CAT 2022 Question Paper and Answer Key PDF (Nov 27, 2022) (Slot 3)

CAT 2022 Slot 3 Question Paper and Answer Key PDF is available here to download, along with access to detailed solutions and practice resources. CAT 2022 Slot 3 was conducted on November 27, 2022, from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM by IIM Bangalore. The examination originally consisted of 66 questions carrying 198 marks across VARC, DILR, and Quantitative Aptitude.

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

Interpretations of the Indian past ... were inevitably influenced by colonial concerns and interests, and also by prevalent European ideas about history, civilization and the Orient. Orientalist scholars studied the languages and the texts with selected Indian scholars, but made little attempt to understand the world-view of those who were teaching them. Read More

1. Which one of the following styles of research is most similar to the Orientalist scholars' method of understanding Indian history and culture?

1. Reading about the life of early American settlers and later waves of migration to understand the evolution of American culture.

2. Reading 18^th century accounts by travellers to India to see how they viewed Indian life and culture of the time.

3. Studying artefacts excavated at a palace to understand the lifestyle of those who lived there.

4. Analysing Hollywood action movies that depict violence and sex to understand contemporary America.

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2. It can be inferred from the passage that the author is not likely to support the view that:

1. the Orientalist view of Asia fired the imagination of some Western poets.

2. Indian culture acknowledges the material aspects of life.

3. India became a colony although it matched the technical knowledge of the West.

4. India's culture has evolved over the centuries.

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3. It can be inferred from the passage that to gain a more accurate view of a nation's history and culture, scholars should do all of the following EXCEPT:

1. read widely in the country's literature.

2. examine their own beliefs and biases.

3. examine the complex reality of that nation's society.

4. develop an oppositional framework to grasp cultural differences.

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4. In the context of the passage, all of the following statements are true EXCEPT:

1. Indian texts influenced Orientalist scholars.

2. India's spiritualism served as a salve for European colonisers.

3. Orientalists' understanding of Indian history was linked to colonial concerns.

4. Orientalist scholarship influenced Indians.

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

Sociologists working in the Chicago School tradition have focused on how rapid or dramatic social change causes increases in crime. Just as Durkheim, Marx, Toennies, and other European sociologists thought that the rapid changes produced by industrialization and urbanization produced crime and disorder, so too did the Chicago School theorists. Read More

5. A fundamental conclusion by the author is that:

1. to prevent crime, it is important to maintain social order through maintaining social segregation.

2. rapid population growth and demographic diversity give rise to social disorganisation that can feed the growth of crime.

3. according to European sociologists, crime in America is mainly in Chicago.

4. the best circumstances for crime to flourish are when there are severe racial disparities.

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6. Which one of the following is not a valid inference from the passage?

1. According to social disorganisation theory, fast-paced social change provides fertile ground for the rapid growth of crime.

2. The failure to integrate in-migrants, along with social problems like poverty, was a significant reason for the rise in crime in American cities.

3. According to social disorganisation theory, the social integration of African American migrants into Chicago was slower because they were less organised.

4. The differences between urban and rural lifestyles were crucial factors in the disruption experienced by migrants to American cities.

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7. Which one of the following sets of words/phrases best encapsulates the issues discussed in the passage?

1. Rapid population growth; Heavy industry; Segregation; Crime

2. Chicago School; Native-born Whites; European immigrants; Poverty

3. Durkheim; Marx; Toennies; Shaw

4. Chicago School; Social organisation; Migration; Crime

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8. The author notes that, "At the start of the twentieth century, Americans were predominately a rural population, but by the century's mid-point most lived in urban areas." Which one of the following statements, if true, does not contradict this statement?

1. Demographic transition in America in the twentieth century is strongly marked by an out-migration from rural areas.

2. A population census conducted in 1952 showed that more Americans lived in rural areas than in urban ones.

3. Economists have found that throughout the twentieth century, the size of the labour force in America has always been largest in rural areas.

4. The estimation of per capita income in America in the mid-twentieth century primarily required data from rural areas.

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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.

As software improves, the people using it become less likely to sharpen their own know-how. Applications that offer lots of prompts and tips are often to blame; simpler, less solicitous programs push people harder to think, act and learn. Read More

9. In the Ebola misdiagnosis case, we can infer that doctors probably missed the forest for the trees because:

1. they used the wrong type of digital templates for the case.

2. they were led by the data processed by digital templates.

3. the digital templates forced them to acquire tunnel vision.

4. the data collected were not sufficient for appropriate triage.

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10. From the passage, we can infer that the author is apprehensive about the use of sophisticated automation for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that:

1. it stunts the development of its users.

2. it could mislead people.

3. it stops users from exercising their minds.

4. computers could replace humans.

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11. In the context of the passage, all of the following can be considered examples of human-centered automation EXCEPT:

1. software that auto-completes text when the user writes an email.

2. software that offers interpretations when requested by the human operator.

3. a smart-home system that changes the temperature as instructed by the resident.

4. medical software that provides optional feedback on the doctor's analysis of the medical situation.

