Name \/ Title<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2017 Slot 1<\/td> Map Making and Human Perception<\/td><\/tr> Printed Text to iPhone: Evolution of Reading<\/td><\/tr> American Shopping Malls<\/td><\/tr> Evolutionary Diversity and Species Survival<\/td><\/tr> The Economics of the Olympics<\/td><\/tr> Tradition and Innovation in Culture<\/td><\/tr> Genetic Mutation Repair in Embryos<\/td><\/tr> Origins of the Plague<\/td><\/tr> Visual Turn in Social Media<\/td><\/tr> What Defines a Classic<\/td><\/tr> Translation and Cultural Understanding<\/td><\/tr> Global Warming and Storm Patterns<\/td><\/tr> Studying Children\u2019s Language<\/td><\/tr> Exercise and Brain Function<\/td><\/tr> Mars and Loss of Water<\/td><\/tr> <\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2017 Slot 2<\/td> Creativity and the Social Process<\/td><\/tr> The Subnivium: Life Beneath the Snow<\/td><\/tr> The Age of Electric Vehicles<\/td><\/tr> The Return of Typewriters<\/td><\/tr> The Early Trade Networks of the Vikings<\/td><\/tr> Nitrogen Cycle and Lightning<\/td><\/tr> The Placebo Effect and Healing<\/td><\/tr> Samuel Johnson and the English Language<\/td><\/tr> Retelling Indian Stories<\/td><\/tr> The Whistling Caterpillar<\/td><\/tr> Socrates and Bacon: Questioning as Method<\/td><\/tr> Wittgenstein and the Meaning of Language<\/td><\/tr> Communication and Listening Skills<\/td><\/tr> Roger Federer and Timelessness<\/td><\/tr> Branding and Hidden Meanings in Logos<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2018 Slot 1<\/td> Plastic Pollution<\/td><\/tr> Human\u2013Elephant Conflict<\/td><\/tr> India and the World War<\/td><\/tr> Economy and Happiness<\/td><\/tr> Acquired Characteristics<\/td><\/tr> Algorithmic Transparency on Twitter<\/td><\/tr> Story of the Viola Player\u2019s Cancer<\/td><\/tr> Swifts and Forest Canopy<\/td><\/tr> Inequality and Democracy in the US<\/td><\/tr> Artificial Embryo Twinning<\/td><\/tr> Sociology of Professions Approach<\/td><\/tr> Conceptualization of Landscape<\/td><\/tr> Displacement in Bengal<\/td><\/tr> Time Inconsistency and Immunization<\/td><\/tr> Translators and Bumblebees<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2018 Slot 2<\/td> E-Governance<\/td><\/tr> White-lipped Grove Snails<\/td><\/tr> Meritocracy<\/td><\/tr> Metric Fixation<\/td><\/tr> Rings of Saturn<\/td><\/tr> Phoenixing in Australia<\/td><\/tr> Self-management in Chronic Disease<\/td><\/tr> Business Elites and Virtue Signalling<\/td><\/tr> Universal Basic Income and Automation<\/td><\/tr> Sports and Delinquency<\/td><\/tr> Bad Samaritan Laws<\/td><\/tr> Genome Editing in Japan<\/td><\/tr> Urban Planning and Natural Disasters<\/td><\/tr> Bird Songs and Learning<\/td><\/tr> Sleep Tracking and Orthosomnia<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2019 Slot 1<\/td> Tale of Aladdin<\/td><\/tr> Choice Fatigue<\/td><\/tr> Emperor Penguins<\/td><\/tr> Folk Music<\/td><\/tr> Topophilia<\/td><\/tr> Mind-Reading and Print-Reading<\/td><\/tr> Collaborative Filtering Algorithms<\/td><\/tr> Social Media and Online Criticism<\/td><\/tr> Carpe Diem and Metaphors<\/td><\/tr> Hidden Persuaders and Advertising<\/td><\/tr> Displaced Reference in Language<\/td><\/tr> Physics vs Engineering<\/td><\/tr> Deafness and Sign Language<\/td><\/tr> Organizational Identity<\/td><\/tr> The Suffix \u201cTron\u201d and Modernism<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2019 Slot 2<\/td> Bureaucracy<\/td><\/tr> Preservation<\/td><\/tr> Urban Settlements<\/td><\/tr> Linguistics<\/td><\/tr> British Colonial Policy<\/td><\/tr> Women\u2019s Time<\/td><\/tr> Cognitive Categorisation<\/td><\/tr> Atonal Music<\/td><\/tr> Balance of Nature<\/td><\/tr> Language as Human Trait<\/td><\/tr> Hybrid Social Movements<\/td><\/tr> Open-Plan Offices<\/td><\/tr> Single-Panel Comics<\/td><\/tr> Illeism and Self-Reflection<\/td><\/tr> Ocean Plastic<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2020 Slot 1<\/td> Anarchism and the State<\/td><\/tr> Elephant Seal Dialects<\/td><\/tr> Tang Dynasty Currency System<\/td><\/tr> Grammar and Sentence