The CAT 2022 DILR Slot 2 paper was conducted by IIM Bangalore on November 27, 2022 in the afternoon window from 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM. This Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning section carried 20 questions worth 60 marks, and you got a sectional time limit of 40 minutes to clear it.
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The 20 questions were split into 4 sets of 5 questions each, with around 6 questions in the TITA (Type In The Answer) format. Most students rated this section difficult, since only 2 of the 4 sets were comfortably solvable, so set selection in the first 5 minutes decided your score. On this page you get every question with a fully worked solution, so you can rebuild the logic of all 4 sets step by step.
CAT 2022 Slot 2 DILR Questions with Solutions
Comprehension:
A few salesmen are employed to sell a product called TRICCEK among households in various housing complexes. On each day, a salesman is assigned to visit one housing complex. Once a salesman enters a housing complex, he can meet any number of households in the time available. However, if a household makes a complaint against the salesman, then he must leave the housing complex immediately and cannot meet any other household on that day. A household may buy any number of TRICCEK items or may not buy any item. The salesman needs to record the total number of TRICCEK items sold as well as the number of households met in each day. The success rate of a salesman for a day is defined as the ratio of the number of items sold to the number of households met on that day. Some details about the performances of three salesmen - Tohri, Hokli and Lahur, on two particular days are given below.
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1. Over the two days, all three of them met the same total number of households, and each of them sold a total of 100 items.2. On both days, Lahur met the same number of households and sold the same number of items.
3. Hokli could not sell any item on the second day because the first household he met on that day complained against him.
4. Tohri met 30 more households on the second day than on the first day.
5. Tohri’s success rate was twice that of Lahur’s on the first day, and it was 75% of Lahur’s on the second day.
What was the total number of households met by Tohri, Hokli and Lahur on the first day?
How many TRICCEK items were sold by Tohri on the first day?
How many households did Lahur meet on the second day?
How many households did Tohri meet on the first day?
Which of the following statements is FALSE?
Comprehension:
Every day a widget supplier supplies widgets from the warehouse (W) to four locations - Ahmednagar (A), Bikrampore (B), Chitrachak (C), and Deccan Park (D). The daily demand for widgets in each location is uncertain and independent of each other. Demands and corresponding probability values (in parenthesis) are given against each location (A, B, C, and D) in the figure below. For example, there is a 40% chance that the demand in Ahmednagar will be 50 units and a 60% chance that the demand will be 70 units. The lines in the figure connecting the locations and warehouse represent two-way roads connecting those places with the distances (in km) shown beside the line. The distances in both the directions along a road are equal. For example, the road from Ahmednagar to Bikrampore and the road from Bikrampore to Ahmednagar are both 6 km long.
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Every day the supplier gets the information about the demand values of the four locations and creates the travel route that starts from the warehouse and ends at a location after visiting all the locations exactly once. While making the route plan, the supplier goes to the locations in decreasing order of demand. If there is a tie for the choice of the next location, the supplier will go to the location closest to the current location. Also, while creating the route, the supplier can either follow the direct path (if available) from one location to another or can take the path via the warehouse. If both paths are available (direct and via warehouse), the supplier will choose the path with minimum distance.
If the last location visited is Ahmednagar, then what is the total distance covered in the route (in km)?
If the total number of widgets delivered in a day is 250 units, then what is the total distance covered in the route (in km)?
What is the chance that the total number of widgets delivered in a day is 260 units and the route ends at Bikrampore?
If the first location visited from the warehouse is Ahmednagar, then what is the chance that the total distance covered in the route is 40 km?
If Ahmednagar is not the first location to be visited in a route and the total route distance is 29 km, then which of the following is a possible number of widgets delivered on that day?
Comprehension:
The two plots below show data for four companies code-named A, B, C, and D over three years - 2019, 2020, and 2021.
The first plot shows the revenues and costs incurred by the companies during these years. For example, in 2021, company C earned Rs.100 crores in revenue and spent Rs.30 crores. The profit of a company is defined as its revenue minus its costs. 
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The second plot shows the number of employees employed by the company (employee strength) at the start of each of these three years, as well as the number of new employees hired each year (new hires). For example, Company B had 250 employees at the start of 2021, and 30 new employees joined the company during the year.
Considering all three years, which company had the highest annual profit?
Which of the four companies experienced the highest annual loss in any of the years?
The ratio of a company’s annual profit to its annual costs is a measure of its performance. Which of the four companies had the lowest value of this ratio in 2019?
The total number of employees lost in 2019 and 2020 was the least for:
Profit per employee is the ratio of a company’s profit to its employee strength. For this purpose, the employee strength in a year is the average of the employee strength at the beginning of that year and the beginning of the next year. In 2020, which of the four companies had the highest profit per employee?
Comprehension:
A speciality supermarket sells 320 products. Each of these products was either a cosmetic product or a nutrition product. Each of these products was also either a foreign product or a domestic product. Each of these products had at least one of the two approvals – FDA or EU.
The following facts are also known:
1. There were equal numbers of domestic and foreign products.
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2. Half of the domestic products were FDA approved cosmetic products.3. None of the foreign products had both the approvals, while 60 domestic products had both the approvals.
4. There were 140 nutrition products, half of them were foreign products.
5. There were 200 FDA approved products. 70 of them were foreign products and 120 of them were cosmetic products.
How many foreign products were FDA approved cosmetic products?
How many cosmetic products did not have FDA approval?
Which among the following options best represents the number of domestic cosmetic products that had both the approvals?
If 70 cosmetic products did not have EU approval, then how many nutrition products had both the approvals?
