CAT 2026 May Surprise You! IIM Indore’s CAT History Reveals THIS 🔥

Main ideas, concepts, and lessons

• Prompt/concern setting for CAT 2026

  • The speaker says CAT 2026 is expected to feel different from CAT 2025, and argues this is a real possibility based on past trends.
  • Core claim: IIM Indore has a history of introducing format and difficulty changes that significantly affect how CAT feels and how students should prepare.

• Why historical analysis matters

  • The video “looks back” at CAT papers conducted by IIM Indore to infer what CAT 2026 might look like.

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Key timeline of IIM Indore–conducted CAT changes (with implications)

CAT 2013 (computer-based early era)

• Exam structure

  • 60 questions, 140 minutes
  • 2 sections with no sectional time limit
  • Section grouping:
    • Quant + DI
    • VA + LR

• Difficulty/characteristics

  • Quant: not impossible, but challenging
    • ~3–4 questions were relatively straightforward (solvable by serious aspirants)
    • Remaining questions required:
      • strong concepts
      • careful question selection
  • RC/VA
    • lengthy, dense passages
    • questions required understanding author intent, not just locating answers
  • Logical reasoning
    • mainly arrangements / logic puzzles
    • overall described as moderate

• Lesson drawn

  • IIM Indore emphasized conceptual understanding over speed.

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CAT 2014 (format disruption after 2013)

• Exam structure shift

  • Questions increased: 60 → 100
  • Duration increased: 140 → 170 minutes
  • Still 2 sections.

• Difficulty/characteristics

  • Quant became relatively more straightforward
    • focused more on fundamental concepts than advanced tricks
  • DI: not extremely difficult
  • Major surprise was in LR
    • 4 LR sets
    • ~2 were comfortably solvable
    • the other 2 were very time-consuming, with an implied strategy of skipping them
  • VARC (relative to 2013) improved
    • only one RC passage was genuinely difficult
    • many high performers reportedly benefited from the VRC portion

• Implied preparation takeaway

  • Even when the overall format stays similar (2 sections), topic difficulty distribution can flip, so students must be ready to adapt within the exam.

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CAT 2020 (pandemic-era modern slotting)

• Exam structure changes

  • Questions reduced: 100 → 76
  • Time reduced: 3 hours → 2 hours
  • First time described as 3 slots
  • Each slot had 40-minute sectional time limit

• Section-wise split

  • VARC: 26 questions
  • DILR: 24 questions
  • Quant: 26 questions

• The “catch”: different slot personalities

  • Slot 1
    • Very lengthy/difficult VARC
    • Easy DILR and Quant
  • Slot 2
    • Balanced VARC
    • Moderate DILR
    • Moderate Quant
  • Slot 3
    • Easy VARC
    • Very difficult DILR
    • Moderately difficult Quant

• VARC composition details

  • RC dominated with 18 RC questions across the three slots
  • Remaining 8 questions were VA, including:
    • para summary
    • para jumbles
    • odd one out

• Quant composition details

  • Arithmetic highest weight: ~10 questions
  • Geometry: ~4 questions

• DILR composition emphasis

  • More tilted toward logical reasoning than traditional data interpretation

• Pattern explicitly summarized by the speaker

  • 2013: toughest computer-based feel
  • 2014: major structural shift and more questions
  • 2020: modern three-slot format, fewer questions and less time
  • Repeated emphasis: IIM Indore doesn’t merely conduct CAT; it changes CAT.

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Methodology / instruction list presented (how to prepare)

• Take mock tests

  • “To change your CAT exam, you need to take mock test.”

• Start taking mocks now

  • Begin mock testing immediately rather than waiting.

• Use Cracku’s mock tests (video recommendation)

  • Claims:
    • Taken by countless CAT toppers year after year
    • Help simulate the actual CAT exam closely
    • Improve exam confidence

• Optional follow-up action

  • Check the linked article for section-wise analysis of IIM Indore’s previous CAT papers (as referenced by the speaker).

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What the video predicts/encourages for CAT 2026

• If IIM Indore follows its historical pattern, CAT 2026 could again be memorable—potentially tougher, easier, or simply different in feel/format/difficulty distribution.
• The video ends by prompting viewers to comment on whether CAT 2026 will be:
  • tougher,
  • easier, or
  • simply different.

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Speakers / sources featured

• Unspecified speaker (single narrator/host): the person delivering the commentary throughout.
• IIM Indore: cited as the CAT-conducting authority whose historical papers are analyzed.
• Cracku: promoted as the source of mock tests and as a related content/article provider.