Structure<\/td><\/tr> Southeast Asian Security and China\u2019s Rise<\/td><\/tr> Intelligence and Heredity<\/td><\/tr> San Folktales and Shamanism<\/td><\/tr> Forensic Phonetics and the CSI Effect<\/td><\/tr> Evolution of Modern Europe<\/td><\/tr> Biological Weapons and Treaties<\/td><\/tr> Feminist Critique of Reading<\/td><\/tr> Slave Talk and Resistance<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2020 Slot 2<\/td> Visual Culture and Seeing<\/td><\/tr> History and Logic of Piracy<\/td><\/tr> Renewable Energy and Extractivism<\/td><\/tr> Theories of Aggression<\/td><\/tr> Atomic Energy and Radiation<\/td><\/tr> Change Blindness<\/td><\/tr> Theory of Sovereign States (Hobbes)<\/td><\/tr> Intuition vs Information in Decision Making<\/td><\/tr> Urban\u2013Rural Continuum and Measurement<\/td><\/tr> Information Capitalism<\/td><\/tr> Narratives of Sexual Assault<\/td><\/tr> Very Large Telescope (VLT)<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2020 Slot 3<\/td> Travel Writing and Empire<\/td><\/tr> Human Nature \u2014 Hobbes vs Rousseau<\/td><\/tr> Screen Time and Class Divide<\/td><\/tr> Financial Crisis and Public Understanding<\/td><\/tr> Metabolic Theory and Ecology<\/td><\/tr> Aesthetic Political Representation<\/td><\/tr> Antitrust Law and Consumer Welfare<\/td><\/tr> Seven Gods of Fortune<\/td><\/tr> Feminine Beauty and Media<\/td><\/tr> Evolution of Language<\/td><\/tr> Exaptation and Central Nervous System<\/td><\/tr> Hate Speech Detection and Algorithms<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2021 Slot 1<\/td> A Thirst for Empire (History of Tea)<\/td><\/tr> Maya Personhood<\/td><\/tr> Utopia and Dystopia<\/td><\/tr> Cuttlefish and Self-Control<\/td><\/tr> McGurk Effect<\/td><\/tr> Asteroid Mining and Space Law<\/td><\/tr> Literary Work and Reader Interaction<\/td><\/tr> Global Warming and Trees<\/td><\/tr> Neuron Regeneration in Zebrafish<\/td><\/tr> Predatory Academic Journals<\/td><\/tr> Innovation in Developing Economies<\/td><\/tr> Foreign Peacekeepers and Local Trust<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2021 Slot 2<\/td> The Scandal of Knowledge<\/td><\/tr> Linguistic Diversity and Monolingualism<\/td><\/tr> Nationalism and Gender Roles in Colonial India<\/td><\/tr> Truth and Power<\/td><\/tr> Genetic Engineering and Moral Questions<\/td><\/tr> Industrialist\u2013Worker Alliance<\/td><\/tr> Northwest Passage Dispute<\/td><\/tr> Vision of Development as Shared Responsibility<\/td><\/tr> Neuromarketing and Advertising<\/td><\/tr> Scientific Method and Invention<\/td><\/tr> Digital Preprints and Peer Review<\/td><\/tr> Creativity and Economic Progress<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2021 Slot 3<\/td> History of the Unconscious<\/td><\/tr> Accuracy, Entropy, and Time<\/td><\/tr> The Language Instinct (Chomsky\u2013Pinker)<\/td><\/tr> Nano-Sentinels and Soft Robots<\/td><\/tr> Automation and Jobs<\/td><\/tr> Chinese Business Schools<\/td><\/tr> Relationships and Regimes of Truth<\/td><\/tr> Restitution of Artefacts<\/td><\/tr> Gender Bias in Technology<\/td><\/tr> Work, Leisure, and Idleness<\/td><\/tr> Brazilian Economic Growth<\/td><\/tr> Intuition and Decision-Making<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2022 Slot 1<\/td> The Idea of the Copy in China and the West<\/td><\/tr> Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Emotion<\/td><\/tr> Critical Theory of Technology<\/td><\/tr> The Undead and Human Imagination<\/td><\/tr> Petitioning and Democracy<\/td><\/tr> Animate vs Inanimate in Quantum Physics<\/td><\/tr> Office Commutes and Innovation<\/td><\/tr> Internet and Knowledge<\/td><\/tr> Creative Industries and Global Trade<\/td><\/tr> Secret Weddings and Modern Relationships<\/td><\/tr> Ethiopia and Medieval Diplomacy<\/td><\/tr> Fish Skin Collagen for Healing<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2022 Slot 2<\/td> Camouflage in Cephalopods<\/td><\/tr> Philosophy of Social Sciences<\/td><\/tr> Engineering Ethics and Social Justice<\/td><\/tr> Evolution of Musicking<\/td><\/tr> History of Cheerfulness<\/td><\/tr> Egalitarian