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XAT 2020 VALR Previous Year Questions with Detailed Solutions

The Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning section of the XAT 2020 paper: 26 real questions with answers and worked solutions.

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Questions, answer key and solutions.

Questions
26
Duration
53 min
Marks
26

Negative marking

Attempts
100
Access
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Both use the same questions. Normal practice is untimed and needs no account: choose an option and the answer and solution appear at once. The Simulated test is the real computer-based format, with one 53-minute clock, a question palette and full screen, and your score, the key and the solutions arrive when you submit.

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Untimed

Every question on one page, loading as you scroll. Choose an option and see straight away whether it was right.

  • No timer. Nothing to start and nothing to submit. Stop whenever you like.
  • Answered as you choose. Tap an option and it is marked at once, with the correct answer shown.
  • Solutions in place. The explanation, and the video where one has been added, sit under the question.
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Real exam conditions

Simulated

Timed CBT

The computer-based test format: one clock, a question palette, and a score the moment you submit.

  • A clock that does not pause. 53 minutes from the moment you begin, and the paper is submitted for you when it reaches zero.
  • Question palette. Answered, not answered and marked for review, section by section, as the real interface has it.
  • Full screen, proctored. The test takes over the screen; leaving it three times submits the paper.
  • Answers hidden until you submit. The key, the explanations and your score all arrive together at the end.

About this test

XAT 2020 VALR PYQ: Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning

This is the Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning section of the actual XAT 2020 paper: all 26 questions with the answer key and a worked solution for each one. Aptitude360 offers it free as a previous-year practice set.

Topics in the XAT 2020 VALR section

  • Paragraph fill-in-the-blanks
  • Grammatical correctness of sentences
  • A short poem on desire and destruction
  • Critical reasoning on surveys, jellyfish sightings, El Niño and moonshots
  • Para jumbles
  • Passages on pleasure and habituation, refugees and exile, knowledge as a commodity, and pointless jobs

Who should take it

XAT and OMET aspirants who want practice on dense passages, poems and argument questions from a real past paper.

How to use it: pick Practice mode to see the solution right after each answer, or Test mode to sit the section against the clock and review everything at the end.

The full XAT 2020 paper and the other sections are listed under XAT PYQs 2020.

Test structure

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

SectionQuestionsTime
XAT 2020 VALR2653 min

Marking & rules

Total marks
26 across 26 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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