XAT 2024 Exam Analysis by IMS: Check Exam Difficulty Level, Cut Off score for 90 & above Percentile Range

XLRI Jamshedpur conducted XAT 2024 exam on behalf of XAMI,  in a single session on Sunday January 7, 2024 as a computer based test. The exam had an increased time duration of 3 hours 30 minutes from 2 PM to 5.30 PM instead of earlier 2 PM to 5.10 PM. XAT Exam 2024 Analysis by top coaching institutes for XAT namely IMS, Career Launcher, T.I.M.E.  is published by MBAUniverse.com with their comprehensive analysis and expected cut offs for the top XAT accepting colleges.

Despite many changes in the XAT 2024 exam pattern, the experts at IMS Coaching institute have rated XAT 2024 as of similar difficulty level exam like previous years. Besides the XAT 2024 percentile predictor, based on your performance in XAT 2024 exam, can also be used to know the nearest XAT 2024 percentile

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XAT Exam Analysis 2024 by Top XAT Coaching Institutes & Experts: Schedule
XAT Exam Analysis as released by top XAT coaching institutes & XAT experts like IMS, TIME, CL, Arun Sharma with their take on exam difficulty level, sectional and overall changes and expected cut offs is published by MBAUniverse.com. The time schedule for release of XAT Test Analysis by IMS, CL, T.I.M.E. is as given below.

IMS, CL XAT 2024 Analysis: Key Highlights
XAT Exam 2024 Analysis by IMS, CL, T.I.M.E reflects upon the overall & sectional XAT exam pattern, difficulty level, predictions on XAT cut offs among others to help the test takers to gauge their performance in XAT 2024 and their admission chances in XLRI and other top XAT accepting Colleges. To offer a wider perspective, XAT Analysis by IMS, CL covers the following:

1. XAT Exam Pattern & key changes
2. Variation as compared to last year in Topics, Type of Questions for each section
3. Any Surprise elements in XAT 2024 Exam paper
4. Exam Difficulty Level: Overall & Section wise Analysis by Experts
5. Required Good Attempts: Overall and Section wise
6. XAT score Cut off Predictions by Experts to help the aspirants to assess their performance and check their call chances by top XAT Accepting B-schools
7. XAT Percentile Predictions

This year XLRI has brought about many changes in its exam pattern. XAT exam 2024 analysis reflects the key changes in difficulty level and twisted type of questions among other things.

XAT 2024 Question Paper Analysis by IMS, CL
Given the reputation of XLRI XAT exam over the years, the XAT Test paper is changed every year. This year too, many changes are introduced in XAT pattern.

IMS XAT 2024 Analysis
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XAT Exam Analysis 2023 by Top XAT Coaching Institutes & Experts: Schedule
XAT Exam Analysis as released by top XAT coaching institutes & XAT experts like IMS, TIME, CL, Arun Sharma with their take on exam difficulty level, sectional and overall changes and expected cut offs is published by MBAUniverse.com. The time schedule for release of XAT Test Analysis by IMS, CL, T.I.M.E. is as given below.

IMS, CL XAT 2023 Analysis: Key Highlights
XAT Exam 2023 Analysis by IMS, CL, T.I.M.E reflects upon the overall & sectional XAT exam pattern, difficulty level, predictions on XAT cut offs among others to help the test takers to gauge their performance in XAT 2023 and their admission chances in XLRI and other top XAT accepting Colleges. To offer a wider perspective, XAT Analysis by IMS, CL covers the following:

1. XAT Exam Pattern & key changes

2. Variation as compared to last year in Topics, Type of Questions for each section

3. Any Surprise elements in XAT 2023 Exam paper

4. Exam Difficulty Level: Overall & Section wise Analysis by Experts

5. Required Good Attempts: Overall and Section wise

6. XAT score Cut off Predictions by Experts to help the aspirants to assess their performance and check their call chances by top XAT Accepting B-schools

7. XAT Percentile Predictions

This year XLRI has brought about many changes in its exam pattern. XAT exam 2023 analysis reflects the key changes in difficulty level and twisted type of questions among other things.

XAT 2023 Question Paper Analysis by IMS, CL
Given the reputation of XLRI XAT exam over the years, the XAT Test paper is changed every year. This year too, many changes are introduced in XAT pattern.

XAT 2023 Question Paper: Key Highlights
Key highlights of  XAT 2023 question paper are 

