XAT 2005 analysis

XLRI Admission Test January 09, 2005

Bird's eye view

Total Number of Questions

Total Time

The Marking Scheme

Number of options Sectional Break-up

175 Objective type questions + 1 Essay type question 120 minutes + 20 minutes for essay question

The marks for each question were same but the weightage of marks was not declared.

Negative marking was 33% of the weightage of each question

FOUR

There were no SECTIONAL TIME LIMITS as in last year's XAT.

Sections	Topic	No. Of Questions
A B C	Quantitative and Analytical Ability General Awareness Verbal and Logical Ability	75 35 65
Total		175 Question

Quantitative and Analytical Ability In this section there were 29 questions on Arithmetic, 17 on Higher Maths, 5 questions on 4 option (twister) type DS and 24 questions were on DI. In DI there were three tables, one line graph, one pie chart and one radar graph and in all 24 questions were asked.

Topics	No. Of Questions	Topics	No. Of Questions
Arithmetic		Higher Maths
Numbers	10	Co-ordinate Geometry	1
Two Dimensions Geometry	5	Differentiation	4
Mensuration - 3D	1	Binomial Theorem	1
Inequalities	5	Vector	1
Quadratic Equations	2	Set Theory	6
Probability	2	Progression	4
Profit and Loss	1	Integration	1
Averages	1	Data Sufficiency
Miscellaneous	3	4 Options (twister)	3
Data Interpretation
Table (3)		9
Line Graph (1)		6
Pie Charts (1)		5
Radar (1)		4

Ideally a student must have spent approx. 55-60 minutes on this section.

General Knowledge

There were 35 questions of easy to moderate level of difficulty in this section. There was shift from last year's module the section had a mixture of questions from current and business GK, Economics and Traditional GK. The topic wise break up of GK part is as follows:

Topic	No. Of Questions
History	5
Geography	4
Science	6
Business Awareness	17
Traditional GK	3

Ideally a student must have spent approx. 15-20 minutes on this section.

Verbal and Logical Ability

There were 12 questions on Logical Ability, 32 questions on Reading Comprehension and 21 questions on English usage in this section.

The detailed break- up of this section is as follows

Topics		No. Of Questions
Logical Reasoning		12
Synonyms and Antonyms		12
Para Jumbles		4
Critical Reasoning		5
Reading Comprehension
Passage	Topic	No. Of Questions
I	Need of leisure in civilization for creative thoughts	6
II	Inter-relational between patrons and creators	7
III	Human Ecology	4
IV	Learn ability in child and adult	4
V	Phrenology	7
VI	Taxonomy	4

Ideally a student must have spent approx. 35-40 minutes on this section.

Essay topic: More than one billion Indians: A gigantic problem or a sea of opportunities

Cut-offs

As the scores of this test are used a lot of institutes thus an exact cut-off cannot be provided.

The following can be the approx. expected cut-offs for the following institutes as per PT:

XLRI -	82+
XIM -	75+
SIBM-	72+
GIM -	65+