CAT 2022 DILR Syllabus with Weightage

Updated On: November 18, 2022 08:58 am IST

Candidates may note the detailed CAT 2022 DILR syllabus along with the important topics and the expected number of questions from the important topics.

CAT 2022 is scheduled to be held on November 27th, 2022. Aspirants waiting to appear for the exams are expected to complete the Logical Reasoning & Data Interpretation (DILR) syllabus by now. IIM Bangalore has also released the CAT 2022 Mock Test at the official website @iimcat.ac.in. Candidates may visit the website and attempt the mock tests to test their preparations and carry forward with improving the flaws. Further, The CAT 2022 question paper will be divided into three sections: DILR, VARC, and QA. There will be a total of 66 questions, out of which 20 questions will be asked from the DILR section. Candidates must note that out of the 20 questions, 15 questions will be in MCQ format with 3 marks for every correct answer and minus ⅓ marks for each wrong answer. The rest of the 5 questions will be non-MCQ with 3 marks for each correct answer and no negative marking.

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Detailed CAT 2022 DILR Syllabus

Candidates must already be aware of the CAT 2022 DILR Syllabus, however, here is the detailed syllabus that candidates may take look at before the exams:

Blood Relations	Logical Connectives	Syllogism	Logical Sequence
Seating Arrangement	Binary Logic	Logical Matching	Calendars
Cubes	Clocks	Venn Diagrams	Number and Letter Series
Column Graphs	Line Charts	Pie Chart	Bar Graphs
Caselets	Tables	Other Basic Reasoning Questions	-

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CAT 2022 DILR Important Topics

Apart from the entire CAT 2022 DILR syllabus, there are some important topics that must be covered to score well for the DILR sections. Before proceeding with the important topics, candidates shall note that the DILR section will have 10 questions from the Data Interpretation and 10 questions from the Logical Reasoning section. So, here are the important topics to be covered in general:

Seating Arrangement	Blood Relation
Syllogism	Tables
Graphs	Data Caselets

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CAT 2022 DILR Topics-wise Weightage

Although the questioning pattern changes every year, and the number of questions from each topic changes for each shift, candidates may still note a gist coverage of the number of expected questions: