XAT 2018 was conducted on January 7, 2018. In XAT 2018 question paper, a minor change was XAT Exam Pattern. From 2018 onwards, XAT paper was to be conducted entirely online and the penalty for the unanswered questions (.05 marks) would start from the 9th unattempted question onwards as opposed to the 14th unattempted question. The rest of the paper was in accordance with the pattern of the previous years. Like the previous years, the paper consisted of 2 parts, the first part containing 3 sections: Verbal Reasoning & Logical Ability, Decision making, QA & DI; and the other containing GK and Essay Writing sections. Overall, the paper contained 99 Questions to be attempted within 210 minutes and was of moderate difficulty. Check XAT Syllabus
XAT 2023 aspirants must refer to XAT 2018 question paper with solutions PDF given below
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SPJIMR
According to the information available, the expected cutoff for SP Jain Institute of Management for both profile-based and normal calls through CAT and XAT is not released yet. So
I will base the answer on last year's cutoff
However it’s important to note that for more certainty of admission, one must score around 93-95%ile score and a 680-690 min on GMAT.
XIMB
The XLRI admission cut-off is directly influenced by the difficulty level of the XAT question paper. XAT 2023 exam was held on January 8, 2023. The question paper was of moderate difficulty level, the same as last year. Given below are the section-wise XAT cut-off for XLRI admission 2023:
General Engineers (BM) | 95 Male 92 Female |
General Non Engineer (BM) | 95 Male 92 Female |
General Engineers (HRM) | 93 Male 91 Female |
General Non Engineers (HRM) | 90 Male 88 Female |
XIMB CAT cutoff for the previous year was 91 percentile for Business Management and HRM cutoff hasn’t been released yet.