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Section 1: Verbal and Logical Ability
The Verbal and Logical Ability section was a mixed bag of moderate, difficult and quite difficult questions, primarily because so many of the RC questions could be differentiated more on the basis of syntax than semantics. Interestingly, there were 2 questions based on a poem somewhat on the lines of 'Put your work aside and let us have a chat'.
Surprisingly, there were no vocabulary-based questions at all.
RC passages were not difficult to follow and they were of moderate length. But RC questions incorporated a significant number of critical reasoning questions with very close choices.
The breakup of the Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension segments is as below:
| Area | No of Questions | Difficulty Level |
|---|---|---|
| Error Identification in 6 sentences (Identify 3 incorrect sentences - Distributive Adjective-based and Article based) | 2 | Easy |
| Fill in the Blanks (4 blanks to be filled in a sentence based on start-ups – very close choices involving conditionals) | 1 | Moderate |
| Paragraph Jumble (Two 5-sentence para jumbles on Carbon Emissions and Financial Behaviour) | 2 | Easy |
| Critical Reasoning (3 questions based on Twitter, Prehistoric Paintings, and Jungle Competition) | 3 | Moderate to Difficult |
| Tags (Identifying 1 incorrect question tag in 5 given sentences) | 1 | Easy |
A) VERBAL ABILITY
The Verbal Ability segment had a total of 9 questions
Of the three Critical Reasoning questions, two could be safely attempted with some assurances of being in the right.
Both the Para Formation questions were doable, with some effort.
Error Identification questions had some close choices, but these could be figured out by working with the given choices.
The question on tags was a piece of cake. The Fill in the blanks question could go either way, though the answer was pretty definitive in retrospect.
B) Reading Comprehension
There were seven RC passages, three with two questions each, three with three questions each, and the eminent poem with two questions
| Area | No of Questions | Difficulty Level |
|---|---|---|
| Poem on 'Come. Let's sit and chat awhile' | 2 | Moderate |
| RC Passage on 'Conquest versus Union' | 2 | Difficult |
| RC Passage on 'Uncertainty in Science' | 2 | Difficult |
| RC Passage on 'Microsoft Lumia Strategy' | 2 | Difficult |
| RC Passage on "Multitasking" | 3 | Easy |
| RC Passage on "Numbers" | 3 | Difficult |
| RC Passage on "Women-The Absence" | 3 | Very Difficult |
The poem posed cryptic questions. Barring the passages which focused on the core message of Microsoft, or quorum sensing among bacteria in the passage on numbers, or what there are more cell phones than toilets means in the passage on multitasking, all questions were based on assumptions, inferences, conclusions, or lack thereof.
The cut-off in this section is expected to be around 4 marks for XLRI BM (Male candidates) and 5 marks for XLRI HRM (Male candidates).