How To Boost VARC Scores in Last 4 Weeks: With only 4 weeks to go for CAT 2025, it becomes significant to put sole focus on maximising the score and maintain accuracy. A lot of candidates who appear for the CAT exam for the first time tend to undermine the VARC section, but in fact VARC could be your make it or break it section. With only 30 days CAT 2025, you can maximize the most from VARC and add 8-12 marks more, thus significantly increasing your percentile, but with the right 30-day plan and guidance.
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CAT Percentile Vs Score 2025 (Expected): VARC Section
Before we dig deep into the Expert Tips for VARC section for the last 4 weeks, it is important to see the expected CAT percentile vs. score for 2025 so that you can understand how much you can aim for to achieve a certain percentile.
| CAT Percentile | CAT VARC Score | Net Questions |
| 99.5 | 45 | 16 |
| 99 | 41 | 15 |
| 97 | 34 | 12 |
| 95 | 30 | 11 |
| 90 | 29 | 10 |
| 85 | 20 | 8 |
| 80 | 18 | 7 |
| 75 | 16 | 6 |
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If you strengthen your VARC scores, it won’t just lift your overall percentile; it will also reduce the pressure on other sections like DILR and QA, especially if those aren’t your strong areas. Let’s explore how a solid VARC performance can become a game-changer in your CAT 2025 journey.
| VARC | DILR | QA | Total | ||
| VARC Hero | Percentile | 99.0 | 95.00 | 95.00 | 99.3 |
| Marks | 56 | 24 | 24 | 104 | |
| Questions | 19 | 8 | 8 | 35 |
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CAT VARC 30 Day Preparation Strategies: Expert Tips
Knowing where and how to focus in the last lap of the CAT journey makes all the difference because the last 4 weeks are full of anxiety and stress. Hence, to help ease your worries, our CL CAT mentors have brought a secret 4-week strategy to tackle VARC section to boost your VARC scores.
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Week 1 – Practice, Persevere, and Patience
The VARC section rewards consistency and calmness of mind more than constantly studying for longer hours. In the first week, attempt 2-3 RCs daily under timed conditions and 15-20 VA questions spread across para-jumbles, summaries, and odd-sentence-out.
Keep a mistake notebook and note the logic behind every wrong answer. The goal isn’t just more questions, but better awareness of your reading patterns, biases, and traps. With daily practice, comprehension and accuracy improve steadily.
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Week 1 – Smart Work
In the last month, time is your most valuable resource. Shift from random reading to strategic reading. Focus on the question types you struggle with, for example, if you often miss tone/inference questions, isolate and drill them. Learn option elimination techniques. This is important to maintain the accuracy in the exam, after all we have to remember that there is a negative marking. Rule out emotionally charged, extreme, or out-of-scope options first.
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Week 1 – Reverse Engineer The Section
Stop approaching VARC passively. Instead, analyse from the examiner’s perspective:
- Why was each wrong option tempting?
- What words or logic made the correct answer fit better?
- What reading traps were used (contrast words, subtle qualifiers, etc.)?
Understand what the tone of the passage, and the intent? The inference? Even the topics of the passages that are asked and analyse accordingly.
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Week 4 – Go On The Offensive
In the final week, shift from defense (avoiding mistakes) to offense (maximizing attempts). Attempt 2 full VARC sectionals per week, experiment with sequence (RC first or VA first), and simulate real test conditions. Don’t let tough RCs drain your confidence; skip strategically and attack the ones you can master.
Bonus Tip: Solve VARC Like Quant – each question has reasoning behind the right and wrong choices, just like Quant.
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How to Approach CAT 2025 VARC Section
The easiest and common mistakes made by students in the VARC section are not committed because they didn’t understand the questions but because they got trapped by the wrong option which looked right. Thus, identifying the right option becomes a necessity to boost the VARC score. Our CL Mentors use what they call a B. E. A. S. T Strategy.
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Broad Options
These are generic or abstract responses that appear to be relevant but do not address the question specifically. Always read the question twice!
Tip: Always check if the option directly answers “what is being asked”, not just “what is mentioned.”
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Extreme Options
Words such as “always,” “never,” “completely,” “all,” or “none” will usually indicate exaggeration. That does not mean that such words are always wrong. Read and understand the questions
Tip: CAT passages are nuanced, extreme options often oversimplify, so prefer balanced statements.
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Alien Options
These introduce new or unrelated ideas not present in the passage.
Tip: If an option sounds insightful but doesn’t trace back to a line in the passage, it’s likely wrong.
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Side-Track Options
These are factually correct but irrelevant, they distract by giving information that isn’t related to the main question.
Tip: Check if the option answers the core question type (e.g., inference, tone, idea). If not, eliminate it.
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Tone – Mismatch Options
These options do not match the tone, mood, or intent of the passage or author.
Tip: Before marking the answer, check if it matches the attitude of the author, analytical, critical, appreciative, etc.
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Conclusion
As discussed above, VARC could be your make it or break it section. Don’t let VARC be the section to drag you back from your preparation. Play on the offensive and tackle each passage with the winner’s mindset and proper strategy.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Can I achieve 99%ile in the VARC section?
A: Yes, absolutely, you can achieve 99%ile in the VARC section by following the detailed preparation plan and boost your scores by strategising the section.
Q: Should I focus on sectional mocks?
A: Yes, try solving as many VARC sectional mocks as you can to understand the tone, intent and inference of the passage so that you can know how to eliminate the wrong option.
Q: How can I improve accuracy in the RCs in VARC section?
A: Use the B.E.A.S.T. rule to eliminate the wrong options and arrive at the right one. This way you can improve your accuracy in the VARC section.