Ancient Cities<\/td><\/tr> Aage Badhein App and Financial Literacy<\/td><\/tr> Environmental Collapse and Political Solutions<\/td><\/tr> Behavioural Control in the Age of Big Data<\/td><\/tr> Revival of Ghee and Slow Food Movement<\/td><\/tr> Inherent Vice in Artworks<\/td><\/tr> Food Choices, Neoliberalism, and Gender<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2022 Slot 3<\/td> Human-Centered Automation<\/td><\/tr> Logic of Bios and Technos<\/td><\/tr> Orientalism and the Indian Past<\/td><\/tr> Chicago School and Crime<\/td><\/tr> Beacon Technology and Retail Communication<\/td><\/tr> Comedy, Cancel Culture, and Free Expression<\/td><\/tr> Meritocracy and Luck<\/td><\/tr> Cultural Appropriation in Fashion<\/td><\/tr> Return to Office Post-Pandemic<\/td><\/tr> Dual-Inheritance and Social Learning<\/td><\/tr> History of Alphabetical Order<\/td><\/tr> Childhood, Freedom, and Parental Expectations<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2023 Slot 1<\/td> Geographic Determinism and Human Phenomena<\/td><\/tr> Indian Ocean Novels and Postcolonial Literature<\/td><\/tr> The Original Affluent Society \u2013 Marshall Sahlins<\/td><\/tr> Return of Wolves in France<\/td><\/tr> Reading Philosophy and Self-Doubt<\/td><\/tr> Genetic Link between Native Americans and Japanese<\/td><\/tr> Naming of Numbers in English<\/td><\/tr> Theory of Mind and Human Cognition<\/td><\/tr> Algorithmic Bias and Human Bias<\/td><\/tr> True Crime and Public Fascination<\/td><\/tr> Weaponization of Information<\/td><\/tr> European Colonialism and Navigation<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2023 Slot 2<\/td> Second-Hand Fashion and Sustainability<\/td><\/tr> Why Liberalism Failed \u2013 Patrick Deneen<\/td><\/tr> Positivism and the Nature of Historical Facts<\/td><\/tr> Netflix and the Cultural Integration of Europe<\/td><\/tr> Origins of Human Kissing<\/td><\/tr> Productive Dualism and Modern Economies<\/td><\/tr> Children in Self-Care<\/td><\/tr> Banning of Books and Moral Censorship<\/td><\/tr> African Writing and Cultural Conflict<\/td><\/tr> Human Consciousness and Emergence<\/td><\/tr> Heatwaves, Media, and Public Awareness<\/td><\/tr> Counterfactual Thinking and Human Reasoning<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2023 Slot 3<\/td> The Nutmeg\u2019s Curse \u2013 Amitav Ghosh<\/td><\/tr> Rationality \u2013 Steven Pinker<\/td><\/tr> Cultural Property Laws and Archaeology<\/td><\/tr> Romantic Aesthetics and the Problem of Definition<\/td><\/tr> Definition of Arguments and Human Communication<\/td><\/tr> Linkages between Crime, Arms, and Conflict<\/td><\/tr> Soft Skills in Hiring<\/td><\/tr> Extinction of the Bo Language<\/td><\/tr> Recycling E-Waste through Microfactories<\/td><\/tr> The Printing Press and Universal Literacy<\/td><\/tr> Ecological Recovery on the Island<\/td><\/tr> Evolution of Perfectionism and Media Culture<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2024 Slot 1<\/td> The Western Barred Bandicoot Revival<\/td><\/tr> Economics, Human Behaviour, and Interdisciplinary Borrowing<\/td><\/tr> Crafts, Creativity, and the Modern Labour Market<\/td><\/tr> Streaming, Cultural Memory, and Digital Ownership<\/td><\/tr> Naturalization of Linguistic and Visual Codes<\/td><\/tr> Renaissance Music and Emotional Balance<\/td><\/tr> The Brain\u2019s Evolutionary Architecture<\/td><\/tr> Animal Emotions and Shared Brain Structures<\/td><\/tr> Public Transport Decline in Western Cities<\/td><\/tr> The Silk Roads and Global Connectivity<\/td><\/tr> Peter Singer and Animal Rights<\/td><\/tr> usability<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2024 Slot 2<\/td> Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Physicists and Other Scientists<\/td><\/tr> The Ethics and Transparency of Peer Review in Academia<\/td><\/tr> Medieval Spice Trade and European Colonial Expansion<\/td><\/tr> Unintended Consequences of Technological Innovation<\/td><\/tr> Drivers of Carnivore\u2013Human Conflicts<\/td><\/tr> Creativity and Freedom in Comedy<\/td><\/tr> Early Globalization before European