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CAT Odd One Out questions (2017–2025) — actual Verbal questions with solutions

20 real CAT Odd One Out questions from CAT 2017 to CAT 2025, each with options, the verified answer and a step-by-step solution. Practice one topic at a time, t

20 real CAT questions · CAT 2017–2025 · 4 Medium · 3 Hard

Q1CAT 2025 · Slot 3 · CAT Hard · TITA✓ Answer verified

Oxygen CAT 2025 Slot 3 Odd Man Out | Hard

Five jumbled sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer. 1. About half of all the oxygen we breathe is made near the surface of the ocean by phytoplankton that photosynthesize just like land-dwelling plants. 2. A team of scientists that includes Boston University experts has discovered they also produce oxygen on the seafloor. 3. The research team used deep-sea chambers that land on the seafloor and enclose the seawater, sediment, polymetallic nodules, and living organisms. 4. The discovery is a surprise considering oxygen is typically created by plants and organisms with help from the sun—not by rocks on the ocean floor. 5. The deep-sea rocks, called polymetallic nodules, don’t only host a surprising number of sea critters.

Q2CAT 2025 · Slot 2 · CAT Medium · TITA✓ Answer verified

Odd Man Out CAT 2025 Slot 2 Verbal Actual Questions

Five jumbled sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer. 1. Pfas are a class of about 15,000 compounds most frequently used to make products water-, stain- and grease-resistant. 2. New research suggests exposure to some common perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (Pfas) cause changes to gene activity and that these changes are linked to health problems including multiple cancers, neurological disorders and autoimmune disease. 3. These Pfas compounds are dubbed “forever chemicals” because they do not naturally break down in the environment. 4. The research may also point toward other diseases potentially caused by Pfas that have not yet been identified. 5. The findings are a major step toward determining the mechanism by which the chemicals cause disease and could help doctors identify, detect and treat health problems for those exposed to Pfas before the issues advance.

Q3CAT 2025 · Slot 1 · CAT Medium · TITA

Five jumbled sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer. 1. Developments both technological and sociocultural have afforded us far greater freedom over death than we had in the past, and while we are still adapting ourselves to that freedom, we now appreciate the moral importance of this freedom. 2. But I believe that a type of freedom we can call freedom over death – that is, a freedom in which we shape the timing and circumstances of how we die – should be central to this conversation. 3. Legalising assisted dying is but a further step in realising this freedom over death. 4. Many people endorse, through their opinions or their choices, our freedom over death encompassing a right to medical assistance in hastening our deaths. 5. Freedom is a notoriously complex and contested philosophical notion, and I won’t pretend to settle any of the big controversies it raises.

Q4CAT 2025 · CAT Medium✓ Answer verified

CAT 2025 Odd Man Out

1. The Bayeux tapestry was, therefore, an obvious way to tell people about the downfall of the English and the rise of the Normans. 2. So if we take expert in Anglo-Saxon culture Gale Owen-Crocker's idea that the tapestry was originally hung in a square with certain scenes facing each other, people would have stood in the centre. 3. Art historian Linda Neagley has argued that pre-Renaissance people interacted with art visually, kinaesthetically (sensory perception through bodily movement) and physically. 4. That would make it an 11th-century immersive space with scenes corresponding and echoing each other, drawing the viewer's attention, playing on their senses and understanding of the story they thought they knew. 5. The Bayeux tapestry would have been hung at eye level to enable this.

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

Q5CAT 2024 · Slot 3 · TITA✓ Answer verified

Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer. 1. Part of the appeal of forecasting is not just that it seems to work, but that you don't seem to need specialized expertise to succeed at it. 2. The tight connection between forecasting and building a model of the world helps explain why so much of the early interest in the idea came from the intelligence community. 3. This was true even though the latter had access to classified intelligence. 4. One frequently cited study found that accurate forecasters' predictions of geopolitical events, when aggregated using standard scientific methods, were more accurate than the forecasts of members of the US intelligence community who answered the same questions in a confidential prediction market. 5. The aggregated opinions of non-experts doing forecasting have proven to be a better guide to the future than the aggregated opinions of experts.

