XAT 2020 Analysis

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The standard that was set by XAT 2020 was a little more straightforward than XAT 2019, since this time's Quantitative ability and data interpretation is manageable. The most notable change this year was the fact that lots of questions in just a few sections and even a full section on Decision Making didn't have negative marks. This was however not mentioned in the primary instructions, which is why a lot of students weren't able to benefit from this feature. The number of questions were 75.Total length of this segment was about 165 minutes. There was a penalty for missed questions (after eight questions) however it was just worth 0.10 marks. This feature isn't likely to impact the score in any way. This year's XAT was not able to include essay writing, according to the announcement. There were no Non-MCQ (TITA) questions, as was suggested prior to the exam.

Summary of the paper:

The paper consisted of two parts Part I, and Part II. Part I was the primary questions and Part II was based on general knowledge. Part I was comprised of three sections: A B, C and A with 26 and 21 questions each, totaling of 75 question. These three parts of Part I was then followed by Part II which had 25 questions on General Knowledge. The time allowed for the completion of the three sections as well as General Knowledge was 180 minutes. Students were expected to complete the three of the three sections in about 165 minutes and General Knowledge within 15 minutes. Students were expected to respond to questions from every section and to score the highest possible marks in all section. General knowledge marks are utilized by select institutes in the process of final selection. These marks will not be used to shortlist candidates for interview/GD. Three sections of the test were:

Overview of the Different Sections

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The Expected Cutoff's

SECTIONAL - Analyse Section I:
Verbal and Logical Reasoning

Evaluation:

The Verbal portion was moderate to hard. The most surprising thing was that RC questions didn't have negative marking. The tests were based around various subjects like Reading Comprehension, Critical reasoning and Sentence Rearrangement. grammar. It was evident that the length of tests were moderate. The the RCs were inspired by "Knowledge becoming a commodity" and the other was focused on useless jobs that were that were not shrinking in spite of market economies. There was a RC inspired by the poem "fire and ice written of Robert Frost". One The RC was founded on 'unnatural ways of enjoying pleasure or habituation, leading to emptyness'. The other one was based on "terms such as refugees/exiles being treated as positives. The choices were extremely similar in the reading comprehension section which made it long and time-consuming. The majority of problems in RCs were based on critical thinking. In order to answer questions correctly, it was essential that candidates recognize the traps set by examiners.

Good Try: 18 - 22
Section II: Decision Making

Evaluation: All Decision-Making questions carried equal marks. The time DM also did not receive negative marking. There were no questions that relied on reasoning based on analytical thinking during this portion. The section on Decision Making included 21 questions that were Based on the context. The majority of questions were difficult and there were too many options. The questions were constructed from Caselets or Case Studies taken from various fields like business management small business units, Ethical dilemmas, and problems that are based on context and solutions. The cases covered a variety of topics like profitability, pollution and supply chain, e-commerce and business growth. Overall , the difficulty of the segment was moderate.

Good Try 17-20

Section III The Quantitative ability and data interpretation

Assessment: Difficulty level of Quant and DI was moderate. In DI the two groups were present of data; one was based on the revenue of four firms and could be done. The second one was based on GDP of several countries. It was a bit more mathematical. There were three questions about Venn diagrams and it was moderate in difficulty. In Quant the main emphasis was on Geometry with six questions on the subject that were moderate in nature. The questions that were doable came taken from the topics Percentage and Functions, TSD, Ratio, among others. There were two questions which were based upon Algebra which were simple. The overall feeling of the portion was light.

Good attempt: 18-22
General Awareness

The test consisted of 25 questions on general awareness, which comprised of Static GK questions that cover Books Geography, geography, art forms of states, history. and Contemporary Questions made up of Science and Technology, Economic Data and General terminology as well. The difficulty in this segment was medium. Because there no negative markings in this section, making guesses or through elimination of possibilities it is possible to get three or four questions right and that's not counting what they actually knew.

Note: All the above mentioned information is based upon the expert faculty's personal opinions. Many factors have been taken into consideration before deciding on these cut-offs.However this information has nothing to do with the original cut-offs.