CAT DILR Question Paper PDFs

Choose the examination year and slot before opening a paper. A DILR section file is not the whole three-section CAT test. The listed files are for past-paper practice; CAT 2026 is on 29 November.

The CAT paper archive includes the other subjects and earlier years. Keep a paper and any answer key matched by year, slot and question order; a key from a different slot cannot be substituted.

What DILR Paper Practice Should Cover

The 2025 DILR papers contained 22 questions across five sets, with a mixture of four- and five-question sets. The current CAT instructions specify the section timer and marking but do not publish fixed 2026 topic quotas.

The 2025 Slot 3 paper combined telephone-call totals, currency and travel costs, puzzle-progress charts, circular passing and trade balance. These contexts require different representations even though they belong to one DILR section.

The DILR syllabus maps the wider preparation scope, while DILR paper analysis identifies set-level differences between slots.

How to Represent a Linked Set

Start by defining what one row, column or position represents. In a call-flow table, outgoing minutes from one person are incoming minutes to another. In a route set, a passenger may occupy more than one segment. The same information can appear in two totals for a valid reason.

Separate fixed facts from possible cases. If a set says one of two people holds a position, do not silently choose one and treat it as certain. Mark the branch and test it against the remaining conditions.

Original illustration: 12 people travel A-C and 7 travel A-B on route A-B-C. The A-B load is 19, while the B-C load is 12. There are 19 distinct people, not 31. Adding segment loads measures seat use across segments, not distinct travellers.

When a question asks what is necessarily true, the answer must hold in every valid case. A possible arrangement is sufficient only when the question asks what could be true.

DILR Marking and Practice Results

The CAT rule is +3 for a correct answer, -1 for a wrong MCQ and zero for a wrong typed answer or blank. The format of the response determines the penalty, not the subject.

The original practice set on this page reports correct answers and set accuracy, not CAT raw marks or a percentile. A short drill has too few questions and too narrow a skill range to represent a complete section.

For a full section, use the standard 40-minute timer. PwBD extra time is shared equally across the three sections. The CAT exam pattern gives the full timing and accessibility rules.

Review a DILR Set After Attempting It

After submitting the original train-capacity set, compare each wrong answer with the segment it counts. The explanations show how through-passengers affect more than one part of a route. Retry clears only incorrect and unanswered responses; restarting restores the full set.

For a longer paper, record the point at which the model stopped being reliable: a missed condition, an arithmetic mistake or an unjustified assumption. Solving the same set again is useful when you can explain which of those changed, not merely recall its final numbers.

The DILR preparation guide connects such review with timed selection of complete sets.

1. DILR Paper Downloads
2. DILR Skill Coverage
3. Build a Consistent Set Model

1. Try a DILR Set
2. CAT Marks and Drill Accuracy
3. DILR Error Review