XAT 2024: The Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2024 - held on January 7 - carried easier verbal ability and logical reasoning (VALR) questions and a moderate decision-making paper. As per the XAT 2024 analysis shared by the T.I.M.E. Institute, the VA questions were on the easier side. There were no unusual words (vocabulary) questions, and the options in the grammar questions were straightforward. The PFQs had options, which made them easy to solve. The tricky part was critical reasoning - some of the options were close and difficult to eliminate. Most questions in decision-making were of moderate level while some had close options, though the content provided in the caselets was pretty straightforward. Read | Why have registrations of CAT, XAT, MAT, SNAP gone up this year? The XAT 2024 exam question paper included five sections bifurcated into three parts. The first part consisted of VALR, decision-making (DM), quantitative ability and data interpretation (QADI) for which applicants were allotted 175 minutes. The second part consisted of keyboard testing with a time slot of five minutes. The third part, however, consisted of Essay Writing and General Awareness with a time slot of 30 minutes. In the QADI section, a combination of QA questions and DI sets was seen. Most of the questions are from the easy and moderate levels of difficulty, it added. In the QA section, T.I.M.E Institute said, the paper was similar to the last year in terms of difficulty while the distribution across topics saw a significant change. Topics like Coordinate Geometry, Modulus, Trigonometry and Special Equations which were present last year were missing this year. As per the analysis shared by Gautam Puri, the vice chairman and MD of Career Launcher, the overall level of difficulty of XAT 2024 was on the moderate to difficult side. A good score would hover around 35 marks for 95 percentile, the expert added. The VALR section had 26 questions out of which 13 questions, divided into 5 sets, were of RC, he added. This year, para completion was replaced by para jumble questions. In VALR, 13 – 14 marks will correspond to 95 percentile, Career Launcher said. Moreover, the number of questions in the DM section was reduced from 22 to 21. There were 7 sets of 3 questions each. About 13 marks in this section will correspond to the 95 percentile. While there was only one DI set last year, there were four DI sets in XAT 2024. In QADI, a good score would be 12 marks.
