XLRI Admission Test

XLRI Admission Test

'08    

In a nutshell, the XAT 2008 paper failed to live up to the promise of XAT 2007. The three sections continued to be largely lengthy, providing the test-taker with no respite at all. A few problems in the Quant/DI section were quite ambiguous. Also, the DI questions with conventional, bulky charts were monotonous. The problems in the AR/DM section were not very exciting, either. The DM cases were simple, though some of the questions could have ambiguous explanations. By and large, the RC passages in the English section entailed time-consuming reading. However, many of the questions were easy. In contrast, the sentence completion questions were fairly simplistic. The paper had its share of critical reasoning questions, and, even here, the language of the questions was often vague and unclear.

Overall, the cut-offs can be expected to be close to last year�s level though the paper was nowhere near to being as exciting as last year�s.

Section	Topics	Number of questions	Suggested time	Possible Attempts	XLRI BM Cut-offs
1	EU and RC	38	40 minutes	21+	11 - 12
2	AR and Decision Making	38	40 minutes	14+	7-7.5
3	QA & DI	44	40 minutes	14+	7.5-8
	Total	120	120 minutes	49+	32-33

Likely Cut-Offs for other institutes:

Institute	Cut-off
Expected cut-off XLRI � PMIR	30-31
Expected cut-off SP Jain	29-30
Expected cut-off XIMB	29-30
Expected cut-off GIM/BIM	25-26
Expected cut-off LIBA	22-23

Disclaimer: These cut-offs are decided by our expert faculty, who have attempted the XAT 2008 paper and might not be the actual XAT cut-offs. These calculations are based on our experience and expertise.

Comparison with Last 3 year�s XAT:

Parameter	XAT 2008	XAT 2007	XAT 2006	XAT 2005
Number of sections	3	3	3	3
Number of questions	120	130	127	175
Difficulty level (Overall)	Difficult	Difficult	Difficult	Average
Expected cut-off (BMD)	32-33	35+	32+	70+
Expected cut-off (PMIR)	30-31	33+	28+	65-68

         

Section-wise Analysis

Section I: English Usage & Reading Comprehension
There were 38 questions, to be attempted in 40 minutes. The questions ranged between average and high in terms of difficulty level. Surprisingly, grammar was not tested. Critical reasoning questions were in the form of case lets. There was an increase in the number of these questions, as compared to the past XAT papers. The Para- jumbles should have been best left alone. A good command over homophones would have been required to tackle the contextual vocabulary questions.

Reading Comprehension
A good mix of passages! Two passages, viz. the ones on Psychology and Science, were difficult to read and the questions in these, being mostly inferential, would have given one a tough time. The relief was provided in the form of direct vocabulary and fact-based question in the remaining two passages.
Overall, an attempt of 21 questions & a score of 12+ was definitely possible.

Topic-wise breakup

Type of question	No. of questions	Difficulty level	No. of possible attempts
Four sentence Para jumbles	3	High	2
Critical Reasoning (Case lets)	10	Average	6
Grammar	0
Reading Comprehension [4 passages]	20	Average to Difficult	8-9
Contextual Vocab (fill in the blanks)	5	Average	3
	38		21 attempts