By: Abdullah Salman

Xavier's Aptitude Test (XAT 2020) will be conducted on January 5 next year by  XLRI on behalf of XAMI. A national-level management exam conducted from the past six decades, XAT score is widely accepted by over 150 management colleges in the country.

The exam is considered to be tougher than Common Admission Test (CAT), therefore, the level of preparation becomes rigorous. To be able to prepare smart, here is some exam-related information that could be helpful for you.

Exam Structure

Time allocation:

• Verbal and Logical Ability: 40 minutes
• Decision Making: 50 minutes
• Quantitative Ability: 60 minutes 
• General Knowledge: 30 minutes

Change in XAT exam pattern:

The conducting body of XAT, apart from this, has also introduced some more changes that you must know before appearing for the exam. The conducting time for XAT 2020 exam has changed from earlier 10 am-1 pm to 9.30 am-12.30 pm now.

In XAT 2020, one of the major changes in the pattern is the removal of essay writing. So, students can skip preparing for this section. This year, for XAT 2020, all the questions will be multiple-choice-questions (MCQ) type. A new category in the form of Numerical Answer Type (NAT) questions will be available in the XAT Exam 2020. Other than this, the score obtained in the GK section will not be included in the final calculation of score and the incorrect responses for questions from this section will not be considered for percentile calculation. You can move on to Part-II of the GK section only after the completion of Part-I of the XAT 2020 Exam. So, taking all these changes into consideration you should start preparing for the exam.

XAT Syllabus 2020

XAT 2020 is an objective-type paper. An indicative list of topics covered in these sections is given below:

Some important topics, which you could undergo before a week to exam based on your strength and weakness are:

• Quants & DI: P&L, Time Speed & Distance, Tables, Graph, Arithmetic, Clocks.
• Verbal & Logical: RC, Para based, Grammar, Vocabs.
• Decision-Making: Case lets, Analytical Based, Situational, Data Sets.
• General Knowledge: Business, International Relations, Economics, History, National & State wise.

About the Author:

Abdullah Salman M. is currently pursuing an MBA in General Management from TSM, Madurai. He has 15 months of work experience as a Network Engineer. He hails from Vellore, Tamil Nadu and has previously completed BE (ECE), from Anna University, Chennai.