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CAT 2025 Slot 1 RC passage: Complex systems and tail events
This is passage 1 of the four Reading Comprehension passages in CAT 2025 Slot 1. It comes with 4 questions in the real exam. Below are the question stems; sign in to read the full passage and practise it with all options, the answer key and explanations.
Passage facts
- Exam
- CAT 2025
- Slot
- 1 of 3
- Position
- Passage 1 of 4
- Questions
- 4
- Passage length
- about 540 words
- Topic
- Complex systems and tail events
Questions in this set
- All of the following inferences are supported by the passage EXCEPT that:
- The passage suggests that contact tracing apps could inadvertently raise risky interactions by altering local behaviour. Which one of the assumptions below is most necessary for that suggestion to hold?
- Which one of the options below best summarises the passage?
- Which one of the following observations would most strengthen the passage's claim that a first-order tail event raises the probability of further tail events in complex systems?
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