Section A : Verbal and Logical Ability

The Verbal Ability section was on the tougher side. While tougher VA sections are expected in XAT, this year there was some additional variety as well. One of the questions was based on a poem. There were no grammar based questions.

The RCs were or varied topics like Communication, Economic theory, Objectivism, and philosophy of approximation.

The breakup of topics is as below

CR/Inference based qs - 5
Vocab - 3
PFQs- 3
Para Completion - 1
600 word RC based on Communication - 4
400 word RC based on Philosophy (Objectivism) - 3
300 word RC based on Philosophy (Approximation)- 4
300 word RC based on Economics - 3

50 minutes would be an ideal time allocation to this section