XAT Decision Making Previous Year Questions

Shiksha has shared below XAT Decision Making Previous Year Questions along with question paper PDFs for download. Candidates preparing for XAT 2027 exam must practice XAT DM questions of previous years to improve their hold on it.

XAT Decision Making Previous Year Questions

XAT Decision Making questions usually pertain to business scenarios in which one is expected to take a decision or choose an option that serves the interest of all stakeholders. There are 21 question in Decision Making section of XAT. The questions are presented in set of 3 per passage. Candidates have to read the passage and answer the related questions. The key to cracking XAT Decision Making questions is practicing the theory of elimination. Use logical thinking to strike out the three options which are clearly incorrect. Now, choose between the remaining two closely correct options by checking the central theme of the passage. XAT 2027 exam is scheduled on January 3, 2027 and with just about over 2 months to go, it is time to hit the speed button for XAT preparation. Shiksha has shared below XAT Decision Making Previous Year Questions along with question paper PDFs for download.

XAT Decision Making Previous Year Questions 2026

Read the following scenario and answer the question that follows.

Vidya, a Bachelor of Commerce graduate, secured admission to one of India’s premier business schools (B schools) called Best-Known School of Management (BKSM). Not long after her joining BKSM, she was struck by the calibre of her experienced peers. This, in turn, made her anxious about her placement. Hence, she reached out to one of her seniors, who had also joined BKSM as a fresher, for advice. In conversations with the senior, Vidya learned that freshers were often advised to join student committees to strengthen their curriculum vitae (CVs) for placements. Confident of making it to one, she started preparing. Despite her confidence, she could not secure a spot in the prominent committees she aspired to join. Frustrated and angry, Vidya began believing that committee selections were biased. Since the processes were entirely student-run, with minimal administrative oversight, she felt that she had no avenue to raise her concerns. Anjali, Vidya’s roommate in BKSM, told her about Why MBA, a social media platform where students often voiced their grievances anonymously.

Question: A few committee secretaries complained to the dean of BKSM about some anonymous posts on Why MBA that they felt were unfairly targeting them. Upon visiting the forums on Why MBA, the dean felt that while most of the posts were innocuous, some indeed crossed the line. Further, she felt that such posts tarnished the image of BKSM. Conversely, she observed that such posts led those targeted to reflect, mend their ways, and become more accountable. She wondered what she could do to save the reputation of BKSM being assailed in public forums through anonymous posts; however, she did not want to do anything disproportionately harsh. What BEST can the dean do to take a sustainable decision to dissuade students from posting their grievances in public forums, presenting the college in a bad light?

Options

A. Announce that she will run all committee selections personally.

B. Create an anonymous in-house forum within BKSM, where the students could discuss anything without consequences.

C. Ban access to public forums like Why MBA on the campus.

D. Announce that she will run daily open houses to hear student grievances.

E. Ask the IT head to run digital surveillance, and catch students posting anything degrading about BKSM in any public forum.

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XAT Decision Making Previous Year Questions 2024

Read the following scenario and answer the question that follows.

Mr. Singh lived in a sprawling housing society. He employed two part-time domestic helps, Vimla and Sharda. Vimla was responsible for cleaning and dusting, while Sharda took care of cooking. Once Sharda fell ill and consequently took leave for three days. When Sharda returned to work, she learned that Mr. Singh’s gold ring, a gift from his mother, was missing. Suspecting theft, Mr. Singh had terminated Vimla. Mr. Singh asked Sharda to take additional responsibility of cleaning the house, along with an offer to double her salary. Sharda accepted the offer as her previous two jobs were lost due to frequent health-related absences. She was struggling to make ends meet; this offer would go a long way to help her. Next day, while cleaning under the dressing table, Sharda found the gold ring. Overjoyed, Mr. Singh expressed his gratitude by presenting Sharda a reward of one thousand rupees! However, he made no mention of reinstating Vimla. Sharda was contemplating whether she should inform Vimla that she found Mr. Singh’s ring.

Question: Which of the following considerations will BEST dissuade Sharda in sharing the information about the ring with Vimla?
Options

1. Mr. Singh will probably terminate Sharda if he gets to know that she has revealed this information.

2. Had Vimla done her job properly, she would have found the ring and avoided this incident.

3. Vimla already knows she has not stolen anything, so telling her will not give her any new information.

4. Sharda is not keeping well, and Mr. Singh warned her that her frequent absences could lead to her termination.

5. Whenever Sharda was absent, Vimla used to help her by taking over her responsibilities

XAT Decision Making Previous Year Questions 2023

Read the following scenario and answer the question that follows.