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12. It can be inferred that in the Utrecht University experiment, one group of people was "aimlessly clicking around" because:

1. they wanted to avoid making mistakes.

2. they did not have the skill-set to address complicated tasks.

3. they were hoping that the software would help carry out the tasks.

4. the other group was carrying out the tasks more efficiently.

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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.

Nature has all along yielded her flesh to humans. First, we took nature's materials as food, fibers, and shelter. Then we learned to extract raw materials from her biosphere to create our own new synthetic materials. Now Bios is yielding us her mind-we are taking her logic. Read More

13. Which one of the following sets of words/phrases best serves as keywords to the passage?

1. Complex systems; Bio-logic; Bioengineering; Technos-logic; Convergence

2. Nature; Bios; Technos; Self-repair; Holsteins

3. Complex systems; Carrots; Milk cows; Convergence; Technos-logic

4. Nature; Computers; Carrots; Milk cows; Genetic engineering

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14. The author claims that, "Part of this bionic convergence is a matter of words". Which one of the following statements best expresses the point being made by the author?

1. "Mechanical" and "life" were earlier seen as opposite in meaning, but the difference between the two is increasingly blurred.

2. "Bios" and "Technos" are both convergent forms of logic, but they generate meanings about the world that are mutually exclusive.

3. A bionic convergence indicates the meeting ground of genetic engineering and artificial intelligence.

4. "Mechanical" and "life" are words from different logical systems and are, therefore, fundamentally incompatible in meaning.

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15. The author claims that, "The apparent veil between the organic and the manufactured has crumpled to reveal that the two really are, and have always been, of one being." Which one of the following statements best expresses the point being made by the author here?

1. Organic reality has crumpled under the veil of manufacturing, rendering the apparent and the real as the same being.

2. The crumpling of the organic veil between apparent and manufactured reality reveals them to have the same being.

3. Scientific advances are making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between organic reality and manufactured reality.

4. Apparent reality and organic reality are distinguished by the fact that the former is manufactured.

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16. None of the following statements is implied by the arguments of the passage, EXCEPT:

1. genetic engineers and bioengineers are the same insofar as they both seek to force evolution in an artificial way.

2. purposeful design represents the pinnacle of scientific expertise in the service of human betterment and civilisational progress.

3. historically, philosophers have known that the laws of life can be abstracted and applied elsewhere.

4. the biological realm is as complex as the mechanical one; which is why the logic of Bios is being imported into machines.

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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.

17. Sentence: When people socially learn from each other, they often learn without understanding why what they're copying-the beliefs and behaviours and technologies and know-how-works.
Paragraph: _(1)_ The dual-inheritance theory .... says .... that inheritance is itself an evolutionary system. It has variation. What makes us a new kind of animal, and so different and successful as a species, is we rely heavily on social learning, to the point where socially acquired information is effectively a second line of inheritance, the first being our genes .... _(2)_ People tend to home in on who seems to be the smartest or most successful person around, as well as what everybody seems to be doing-the majority of people have something worth learning. _(3)_ When you repeat this process over time, you can get, around the world, cultural packages-beliefs or behaviours or technology or other solutions-that are adapted to the local conditions. People have different psychologies, effectively. _(4)_

1. Option 1

2. Option 2

3. Option3

4. Option4

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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.

18. Sentence: This has meant a lot of uncertainty around what a wide-scale return to office might look like in practice.
Paragraph: Bringing workers back to their desks has been a rocky road for employers and employees alike. The evolution of the pandemic has meant that best laid plans have often not materialised. _(1)_ The flow of workers back into offices has been more of a trickle than a steady stream. _(2)_ Yet while plenty of companies are still working through their new policies, some employees across the globe are now back at their desks, whether on a full-time or hybrid basis. _(3)_ That means we're beginning to get some clarity on what return-to-office means - what's working, as well as what has yet to be settled. _(4)_

1. Option 1

2. Option 2

3. Option3

4. Option4

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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.

19. Tamsin Blanchard, curator of Fashion Open Studio, an initiative by a campaign group showcasing the work of ethical designers says, "We're all drawn to an exquisite piece of embroidery, a colourful textile or even a style of dressing that might have originated from another heritage. [But] this magpie mentality, where all of culture and history is up for grabs as 'inspiration', has accelerated since the proliferation of social media ... Where once a fashion student might research the history and traditions of a particular item of clothing with care and respect, we now have a world where images are lifted from image libraries without a care for their cultural significance. It's easier than ever to steal a motif or a craft technique and transfer it on to a piece of clothing that is either mass produced or appears on a runway without credit or compensation to their original communities."

1. Taking fashion ideas from any cultural group without their consent is a form of appropriation without giving due credit, compensation, and respect.

2. Media has encouraged mass production; images are copied effortlessly without care or concern for the interests of ethnic communities.

3. Copying an embroidery design or pattern of textile from native communities who own them is tantamount to stealing and they need to be compensated.

4. Cultural collaboration is the need of the hour. Beautiful design ideas of indigenous people need to be showcased and shared worldwide.

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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.

