The FYQ Challenge: 792 Free CAT Daily Practice Questions, Every 3 Hours, Until CAT 2026
Every CAT season, the same routine plays out. Aspirants sit down with ten years of previous year papers and work through them end to end, section by section, until the questions start to feel familiar. It's useful. It's also exactly what every serious aspirant in the country is doing at the same time, which means everyone ends up equally good at the same narrow thing, recognizing what CAT has already asked.
CAT doesn't repeat itself. Every year brings a wording twist, a combination of concepts nobody drilled specifically for, a question that looks unfamiliar for the first ten seconds you read it. That first ten seconds is where a lot of preparation quietly falls apart on exam day, not from a lack of knowledge, but from a lack of practice actually sitting with something genuinely new under time pressure.
That's the specific gap the FYQ Challenge is built to close.
What a Future Year Question Actually Is
An FYQ isn't a previous year question with the numbers swapped out. It's built from scratch to demand the same conceptual thinking a real, unseen CAT question would, so that when the actual exam hands you something you've never encountered before, it doesn't feel like the first time you've had to think that way.
The goal is training for the CAT that's coming, not the one that already happened.
Six Questions a Day, Every Day, Until CAT
Starting today, a new FYQ goes out every 3 hours, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 Midnight, every single day, all the way to CAT. That means a fresh question at 9:00 AM, 12:00 PM, 3:00 PM, 6:00 PM, 9:00 PM, and 12:00 Midnight, day after day, right up to the exam.
That's six original questions a day, each with a detailed video solution walking through the thinking behind it, not just the final answer. Across the full run to CAT, that adds up to 792 Future Year Questions. All of it free.
The three-hour rhythm is deliberate, not arbitrary. A single long problem set released once a week asks you to carve out a dedicated block of time you may or may not actually have that week. Six questions spread across the hours you're already awake fits differently, one between classes, one on a commute, one before you sleep. Preparation that has to compete with a busy schedule for a big chunk of free time tends to lose that competition more often than not. Preparation that fits into the gaps you already have tends to actually happen, day after day, which is where real improvement comes from in the first place.
There's a genuine learning-science reason this works better than it sounds. Spaced, repeated exposure to new problem types, a little at a time, builds durable understanding far more reliably than a single long cramming session does. Six shorter touchpoints across a day, each one demanding fresh thinking rather than repeated recall, is closer to how retention actually works than one exhausting three-hour sitting once a week.
To the best of our knowledge, GRADSKOOL is the first YouTube channel to run a CAT series on this rhythm, a new video every three hours through the entire waking day, continuing every day until CAT.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the FYQ Challenge really free? Yes. All 792 questions, and every video solution that comes with them, are free to access. There's no paywall on any part of the series.
Do you need to watch the videos live at the scheduled time? No. The schedule tells you when each question is released, but every video stays available afterward, so you can work through it whenever actually fits your day.
Is this only useful for CAT, or does it help with other exams too? The underlying thinking skills, breaking down unfamiliar wording, avoiding shortcut traps, working a problem from first principles, carry directly across XAT, SNAP, NMAT, CMAT and other MBA entrance exams, even though the series is built around CAT-level questions specifically.
What if you miss a few days? Every released FYQ stays accessible, so missing a day doesn't mean losing that content, you can always come back and work through what you missed.
Who This Is Built For
CAT 2026 and CAT 2027 aspirants both have a real reason to follow this, current and future exam takers alike, since the whole point is training for a CAT that hasn't been written yet. It's just as useful if you're prepping for XAT, SNAP, NMAT, CMAT or any other MBA entrance exam, since the underlying thinking skills carry across all of them. If you're early in your prep and still building fundamentals, the daily rhythm gives you consistent reps without needing to plan your own schedule. And if you're a repeater chasing a 99+ percentile, this is exactly the kind of unfamiliar, first-encounter practice that's hardest to manufacture on your own.
About the Educators
Abhishek Leela Pandey is an author, educator, and learning system designer with over a decade of experience mentoring MBA aspirants. Recognized among India's 40 Under 40, he has guided more than 100,000 aspirants, helping over 7,000 students secure admissions to top B-schools. His teaching emphasizes conceptual clarity, structured thinking, and practical problem-solving to help students maximize their performance in CAT and other MBA entrance exams.
Kavya K, with a 99.98 percentile in CAT QA, is known for a first-principles approach to aptitude preparation. His teaching focuses on structured thinking, helping students understand not only how to solve a question, but how to keep improving their overall exam strategy.
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