XAT 2015 Exam Snapshot:

XAT 2015, conducted by XLRI Jamshedpur for admission to their Business Management and Human Resource Management programmes, was conducted successfully across the nation on Jan 04, 2015. The scorecard of XAT is used by many reputed institutes such as SP Jain, XIM Bhubaneshwar, and GIM Goa, as a part of their admission process.

The test had 2 parts – part I constituting three sections viz Verbal and Logical Ability, Decision Making and Analytical Reasoning, and Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation and the second part had questions from General Knowledge and an Essay. The overall duration of the test was 180 min. The two sections were sequentially administered - section I for 140 min followed by section II for another 40 min. The students had to return the OMR sheet for part I before section II was administered.

All questions carried 1 mark with negative marking (one fourth of a mark for a wrong answer). Even though it is not explicitly mentioned in the instructions, we understand that the trend of sectional cutoffs shall continue and therefore the candidates were expected to show their competence in all the areas. However, General Awareness and Essay writing shall be used for evaluation only after the initial screening, i.e., these will not be used for the short listing of candidates for the GDPI round.

The following is a brief snapshot of the question distribution