20. To defend the sequence of alphabetisation may seem bizarre, so obvious is its application that it is hard to imagine a reference, catalogue or listing without it. But alphabetical order was not an immediate consequence of the alphabet itself. In the Middle Ages, deference for ecclesiastical tradition left scholars reluctant to categorise things according to the alphabet - to do so would be a rejection of the divine order. The rediscovery of the ancient Greek and Roman classics necessitated more efficient ways of ordering, searching and referencing texts. Government bureaucracy in the 16th and 17th centuries quickened the advance of alphabetical order, bringing with it pigeonholes, notebooks and card indexes.

1. Unlike the alphabet, once the efficacy of the alphabetic sequence became apparent to scholars and administrators, its use became widespread.

2. The alphabetic order took several centuries to gain common currency because of religious beliefs and a lack of appreciation of its efficacy in the ordering of things.

3. The ban on the use by scholars of any form of categorisation - but the divinely ordained one - delayed the adoption of the alphabetic sequence by several centuries.

4. While adoption of the written alphabet was easily accomplished, it took scholars several centuries to accept the alphabetic sequence as a useful tool in their work.

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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.

21. "It does seem to me that the job of comedy is to offend, or have the potential to offend, and it cannot be drained of that potential," Rowan Atkinson said of cancel culture. "Every joke has a victim. That's the definition of a joke. Someone or something or an idea is made to look ridiculous." The Netflix star continued, "I think you've got to be very, very careful about saying what you're allowed to make jokes about. You've always got to kick up? Really?" He added, "There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything."

1. All jokes target someone and one should be able to joke about anyone in the society, which is inconsistent with cancel culture.

2. Cancel culture does not understand the role and duty of comedians, which is to deride and mock everyone.

3. Victims of jokes must not only be politicians and royalty, but also arrogant people from lower classes should be mentioned by comedians.

4. Every joke needs a victim and one needs to include people from lower down the society and not just the upper class.

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The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:

22. 1. Various industrial sectors including retail, transit systems, enterprises, educational institutions, event organizing, finance, travel etc. have now started leveraging these beacons solutions to track and communicate with their customers.
2. A beacon fixed on to a shop wall enables the retailer to assess the proximity of the customer, and come up with a much targeted or personalized communication like offers, discounts and combos on products in each shelf.
3. Smart phones or other mobile devices can capture the beacon signals, and distance can be estimated by measuring received signal strength.
4. Beacons are tiny and inexpensive, micro-location-based technology devices that can send radio frequency signals and notify nearby Bluetooth devices of their presence and transmit information.

1. 2134

2. 4312

3. 1243

4. 3421

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The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:

23. 1. If I wanted to sit indoors and read, or play Sonic the Hedgehog on a red-hot Sega Mega Drive, I would often be made to feel guilty about not going outside to "enjoy it while it lasts".
2. My mum, quite reasonably, wanted me and my sister out of the house, in the sun.
3. Tales of my mum's idyllic-sounding childhood in the Sussex countryside, where trees were climbed by 8 am and streams navigated by lunchtime, were passed down to us like folklore.
4. To an introverted kid, that felt like a threat - and the feeling has stayed with me.

1. 4132

2. 4213

3. 3412

4. 2314

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The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:

24. 1. The more we are able to accept that our achievements are largely out of our control, the easier it becomes to understand that our failures, and those of others, are too.
2. But the raft of recent books about the limits of merit is an important correction to the arrogance of contemporary entitlement and an opportunity to reassert the importance of luck, or grace, in our thinking.
3. Meritocracy as an organising principle is an inevitable function of a free society, as we are designed to see our achievements as worthy of reward.
4. And that in turn should increase our humility and the respect with which we treat our fellow citizens, helping ultimately to build a more compassionate society.

1. 3214

2. 4123

3. 1342

4. 2341

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CAT 2022 Slot 3 Exam Pattern

CAT 2022 Slot 3 followed a computer-based examination pattern consisting of three sections: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC), Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR), and Quantitative Aptitude (QA). The total examination duration was 120 minutes, with a sectional time limit of 40 minutes.

CAT 2022 marking scheme awarded 3 marks for every correct answer and deducted 1 mark for each incorrect MCQ. Incorrect TITA answers and unattempted questions carried no penalty. Candidates could not switch between sections during the allotted sectional time.

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Practising the CAT 2022 Slot 3 question paper helps candidates assess their understanding of different question types and their ability to work within sectional time limits. The following tips can make practice sessions more effective.

• Attempt the complete paper: Solve CAT 2022 Slot 3 within 120 minutes, allowing 40 minutes for each section.
• Review passage-based reasoning: Check whether your RC answers follow the author's argument and are supported by the passage.
• Compare DILR sets before starting: Identify sets where you can organise the information clearly and make useful deductions.
• Revise Quantitative Aptitude: Strengthen Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, and Number System concepts through regular practice.
• Analyse incorrect answers: Separate conceptual errors from calculation mistakes and misread instructions.
• Track time spent: Review questions that took too long, including those answered correctly, and explore more efficient methods.

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