Test Analysis, & Strategy 2026 WIN CAT - 01

 
Overall Brief

On the whole the level of the test was moderate to tough. The important factor was selection of appropriate questions to attempt. Two sections namely verbal & LR/DI did not have any easy question. The reasoning section was tougher than quant section in this test. Verbal section was moderate to tough. One peculiar thing in this paper was that there were clusters of easy, moderate and difficult questions, so one had to skip the difficult cluster and to move to easy & medium level cluster quickly. The key to getting a good percentile was time management and selection of questions.

CAT Parcentile
Verbal Ability

The first passage (1-4) examines how law and psychology intertwine to interpret consciousness, where judgments are shaped by personal biases and external signs. It highlights the historical merging of legal and medical frameworks, redefining concepts like autonomy, guilt, and innocence. The passage was difficult to understand and all the questions based on it were moderate. The second passage (5-8) discussed how automation was believed to boost productivity and create new jobs, but also warned that it could lead to job loss, wage stagnation, and increased inequality if not managed properly. The passage was easy to understand but the questions based on it were moderate. The third passage (9-12) explored the debate over whether AI-generated poetry could be considered genuine, highlighting challenges related to meaning, authorship, and the role of human decision-making in its creation. The passage was moderate to tough in terms of understanding and questions based on it were moderate. The fourth passage (13-16) discussed how cooperation can emerge and be maintained in populations of self-interested individuals, emphasizing factors like spatial arrangement, reputation, punishment mechanisms, and the balance of migration and connectivity in preserving cooperation at a global scale. The passage was tricky and questions based it were also moderate. The questions (17 & 18) based on finding the summary were moderate. The questions (19 & 20) based on best fit were also moderate. The questions (21 & 22) based on finding the misfit were moderate. The questions (23 & 24) based on sentence rearrangements were moderate too. Overall fell of the section was moderate to tough. However, one could have easily scored 90+ percentile by attempting 16-18 questions with 75-80% accuracy.

DI & Reasoning

The level of DI section was difficult. Students found no block easy or of medium difficulty level. The block (A six-digit number, given in the second row,) would have been solved with help of options of 3rd question of block. A few questions must have been done from rest.

In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 4-6 questions with approx. 80% accuracy.

Quantitative Ability
Easy Questions:
47, 48, 59

Students found this section moderate to difficult. The Quantitative section had 3 easy, 7 medium and 12 difficult questions. Selection of questions was important to crack this section. There were questions from varied topics like Geometry, Basic Numbers, Basic Algebra, Progression and Series, and Arithmetic. A good student could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting around 8-6-8 questions with approx. 80% accuracy.

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Strategy & Tips

The overall feel of the paper was moderate to tough, and for the students who knew how to manage the time available to the best i.e., not wasting much time in lengthy and difficult questions, could have easily managed an overall good attempt. Most of the questions in quant section were from Arithmetic, Algebra, Number system and Geometry. For verbal section, one should have good reading speed & comprehension skills as there were 4 RCs based on different areas and also a few questions based on other areas such as summary, best-fit, rearrangement & odd one out. One must focus on contextual vocabulary to understand the key ideas and score well in passages & summary-based questions. Questions such as Best-fit, sentence rearrangement & misfit require analysis and knowledge of tricks to answer the questions.

 
 
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