XAT, the Xavier’s Admission Test is a comprehensive common entrance test to gain eligibility into Xavier’s (XLRI) and other 70 prestigious B-schools in India for courses like One-year General Management Programme, Four-year Fellow Programme in Management and the Two-year Post Graduate Programme in Business Management (BM) and Human Resource Management (HRM). It is known to be one of the tough common entrance examinations. The analysis of the exams paper of 2012 will give you a clear idea about what you can expect in XAT 2013. MBA updates presents to you some of the best analysis of the XAT paper of 2012 and its consequent thorough student research and sample XAT papers assessment of the same.
The XAT paper pattern, as always is divided into the two major sections. The first one constitutes of analytical reasoning, decision making, verbal ability and logical reasoning of multiple choices. The second section will comprise of essay writing and general awareness. MBA updates analyzes the previous year’s paper and gives out the features for the benefit of XAT 2013 aspirants.
Part 1 of Question Paper, Analysis and Expectations
Analytical Reasoning and Decision Making made up 25 questions in 2012 down from 30 in the previous year. This is supposed to be the most difficult section. A student can be deemed to have done well if he/she manages to attempt 19 out of 30 having answered at least 14 correctly. The expected cut off can range between 7-7.5 if there are 30 questions asked in this section.
Verbal ability and logical reasoning made up of 34 questions last year 2012. This section turned out to be one of the easy going sections this year making it easier for all to score it up in it. It comprises of the English Grammar based questions, English Proficiency like Analogy, Fill in the Blanks, Para jumble, Cloze Test, and English Comprehension. The logical reasoning question is the more difficult to crack from the two with questions on Fact Inference Judgement, Passage Conclusion, and Statement Argument. Answering around 24 out 34 is a great possibility and a plausible 20 out of the 24 answered could lead to an expected cut off around.
Data Interpretation and Quantitative ability
This is section most feared by students as it requires great finesse and liking for quants and to top it all it definitely does take away most of their problem solving time dedicated to this section. Last year it questioned around 28 problems to students that were easy in nature and hence 2012 can step up the difficulty as an alternative. Answering around 19-20 is fantastic for this section.
Part 2
The essay section mostly hovers around topics and issues on the current affairs followed with the section on general knowledge and awareness. This is the show-stealer for all those not apt with data, quants and logic. The essay is to be written in 20 minutes apart from the 2 hour allotted time for the main paper.MBAupdates recommends that students should read out issues on social, economic and political issues on the country and international, a rather in-depth reading suggested based on the study of the sample XAT papers
Thus, evaluating the details above MBAupdates expects the XAT 2013 paper to be a slightly tougher than the 2012 paper. Prep up to the extremes for the best results. The XAT results are declared sometime around the end of January of each year the examination is held.
