CAT 2007 Solutions
UPDATE : Check out CAT 2008 Solutions with detailed analysis.
CAT 2007 was held all across country today, which happens to be the entrance examination to the IIMs.
CAT 2007 Paper is now available with detailed solution from IMS
Detailed Solutions from IMS:
Solutions are based on Set 333.
For other sets, map questions using mapping
Career Launcher CAT 2007 Solutions:
Download the solutions here
Complete Solution Key from TIME :
| Question No. | Test Form No. | |||
| 111 | 222 | 333 | 444 | |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| 12 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 13 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 14 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| 15 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 16 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| 17 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 18 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 19 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| 20 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 21 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 22 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 23 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 24 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 25 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| 26 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 27 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 28 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 29 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 30 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 31 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| 32 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| 33 | 5 | Ignore | 2 | Ignore |
| 34 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| 35 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| 36 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 37 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 38 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| 39 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 40 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
| 41 | Ignore | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 42 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 43 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 44 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| 45 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| 46 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 47 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| 48 | 3 | 3 | Ignore | 1 |
| 49 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 50 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| 51 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| 52 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 53 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 54 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 55 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 56 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| 57 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 58 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 59 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 60 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| 61 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 62 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| 63 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| 64 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| 65 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 66 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| 67 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| 68 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 69 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| 70 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 71 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| 72 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 73 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 74 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 75 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
CAT 2007 Solutions from PT Education :
Note : Symbol “|” denotes separator to bifurcate question and its answer key, e.g. 1|4, here 1 is question no. “|” is separator and 4 is the answer key to this question.
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The expected cutoff for CAT 2007 has arrived!
Expected cutoff according to Career Launcher:
Overall: 102 - 107
QA: 26 - 28
LRDI: 34 - 36
EU: 26 - 28
Expected cutoff according to TIME:
QA : 20-22
Logic & DI : 32-34
Verbal : 18-20
Overall for IIM call : 88-92
Expected CAT 2007 cutoff for other B-schools according to Career Launcher:
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Institute |
Likely Cut Offs in 2007 |
| Any 1 IIM call |
105+ |
| S P Jain, MDI (BM) |
100+ |
| NITIE, MDI-HR, IMT, IMI |
96+ |
| MICA, TAPMI |
92+ |
| KJ Somaiya, BIM, Fore, UBS, NIRMA, IMI-HR |
80+ |
| ITM (Mum), LBS, Welingkar, FMS (BHU) |
76+ |
| IFMR, IIFM, BIMTech, Kirloskar, IISWBM, Jaipuria |
64+ |
| IILM (Lodhi Rd), IMDR, SDM-IMD, JIMS |
60+ |
| SCM Cochin, IMM, Globsyn, Cosmic, Alliance, ISBM |
52+ |
| NDIM, EMPI, Asia Pacific, Amrita, Suryadatta, Skyline |
45+ |
Detailed Analysis of CAT 2007 from IMS
Reflecting on CAT ‘07
What did not change in CAT 2007 was the structure of the test - 75 Questions, 3 Sections, 5 answer choices, 4 marks for correct and negative 1 mark for incorrect. However, there were quite a few changes with regards to the kind of questions asked in CAT 2007.
Quant:
The Quant section was tougher than last year, as some of the questions not only demanded a higher level of reasoning but also were based on tougher concepts. Conceptual clarity and a strong reasoning ability were a must to clear the cut-offs in this section. Quite a few questions were option based and one could get them right if one had the patience and the perseverance to go the distance. Another salient feature of this section was the return of the Data Sufficiency questions. The 4 DS questions had an average level of difficulty and one could have solved at least two of them. Overall, the section was difficult with a few easy questions interspersed within it. The key to succeed in this section was to select the right questions. Possible cut-off: 25-28Read rest of the analysis from here
Brief analysis of CAT 2007 from Career Launcher
On the whole, the CAT 2007 paper was on the tougher side, like 2006, with no sectional respite for the aspirants. Comparatively speaking, the students would have found DI to be on the easier side. Verbal was slightly easier than last year. But Quant proved to be mind bogglingly difficult for the average student.
The number of passages in RC was more than last year but passages were smaller in length and the number of questions per passage was low, barely three on an average.
The Sentence Correction questions in EU proved to be different in nature, while the Para jumbles provided a bit of breather in terms of difficulty level.
Overall, even though the paper did not pose any surprise, pattern wise, with the number of questions remaining 75 as last year’s, the level of difficulty was increased by at least two to three notches.