Q6CAT 2024 · Slot 3 · CAT Hard

CAT 2024 Odd Man Out - Neural Development

1. To create a synapse, the neuron has specialized structures, often seen as tiny swellings, at its terminal end of the axon where it stores the chemicals that are emitted to transmit a signal to the next neuron. 2. This fetal warm-up act—the soldering of neural connections before the eyes actually function—is crucial to the performance of the visual system. 3. The reasons for this paring back of synapses is a mystery, but synaptic pruning is thought to sharpen and reinforce the "correct" synapses, while removing the weak and unnecessary ones. 4. Neural connections between the eyes and the brain are formed long before birth, establishing the wiring and the circuitry that allow a child to begin visualizing the world the minute she emerges from the womb. 5. During this rehearsal period, synapses—points of chemical connection—between nerve cells are generated in great excess, only to be pruned back during later development.

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

Q7CAT 2024 · Slot 2 · TITA✓ Answer verified

Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer. 1. No known real researcher of human behaviour would say that gender is all nature or all nurture. 2. The evidence for a biological basis for gender certainly doesn’t mean we should be complacent in the face of sexism. 3. Many people are uncomfortable with the idea that gender is not purely a social construct. 4. Despite this empirical truth, researchers who study the biological basis of gender often face political pushback. 5. There’s a political preference for gender to be only a reflection of social factors and so entirely malleable.

Q8CAT 2024 · Slot 2 · CAT Hard

CAT 2024 Odd Man Out - Gender Debate

1. No known real researcher of human behaviour would say that gender is all nature or all nurture. 2. The evidence for a biological basis for gender certainly doesn’t mean we should be complacent in the face of sexism. 3. Many people are uncomfortable with the idea that gender is not purely a social construct. 4. Despite this empirical truth, researchers who study the biological basis of gender often face political pushback. 5. There’s a political preference for gender to be only a reflection of social factors and so entirely malleable.

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

Q9CAT 2024 · Slot 1 · TITA✓ Answer verified

Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer. 1. Animals have an interest in fulfilling their basic needs, but also in avoiding suffering, and thus we ought to extend moral consideration. 2. Singer viewed himself as a utilitarian, and presents a direct moral theory concerning animal rights, in contrast to indirect positions, such as welfarist views. 3. He argued for extending moral consideration to animals because, similar to humans, animals have certain significant interests. 4. The event that publicly announced animal rights as a legitimate issue within contemporary philosophy was Peter Singer's Animal Liberation text in 1975. 5. As such, we ought to view their interests alongside and equal to human interests, which results in humans having direct moral duties towards animals.

Q10CAT 2024 · Slot 1 · CAT Medium

CAT 2024 Odd Man Out - Animal Rights

1. Animals have an interest in fulfilling their basic needs, but also in avoiding suffering, and thus we ought to extend moral consideration. 2. Singer viewed himself as a utilitarian, and presents a direct moral theory concerning animal rights, in contrast to indirect positions, such as welfarist views. 3. He argued for extending moral consideration to animals because, similar to humans, animals have certain significant interests. 4. The event that publicly announced animal rights as a legitimate issue within contemporary philosophy was Peter Singer's Animal Liberation text in 1975. 5. As such, we ought to view their interests alongside and equal to human interests, which results in humans having direct moral duties towards animals.

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

Q11CAT 2023 · Slot 2 · TITA✓ Answer verified

Para Jumble Actual Questions in CAT 2023 Slot - 2

Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer. 1. Self-care particularly links to loneliness, behavioural problems, and negative academic outcomes. 2. “Latchkey children” refers to children who routinely return home from school to empty homes and take care of themselves for extended periods of time. 3. Although self-care generally points to negative outcomes, it is important to consider that the bulk of research has yet to track long-term consequences. 4. In research and practice, the phrase “children in self-care” has come to replace latchkey in an effort to more accurately reflect the nature of their circumstances. 5. Although parents might believe that self-care would be beneficial for development, recent research has found quite the opposite.

Q12CAT 2023 · Slot 1 · TITA✓ Answer verified

Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer. 1. In English, there is no systematic rule for the naming of numbers; after ten, we have "eleven" and "twelve" and then the teens: "thirteen", "fourteen", "fifteen" and so on. 2. Even more confusingly, some English words invert the numbers they refer to: the word "fourteen" puts the four first, even though it appears last. 3. It can take children a while to learn all these words, and understand that "fourteen" is different from "forty". 4. For multiples of 10, English speakers switch to a different pattern: "twenty", "thirty", "forty" and so on. 5. If you didn't know the word for "eleven", you would be unable to just guess it – you might come up with something like "one-teen".

