CAT 2022 Question Paper and Answer Key PDF (Nov 27, 2022) (Slot 2)

CAT 2022 Slot 2 Question Paper and Answer Key resources are available here for download and practice. CAT 2022 Slot 2 was conducted on November 27, 2022, from 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM by IIM Bangalore. The afternoon session included 66 questions carrying 198 marks across VARC, DILR, and Quantitative Aptitude.

CAT 2022 Nov 27 Slot 2 Question Paper PDF with Answer Key

(DIRECTIONS for questions 1-4)

The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question.

[Octopuses are] misfits in their own extended families …….. They belong to the Mollusca class Cephalopoda. But they don’t look like their cousins at all. Other molluscs include sea snails, sea slugs, bivalves – most are shelled invertebrates with a dorsal foot. Cephalopods are all arms, and can be as tiny as 1 centimetre and as large at 30 feet. Read More

1. All of the following are reasons for octopuses being “misfits” EXCEPT that they:

1. exhibit higher intelligence than other molluscs.

2. have several arms.

3. are consumed by humans and other animals.

4. do not possess an outer protective shell.

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2. Which one of the following statements is not true about the camouflaging ability of Cephalopods?

1. Cephalopods can change their colour.

2. Cephalopods can take on the colour of their predator.

3. Cephalopods can change their texture.

4. Cephalopods can blend into the colour of their surroundings.

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3. Based on the passage, it can be inferred that camouflaging techniques in an octopus are most dissimilar to those in:

1. sea snails

2. cuttlefish

3. polar bears

4. squids

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4. Based on the passage, we can infer that all of the following statements, if true, would weaken the camouflaging adeptness of Cephalopods EXCEPT

1. the hydrostatic pressure at the depths at which Cephalopods reside renders radial muscle movements difficult.

2. the temperature of water at the depths at which Cephalopods reside renders the transmission of neural signals difficult.

3. light reflects the colours red, green, and yellow at the depths at which Cephalopods reside.

4. the number of chromatophores in Cephalopods is half the number of iridophores and leucophores.

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(DIRECTIONS for questions 5-8)

The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question.

When we teach engineering problems now, we ask students to come to a single “best” solution defined by technical ideals like low cost, speed to build, and ability to scale. This way of teaching primes students to believe that their decision-making is purely objective, as it is grounded in math and science. Read More

5. In this passage, the author is making the claim that:

1. the objective of best solutions in engineering has shifted the focus of pedagogy from humanism and social obligations to technological perfection.

2. engineering students today are trained to be non-subjective in their reasoning as this best enables them to develop much-needed universal solutions.

3. technical-social dualism has emerged as a technique for engineering students to incorporate social considerations into their technical problem-solving processes.

4. engineering students today are taught to focus on objective technical outcomes, independent of the social dimensions of their work.

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6. The author gives all of the following reasons for why marginalised people are systematically discriminated against in technology-related interventions EXCEPT

1. “But those technical ideals are at their core social and political choices determined by a dominant culture focused on economic growth for the most privileged segments of society.”

2. “Beyond physical failings, subjective beliefs treated as facts by those in decision- making roles can encode social inequities.”

3. “And we hardly question whether devices are built sustainably, which has led to a crisis of medical waste and health care accounting for 10 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.”

4. “These racially based adjustments are derived from research done by eugenicists who thought these racial differences were biologically determined and who considered nonwhite people as inferior.”

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7. All of the following are examples of the negative outcomes of focusing on technical ideals in the medical sphere EXCEPT the:

1. neglect of research and development of medical technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases that typically afflict marginalised communities.

2. exclusion of non-privileged groups in clinical trials which leads to incorrect drug dosages.

3. incorrect assignment of people as female at birth which has resulted in faulty drug interventions.

4. continuing calibration of medical devices based on past racial biases that have remained unadjusted for changes.