If 50 nutrition products did not have EU approval, then how many domestic cosmetic products did not have EU approval?
CAT 2022 DILR Slot 2 Exam Pattern and Marking Scheme
The DILR section of CAT 2022 Slot 2 followed the standard 3-section CAT design, giving you 20 questions and a strict 40-minute sectional timer that you could not carry over to any other section. Here is the exact structure you appeared for.
- Total questions: 20 in the Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning section
- Section duration: 40 minutes (sectional time limit)
- Total marks: 60 (3 marks per question)
- Marking (MCQ):
Each correct MCQ earns you +3 marks, while every wrong MCQ costs you -1 mark, so blind guessing across all 20 questions hurts your score.
- Marking (TITA):
The roughly 6 TITA (Type In The Answer) questions also give +3 for a correct response but carry 0 negative marking, so you should attempt every TITA you can reasonably narrow down.
- Question types: 4 sets x 5 questions: The 20 questions were grouped into 4 independent sets of 5 questions each, so cracking the setup of a single set unlocked all 5 of its questions. Around 14 MCQs: The majority of the 20 questions were 4-option MCQs carrying the -1 penalty for a wrong choice. Around 6 TITA questions: Roughly 6 of the 20 questions were Type In The Answer items with no negative marking, making them safe attempts.
CAT 2022 DILR Slot 2 Set-Wise Topics and Weightage
All 4 sets carried equal weight of 5 questions (15 marks) each, but they differed sharply in difficulty. Reviewers noted a fairly even DI vs LR mix, with 1 clear data interpretation set and 3 reasoning-driven sets. Here is how the 20 marks were spread across the 4 sets.
- Data Interpretation - 1 set (5 questions): A bar-graph based DI set on male and female population and death rates rewarded careful reading, and many students rated it among the 2 easier sets.
- Cost, Revenue and Employee data - 1 set (5 questions): A scatter-plot / graph set on profit and revenue was treated as the second must-attempt set, solvable in roughly 8 to 10 minutes.
- Analytical Reasoning - 1 set (5 questions): A reasoning set built around the spread rate of Covid demanded multiple conditions to be tracked together and was one of the 2 tougher sets.
- Arrangement / Selection - 1 set (5 questions): A set on students, their chosen electives and grades formed the fourth block and pushed the overall difficulty of the section up.
CAT 2022 DILR Slot 2 Set Solution Walkthrough
Source: Aptitude Jab
How to Use the CAT 2022 DILR Slot 2 Solved Paper
The best way to gain from this 20-question solved paper is to treat it as a timed mock first and a study tool second. Follow these 4 steps to convert the paper into a measurable score gain.
- Run a 40-minute timer: Attempt all 4 sets under the exact 40-minute sectional limit before you read any solution, so your practice matches the real Slot 2 pressure.
- Spend 5 minutes scanning: Read all 4 set introductions first and rank them, because in Slot 2 only 2 of the 4 sets were genuinely easy and choosing them early was worth 6 to 8 marks.
- Review every solution: Check all 20 worked solutions, not just the ones you missed, to compare your approach against the faster method and cut your per-set time below 10 minutes.
- Redo the 2 hard sets: Re-solve the 2 tougher reasoning sets after a day without looking at the answers to confirm you can now finish them within 12 minutes.
Good Attempts and Percentile Benchmark for DILR Slot 2
- Good attempts: Solving 10 to 12 questions (about 2 to 2.5 sets) with 85 to 90% accuracy was considered a strong DILR performance in Slot 2.
- 99 percentile zone: A scaled score of roughly 30 to 32 marks, which is about 10 to 11 correct answers, was enough to reach the 99+ percentile band in this difficult section.
- Safe sectional cutoff: Clearing 2 full sets (10 questions) accurately kept you comfortably above the 90 percentile sectional mark for DILR.
DILR Slot 2 Question Paper FAQs
Ques. How difficult was the CAT 2022 DILR Slot 2 section?
Ans. The CAT 2022 DILR Slot 2 section was rated difficult by most students, as only 2 of the 4 sets were comfortably solvable while the other 2 reasoning sets were time-consuming, which is why a sectional score near 30 marks was enough for a 99+ percentile.
Ques. How many questions were there in CAT 2022 DILR Slot 2?
Ans. There were 20 questions in CAT 2022 DILR Slot 2, arranged as 4 sets of 5 questions each, carrying a total of 60 marks with a 40-minute sectional time limit.
Ques. What is a good number of attempts in CAT 2022 DILR Slot 2?
Ans. Solving 10 to 12 questions, which is about 2 to 2.5 sets, with 85 to 90% accuracy was considered a good attempt and was enough to push you toward the 95+ percentile in DILR Slot 2.
Ques. What is the marking scheme for CAT 2022 DILR Slot 2?
Ans. Each correct answer gives you +3 marks. MCQs carry a -1 penalty for a wrong answer, while the roughly 6 TITA questions carry 0 negative marking, so you should attempt every TITA you can solve.
Ques. Who conducted CAT 2022 and where can I verify the exam details?
Ans. CAT 2022 was conducted by IIM Bangalore on November 27, 2022, and you can verify all official exam details on the IIMs' website at iimcat.ac.in.
Ques. What topics were asked in CAT 2022 DILR Slot 2?
Ans. The 4 sets covered 1 data interpretation set on population and death rates, 1 scatter-plot set on cost and revenue, and 2 analytical reasoning sets (one based on Covid spread rate and one on students' electives and grades), giving a balanced DI and LR mix across all 20 questions.
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