In conclusion, even with the best of preparations it would be really tough to score 100 in this paper.
First impression of CAT 2007 from TIME
Overall, difficulty level is higher than that of CAT06
Quant is much tougher than CAT06 QA. Cut-off is expected to be lower than that for CAT06
Logic & DI section is calculation-intensive. Cut-off is expected to be lower than that for CAT06
Verbal reasoning questions (like FIJ) not there. Verbal is at the same difficulty level as that of CAT06
DS has come back in a big way – in both QA and Logic&DI sections
Grammar and Paragraph-forming questions have made a come-back.
Sources of RC passages according to TIME
Passage Ref: Paradigms in Scientific Traditions
Source: Knowledge and Post modernism in Historical Perspective” by Joyce Oldham Appleby (Page 347)
Passage Ref: Expressions of Experience
Source: “Logological Investigations” by Barry Sandywell (Page 421)
Passage Ref: Study of History through Natural experiments
Source: “Guns, germs and steel: The fates of human societies; Born to rebel; birth order family dynamics and creative lives” by Michael Shermer
Passage Ref: Sociology
Source: “Sociology: A Very Short Introduction” by Steve Bruce (Page 22)
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Good job dude………
jimit
20 Nov 07 at 7:52 am
Thanx jimit…
And yes I will upload the question paper when I get my hands on it….
Ankur Gupta
20 Nov 07 at 7:55 am
Thank u very much, u made it very easy 2 determine where do we stand aftr attempting this yr CAT.
thanx once again
Ankit
24 Nov 07 at 4:33 am
you have done a good job but when i went through your solution i felt that i can do much better than this if i am reaching to score of 85 without any dicsiplined practice
PRASHANT LOTANKAR
25 Nov 07 at 1:43 am
@Ankit
thank you for your kind comments
@Prashant
No point in regretting now…If IIM is your dream prepare hard for next year…Best of Luck…
Ankur Gupta
25 Nov 07 at 5:15 am
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suhaib
26 Nov 07 at 4:47 am
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it is really very helpful to have this….
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Nakul
26 Nov 07 at 5:58 am
Sir,
I have been searching for CAT 2007 question paper for the last 2-3 days. The answers are available on different sites including yours, but I could not find any one of the question sets. Can you please help me out? Thanks for the nice job done.
Regards,
Surender.
Surender
28 Nov 07 at 11:39 am
@Surender
You can always find someone in your area who gave the exam and request him/her for the question paper.Some things are better available offline
Ankur Gupta
28 Nov 07 at 6:14 pm
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prabhakar
28 Nov 07 at 10:40 pm
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Prajyot
12 Dec 07 at 3:15 pm
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mahesh
27 Dec 07 at 7:51 pm
@mahesh
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Ankur Gupta
28 Dec 07 at 7:32 pm
thanx …… ankur…. i was using older version…. now i could open it…….
mahesh
29 Dec 07 at 11:47 am
Hi,
Thanx a lot man.. Great Job..
And attach question paper also so that it will help full the people who didnt write exam.
Saiprakash
2 Jan 08 at 3:20 pm
hey..
das really kind on ur part …
but unfortunately..m nt getng gud marks ..
nywaz good luck fo future to u too..
n keep doing such job n help others..
bye
TC..!!
niti
8 Jan 08 at 1:45 pm
thanx a lot
partha
24 Jan 08 at 11:07 pm
thanks a lot for posting the paper. i couldn’t find it earlier on any site. i’ll be appearnig for the cat exam this year and ive just joined IMS coaching so i wanted to solve this paper and get to know as to what exactly am i getting into by solving this paper!
Dhananjay
26 Jan 08 at 11:39 am
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bikramjit
14 Mar 08 at 10:04 pm
Good Job Ankur,
Keep it up…
Best of Luck.
Raj
11 Apr 08 at 8:58 pm
Ankur,
Your analysis is by far THE MOST INFORMATIVE analysis on CAT 2007 that google could find out.Its absolutely great that you have done such a noble deed by helping so many ppl that includes me.Not only the batch of CAT 2007,but me being a CAT 2008 aspirant,I can tell you that it has helped the likes of me as well.Keep up the gr8 work,and if possible,plz provide analysis for the other MBA entrance exams like XAT,SNAP and JMET as well.Thanks a ton in advance.
Abhishek
21 May 08 at 2:47 pm