CAT  is an online examination of 3 hours duration.The questions in the exam will be of MCQ and TITA type totaling 100 questions. MCQ are multiple choice questions, for which candidates get multiple answer choices. Each Question has 3 marks and a wrong answer takes away 1 mark. However Type in the Answer questions are exempted from Negative Marking.

CAT exam paper can be Categorised into 3 parts:

Quantitative Ability

Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension

Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning

The Verbal Ability section and Reading Comprehension has 34 Questions

Data interpretation-Logical Reasoning section has 32 MCQ questions

Quantitative Ability has 34 MCQ questions totalling up to 100 questions.

Each Question has 3 marks and a wrong answer takes away 1 mark.

TITA is nothing but Typing in the Answer which means they are not MCQs. You are not given any option to select your choices but you   have to come up with your own answer. These type of questions consume more time. 25-30% of the questions in CAT exam are of TITA type. You can read our article to check as how to prepare for such questions: https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-tackle-tita-questions-in-cat But to give you a glimpse,

Be careful in Managing your time

Be clear with your concepts

Do not guess

We can recommend a few books for you:

NCERT books to cover the basics from 6th to 10th Class


Quantitative Aptitude for CAT by Nishit Saxena


Quantitative Aptitude Quantum for CAT by Sarvesh Sharma


How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for CAT by Arun Sharma


Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Exams by Abhijit Guha


You can also download free downloadable e books at:
https://bschool.careers360.com/download/cat-ebooks

Hello there,

In various portions of CAT Exam you will find some TITA questions. TITA stands for " Type in The Answer ". You have to guess the answer of these questions. With scores around 160 (out of 300) needed for getting 99 percentile in CAT 2018, excellent performance in TITA questions is essential for you to get a seat in your dream college.There was no surprise in terms of the Exam Pattern as there were 34 questions with around 12 TITA type questions . So prepare well for these type of questions. Solve previous years papers for that.

Hope this helps.