XAT 2021 was conducted by XLRI Jamshedpur on January 3, 2021 in a single slot. XAT 2021 question paper followed the changed XAT Exam Pattern introduced in XAT exam 2020 and hence, the total number of questions asked in the paper were 100, divided into 4 sections. As per the students' assessments, the Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation section of the exam was the most difficult section followed by the General Knowledge section. Majority of the questions in the remaining two sections, i.e, Verbal & Logical Ability and Decision making were easy to moderate, although there were a few tricky questions on ethical dilemma, vocabulary, and critical reasoning. Check XAT Syllabus
Practicing previous year question papers is a great way to revise and get familiar with the exam pattern and syllabus for XAT 2023. For that purpose, the students must have a look at XAT 2021 question paper with solutions PDFs 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.