Best Free CAT Preparation Websites 2026

The best free CAT preparation website depends on what you need on a given day. For a structured, all-in-one home base, use Percentyl. For daily practice and mocks, Cracku. For a deep question bank and past papers, 2IIM. For free concept videos, Rodha.

Here's an honest look at all four, what each one gives you for free and how to combine them so you never have to pay for coaching.

At a Glance

How to judge a free CAT website

Free is easy to find. Useful is harder. Before you trust any site with your prep time, run it through five questions.

• Is the content good quality, or a recycled question dump?
• Are questions tagged by difficulty, so you can train on purpose?
• Does practice feel like the real on-screen exam?
• Do you get worked or video solutions, not just an answer key?
• Can you see whether you're improving over the weeks?

No single free site wins on all five. That's why most toppers quietly use two or three together. Here's how the popular ones stack up.

Percentyl: the free structured home base

Percentyl is built to fix the one thing free prep usually gets wrong, which is structure. The material is free, but it's organised like a course rather than a pile of PDFs.

You get a fresh Reading Comprehension set every day. The question bank spans VARC, DILR and Quant, with every question tagged by difficulty and a full worked solution attached. Chapter-level progress tracking shows you what's done and what's left, so you always know if you're moving.

There's also a set study plan so you're not guessing the order, plus interview-stage material for WAT, GD and PI, a percentile predictor and a college comparison tool. It's built by Shweta Arora, an IIM Ahmedabad graduate. The platform is backed by a large MBA-focused content library.

The honest caveat: it's one platform, so it won't replace watching a great teacher explain a concept on video. Pair it with Rodha for that.

Cracku: daily targets and free mocks

Cracku's strength is building a daily habit. Its CAT Daily Target gives you three free tests every weekday across VARC, DILR and Quant, with video solutions, free as long as you take them on the release day.

You also get three full CAT mock tests free, again with video solutions, plus free previous papers and a formula PDF. Tens of thousands of aspirants take Cracku's free mocks every year, so the percentile estimate carries some weight.

The caveat: the larger mock series and the full course are paid. The free tier is generous for daily practice, less so for a long run of full-length mocks.

2IIM: the question bank and past papers

If you want depth of questions with strong solutions, 2IIM is hard to beat for free. Its question bank runs to roughly 2,000 questions, with over a thousand carrying video solutions.

The real prize is the past papers. 2IIM has compiled every CAT paper from 2017 to 2025 with video and text solutions. Most of it needs no sign-up. Past papers are the closest thing to the real exam, so this alone is worth bookmarking.

The caveat: content sits across a couple of different 2IIM sites, so it can feel scattered. The full structured course is paid.

Rodha: free concept teaching

Rodha is the best free option for learning a concept from scratch. Its YouTube channel holds more than 1,400 free videos across Quant, DILR and VARC, taught by Ravi Prakash for Quant and LRDI and by KD Sir for VARC.

Beyond videos there are free mocks with solutions, strategy sessions and the first few classes of each paid batch opened up for a real trial. If you're starting a topic from zero, watch the Rodha video first. Ravi Prakash is one of the top educators in the industry.

The caveat: it's video-first, so it's teaching rather than an integrated practice-and-tracking platform. Full batches are paid.

So which should you use?

Don't pick one. Combine them, then let Percentyl be the home base that keeps it structured.

Learn a new concept from a Rodha video. Practise it, tagged by difficulty and tracked, on Percentyl. Do a daily target on Cracku to keep the habit. Solve past papers on 2IIM as the exam nears. That stack is free and covers every gap.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is the best free CAT website for beginners?

Start with Rodha for concepts and Percentyl for structured practice. Rodha teaches you the idea, Percentyl gives you graded questions with solutions and tracks what you've covered, so you don't lose the plot in your first month.

Can I crack CAT using only free websites?

Yes. Coaching mostly sells structure and accountability, not secret content. If you combine free concept videos, a difficulty-tagged question bank, daily practice and past papers, you have everything a paid course gives you.

Is Percentyl really free?

Yes, the study material is free. It's built by Shweta Arora, an IIM Ahmedabad graduate. The platform is backed by a large MBA-focused content library, so the quality holds up rather than being bait for an upsell.

Which site has the best free mock tests?

Cracku gives you three full mocks with video solutions for free. For more free full-length practice, treat 2IIM's past papers from 2017 to 2025 as mocks, since they are the real exam.

Will I have to pay any of them eventually?

Only if you want extras. Cracku, 2IIM and Rodha keep their best courses and larger mock series behind a paywall. Percentyl keeps the core prep material free, so you can run your whole preparation without paying.