🚨 CAT 2025 Slot 1 DILR Solutions: Toughest Sets, Easiest Tricks! (100% Accuracy)

Anshu Agarwal
Apr 23
4 min read

Updated: May 19

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CAT 2025 Slot 1 DI LR was moderate to slightly tough, but the real challenge was set selection + approach, not calculation.

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🔥 Set 1:

Directions [01 – 05]:

A train travels from Station A to Station E, passing through stations B, C, and D, in that order. The train has a seating capacity of 200. A ticket may be booked from any station to any other station ahead on the route, but not to any earlier station.

A ticket from one station to another reserves one seat on every intermediate segment of the route. For example, a ticket from B to E reserves a seat in the intermediate segments B – C, C – D, and D – E.

The occupancy factor for a segment is the total number of seats reserved in the segment as a percentage of the seating capacity. The total number of seats reserved for any segment cannot exceed 200.

The following information is known.

Segment C – D had an occupancy factor of 95%. Only segment B – C had a higher occupancy factor.
Exactly 40 tickets were booked from B to C and 30 tickets were booked from B to E.
Among the seats reserved on segment D – E, exactly four-sevenths were from stations before C.
The number of tickets booked from A to C was equal to that booked from A to E, and it was higher than that from B to E.
No tickets were booked from A to B, from B to D and from D to E.
The number of tickets booked for any segment was a multiple of 10.

What was the occupancy factor for segment D – E?

(a) 84%

(b) 77%

(d) 35%

2. How many tickets were booked from Station A to Station E?

3. How many tickets were booked from Station C?

4. What is the difference between the number of tickets booked to Station C and the number of tickets booked to Station D?

5. How many tickets were booked to travel in exactly one segment?

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🔥 Set 2:

Directions [06 – 09]:

Five countries engage in trade with each other. Each country levies import tariffs on the other countries. The import tariff levied by Country X on Country Y is calculated by multiplying the corresponding tariff percentage with the total imports of Country X from Country Y.

The radar chart below depicts different import tariff percentages charged by each of the five countries on the others. For example, US (the blue line in the chart) charges 20%, 40%, 30%, and 30% import tariff percentages on imports from France, India, Japan, and UK, respectively. The bar chart depicts the import tariffs levied by each county on other countries. For example, US charged import tariff of 3 billion USD on UK.

Assume that imports from one country to another equals the exports from the latter to the former.

The trade surplus of Country X with Country Y is defined as follows.

Trade surplus = Exports from Country X to Country Y – Imports to Country X from Country Y.

A negative trade surplus is called trade deficit.

6. Among France and UK, who has/have trade surplus(es) with US?

(a) Neither France nor UK

(b) Only UK

(d) Only France

7. What is the trade surplus/trade deficit of India with UK?

(a) Deficit of 10.0 Billion USD

(b) Surplus of 15.0 Billion USD

(d) Surplus of 10.0 Billion USD

8. Which among the following is the highest?

(a) Exports by Japan to UK

(b) Imports by US from France

(d) Exports by France to Japan

9. How much is Japan's export to India worth?

(a) 16.0 Billion USD

(b) 1.75 Billion USD

(d) 7.0 Billion USD

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🔥 Set 3:

Directions [10 – 13]:

A round table has seven chairs around it. The chairs are numbered 1 through 7 in a clockwise direction. Four friends, Aslam, Bashir, Chhavi, and Davies, sit on four of the chairs. In the starting position, Aslam and Chhavi are sitting next to each other, while for Bashir as well as Davies, there are empty chairs on either side of the chairs that are sitting on.

The friends take turns moving either clockwise or counterclockwise from their chair. The friend who has to move in a turn occupies the first empty chair in whichever direction (s)he chooses to move. Aslam moves first (Turn 1), followed by Bashir, Chhavi, and Davies (Turns 2, 3, and 4, respectively). Then Aslam moves again followed by Bashir, and Chhavi (Turns 5, 6, and 7, respectively).

The following information is known.

1. The four friends occupy adjacent chairs only at the end of Turn 2 and Turn 6.

2. Davies occupies Chair 2 after Turn 1 and Chair 4 after Turn 5, and Chhavi occupies Chair 7 after Turn 2.

10. What is the number of the chair initially occupied by Bashir?

11. Who sits on the chair numbered 4 at the end of Turn 3?

(a) Bashir

(b) Chhavi

(d) No one

12. Which of the chairs are occupied at the end of Turn 6?

(a) Chairs numbered 1, 2, 6, and 7

(b) Chairs numbered 2, 3, 4, and 5

(d) Chairs numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4