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XAT 2019 Previous Year Questions with Detailed Solutions

Actual XAT 2019 paper covering Quant and DI, Decision Making caselets, General Knowledge, and Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning, with detailed solutions.

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Questions
99

Across 4 sections

Duration
180 min

4 timed sections

Marks
99

Negative marking

Attempts
100
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About this test

XAT 2019 Question Paper PYQ: QADI, Decision Making, GK and VALR

The XAT 2019 previous year paper builds managerial judgement alongside quantitative, verbal and general awareness skills.

Topic-wise questions in each section of XAT 2019

Quantitative Aptitude & Data Interpretation

All 18 topics, ranked (questions · share of the section):

Charts & Graphs3 · 11%
Tables3 · 11%
Coordinate Geometry2 · 7%
Factors & Divisibility2 · 7%
Quadratic Equations2 · 7%
Quadrilaterals & Polygons2 · 7%
Triangles2 · 7%
Averages1 · 4%
Circles1 · 4%
Inequalities & Modulus1 · 4%
Logarithms1 · 4%
Mensuration1 · 4%
Percentage1 · 4%
Permutations & Combinations1 · 4%
Profit & Loss1 · 4%
Progressions & Series1 · 4%
Ratio & Proportion1 · 4%
Simple & Compound Interest1 · 3%
BDM
2topics
Managerial Caselets17 · 81%
Ethical Dilemmas4 · 19%
General Knowledge
11topics
Economy5 · 22%
Art & Culture3 · 13%
History3 · 13%
Environment2 · 9%
Geography2 · 9%
Polity2 · 9%
Sports2 · 9%
Business & Entrepreneurship1 · 4%
Chemistry1 · 4%
Physics1 · 4%
Static GK1 · 4%

Based on the questions whose topic is confirmed (92% of this section).

Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning
6topics
Reading Comprehension16 · 62%
Critical Reasoning3 · 11%
Fill in the Blanks3 · 11%
Para Jumbles2 · 8%
Analogy1 · 4%
Synonyms & Antonyms1 · 4%

What this tells you: course of action

Quantitative Aptitude & Data Interpretation

  • First priority: Charts & Graphs, Tables, Coordinate Geometry and Factors & Divisibility, roughly 37% of the questions between them.
  • Keep in rotation: Quadratic Equations, Quadrilaterals & Polygons and Triangles, a steady 22% that rewards regular practice once the first group feels comfortable.
  • Leave for last: 11 topics appear only once, about 41% in total. Revise them from short notes after the topics above are solid.
  • Splitting your study time: out of every 10 study sessions on this section, about 4 for the first group, 2 for the keep-in-rotation group and 4 for the leave-for-last group.

BDM

  • Start with Managerial Caselets: about 81% of the questions, so every hour here pays back the most.
  • Keep in rotation: Ethical Dilemmas, a steady 19% that rewards regular practice once the first group feels comfortable.
  • Splitting your study time: out of every 10 study sessions on this section, about 8 for the first group and 2 for the keep-in-rotation group.

General Knowledge

  • Begin with Economy, Art & Culture, History and Environment. These carry about 57% of the questions, which makes them the best place for your first study sessions.
  • Keep in rotation: Geography, Polity and Sports, a steady 26% that rewards regular practice once the first group feels comfortable.
  • Leave for last: 4 topics appear only once, about 17% in total. Revise them from short notes after the topics above are solid.
  • Splitting your study time: out of every 10 study sessions on this section, about 6 for the first group, 2 for the keep-in-rotation group and 2 for the leave-for-last group.

Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning

  • First priority: Reading Comprehension, about 62% of the questions.
  • Keep in rotation: Critical Reasoning, Fill in the Blanks and Para Jumbles, a steady 31% that rewards regular practice once the first group feels comfortable.
  • Save for the end: 2 one-question topics (8% together). Skim them last rather than building long study blocks around them.
  • Splitting your study time: out of every 10 study sessions on this section, about 6 for the first group, 3 for the keep-in-rotation group and 1 for the leave-for-last group.

Key concepts to revise for XAT 2019

  • Weighing stakeholder interests, ethics and practicality in workplace caselets
  • Cyclic behaviour of powers of the complex cube roots of unity
  • Prime factorisation to test whether a root is an integer
  • Tone, inference and central idea in short passages and poems

FAQs about XAT 2019 Previous Year Questions with Detailed Solutions

Who conducts the XAT exam?
XAT, the Xavier Aptitude Test, is conducted by XLRI Jamshedpur on behalf of the Xavier Association of Management Institutions. Its scores are accepted by XLRI and many other business schools.
What is decision making in XAT?
Decision Making presents short business, social and ethical situations and asks you to choose the most suitable action or reasoning. It tests judgement, stakeholder analysis and practical problem solving rather than calculation.
What is QADI in XAT 2019?
QADI stands for Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation. In XAT 2019 it included arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and chart-based data questions.
What does VALR mean in XAT?
VALR stands for Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning. It covers reading comprehension, poem analysis, vocabulary in context, sentence arrangement and critical reasoning questions such as identifying fallacies.

Test structure

How the paper is split, and how long each part runs. A section you have finished cannot be returned to.

SectionQuestionsTime
XAT 2019 QADI2763 min
XAT 2019 BDM2149 min
XAT 2019 GK2515 min
XAT 2019 VALR2653 min

Marking & rules

Total marks
99 across 99 questions.
Negative marking
A wrong answer costs marks. Leaving a question unanswered costs nothing.
Attempts
100 in total. An attempt is spent the moment you begin one.

What you get when you submit

The analysis is ready the moment you submit the paper.

Score and accuracy

Marks, percentage, right, wrong and skipped, and the time you took.

Section by section

The same figures for each section, so a weak one cannot hide in an average.

The full answer key

Every question with your answer, the right one, the working, and the video where there is one.

Where you stand

Your score against the spread of everyone else who has sat this test.

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