CAT Exam in 100 Days
Welcome to the CAT 100 Day Challenge
(Day 91-100)
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Day 91 of 100: VARC Reading Comprehension
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.
When people think of Surrealism, they often think of Salvador Dali (1904-1989) and “The Persistence of Memory” (1931). Even in 1929, Dali’s ‘The First Days of Spring” shows a disturbing dreamland with fantastic figures, including at least one headless human.
What is important to understand is that Surrealism was global, especially as early Dada/ Surrealists like Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp travelled the world. Surrealism occupied artists in diverse locations, including Europe, the United States, South America, and Mexico. The concept that the human mind could transcend the earthly plane was a central way to view the “absolute reality” described by Breton.
An influential Mexican painter (especially after her death), Frida Kahlo, was memorialised in the movie “Frida” starring Salma Hayek. Born in 1907 in a suburb of Mexico City, Kahlo later claimed she was born in 1910. Her life was difficult after she survived many injuries, including a streetcar accident in her mid-teens. In fact, she began to paint from the confines of a hospital bed. Later, Kahlo found many vivid experiences in her rollercoaster marriage to the artist Diego Rivera and in her friendships with artists like Georgia O’Keeffe. Her life was a series of surgeries and recoveries, and she never found a way to regain good health.
It was actually the author of the “Surrealist Manifesto”, Andre Breton, who discovered Kahlo when he visited her and Rivera in Mexico. He would introduce her to the art world as a Surrealist during her first show at the NYC gallery of Julien Levy in 1938. Although she believed her art was Realistic, her imagination (on a par with Dali’s) is evidenced in her paintings.
In 1939, Breton and Marcel Duchamp worked together to show Kahlo’s work to the Paris art establishment at the Pierre Colle Gallery. Kahlo was known for her self-portraits. In “Frida Kahlo Without Hope” (1945 – oil on canvas mounted on masonite), the artist shows herself as a victim in a hospital bed. Many angry objects are hovering over her to show the oppressive nature of hopelessness. One Surreal image is a human skull that figures prominently in the composition.
Q1. According to the passage, if Frida Kahlo believed her art was realistic why is she portrayed as a surrealist?
- Andre Breton was a surrealist.
- She had an imagination as powerful as that of Dali.
- Her works contained evidence of her surrealistic learnings.
- She was friends with Georgia O’Keeffe and many similar artists.
Q2. According to the passage, how did Frida Kahlo’s marriage to Diego Rivera affect her work?
- Her work were deeply personal accounts of her marriage.
- Her tumultuous marriage gave her experiences that fuelled her powerful imagination.
- Her tumultuous marriage gave her the experience she lacked to create powerful imagery.
- The vibrant almost living images of martial bliss at a break neck speed fuelled her powerful imagination.
Q3. Which of the following is not true as per the passage?
- After her marriage to Diego Rivera
- Late in life
- When she was in her teens
- Cannot be determined from the passage
Correct Answer 1
Option C
Correct Answer 2
Option B
Correct Answer 3
Option D
Day 93 of 100: DILR Set
E-mart is the largest global e-commerce and business services transporter in the world, with its own fleet of aircrafts, ships and transporting vehicles. The following is the information about the inflow and outflow of funds on various heads of E-mart in 2025:
Inflow of funds from bookings are distributed among E-commerce, International and Interstate in a ratio of 3:2:1 and remaining income is from Investment and Sundry each contributing to 5% of overall inflow.
The outflow of funds is largely spent on Wages a 30%, Fuel a 20%, Lease/ Duty charges a 20%, and 10% as Undisclosed outflow. The remaining out flow is divided among Dividend, Pension and Capital/ Assets in a ratio 5:7:8.
The outflow of funds is largely spent on Wages a 30%, Fuel a 20%, Lease/ Duty charges a 20%, and 10% as Undisclosed outflow. The remaining out flow is divided among Dividend, Pension and Capital/ Assets in a ratio 5:7:8.
