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Quant, VARC and DILR, organised into 42 chapters. Browse any chapter without an account. A free account unlocks worked solutions, timing and accuracy tracking.

The bank at a glance

The full verified bank behind those free questions, by difficulty.

SectionChaptersIn the bankEasyMediumHard
Quant2211,5643,4694,7783,317
VARC51,8693061,359204
DILR156,8301,4881,9303,412
Total4220,263Verified questions only, anything without a written solution is not shown

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CAT practice questions, answered

What is in the bank, what it costs, and how to get the most out of it.

Yes. Every question on these pages is readable without an account and there is no PDF to download and no email wall. Creating an account is free too, and that is what unlocks the answer, the worked solution, timing and accuracy tracking, plus the rest of the bank beyond the questions previewed here.

They are the practice bank used inside Optima Learn, written and reviewed for CAT-level difficulty, plus questions from actual CAT papers. Every question shown here has been verified against a written solution first. Anything without a complete solution is not published at all, which is why the counts here are lower than the raw bank.

These pages cover the whole practice bank, organised by chapter, so you can drill one topic across many questions. Previous-year papers are a separate collection organised by year, slot and topic, useful once a topic is stable and you want to see how CAT itself has framed it. Most people need both, in that order.

Enough that the question types start repeating, for most chapters that is somewhere between forty and a hundred, not five. The reason a large bank matters is that recognising a question shape under time pressure is a different skill from being able to solve it slowly, and only volume builds the first one.

Start with the chapters that carry the most questions in the exam and the most weight in your own weak list, rather than working alphabetically. Within a chapter, work from easier to harder in one sitting instead of shuffling, the patterns are much easier to see that way.