XAT - 2024

XAT 2024 was conducted by XLRI Jamshedpur for admission to their Business Management and Human Resource Management programmes, today, Jan 7th, 2024. The test was a computer-based test.

Structure of the Exam

The test was similar to the XAT of 2022, with the questions across sections being exactly same as of that paper. Compared to XAT 23, the change, a minor one, was that the Decision-making section had one question less. The total number of questions this year was 75 and 25 in Part-I and Part-II respectively. Besides the 5-minute Mock keyboard test was seen this year as well.

Part-I comprised three sections:

1. Verbal and Logical Reasoning
2. Decision-Making
3. Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation

Part-II comprised General Knowledge and Mock Keyboard testing along with the Essay

The duration of the test was 175 minutes for the first part and 30 minutes for the second.

All questions carried equal marks with negative marking of 0.25 for a wrong answer. There was a negative marking of 0.1 for un-attempted questions in Part-1, for such questions over and above eight un-attempted questions.

The section on General Knowledge, however, did not have any negative marking and the marks scored in this section would be used for evaluation only after the initial screening i.e., these will not be used for the shortlisting of candidates for the GWPI round.

The break-up of the questions across sections is as below.

For the essay, students were to choose from among three topics given to them and write the essay on any one of them. There was a word limit of 250 for the essay.