Exploration<\/td><\/tr> Information Warfare and the DIME Model<\/td><\/tr> Louis Kervran and Elemental Transmutation in Chickens<\/td><\/tr> The Superiority of Night Owls<\/td><\/tr> The Biological and Social Basis of Gender<\/td><\/tr> Cultivated Meat and Innovation in Food Production<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2024 Slot 3<\/td> Lyric Poetry and Marxism<\/td><\/tr> The Napalm Girl Photograph<\/td><\/tr> Regulating Biotechnology<\/td><\/tr> Planetary Protection and Human Exploration of Mars<\/td><\/tr> Somalia\u2019s Drought and Humanitarian Crisis<\/td><\/tr> Language Extinction and Liberal Arts Education<\/td><\/tr> Return-to-Office Costs and Inflation<\/td><\/tr> Moutai\u2019s Marketing and Chinese Nationalism<\/td><\/tr> Synaptic Pruning and Visual Development<\/td><\/tr> Forecasting Accuracy and Intelligence Analysis<\/td><\/tr> The Tradwife and Cultural Performance<\/td><\/tr> AI, Language, and the Future of Democracy<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2025 Slot 1<\/td> Complex Systems, Tail Events and Nonstationarity<\/td><\/tr> The Bayeux Tapestry as Immersive Space<\/td><\/tr> Display Silver, Electric Light and Markets<\/td><\/tr> Zombie Cells, Inflammation and Aging<\/td><\/tr> Women, Anger and Socialisation<\/td><\/tr> Electronic Music, Communication and Inhumanity<\/td><\/tr> Mexican Instrument Making and Tradition<\/td><\/tr> Panoptic Mechanism and Power in Functions<\/td><\/tr> Freedom over Death and Assisted Dying<\/td><\/tr> Cultural Inspiration versus Appropriation<\/td><\/tr> Income Inequality and Economic Growth<\/td><\/tr> Insanity, Alienists and Criminal Responsibility<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2025 Slot 2<\/td> Taste, Judgment and Early Modern Aesthetics<\/td><\/tr> Literary Geography and Human Experience of Place<\/td><\/tr> Julio Torres, Colour Comedy and Taste<\/td><\/tr> Mexican Tetra Cavefish and Evolutionary Adaptations<\/td><\/tr> The Smell of Old Books and Paper Chemistry<\/td><\/tr> Dhaka Muslin and Woven Air<\/td><\/tr> Human Landscapes and Biodiversity Mosaics<\/td><\/tr> Elizabeth Magie, Monopoly and The Landlords Game<\/td><\/tr> PFAS Forever Chemicals and Gene Activity<\/td><\/tr> Big Tech, AI Language and Trust<\/td><\/tr> Instruments, Technoscience and Scientific Cultures<\/td><\/tr> Literature on Screen and Adaptation Studies<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> CAT 2025 Slot 3<\/td> Music, Brain Resources and Emotion<\/td><\/tr> Deep Sea Oxygen and Polymetallic Nodules<\/td><\/tr> Tribal Imagination, Time and Hallucinatory Art<\/td><\/tr> Memory Beliefs and Knowledge of the Past<\/td><\/tr> AI, Formalised Ethics and Moral Judgment<\/td><\/tr> Latinx, Latina and Xicana Identities<\/td><\/tr> MAOA Mutation and Aggression<\/td><\/tr> Mindful Indian Shoppers and Return to Tailors<\/td><\/tr> Wealth, Inequality and Productivity Gains<\/td><\/tr> Photography, Candidates and Electoral Image<\/td><\/tr> Indian Forest Acts and State Monopoly<\/td><\/tr> Dams, Sacrifice Zones and Modernity<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/span>CAT 2026 Detailed QA Syllabus <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe CAT 2026 QA syllabus covers various topics across Arithmetic, Algebra, Modern Maths, Number System, and Geometry. Among all the topics, Arithmetic and Algebra possess high weightage in the overall section. To get high scores in the Quantiative Ability section, one has to study CAT 2026 QA syllabus properly. Find the detailed syllabi for QA section below.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMost Important QA Topics for CAT 2026<\/strong><\/td>Quantitative Aptitude Sub-Topics <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>Arithmetic <\/strong><\/td>Percentages Algebra <\/strong><\/td>Linear Equations Geometry and Mensuration<\/strong><\/td>Triangles Number System <\/strong><\/td>Properties of Integers Modern Maths <\/strong><\/td>Set Theory <\/span>CAT 2026 Detailed LRDI Syllabus <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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