Essays about how we learn, think and read are about the very skills the exam measures. These cover critical thinking, pedagogy, academia and the philosophy of science.
10 long-form education & knowledge essays, written at the density of real CAT passages, each with CAT, XAT and GMAT-style questions and explanations. For real exam passages, practise the solved CAT RC PYQs; for a daily routine, see CAT RC practice.
A physicist submitted a deliberate nonsense article to a journal in 1996, and it was published. Thirty years on, both sides of the quarrel still claim the episode as their evidence.
Intelligence test scores climbed for most of a century. Then, in at least one country, they began to fall within the same families.
The famous story that Einstein failed mathematics is false, yet it survives because it offers students a comfort that the true story somehow does not.
Handwashing cut deaths in a Viennese maternity ward within months, and the physician who proved it was ignored. The refusal looks like arrogance in hindsight, yet it came from the same caution that protects science from error.
I learnt to teach through a fairy without wings. Years later, I understood that learning and teaching may be among our oldest human impulses.
A tiny mark of punctuation opens into a larger question about how conventions create meaning, coordinate behaviour and quietly hold civilisation together.
How online education, CAT coaching, AI summaries, and viral learning frameworks transformed teaching into performance, attention, and endless preparation.
An intellectual essay on alliteration exploring how rhythm shapes memory language politics and human thought long before meaning reaches the mind.
For the 100th essay, Abhishek Leela Pandey explores how GRADFLIX readers kept deep reading alive in an age of algorithms and scrolling.
In an age that worships analysis, some minds mistake simulation for action. The Logoslave is not defeated by ignorance but immobilized by excess reason.
