Education & Knowledge for CAT RC, in 10 essays

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.

Read them in order: they go from easiest to hardest. Answer the questions under each before moving on.

1. 1The Test Scores That Kept Rising and Then StoppedIntelligence test scores climbed for most of a century. Then, in at least one country, they began to fall within the same families.Medium · 1 min
2. 2The Entrance Exam Einstein Failed and the Subject He Did NotThe famous story that Einstein failed mathematics is false, yet it survives because it offers students a comfort that the true story somehow does not.Medium · 2 min
3. 3The Logoslave: When Intelligence Becomes a CageIn an age that worships analysis, some minds mistake simulation for action. The Logoslave is not defeated by ignorance but immobilized by excess reason.Medium · 5 min
4. 4An Indian Answer to Aeon | The 100th GRADFLIX EssayFor the 100th essay, Abhishek Leela Pandey explores how GRADFLIX readers kept deep reading alive in an age of algorithms and scrolling.Medium · 5 min
5. 5The Things We Teach Each OtherI learnt to teach through a fairy without wings. Years later, I understood that learning and teaching may be among our oldest human impulses.Medium · 5 min
6. 6How EdTech Forgot Teaching | The 111th EssayHow online education, CAT coaching, AI summaries, and viral learning frameworks transformed teaching into performance, attention, and endless preparation.Medium · 5 min
7. 7Alliteration as the Hidden Architecture of Human Thought and Memory.An intellectual essay on alliteration exploring how rhythm shapes memory language politics and human thought long before meaning reaches the mind.Medium · 6 min
8. 8The Hoax That Proved Whatever Its Readers Already BelievedA 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.Hard · 3 min
9. 9The Ward in Vienna That Medicine Refused to See: An RC Inspired by IIM IndoreHandwashing 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.Hard · 3 min
10. 10The Comma That Saves Grandma: An RC Inspired by IIM IndoreA tiny mark of punctuation opens into a larger question about how conventions create meaning, coordinate behaviour and quietly hold civilisation together.Hard · 3 min

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