paper Analysis:
IIM Ahmedabad conducted CAT 2015 on 29 November 2015. CAT 2015 was conducted in two sessions: Forenoon and Afternoon.
- There were a total of 5 passages - three passages were 450 words each and the other two passages had 300 words. The passages were easy to read but the options were tricky.
- CAT 2015 Question Paper had 5 sentence types. Two were easy and the other two were very difficult, as they were Non-MCQs.
- There were no questions from the vocabulary and grammar part.
- The verbal ability questions did not carry any negative marking but the questions needed prior practice for better results.
Follow the table below to understand the complete CAT 2015 VARC Question Paper analysis- distribution of questions:
| Topic | Number of Questions |
|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 24 |
| Para-jumble | 4 |
| Summary | 3 |
| Para-jumble (Odd sentence out) | 3 |
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