Q1. If in 2025 the overall inflow of funds was 600 million USD, and the overall outflow 540 million USD, then what was the ratio between the amount spent on fuel and the amount earned by international bookings by E-mart in 2025?
- 3:5
- 3:7
- 5:8
- 4:7
Q2. If in the year 2025, the sum of the inflow due to interstate bookings and sundry income were 150 million USD, then what would the overall profit or loss of E-mart (in million USD) be, given that the sum of the outflow due to pensions and dividends were 54 million USD?
- 360
- 300
- 180
- 96
Q3. If in 2025, E-mart incurred a loss of 60 million USD and if the total inflow of funds was 5% less than the outflow of funds, then what was the inflow of funds (in million USD) due to international bookings?
- 296
- 312
- 342
- 260
Q4. If the value of Interstate bookings is equal to the Lease/ Duty charges of E-mart in 2025, then what was the ratio of the international bookings and Wages?
- 2:5
- 3:4
- 1:1
- 4:3
Correct Answer 1
A. 3:5
Correct Answer 2
B. 300Correct Answer 3
C. 342Correct Answer 4
D. 4:3Day 94 of 100: VARC Vocabulary
Word: Vacillate (verb)
Meaning: Alternate or waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive.
Example in a Sentence: “She continued to vacillate between the two job offers, unable to commit to one or the other.”
Synonyms: Waver, indecisive, hesitate, dither, oscillate.
Why it’s important: This word describes a common human trait—indecisiveness—and is often used to characterize a weak or uncertain personality in literature or historical accounts. It helps convey a sense of instability or lack of firm resolution.
Day 95 of 100: Quant - Percentage
The cost of labor in manufacturing a product is 16.66% of the total cost. Due to improvements in automation, the cost of labor decreased to 12.5% of total cost, all other cost remaining the same. Find the percentage decrease in the cost of labor.
Correct Answer
28.57%
Day 96 of 100: DILR Set
Cricketing board of a new team is doing a performance evaluation, wherein number of centuries scored by players in the duration of past 3 years is being surveyed. The table below showed the number of centuries scored by the cricketers with the number of players who hit them are given. For example, 18 players were able to hit 3 centuries in the domestic session, while 4 players were able to hit 13 centuries over the same duration. Furthermore, the mean number of centuries hit by the cricketers, who hit 3 or more than 3 centuries in the said duration is 7 and the mean number of centuries hit by the cricketers, who hit 12 or less than 12 centuries in the said duration is 6. Tabulated data filled partially is as below:
Q1. What is the total number of cricketers taken into consideration?
Q2. What is the total number of centuries hit by these players?
Q3. What is the approximate minimum average century of cricketers who hit at most 4 centuries in the said duration?
- 1.54
- 1.74
- 1.8
- 1.85
Q4. What is the number of cricketers hitting 12 number of centuries in the said duration?
- 7
- 18
- 19
- Cannot be determined
Correct Answer 1
194Correct Answer 2
1225Correct Answer 3
B. 1.8Correct Answer 4
D. Cannot be determinedDay 97 of 100: VARC Verbal Reasoning
DIRECTIONS for question: Each question below has a set of four statements. Each of these statements can be classified as one of the following:
- Facts, which deal with the pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an ‘F’)
- Inferences, which are conclusions drawn from the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option indicates such a statement with an ‘I’)
- Judgements, which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a ‘J’)
Select the appropriate option as your answer.
Question 1:
A. The book says, “Repentance is the denial of one’s natural, everyday actions and regret is wishing to undo them.”
B. All people are born with a certain nature; some lean towards good and others towards evil, but we cannot change who we are.
C. If we reason and act according to the given order, then there is nothing to repent of.
D. Repentance is not necessary because we should not be held to our actions and words of the past, because our public nature is constantly changing along with our inner nature.
- FJIJ
- IFJI
- FJJI
- JIJF
Assumptions I: Non living beings are not social animals.
Assumptions II: There is at least one more living being other than man.
