Students’ Speak: XAT exam analysis of past two years’ papers

By: Akila Narayanan

Here’s a lowdown of Xavier’s Aptitude Test’s (XAT) past two years question papers had. Read more to get an analysis of the paper.

XAT Question Paper Break-up:

Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning

In this section, we have to concentrate much on easy and moderate levels. So that it will be easy to beat the section-wise cut-offs. Antonyms and Poem Comprehension was quite easy when compared to other topics. The paragraph jumbling questions will consume time so that we can have an attempt at that at the last minute if possible instead of wasting the time. In reading comprehension, it’s difficult if we fail to understand the paragraph given. We will not be able to understand the questions asked without reading the paragraph.

Decision Making & Analytical Reasoning

The decision making part was a difficult one when compared to the previous year questions. There will be case lets given you will be asked to decide what to do and you will be asked to imagine as someone and the decision should be taken. Good creative thinkers can crack this section easily.

Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretations

Always this quantitative ability section will be tricky when compared to other sections because it includes all the numerical and mathematical knowledge. This is the area where students lose their focus when they don’t get the expected answer and the time consuming will also be more which will lead them to complete this section in a hurry. It’s a piece of advice that students should do this section correctly because everyone will lose marks in quantitative ability and so there total percentile will get decreased. Even if you have 10 questions do that 10 questions correctly with full confidence.

General Knowledge

The level of general knowledge questions was moderate when compared to previous year question papers. We will be able to answer these questions only if we read newspapers daily. We have to know what is happening in and around the world in a day-to-day aspect. Then we can crack this section easily.

Institute Cutoffs

These were the expected cut-offs of top institutions in the year 2019 for XAT-2019 exam.

About the Author:

Akila Narayanan is pursuing MBA from Thiagarajar School of Management, Madurai, with an interest in Marketing and Finance. She has completed her graduation from Velammal College of Engineering and Technology, Madurai. Her hobbies include playing guitar, badminton and reading books. She has also been awarded the first prize for a social welfare project titled “The Life Saving Block Detector”.