CAT Quant · Chapterwise Blueprint
Master 32 recurring CAT Percentage question patterns through recognition cues, shortcuts, timed drills, attempt-first examples and a three-level practice ladder.
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Question asks you to move quickly between fractions, decimals and percentages or compare them.
A direct part of a total is requested: x% of N.
Question asks what percent one quantity is of another.
A value changes from old to new and relative change is asked.
Final value is known after a percentage increase/decrease; original value is asked.
A is x% more/less than B and reverse comparison is asked.
A quantity undergoes two or more percentage changes one after another.
A value rises/falls by x% and you are asked what reverse percentage restores the original.
Price changes while expenditure/budget and quantity consumed are constrained.
Income, spending and savings percentages change and one original proportion is unknown.
Population, users, customers, production or membership changes year by year.
Value of asset/machine/property changes repeatedly by a percentage.
Passing percentage, marks short/excess, maximum marks or two students' outcomes are linked.
Valid/invalid votes, turnout, candidates and winning margin are expressed in percentages.
A total is divided into groups and subgroups with different percentage conditions.
A rate itself changes, e.g., 20% to 25%, and the question distinguishes absolute vs relative change.
Percentages refer to different bases across statements.
A group composition changes after additions/removals and final percentage is given.
Different subgroups change by different percentages and total change is asked.
Part of a mixture/group is removed and replaced, changing percentage composition.
Measured/calculated value differs from actual value; error or correction is asked.
Several increases, decreases, markups, discounts or growth rates occur in sequence.
A word problem gives several percentage relationships but no actual base values.
Quantities are in a ratio, then one or more components change by percentages.
Group sizes and/or group averages differ by percentages.
Different items have different profit/loss percentages and cost weights, or markup/discount chains appear.
Concentration percentages combine with addition/removal/replacement.
Worker efficiency changes by a percentage, or workforce changes during the job.
Speed changes by a percentage and time/distance constraints must still hold.
Repeated percentage growth is described as interest, investment, population or value accumulation.
Two or more people/groups have incomes/expenditures in a ratio and percentage changes alter the ratio.
A long word problem mixes percentages with ratios, averages, work, speed, composition or budgets and hides the main equation.