Q13CAT 2020 · Slot 1 · TITA✓ Answer verified

Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer: A. For feminists, the question of how we read is inextricably linked with the question of what we read. B. Elaine Showalter’s critique of the literary curriculum is exemplary of this work. C. Androcentric literature structures the reading experience differently depending on the gender of the reader. D. The documentation of this realization was one of the earliest tasks undertaken by feminist critics. E. More specifically, the feminist inquiry into the activity of reading begins with the realization that the literary canon is androcentric, and that this has a profoundly damaging effect on women readers.

Q14CAT 2019 · Slot 2 · TITA✓ Answer verified

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in. 1. A particularly interesting example of inference occurs in many single panel comics. 2. It’s the creator’s participation and imagination that makes the single-panel comic so engaging and so rewarding. 3. Often, the humor requires you to imagine what happened in the instant immediately before or immediately after the panel you’re being shown. 4. To get the joke, you actually have to figure out what some of these missing panels must be. 5. It is as though the cartoonist devised a series of panels to tell the story and has chosen to show you only one – and typically not even the funniest.

Q15CAT 2018 · Slot 2 · TITA✓ Answer verified

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in. 1. As India looks to increase the number of cities, our urban planning must factor in potential natural disasters and work out contingencies in advance. 2. Authorities must revise data and upgrade infrastructure and mitigation plans even if their local area hasn’t been visited by a natural calamity yet. 3. Extreme temperatures, droughts, and forest fires have more than doubled since 1980. 4. There is no denying the fact that our baseline normal weather is changing. 5. It is no longer a question of whether we will be hit by nature’s fury but rather when.

Q16CAT 2018 · Slot 1 · TITA✓ Answer verified

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in. 1. Displacement in Bengal is thus not very significant in view of its magnitude. 2. A factor of displacement in Bengal is the shifting course of the Ganges leading to erosion of river banks. 3. The nature of displacement in Bengal makes it an interesting case study.” 4. Since displacement due to erosion is well spread over a long period of time, it remains invisible. 5. Rapid displacement would have helped sensitize the public to its human costs.

Q17CAT 2017 · Slot 2 · TITA✓ Answer verified
Although we are born with the gift of language, research shows that we are surprisingly unskilled when it comes to communicating with others We must carefully orchestrate our speech if we want to achieve our goals and bring our dreams to fruition. We often choose our words without thought, oblivious of the emotional effects they can have on others. We talk more than we need to, ignoring the effect we are having on those listening to us. We listen poorly, without realizing it, and we often fail to pay attention to the subtle meanings conveyed by facial expressions, body gestures, and the tone and cadence of our voice.

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

Q18CAT 2017 · Slot 1 · TITA✓ Answer verified
People who study children's language spend a lot of time watching how babies react to the speech they hear around them. They make films of adults and babies interacting, and examine them very carefully to see whether the babies show any signs of understanding what the adults say. They believe that babies begin to react to language from the very moment they are born. Sometimes the signs are very subtle − slight movements of the baby's eyes or the head or the hands. You'd never notice them if you were just sitting with the child, but by watching a recording over and over, you can spot them.

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

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Odd man CAT Actual Questions slot 3

1. Although hard skills have traditionally ruled the roost, some companies are moving away from choosing prospective hires based on technical abilities alone. 2. Companies are shaking off the old definition of an ideal candidate and ditching the idea of looking for the singularly perfect candidate altogether. 3. Now, some job descriptions are frequently asking for candidates to demonstrate soft skills, such as leadership or teamwork. 4. That’s not to say that practical know-how is no longer required – some jobs still call for highly specific expertise 5. The move towards prioritizing soft skills “is a natural response to three years of the pandemic” says a senior recruiter at Cellar FSB.

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Odd man CAT Actual Questions slot 3

1. Boa Senior, who lived through the 2004 tsunami, the Japanese occupation and diseases brought by British settlers, was the last native of the island chain who was fluent in Bo. 2. The indigenous population has been steadily collapsing since the island chain was colonised by British settlers in 1858 and used for most of the following 100 years as a colonial penal colony. 3. Taking its name from a now-extinct tribe, Bo is one of the 10 Great Andamanese languages, which are thought to date back to pre-Neolithic human settlement of south-east Asia. 4. The last speaker of an ancient tribal language has died in the Andaman Islands, breaking a 65,000-year link to one of the world's oldest cultures. 5. Though the language has been closely studied by researchers of linguistic history, Boa Senior spent the last few years of her life unable to converse with anyone in her mother tongue

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