The statement talks about living beings only. Nothing can be assumed about non-living on the basis of the given statement. So, it is not correct to assume I. Option II is definitely true as without this being true the statement will not hold good. Option (b) is correct.
Q2.
Statement:
Child abuse is increasing and has become a major form of human exploitation in India.
Assumptions I: Children can be subjected to abuse and exploitation in India.
Assumptions II: Other forms of human sexploitation exist in India.
Both the assumptions are correct as without them the argument will not be supported. As child abuse is increasing, statement I is definitely true. 'A major form of human exploitation in India' indicates that it is not the only form of human exploitation in India.
Q3.
Statement:
Teachers have observed that children respond better in a situation where a variety of activities are taking place than in a situation with a single activity.
Assumption I: Teachers keep track of the activities of children.
Assumption II: Children take part in various activities.
Assumption I is true as without it teachers will not be able to make such an observation. Assumption II is clearly implied by the given statement in question because it states that children respond in a better way only when they find more variety. Hence, children take part in various activities.
Q4.
Statement:
People in North India wear more woollens than people in South India.
Assumption I: Good quality woolens are available more in North India than in South India.
Assumption II: People of North India are not as strong as people of South India.
Both the assumptions do not hold good. Quality of woolens does not justify the need of using them more. No assumption regarding the strength of people can be made on the basis of the need for woolens. The need depends upon climate. Thus, the valid assumption is that the climate of North India is colder than that of South India.
Q5.
Statement:
UPSC Interview, conducted for selecting people for jobs, measures the personality traits of the candidates routinely.
Assumption I: Personality trait is a measurable entity.
Assumption II: Personality traits are important factors with respect to performance of the job.
Assumption I is valid as it would not have been possible to measure the personality traits if it had not been a measurable entity. Since UPSC has made it a routine to measure the personality traits of the candidates, it must be important for them to measure the personality traits; hence assumption II is valid. Hence, both the assumptions follow.
Correct Answer 1
B
Correct Answer 2
C
Correct Answer 3
C
Correct Answer 4
D
Correct Answer 5
C
Day 99 of 100: DILR Set
A new game show on TV has 100 boxes numbered 1, 2, ….., 100 in a row, each containing a mystery prize. The prizes are items of different types, a, b, c, …., in decreasing order of value. The most expensive item is type a, a diamond ring, and there is exactly one of these. You are told that the number of items at least doubles as you move to the next type. For example, there would be at least twice as many items of type b as of type a, at least twice as many items of type c as of type b and so on. There is no particular order in which the prizes are places in the boxes.
Q1. What is the minimum possible number of different types of prizes?
Q2. What is the maximum possible number of different types of prizes?
Q3. Which of the following is not possible?
- There are exactly 60 items of type d.
- There are exactly 30 items of type b.
- There are exactly 45 items of type c.
- There are exactly 75 items of type e.
Q4. You ask for the type of item in box 45. Instead of being given a direct answer, you are told that there are 31 items of the same type as box 45 in boxes 1 to 44 and 43 items of the same type as box 45 in boxes 46 to 100.
What is the maximum possible number of different types of items?
- 6
- 4
- 3
- 5
Correct Answer 1
2
Correct Answer 2
3
Correct Answer 3
Option C
Correct Answer 4
D. 5
Day 100 of 100: You’ve Done the Work. Now, Trust the Yourself.🍀✨
Today your most important job is to stop studying. Put the books away. You’ve done the work, and cramming now will only cause anxiety and burnout. Your brain needs rest to perform at its peak. Spend the day in quiet confidence: review your admit card and ID, eat a good meal, and get to bed early. This is a mental game, and you’ve trained for this moment. Trust in the countless hours you’ve invested, believe in the foundation you’ve built, and know that you are ready. The final day of preparation is not about adding more knowledge, but about bringing your best self to the starting line. All you have to do is show up and let your hard work shine.
You’re Ready. You’ve Always Been.
Good luck from Team Quantifiers!
