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ICAI CA Foundation — Quantitative Aptitude Past Papers & Suggested Answers

Every published exam session for Quantitative Aptitude, newest first — with direct links to ICAI's own Suggested Answer, Examiner Comments and Question Paper PDFs. Most recent: May 2026.

Paper 3 100 marks 2 hours 100% objective · 0.25 negative marking

Quantitative Aptitude subject guide

Every Quantitative Aptitude exam session

4 of 4 have an official Suggested Answer

What Quantitative Aptitude covers

The 18 chapters ICAI examines in this paper under the New Scheme. Every past paper above is set from this syllabus.

1 Ratio and Proportion, Indices, Logarithms
2 Equations
3 Linear Inequalities
4 Mathematics of Finance
5 Basic Concepts of Permutations and Combinations
6 Sequence and Series — Arithmetic and Geometric Progressions
7 Sets, Relations and Functions, Basics of Limits and Continuity Functions
8 Basic Applications of Differential and Integral Calculus in Business and Economics
9 Number Series, Coding and Decoding and Odd Man Out
10 Direction Tests
11 Seating Arrangements
12 Blood Relations
13 Statistical Description of Data (Unit I: Statistical Representation of Data; Unit II: Sampling)
14 Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion
15 Probability
16 Theoretical Distributions
17 Correlation and Regression
18 Index Numbers

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