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About XAT Exam
Xavier Aptitude Test or XAT is a national-level management entrance examination conducted by XLRI, Jamshedpur for admission to MBA/PGDM programmes. Apart from XLRI and 10 other XAMI member colleges, over 1,000 B-schools accept XAT scores for admission to their post-graduate management programmes. The XAT question paper consists of 100 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) from Decision Making, Verbal & Logical Ability, Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation and General Knowledge.
XAT Exam Paper Pattern
| Sections as per XAT Exam Paper | No. of Ques. |
|---|---|
| Decision Making | 22 |
| Verbal And Logical Ability | 26 |
| Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation | 28 |
| General Knowledge | 25 (To be Evaluated for Shortlisting) |
| Analytical Essay Writing | 1 (To be Evaluated for Shortlisting) |
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Xat exam - important topics and weightage
| Area/Questions | No. of Qs. | Level of Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| Grammatically correct sentence | 2 | 2 - Medium |
| Grammatically incorrect sentence | 1 | 1 - Difficulty |
| Fill in the blanks (2 blanks) | 2 | 2 - Easy |
| Jumbled Paragraphs (5 statements) | 2 | 1 Easy, 1 Medium |
| Critical Reasoning | 3 | 1 Easy, 2 Medium |
| Summary | 1 | 1 - Medium |
| Passage 1 (Beauty – 300 words) | 2 | Difficult |
| Passage 2 (The problem of unrecognized ignorance – 400 words) | 3 | Medium |
| Passage 3 (Simplified moral frames – 450 words) | 3 | Medium |
| Passage 4 (Reductive instinct and realist storytelling – 300 words) | 2 | Difficult |
| Passage 5 (Mass vaccination and herd immunity – 300 words) | 3 | Medium |
| Passage 6 (Poem – A Missing Person by Jayanta Mahapatra) | 2 | Difficult |
| Area/Questions | No. of Qs. | Question Type | Level of Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. HR Caselet – Experience Credentials | 3 | Ethical Dilemma | Medium |
| 2. ABC Business School policies | 3 | Ethical Dilemma | Medium |
| 3. Competition between taxi drivers | 3 | Business Decisions | Medium |
| 4. Car Sales | 3 | Business Decisions | Medium |
| 5. Wrongful termination of domestic help | 3 | Ethical Dilemma | Medium |
| 6. HR Caselet – ‘Symbolics’ IT firm | 3 | Business Decisions | Medium |
| 7. Deep Sea Natural Gas Extraction | 3 | Business Decisions | Medium |
| Easy | Medium | Difficult | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arithmetic | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Geometry | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Modern Math | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Algebra | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Numbers | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Total QA | 5 | 7 | 3 | 15 |
| Data Interpretation (13 questions) | ||||
| Statistics based set | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Average based set | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Algebra | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Algebra | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Set theory | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total DI | 6 | 7 | 0 | 13 |
| Total QA-DI | 12 | 14 | 0 | 26 |
General Knowledge
The 25 GK questions comprised 16 current affairs questions and 9 static GK questions. As usual, the questions covered a wide range of areas and gave no special advantage to specialists in any one area.
To maximize the score in this section, one should have attempted 12-14 questions seriously. Additionally, as there was no negative marking in this section, all the remaining questions should also have been attempted. Our XAT exam analysis suggests that a score of 6 – 7 would be a good score in this section.
Essay Writing
Three topics were provided. The test-taker had to select one topic and write an essay of around 250 words.
The topics for the essay writing task were:
- Tech prediction often fails not because of wrong models or lack of imagination but due to a lack of humility in admitting uncertainty about the future.
- Implementing more stringent restrictions on social media platforms is crucial to effectively combat the proliferation of fake news.
- Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.