CAT QUANT Questions
Browse all CAT QUANT chapters and explore topic-wise practice material.
Averages
30 questions
Percentages
21 questions
Ratio, Proportion and Variation
48 questions
Profit & Loss
30 questions
Interest
21 questions
Alligations and Mixtures
14 questions
Linear and Quadratic Equations
42 questions
Time and Work
34 questions
Time, Speed and Distance
49 questions
Inequalities
27 questions
Logarithms
30 questions
Functions
33 questions
Surds and Indices
24 questions
Number System
50 questions
Progression
34 questions
Geometry & Mensuration
82 questions
Coordinate Geometry
14 questions
Trigonometry
1 questions
Permutations and Combinations
17 questions
Set Theory
10 questions
CAT Quant PYQs — Your Questions, Answered
What the Quant section covers, how it's marked, and how to get the most out of topic-wise past papers.
CAT does not publish an official syllabus, but the questions consistently fall into five families: Arithmetic (percentages, ratio, averages, time-speed-distance, time and work, profit and loss), Algebra (linear and quadratic equations, inequalities, functions, logarithms), Geometry and Mensuration, Number System, and Modern Maths (permutation and combination, probability, progressions, set theory). Arithmetic and Algebra between them account for the majority of questions in recent papers.
Yes. Every question here is taken from an actual CAT paper between 2017 and 2025 and has been verified against the official paper before being published. Questions without a written solution are not shown.
Multiple-choice questions carry +3 for a correct answer and -1 for an incorrect one. Non-MCQ questions, where you type the answer directly (often called TITA), carry +3 for a correct answer and no penalty for a wrong one — which is why it is usually worth attempting every non-MCQ you can reach.
CAT runs for 120 minutes in total, split into three sections of 40 minutes each. You cannot move between sections — once the 40 minutes on Quant are gone, you cannot return to it.
Solve a topic in a single sitting across multiple years rather than shuffling topics, then read the solution to every question you attempted — including the ones you got right, since a correct answer reached the slow way still costs you marks in the exam. Once a topic feels stable, move to full past papers under timed conditions.