• Test timing changed to 3 hr.10 Minutes: 2 PM to 5.10 PM
• Total questions increased to 101 in XAT 2023
• Single slot, single day exam
• Essay Writing Test Restored in XAT 2023
• XAT 2023 had MCQ type and Descriptive Questions
• Question paper with 4 sections with MCQs and 1 section with Essay Writing Test
• The GK Section with 25 questions is not counted for percentile calculation
• Visually impaired candidates with scribe are given additional 25 minutes to solve Part 1 of  the exam
• Marks for every correct answer : +1
• - 0.25 Negative Marking for wrong answer
• No Negative marking for General Knowledge and Essay writing section in part-2 of question paper
• All the MCQ type questions have five options with one correct option
• Essay Test shall be evaluated after the candidate is shortlisted for the interview.
• -0.10 Negative marks penalty for every unattempted question after 8 unattempted questions
• The countdown timer at the top, right-hand side of the screen displays the time remaining. This is the time available for you to complete the examination for the part of the question paper you are answering (Part 1/Part 2)
• On completion of 165 minutes, the timer reached zero and Part 1 was locked. Test takers were moved to Part 2, i.e., General Knowledge & Essay section of the Question Paper
• Test takers were not allowed to leave the test lab before completion of the test
• PwD candidates were allowed to submit their answers at any point of time between 165 minutes and 220 minutes for Part 1 and between 15 to 20 minutes for Part 2. So, a PwD candidate could  leave the lab between 180 minutes and 240 minutes depending upon the completion time of the test.

XAT 2023 Analysis with Sectional Composition & Scoring Pattern
XAT Analysis 2023 with sectional composition and key changes in XAT paper 2023, sectional division of questions in revised XAT test pattern are shared below

We share below the XAT 2022 Exam Analysis and expected cut offs by IMS Learning

XAT 2023 Exam Analysis by IMS

XAT (Xavier Aptitude Test) 2023 was conducted online on January 8, 2023, between 2 PM and 5:30 PM. The test had almost the same structure as last year. Three essay topics were provided. The test-taker had to select one.

The structure of the test along with suggested time allocation, good attempts, and estimated cut-offs based on the feedback from IMS students and experts are in the table below:

The Question Paper consisted of:

Part A questions invited negative marks of – 0.25 for each incorrect response. In addition, there was a penalty of -0.1 mark for every unattempted question after 8 unattempted questions.

VERDICT
Overall, XAT-2023 was similar in difficulty level to XAT 2022. The DM Section was on par with the same last year with a few questions in DM being difficult. The VALR section was slightly more challenging than the same section in XAT 2022. The QA-DI section was slightly easier compared with XAT 2022.

Based on the inputs received from students and IMS mentors who appeared for the test and based on the actual cut-offs over the last two years, we estimate the following cut-offs for XLRI BM and HRM programs:

XLRI BM Program

XLRI HRM Program

SECTIONAL ANALYSIS

Note: For both BM and HRM programs of XLRI, the overall cut-off is significantly greater than the sum of the sectional cut-offs. Therefore, the number of good attempts for different sections has been estimated from the point of view of a student who wishes to maximize the score in that section.

Part-A

Verbal and Logical Ability Section (26 questions)

There were 14 Reading Comprehension questions and 12 Verbal Ability/Reasoning questions. The Verbal ability/Verbal Reasoning questions were a fair mix of grammar, vocabulary, and reasoning-based questions (Critical Reasoning, Correct statements and Jumbled Paragraphs). The 14 RC questions were distributed among four passages and one poem. The poem-based RC was difficult. The remaining four passages were of 200 - 450 words each approximately; they had a mixture of mostly medium to difficult questions. Many of the questions were inferential and application-based.

An attempt of about 13-14 questions in this section in about 55-60 minutes, with about 75-80% accuracy would be considered a good attempt.

Decision Making (22 questions)

This section consisted of 22 questions. There was one Quantitative DM set. The section consisted of 6 sets of 3 questions each and 2 sets of 2 questions each. Most of the questions were on Ethical Dilemma. As usual, some questions had a fair deal of ambiguity – in that either no answer seemed correct or more than one option appeared correct. Overall, the questions were of medium difficulty. Therefore, the choice of sets/questions to attempt would have depended mainly on your personal preferences and strengths.

In about 50-55 minutes, an attempt of about 11-12 questions with about 75-80% accuracy would be considered to be good.

Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation (28 questions)
This section was of moderate level of difficulty. As a whole, it was slightly easier than XAT-2022. Out of the 28 questions in the section, 22 were on Quantitative Ability and 6 were on Data Interpretation.  

There were two sets of Data Interpretation with 3 questions each, one was based on a scatter plot, radar and bar graph while the other was on table.

Following is the break-up of the questions in the section:

An attempt of about 17-18 questions (with about 80 percent accuracy) in about 55-60 minutes would be considered a good attempt. 

Part B: Keyboard Check 

Part C

General Knowledge
The 25 GK questions comprised 18 current affairs questions and 7 static GK questions. Overall, the GK section was slightly more difficult than XAT 2022. 15 questions were based on national events, 10 questions were based on international events and miscellaneous topics as usual, the questions covered a wide range of areas and gave no special advantage to specialists in any one area.

To maximize the score in this section, one should have attempted 12 questions seriously. Additionally, as there was no negative marking in this section, all the remaining questions should also have been attempted. A score of 6 - 7 would be a good score in this section.

Essay Writing
Three topics were provided. The test-taker had to select one topic and write an essay in around 250 words.

The topics for the essay writing task were:

1. Risk is the essential need of the soul, the absence of which produces a kind of boredom which paralyses in a different way from fear, but almost as much.
2. Rapid decarbonization to fulfil India’s net zero commitments will have business consequences.
3. Someone with half your IQ is making 10x as you, because they are not smart enough to doubt themselves.

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