| cat-2020-slot-1 | Passage 1: Anarchy | UNKNOWN_SOURCE | Philosophy / essay | argumentative | Passage 1: Anarchy | Structured passage body is not available in the compact source field; exact source remains unclaimed. | Read for problem-solution structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Half True traps. | Open mock |
| cat-2020-slot-1 | Passage 2: Elephant Seals | UNKNOWN_SOURCE | History / research writing | analytical | Passage 2: Elephant Seals | Structured passage body is not available in the compact source field; exact source remains unclaimed. | Read for historical evolution structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Half True traps. | Open mock |
| cat-2020-slot-1 | Passage 3: Coins | UNKNOWN_SOURCE | Economics / article | mixed | Passage 3: Coins | Structured passage body is not available in the compact source field; exact source remains unclaimed. | Read for historical evolution structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Half True traps. | Open mock |
| cat-2020-slot-1 | Passage 4: Vocabulary | UNKNOWN_SOURCE | History / article | argumentative | Passage 4: Vocabulary | Structured passage body is not available in the compact source field; exact source remains unclaimed. | Read for problem-solution structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Half True traps. | Open mock |
| cat-2020-slot-2 | cat-2020-slot2-varc-rc-1 | UNKNOWN_SOURCE | Sociology / research writing | argumentative | The claims advanced here may be condensed into two assertions: first, that visual culture is what images, acts of seeing, and attendant intellec... | And second, that the study of visual culture is the analysis and interpretation of images and the ways of seeing, or gazes, that configure the a... | Accordingly, the study of visual culture should be characterized by several concerns. | Read for historical evolution structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Keyword Match traps. | Blocked/source-check |
| cat-2020-slot-2 | cat-2020-slot2-varc-rc-2 | UNKNOWN_SOURCE | Economics / academic prose | argumentative | 174 incidents of piracy were reported to the International Maritime Bureau last year, with Somali pirates responsible for only three. | The rest ranged from the discreet theft of coils of rope in the Yellow Sea to the notoriously ferocious Nigerian gunmen attacking and hijacking... | Peter Lehr, an expert on modern-day piracy, the phenomenon’s history should be a source of instruction rather than entertainment, piracy past of... | Read for historical evolution structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Extreme traps. | Blocked/source-check |
| cat-2020-slot-2 | cat-2020-slot2-varc-rc-3 | UNKNOWN_SOURCE | Sociology / academic prose | argumentative | In a low-carbon world, renewable energy technologies are hot business. | For investors looking to redirect funds, wind turbines and solar panels, among other technologies, seem a straightforward choice. | But renewables need to be further scrutinized before being championed as forging a path toward a low-carbon future. | Read for contrast-led structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Extreme traps. | Blocked/source-check |
| cat-2020-slot-2 | cat-2020-slot2-varc-rc-4 | UNKNOWN_SOURCE | Sociology / research writing | argumentative | Aggression is any behavior that is directed toward injuring, harming, or inflicting pain on another living being or group of beings. | Generally, the victims of aggression must wish to avoid such behavior in order for it to be considered true aggression. | Aggression is also categorized according to its ultimate intent. | Read for cause-effect structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Half True traps. | Blocked/source-check |
| cat-2021-slot-1 | Passage 1 - Journey of Tea | DOMAIN_ONLY | Philosophy / essay | argumentative | The sleights of hand that conflate consumption with virtue are a central theme in A Thirst for Empire , a sweeping and richly detailed history o... | The passage asks how tea evolved from an obscure "China drink" to a universal beverage with civilising properties. | The answer lies in the movement of the idea of tea, not merely tea as a commodity. | Read for historical evolution structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Half True traps. | Open mock |
| cat-2021-slot-1 | Passage 2 - Maya's Personhood | DOMAIN_ONLY | Sociology / article | argumentative | For the Classic Maya of Southern Mexico and Central America, the category of "persons" was not identical with human beings. | Humans were persons, but nonhuman entities could also be persons. | The author studies Maya images where inanimate objects are shown with faces. | Read for problem-solution structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Half True traps. | Open mock |
| cat-2021-slot-1 | Passage 3 - Utopian Society | DOMAIN_ONLY | Sociology / article | argumentative | The passage examines how utopian societies often guarantee security, plenty and order by requiring uniformity, transparency, labour, regulated b... | In More's time, such restrictions may not have seemed unreasonable to many people because of the security and plenty offered. | For modern readers, however, these features can appear dystopian. | Read for contrast-led structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Half True traps. | Open mock |
| cat-2021-slot-1 | Passage 4 - Cuttlefish | DOMAIN_ONLY | Sociology / research writing | analytical | A study by Alexandra Schnell tested whether cuttlefish could display self-control. | The experiment adapted the famous marshmallow test. | In the original, children were offered one marshmallow immediately or two if they waited. | Read for thesis-led structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Extreme traps. | Open mock |
| cat-2021-slot-3 | cat-2021-slot3-varc-rc-1 | UNKNOWN_SOURCE | Philosophy / research writing | argumentative | Today we can hardly conceive of ourselves without an unconscious. | Yet between 1700 and 1900, this notion developed as a genuinely original thought. | The "unconscious" burst the shell of conventional language, coined as it had been to embody the fleeting ideas and the shifting conceptions of s... | Read for historical evolution structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Keyword Match traps. | Blocked/source-check |
| cat-2021-slot-3 | cat-2021-slot3-varc-rc-2 | UNKNOWN_SOURCE | Science / research writing | dense academic | Keeping time accurately comes with a price. | The maximum accuracy of a clock is directly related to how much disorder, or entropy, it creates every time it ticks. | Natalia Ares at the University of Oxford and her colleagues made this discovery using a tiny clock with an accuracy that can be controlled. | Read for classification structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Half True traps. | Blocked/source-check |
| cat-2021-slot-3 | cat-2021-slot3-varc-rc-3 | UNKNOWN_SOURCE | Sociology / book excerpt | argumentative | Starting in 1957, Noam Chomsky proclaimed a new doctrine: Language, that most human of all attributes, was innate. | The grammatical faculty was built into the infant brain, and your average 3-year-old was not a mere apprentice in the great enterprise of absorb... | Now, in a brilliant, witty and altogether satisfying book, Mr. | Read for contrast-led structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Too Broad traps. | Blocked/source-check |
| cat-2021-slot-3 | cat-2021-slot3-varc-rc-4 | UNKNOWN_SOURCE | Science / research writing | argumentative | Back in the early 2000s, an awesome thing happened in the New X-Men comics. | Our mutant heroes had been battling giant robots called Sentinels for years, but suddenly these mechanical overlords spawned a new threat: Nano-... | Not content to rule Earth with their metal fists, these tiny robots invaded our bodies at the microscopic level. | Read for thesis-led structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Too Broad traps. | Blocked/source-check |
| cat-2022-slot-1 | RC Set 1 | DOMAIN_ONLY | History / research writing | argumentative | The passage below is accompanied by four questions. | Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question. | The Chinese have two different concepts of a copy. | Read for historical evolution structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Half True traps. | Open mock |
| cat-2022-slot-1 | RC Set 2 | DOMAIN_ONLY | Psychology / academic prose | argumentative | Stoicism was founded in 300 BC by the Greek philosopher Zeno and survived into the Roman era until about AD 300. | According to the Stoics, emotions consist of two movements. | The first movement is the immediate feeling and other reactions (e.g., physiological response) that occur when a stimulus or event occurs. | Read for historical evolution structure, answer direct-detail questions first, and use elimination for Half True traps. | Open mock |
