Games And Tournament CAT Questions 2025: Types of Questions, How to Crack?

Games and Tournaments CAT questions 2025 are asked in the Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation (LRDI) section. You can prepare for the section by practising questions on topics such as Tables, Data Arrangement, Logical Connectives and Sequences, and Data Interpretation.

Books such as Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation for CAT 2025 and How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CAT can be helpful for the ones preparing for the exam.

Tips to Crack and Practice Games and Tournament CAT Questions 2025

Solving Games and Tournament CAT Questions 2025 is not a difficult task; all it requires is practice before the exam and your attentiveness during the CAT exam. Below are some points yiu can follow to learn the tips to crack and practice Games and Tournament CAT questions.

• Games and Tournaments CAT questions are asked in the exam after a comprehensive story briefly explaining the possible scenarios of every answer choice.
  The ones appearing in the exam will be required to have good skills in understanding all the possible situations, and this will be done if only the comprehension is read and observed well.
• To prepare for Games And Tournament CAT Questions, candidates must solve MCQs on topics such as Data Interpretation, Seating Arrangements, Puzzles, Tournaments and more. 
• If you often make the mistake of spending too much time solving the Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation section, and the prime reason for this is that not enough practice questions were solved at the time of exam preparation. 
• The comprehensive questions from this section may seem tricky, but it is not that difficult to find the correct answer for you; the key to improving this is to be prepared well before appearing for the exam.
• One of the essential tips to crack the Games and Tournaments CAT questions is to practice previous years’ questions and practice mock questions based on the syllabus topics.
• The ones facing difficulties in solving this section can keep an important point in mind: reading the question and its comprehension in parts;
  sometimes, reading the whole question and comprehension altogether might be complex for some, so you should try to understand it with patience.

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Games and Tournaments CAT Questions: Previous Years Questions

Going through the CAT previous years’ games and tournaments Questions will give you a practical understanding and perspective on solving the questions. In this section, comprehensions are provided, which is followed by multiple choice questions. You may refer to the previous years CAT games and tournament questions from 2022 and 2018.

Comprehension 1: The management of a university hockey team was evaluating performance of four women players - Amla, Bimla, Harita and Sarita for their possible selection in the university team  for next year.
For this purpose, the management was looking at the number of goals scored by them in the past 8 matches, numbered 1 through 8. The four players together had scored a total of 12 goals in these matches.
In the 8 matches, each of them had scored at least one goal. No two players had scored the same total number of goals. 

The following facts are known about the goals scored by these four players only. All the questions refer only to the goals scored by these four players.

1. Only one goal was scored in every even numbered match.
2. Harita scored more goals than Bimla.
3. The highest goal scorer scored goals in exactly 3 matches including Match 4 and Match 8.
4. Bimla scored a goal in Match 1 and one each in three other consecutive matches.
5. An equal number of goals were scored in Match 3 and Match 7, which was different from the number of goals scored in either Match 1 or Match 5.
6. The match in which the highest number of goals was scored was unique and it was not Match 5.

Ques. 1) Which of the following is the correct sequence of goals scored in matches 1,3, 5 and 7?

Options:

A) 4, 1, 2, 1

B) 5, 1, 0, 1

C) 3, 1, 2, 1

D) 3, 2, 1, 2

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Ques.2) Which of the following statement (s) is/are wrong?

Statement 1- In every match at least one player scored a goal.

Statement 2- No two players scores goals in the same number of matches.

Options:

A) Statement 2 only

B) Statement 1 only

C) None of the statements

D) Both the statements

Ques. 3) How many goals were scored in Match 7?

Options: 

A) 3

B) 2

C) 1

D) None of the above

Ques. 4) If Harita scored goals in one more match as compared to Sarita, which of the following statement (s) is/are correct?

Statement 1- Amla scored goals in consecutive matches.

Statement 2- Sarita scored goals in consecutive matches.

Options: 

A) Statement 2 only

B) Statement 1 only

C) None of the statements

D) Both the statements

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Comprehension 2: Six players – Tanzi, Umeza, Wangdu, Xyla, Yonita and Zeneca competed in an archery tournament. The tournament had three compulsory rounds, Rounds 1 to 3. In each round every player shot an arrow at a target.

Hitting the centre of the target (called bull’s eye) fetched the highest score of 5. The only other possible scores that a player could achieve were 4, 3, 2 and 1.

Every bull’s eye score in the first three rounds gave a player one additional chance to shoot in the bonus rounds, Rounds 4 to 6. The possible scores in Rounds 4 to 6 were identical to the first three.

A player’s total score in the tournament was the sum of his/her scores in all rounds played by him/her. The table below presents partial information on points scored by the players after completion of the tournament.

In the table, NP means that the player did not participate in that round, while a hyphen means that the player participated in that round and the score information is missing.

The following facts are also known.

• Tanzi, Umeza and Yonita had the same total score.
• Total scores for all players, except one, were in multiples of three.
• The highest total score was one more than double of the lowest total score.
• The number of players hitting bull’s eye in Round 2 was double of that in Round 3.
• Tanzi and Zeneca had the same score in Round 1 but different scores in Round 3.

Ques. 1) What was the highest total score?

Options: 

A) 23

B) 21

C) 24

D) 25

Ques. 2) What was Zeneca’s total score?

Options:

A) 23

B) 22

C) 21

D) 24

Ques. 3) Which of the statements is true?

Options:

A) Xyla was the highest scorer.

B) Zeneca’s score was 23.

C) Zeneca was the highest scorer.

D) Xyla’s score was 23.

Ques. 4) What was Tanzi’s score in Round 3?

Options:

A) 1

B) 5

C) 3

D) 4

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CAT Geometry and Tournament (LRDI) Books

You are advised to prepare for the exam with reference books to sharpen your skills of solving the Games and Tournaments CAT questions. Below are some recommended books you can refer to for your practice:

CAT Geometry and Tournament (LRDI) Books

Book Name	Authority/ Publisher
Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation for CAT	Nishit Sinha
How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CAT	Arun Sharma
A Modern Approach to Logical Reasoning	R.S. Aggarwal
Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning	Gauram Puri
Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation for CAT	Pearson

CAT Geometry and Tournament Topics

You can refer to the CAT geometry and tournament topics from the list below:

• Logical Connectives and Sequences
• Data Interpretation
• Seating Arrangements
• Syllogisms
• Assumptions
• Binary Logic
• Puzzles
• Tournament based
• Bar Graph
• Pie Graph
• Line Graph
• Tables
• Data Arrangement
• Data Sufficiency