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8. We can infer that the author would approve of a more evolved engineering pedagogy that includes all of the following EXCEPT:

1. making considerations of environmental sustainability intrinsic to the development of technological solutions.

2. moving towards technical-social dualism where social community needs are incorporated in problem-definition and solutions.

3. design that is based on the needs of communities using local knowledge and responding to local priorities.

4. a more responsible approach to technical design and problem-solving than a focus on speed in developing and bringing to scale.

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(DIRECTIONS for questions 9-12)

The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question.

Humans today make music. Think beyond all the qualifications that might trail after this bald statement: that only certain humans make music, that extensive training is involved, that many societies distinguish musical specialists from nonmusicians, that in today’s societies most listen to music rather than making it, and so forth. Read More

9. Which one of the following sets of terms best serves as keywords to the passage?

1. Humans; Musicking; Linguistic capacities; Symbol-making; Modern humanity.

2. Musicking; Cognitive psychology; Antique; Symbol-makers; Modernity.

3. Humans; Psychological vantage; Musicking; Cassirer; Emergence of music.

4. Humans; Capacities; Language; Symbols; Modernity

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10. Based on the passage, which one of the following statements is a valid argument about the emergence of music/musicking?

1. 20,000 years ago, human musical capacities were not very different from what they are today.

2. Anyone who can perceive and experience music must be considered capable of musicking.

3. All musical work is located in the overlap between linguistic capacity and music production.

4. Although musicking is not language-like, it shares the quality of being a form of expression.

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11. Which one of the following statements, if true, would weaken the author’s claim that humans are musicking creatures?

1. Musical capacities are primarily socio-cultural, which explains the wide diversity of musical forms.

2. As musicking is neither language-like nor symbol-like, it is a much older form of expression.

3. Nonmusical capacities are of far greater consequence to human survival than the capacity for music.

4. From a cognitive and psychological vantage, musicking arises from unconscious dispositions, not conscious ones.

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12. “Think beyond all the qualifications that might trail after this bald statement ” In the context of the passage, what is the author trying to communicate in this quoted extract?

1. A bald statement is one that is trailed by a series of qualifying clarifications and caveats.

2. Although there may be many caveats and other considerations, the statement is essentially true.

3. Thinking beyond qualifications allows us to give free reign to musical expressions.

4. A bald statement is one that requires no qualifications to infer its meaning.

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(DIRECTIONS for questions 13-16)

The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question.

We begin with the emergence of the philosophy of the social sciences as an arena of thought and as a set of social institutions. The two characterisations overlap but are not congruent. Academic disciplines are social institutions…….. My view is that institutions are all those social entities that organise action: they link acting individuals into social structures. Read More

13. In the first paragraph of the passage, what are the two “characterisations” that are seen as overlapping but not congruent?

1. “individuals” and “social structures”.

2. “academic disciplines” and “institutions”.

3. “an arena of thought” and “academic disciplines".

4. “the philosophy of the social sciences” and “a set of social institutions”.

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14. All of the following inferences from the passage are false, EXCEPT:

1. the institution of friendship cannot be found in the institution of joint-stock companies because the first is an informal institution, while the second is a formal one.

2. “natural language” refers to that stage of language development where no conscious human intent is evident in the formation of language.

3. institutions like the family, rituals, governance, economy, and the military are natural and cannot be consciously modified.

4. as concepts, “culture” and “tradition” have no analytical, explanatory or expository power, especially when they are treated in isolation.

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15. “Consider the fact that the stock exchange and the black market are both market institutions, one formal one not.” Which one of the following statements best explains this quote, in the context of the passage?

1. The stock exchange and the black market are examples of how, even within the same domain, different kinds of institutions can co-exist.

2. The stock exchange and the black market are both dependent on the market to survive.

3. The stock exchange and the black market are both organised to function by rules.

4. Market instruments can be formally traded in the stock exchange and informally traded in the black market.

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16. Which of the following statements best represents the essence of the passage?

