IPMAT Indore RC PYQs 2019 to 2025: Passage Topics and Patterns
We solved every IPMAT Indore RC set from 2019 to 2025. Here is what IIM Indore actually asks.
The sets
IPMAT Indore has set one or two RC passages a year, each with six questions: 12 sets and 72 questions from 2019 to 2025. All are solved in the IPMAT PYQ vault.
What the passages are about
- 2019: cooperation on a desert island (a classic essay on honesty) and the science of gender differences in the brain.
- 2020: the naturalist John Muir and his love of the wild.
- 2021: logic, rhetoric and how education trains us to argue.
- 2022: the science of fruit ripening, and Edward Jenner and the first vaccine.
- 2023: what fitness really means, and Apple's manufacturing move into India.
- 2024: air pollution in Indian cities, and anxiety and how it is treated.
- 2025: social media content moderation, and Baudrillard on consumption and happiness.
The pattern
IPMAT mixes classic essays, science explainers and recent current-affairs writing. Since 2023 the current-affairs share has grown: Apple in India, Delhi air quality, Meta's moderation policy. Questions are mostly main idea, detail, inference and the meaning of a phrase.
What to practise
- Read one science or society explainer daily from a quality newspaper or magazine.
- Practise six questions in about six minutes per passage: the verbal section gives under a minute per question.
- Do every set in the IPMAT PYQ vault under time, then read the explanations for each option.
Frequently asked questions
How many RC passages are there in IPMAT Indore?
Usually one or two passages with six questions each in the Verbal Ability section.
What topics come in IPMAT RC?
A mix of classic essays, science explainers and recent current affairs: vaccines, air pollution, anxiety, social media and consumer culture in recent years.
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