Corporations continue to ignore the threat of global warming, probably because global warming is a hyper-object, very difficult to touch and feel. Because hyper-objects have much wider time-space boundaries than human beings, we tend to consider hyper-objects as given and non-existent. Therefore, it is very difficult to deal with hyper-objects as their common understanding is lacking. Some of us continue to believe that global warming is blown out of proportion-it is not a serious threat. Even those who understood hyper-objects have yet to figure out right response to them. The lack of understanding and response from corporations to “climate change” is evident from the fact that most of businesses have remained largely human-centric. Some businesses have adopted green practices- voluntarily, or involuntary. These efforts attempt to reduce emissions through better energy efficiency. Though laudable, the efforts have failed to make any significant dent at the global level; the planet continues to get warmer. Moreover, most of the efforts are still in the sphere of “business as usual” and “what is good for us”. Business as usual, the current model of economic production and distribution is deeply flawed as it is based mainly on the capitalistic ethos of freemarket legitimized through private property, competition, and unlimited consumption. The word “free” has come to mean that there are no constraints on individuals, and the word market has come to mean that buying and selling are the primary mechanisms, and everything is a transaction. Private property gives individuals/nations a chance to create legal rights to own more and more, subject to very little constraints. It is evident in income inequalities witnessed across the world. The very notion of ownership is control-oriented and human-centric that promotes unlimited extraction from environment, hyper-nationalism, and hyper-individualism. The extraction and exploitation of the environment has served our economic interests, and led to the growth and survival of businesses. However, it has also led to the destruction of environment. Global warming is the response of nature to human actions driven by businesses operating on the principles of surplus, predictability, control, hyper-rationality, linearity, and quantification. In other words, “business as usual” has yet to dance to the rhythm of nature.

Question: According to the passage, which of the following will be closest to the idea of hyper-object?
Options:

1. How a technology company contributed to the development of a mobile phone technology.

2. How regular exercise makes our body healthy.

3. How the Earth, over centuries, takes less time to revolve around the Sun.

4. How temperature fluctuates because of seasons.

5. How hard work leads to better grades for students.

XAT Decision Making Previous Year Questions 2022

Read the following scenario and answer the question that follows.

What bullshit essentially misrepresents is neither the state of affairs to which it refers nor the beliefs of the speaker concerning that state of affairs. Those are what lies misrepresent, by virtue of being false. Since bullshit need not be false, it differs from lies in its misrepresentational intent. The bullshitter may not deceive us, or even intend to do so, either about the facts or about what he takes the facts to be. What he does necessarily attempt to deceive us about is his enterprise. His only indispensably distinctive characteristic is that in a certain way he misrepresents what he is up to. This is the crux of the distinction between him and the liar. Both he and the liar represent themselves falsely as endeavoring to communicate the truth. The success of each depends upon deceiving us about that. But the fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him; what we are not to understand is that his intention is neither to report the truth nor to conceal it. This does not mean that his speech is anarchically impulsive, but that the motive guiding and controlling it is unconcerned with how the things about which he speaks truly are. It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it. When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false.

Question: Which of the following statements can be BEST inferred from the passage?

Options:

1. Both the liar and the bullshitter intend to deceive in their own ways

2. Both the liar and the bullshitter are guided by the truth

3. Both the liar and the bullshitter are not bound by any conviction

4. Both the liar and the bullshitter misrepresent the truth

5. Both the liar and the bullshitter live in their own worlds of realities

XAT Decision Making Previous Year Questions 2021

Read the following scenario and answer the question that follows.

Ashraf has been working at a cybersecurity company called NuTech Pvt. Ltd. for seven years. Having missed a promotion in the previous appraisal cycle, Ashraf is anxious about it in the upcoming cycle. Ashraf is aware that the HR head is meeting the top management to discuss promotions sometime soon. (At NuTech, the HR head recommends names for promotions to the top management based on inputs from the functional teams.) On a Friday afternoon, Ashraf receives an email from Sridevi, the HR head. It reads, “Hi, I need an urgent favour from you; please respond if you are free.” It was the first time that Sridevi ever contacted him. Surprised, Ashraf immediately replies back saying, “Sure! How can I help you, Sridevi? Regards, Ashraf.” In a couple of minutes, he receives a reply: “Ashraf, I am in the middle of an important meeting, but have to urgently send gift vouchers worth ₹50,000 to one of our important clients. If you could, please purchase and send the gift vouchers to the email address given below, at the earliest.” Ashraf , without any delay, sends gift vouchers worth ₹50,000 to the given email address. SubQuestion No : 2 Q.2 Ashraf does not hear anything from Sridevi in the next few days. Anxious, he meets up with Sridevi and enquires if the gift vouchers were appreciated by the client. This surprises Sridevi who closely scrutinises Ashraf’s emails and discovers that they originated from sridevi@nutich.com, instead of sridevi@nutech.com, her official email ID. Taken aback, Ashraf requests Sridevi’s help in getting compensated by the company for his ₹50,000 loss. Sridevi asks Ashraf to justify his compensation demand. Ashraf gives the following reasons:

1. I erred; however, my financial rectitude is on record.

2. I acted in the greater interest of the company.

3. The spam mail reached my inbox due to the failure of the company’s email filter.

4. A NuTech employee, who was robbed of ₹20,000 of company’s cash, was not punished.

5. In the past, some of my acquaintances had been similarly duped.

Question: Which of the abovementioned reasons, in a combination, will BEST help Sridevi take up the issue with the top management?

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