XAT 2024 VALR Previous Year Questions with Detailed Solutions

Read the following sentences carefully.

A. Everybody accepts his responsibilities.

B. Nobody in that group have their reports up to date, as they should have.

C. Either of the boys is acceptable to do the errands.

D. Both of the mice is underfed.

E. It is I who am next.

F. The teacher told he and I to leave early.

Which of the following combinations has all the sentences grammatically CORRECT?

As _________evolved and eventually moved to cities, close proximity ____________how we viewed and assessed each_________.

Read the following sentences carefully.

A. I shall be there at about 9: 00 a.m.

B. Keep off of the grass.

C. My old car was much faster than the new one.

D. I was angry at my friend.

E. Rohit is as capable as Virat.

Which of the following combinations has all the INCORRECT sentences?

Read the following statement carefully.

___________like a fake can be a sign of___________, and clinging too tightly to what feels like one’s authentic self can ________that growth.

Fill in the blanks meaningfully, in the above statement, from the following options.

Read the following statements and answer the question that follows.

A. Back then, they were owned by companies and installed on their premises.

B. Rooms and servers began to replace computer mainframes in the 1990’s.

C. These were supplemented by processors from Intel, which by the mid-2000s translated its dominance of PC semiconductors into a near monopoly of the server market.

D. They mostly ran on chips made by IBM and HP, the big tech of the day.

E. Things started to change once again around a decade ago, when Amazon began selling some of its spare server capacity.

Which of the following combinations is the MOST logically ordered?

Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows.

You may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power.

Based on the above information, which of the following statements MUST be true?

Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows.

Fear is the greatest motivator of all time. Conflict born of fear is behind our every action, driving us forward like the cogs of a clock. Fear is desire’s dark dress, its doppelgänger. “Love and dread are brothers,” says Julian of Norwich. As desire is wanting and fear is not-wanting, they become inexorably linked; just as desire can be destructive (the desire for power), fear can be constructive (fear of hurting another); fear of poverty becomes desire for wealth.

Which of the following statements can be BEST concluded from the paragraph?

Here are some handy rules of thumb. Anyone who calls themselves a thought leader is to be avoided. A man who does not wear socks cannot be trusted. And a company that holds an employee-appreciation day does not appreciate its employees.

Paragraph 2:

It is not just that the message sent by acknowledging staff for one out of 260-odd working days is a bit of a giveaway (there isn’t a love-your-spouse day ... for the same reason). It is also that the ideas are usually so tragically unappreciative. You have worked hard all year so you get a slice of cold pizza or a rock stamped with the words “You rock”?

Which of the following BEST describes the relationship of the first paragraph with the second paragraph?

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

That’s how life plays out for all of us. We lose some. Like sportspersons, we too pack our gear and go to work. But unlike them, the gaze of the world is not upon us. Most of us do our business in anonymity, very few of us are emotionally wired to the outcomes of our day jobs. We don’t come back feeling like winners. Or losers. As sports fans we can summon empathy for those who stretch their bodies and minds to the limit in the pursuit of athletic excellence and provide such joys in the process.

But we will never experience the highs that are their reward. And we will never know the depth of their lows, which are their burden.

Still, no one will know better than Rohit and Dravid that its already a new day. There might never be a World Cup win for them. But there are loved ones to go to. Life awaits still.

Which of the following statements BEST summarizes the above passage?

The science writer Timothy Ferris agrees: “Our ignorance, of course, has always been with us, and always will be. What is new is our awareness of it, our awakening to its fathomless dimensions, and it is this, more than anything else, that marks the coming of age of our species.”

It is an odd, unsettling thought that the culmination of our greatest century of discovery should be the confirmation of our ignorance. How did such a thing come about?

Which of the following statements can be BEST concluded from the above passage?