1. Language is the fundamental formal institution for social life and for science.

2. It is usual in social thought to treat culture and tradition as different from institutions.

3. The stock exchange and the black market are both market institutions.

4. Institutions are structures that serve to coordinate the actions of individuals.

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The four sentences (labelled 1,2,3 and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentence and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.

17. 1. From chemical pollutants in the environment to the damming of rivers to invasive species transported through global trade and travel, every environmental issue is different and there is no single tech solution that can solve this crisis.
2. Discourse on the threat of environmental collapse revolves around cutting down emissions, but biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse are caused by myriad and diverse reasons.
3. This would require legislation that recognises the rights of future generations and other species that allows the judiciary to uphold a much higher standard of environmental protection than currently possible.
4. Clearly, our environmental crisis requires large political solutions, not minor technological ones, so, instead of focusing on infinite growth, we could consider a path of stable-state economies, while preserving markets and healthy competition.

1. 1423

2. 2143

3. 2413

4. 2134

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The four sentences (labelled 1,2,3 and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentence and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.

18. 1. The trajectory of cheerfulness through the self is linked to the history of the word ‘cheer’ which comes from an Old French meaning ‘face’.
2. Translations of the Bible into vernacular languages, expanded the noun ‘cheer’ into the more abstract ‘cheerful-ness’, something that circulates as an emotional and social quality defining the self and a moral community.
3. When you take on a cheerful expression, no matter what the state of your soul, your cheerfulness moves into the self: the interior of the self is changed by the power of cheer.
4. People in the medieval ‘Canterbury Tales’ have a ‘piteous’ or a ‘sober’ cheer; ‘cheer’ is an expression and a body part, lying at the intersection of emotions and physiognomy.

1. 1342

2. 3124

3. 2143

4. 3142

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The four sentences (labelled 1,2,3 and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentence and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.

19. 1. Women may prioritize cooking because they feel they alone are responsible for mediating a toxic and unhealthy food system.
2. Food is commonly framed through the lens of individual choice: you can choose to eat healthily.
3. This is particularly so in a neoliberal context where the state has transferred the responsibility for food onto individual consumers.
4. The individualized framing of choice appeals to a popular desire to experience agency, but draws away from the structural obstacles that stratify individual food choices.

1. 2431

2. 4231

3. 1243

4. 3241

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There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide in which blank (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.

20. Sentence: Most were first-time users of a tablet and a digital app.
Paragraph: Aage Badhein’s USP lies in the ethnographic research that constituted the foundation of its development process. Customizations based on learning directly from potential users were critical to making this self-paced app suitable for both a literate and non-literate audience. ____(1)____The user interface caters to a Hindi- speaking audience who have minimal to no experience with digital services and devices. ____(2)____The content and functionality of the app are suitable for a wide audience. This includes youth preparing for an independent role in life or a student ready to create a strong foundation of financial management early in her life. ____(3)____Household members desirous of improving their family’s financial strength to reach their aspirations can also benefit. We piloted Aage Badhein in early 2021 with over 400 women from rural areas. ____(4)____The digital solution generated a large amount of interest in the communities.

1. Option 1

2. Option 2

3. Option 3

4. Option 4

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There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide in which blank (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.

21. Sentence: This was years in the making but fast-tracked during the pandemic, when "people started being more mindful about their food", he explained.
Paragraph: For millennia, ghee has been a venerated staple of the subcontinental diet, but it fell out of favour a few decades ago when saturated fats were largely considered to be unhealthy. ____(1)____But more recently, as the thinking around saturated fats is shifting globally, Indians are finding their own way back to this ingredient that is so integral to their cuisine.____(2)____For Karmakar, a renewed interest in ghee is emblematic of a return-to-basics movement in India. ____(3)____ This movement is also part of an overall trend towards "slow food". In keeping with the movement's philosophy, ghee can be produced locally (even at home) and has inextricable cultural ties. ____(4)____At a basic level, ghee is a type of clarified butter believed to have originated in India as a way to preserve butter from going rancid in the hot climate.

