XAT 2015 Analysis
The XAT is one of the most keenly awaited MBA admission tests and ranks only next to the CAT in terms of relative popularity. The XAT opens the gates to several prestigious MBA institutes in India, including the XLRI, XIMB, XISS, XIME and LIBA.
The just-concluded XAT 2015 question paper featured quantitative ability, verbal skills, data interpretation, decision making and general awareness. Your performance in General Awareness will not go towards determining the cut-off scores, but will be given due weightage by XLRI during the final admission process. Other institutes have the discretion to use the score in this part during the final selection process.
The
just-concluded XAT consisted of two parts: Part I and Part II. Part 1 was an
MCQ type test and contained questions on Verbal Ability, Decision Making,
Quantitative Aptitude and General Awareness. Paper 2 in the XAT was descriptive
as it had a question on Essay Writing. The XAT started making some changes by
including General Awareness and Essay in Paper-2 in 2013. This year, the
weight age for different questions was the same, unlike in the earlier
XATs.
Part
I had three sections comprising questions on Verbal Ability, Decision Making
and Quantitative Aptitude while Part II featured General knowledge questions.
The total time allowed for completing the entire test was 150 minutes. One was
expected to answer the first three sections in 140 minutes and General
knowledge in 10 minutes. The three sections were as follows:
XAT 2015- Overview
Sections Difficulty Level
Verbal
Ability Moderate
Decision
Making Moderate to Tough
Quantitative
Ability Tough
XAT 2015- SECTIONAL ANALYSIS
SECTION I: Verbal Ability
Areas
featured- Verbal Ability, Reading Comprehension, Verbal Reasoning, Grammar,
Sentence Rearrangement, and Sentence Completion. Many questions were fairly long
and required extensive calculation work.
SECTION II: Decision Making
Area
featured - Combination of Decision Making and Caselet-based reasoning
questions. The questions featured included
ethical dilemmas, financial issues involving sales, revenues etc. for a
company, employee management issues and general management scenarios. These
questions were a mix of critical reasoning and RC, which require a mix of
reading skills and reasoning prowess.
SECTION III: Quantitative Ability
Areas
featured - Algebra and Functions, Number System, Geometry, Average, Arithmetic
sequence, Ratio and proportion, Probability, Tables, Line Graph, Logarithm,
Graphs
SECTION IV: General Awareness
20
questions in all.
Areas
featured- Awards, Geography, History, Economics, Books, Corporate developments,
International affairs, Nobel Honours and constitution etc.
XAT 2015 Essay Topic
The
candidates had to compose an essay, not exceeding 200 words, on an abstract
topic.
Expected cut-offs –XAT 2015
28+(approx. 95+%ile) : Expect a call from
XLRI(BM)
26+(approx. 92+%ile): Expect a call from
XLRI(HR)
22+(approx. 85+%ile): Expect a call from
GIM/XIMB
19+(approx. 80+%ile): Expect a call from
LIBA/BIM
17+(approx. 70+%ile): Expect a call from
XIME/XISS
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