CAT 2020 Exam Analysis by CATKing

CAT 2020 Exam Analysis by CATKing - According to the CAT Exam Analysis, CAT 2020 was well managed and conducted in the pandemic time with strong checks at most centres for temperature, masks being mandatory and the COVID-19 positive students being given a separate room to take the exam. CAT 2020 Exam Analysis also says that the overall exam was tough as compared to 2019 with DILR and VARC both being time-consuming and lengthy. As per CAT Exam Analysis by CATKing, CAT 2020 tested students on Speed, Logic and Analytical skills, a sincere student with well-rounded preparation across three sections would make their way to the IIMs. CAT tested students on their actual knowledge instead of mere guesswork. Overall a happy day for students who know their basics and have preached their books with building conceptual clarity, according to CAT 2020 Analysis by CATKing.
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CAT 2020 Exam Pattern as per CATKing

CAT 2020 has been the year of surprises with the biggest one being the reduction in time of CAT from 3 Hours to 2 Hours, this has impacted the CAT exam pattern too in the following manner:

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Overall the exam was Tough as compared to 2019 with DILR and VARC both being time-consuming and lengthy.

CAT 2020 tested students on Speed, Logic and Analytical skills, a sincere student with well-rounded preparation across three sections would make their way to the IIMs. CAT tested students on their actual knowledge instead of mere guesswork.

It was an exam with the twist, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning section was really difficult and time-consuming, we saw the changes in Reading comprehension passages with 5 Questions and DI LR Sets with 6 Questions. But this wouldn't affect the overall criteria for a student selection in IIMs.

Negative marking existed for the Multiple choice questions; 1/3rd ie 0.33 negative marks. Type in The answer Questions didn’t have any negative marking similar to the CAT 2019.

The exam was not very difficult, it was manageable provided your concepts were clear. CAT has always been an ardent lover of concepts and logic than calculations, speed and time when compared to other competitive exams.

Feedback from some of the students after the CAT 2020:

“The paper was overall easy, pretty much similar to CAT2019. Thankfully the verbal section went off well to kickstart the exam on a good note. What was surprising was to see no conventional data interpretation questions like the tables, graphs and pie charts. The exam has been as per the expectations so hoping to get good results and making all proud. Awaiting for IIM-A” – Harshit

“The paper was very structured but lengthy and time crunch. VARC was time-consuming with concerns with the inference based questions in all Reading comprehensions not many factual questions. LR/DI was the trick section set selection was the key so now let’s hope for the best.” – Sabuj

“A not very tough paper, overall moderate with verbal coming only from 3 areas of RC, para jumbles and inference based questions. DI section was time-consuming but manageable. Overall moderate difficulty level so hoping for some good result” – Sarthak

Sectional Analysis:

Overall Difficulty: Moderate to Difficult

VARC 26 Questions: Reading comprehension was dominated in the verbal section. There were two passages with 5 Questions remaining all had 4 questions in each passage. More inference based questions and not factual. There were a Lot of author based questions.

Para jumbles were tough 3 questions on Para jumbles, 3 Questions on Para summary, 2 Questions on Odd one Out.

Summary of Questions

Reading Comprehension 18 Questions

Verbal Ability 8 Questions

Reading comprehension was based on the following themes:

Passage 1: Elephants

Passage 2: Vocabulary based

Passage 3: Greek Anarchy

Passage 4: Chinese Currency

Ideal attempts in VARC Section: 18 Questions

DILR 24 Questions

LR/DI being Tough, lengthy and time consuming with having a variation with 2 Sets coming with 6 questions each and 3 sets with 4 Questions each. Here the success mantra was the set selection as the 6 questions sets were the toughest and time-consuming, so the students should first wrap up the easy ones and grab a good base and then move to the trickier ones.

Summary of Questions

DILR Sets with 6 Questions: 2 Sets = 12 Questions

DILR Sets with 4 Questions: 3 Sets=12 Questions

Ideal attempts in DILR Section: 13 Questions

Quants 26 Questions:

Quants were the easiest out of the three sections with direct formula application and concept based questions dominated by arithmetic and little Geometry and algebra. There was no need for having a lot of shortcuts and tricks, your solving speed and your temperament to understand what the question is asking was the main focus. The Questions based on the Venn diagram were tough. Arithmetic dominated the paper then algebra and numbers, geometry saw lesser visibility with just 3-4 questions and modern maths was negligent in the paper.

Summary of Questions:

Arithmetic 10 Questions

Algebra 8 Questions

Numbers 5 Questions

Geometry 3 Questions

Ideal attempts in QA Section: 14 Questions