1. Option 1

2. Option 2

3. Option 3

4. Option 4

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The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.

22. Several of the world’s earliest cities were organised along egalitarian lines. In some regions, urban populations governed themselves for centuries without any indication of the temples and palaces that would later emerge; in others, temples and palaces never emerged at all, and there is simply no evidence of a class of administrators or any other sort of ruling stratum. It would seem that the mere fact of urban life does not, necessarily, imply any particular form of political organization, and never did. Far from resigning us to inequality, the picture that is now emerging of humanity’s past may open our eyes to egalitarian possibilities we otherwise would have never considered.

1. Contrary to our assumption that urban settlements have always involved hierarchical political and administrative structures, ancient cities were not organised in this way.

2. The lack of hierarchical administration in ancient cities can be deduced by the absence of religious and regal structures such as temples and palaces.

3. The emergence of a class of administrators and ruling stratum transformed the egalitarian urban life of ancient cities to the hierarchical civic organisations of today.

4. We now have the evidence in support of the existence of an egalitarian urban life in some ancient cities, where political and civic organisation was far less hierarchical.

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The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.

23. Today, many of the debates about behavioural control in the age of big data echo Cold War-era anxieties about brainwashing, insidious manipulation and repression in the ‘technological society’. In his book Psychopolitics, Han warns of the sophisticated use of targeted online content, enabling ‘influence to take place on a pre-reflexive level’. On our current trajectory, “freedom will prove to have been merely an interlude.” The fear is that the digital age has not liberated us but exposed us, by offering up our private lives to machine-learning algorithms that can process masses of personal and behavioural data. In a world of influencers and digital entrepreneurs, it’s not easy to imagine the resurgence of a culture engendered through disconnect and disaffiliation, but concerns over the threat of online targeting, polarisation and big data have inspired recent polemics about the need to rediscover solitude and disconnect.

1. The role of technology in influencing public behaviour is reminiscent of the manner in which behaviour was manipulated during the Cold War.

2. With big data making personal information freely available, the debate on the nature of freedom and the need for privacy has resurfaced.

3. The notion of freedom and privacy is at stake in a world where artificial intelligence is capable of influencing behaviour through data gathered online.

4. Rather than freeing us, digital technology is enslaving us by collecting personal information and influencing our online behaviour.

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The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.

24. There's a common idea that museum artworks are somehow timeless objects available to admire for generations to come. But many are objects of decay. Even the most venerable Old Master paintings don't escape: pigments discolour, varnishes crack, canvases warp. This challenging fact of art-world life is down to something that sounds more like a thread from a morality tale: inherent vice. Damien Hirst's iconic shark floating in a tank – entitled The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living – is a work that put a spotlight on inherent vice. When he made it in 1991, Hirst got himself in a pickle by not using the right kind of pickle to preserve the giant fish. The result was that the shark began to decompose quite quickly – its preserving liquid clouding, the skin wrinkling, and an unpleasant smell wafting from the tank.

1. Artworks may not last forever; they may deteriorate with time, and the challenge is to slow down their degeneration.

2. Museums have to guard timeless art treasures from intrinsic defects such as the deterioration of paint, polish and canvas.

3. Museums are left with the moral responsibility of restoring and preserving the artworks since artists cannot preserve their works beyond their life.

4. The role of museums has evolved to ensure that the artworks are preserved forever in addition to guarding and displaying them.

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CAT 2022 Slot 2 Section-Wise Question Distribution

CAT 2022 Slot 2 consisted of 66 questions divided into three sections. VARC contained 24 questions, followed by Quantitative Aptitude with 22 questions and DILR with 20 questions.

The paper included both MCQs and TITA questions. Candidates received three marks for each correct answer, while one mark was deducted for every incorrect MCQ. Incorrect TITA answers and unattempted questions did not carry negative marking.

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