XAT 2016 preparation
XAT 2016 Preparation series
Considered as one of the toughest entrance exams for MBA students , we are running a series under XAT 2016 preparation. With the new pattern changes that have taken place this year, it would be beneficial for you to go through these past year XAT actual questions.We have segregated questions and solutions section wise so that you get a fair idea of the difficulty level of the papers over the previous years, as well as the differential marking scheme for each question. The articles will contain 360+ actual XAT questions. You can browse through the posts here.
Read the following paragraph carefully and answer the question that follows:
1.It is one week since Uttarakhand’s worst disaster in living memory. Flash floods resulting from extremely intense rainfall swept away mountainsides, villages and towns, thousands of people, animals, agricultural fields, irrigation canals, domestic water sources, dams, roads, bridges, and buildings — anything that stood in the way.
A week later, media attention remains riveted on the efforts to rescue tens of thousands of pilgrims and tourists visiting the shrines in the uppermost reaches of Uttarakhand’s sacred rivers. But the deluge spread far beyond the Char Dhams — Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath — to cover the entire state. The catchments of many smaller rivers also witnessed flash floods but the media has yet to report on the destruction there. Eyewitness accounts being gathered by official agencies and voluntary organizations have reported devastation from more than 200 villages so far and more affected villages are being reported every day.
Which of the following would the author agree the most with?
A.Char Dhams were most affected by Uttarakhand disaster
B.Entire catchment of rivers flowing in Uttarakhand was affected
C.Media attention was on Char Dhams but the entire catchment area of rivers flowing in Uttarakhand was affected
D.Media cannot be trusted as it focuses only on important places and events
E.Voluntary organizations are better than media in reaching out to the affected people,
2.Which of the following is the correct form of expression for the underlined part of the sentence below?
Patna is not only the capital of Bihar, but it is also one of the oldest cities in the world and the largest city in the state.
A.capital of Bihar, but it is also one of the oldest
B.capital of Bihar, nevertheless also one of the oldest
C.Bihar’s capital city, and it is also one of the older
D.Bihar’s capital, but it is also one of the older
E.capital of Bihar, but it is also one of the older
Directions for question nos. 3 – 4: Read the definitions below and select the best match between the numbered sentences and the definitions.
Premise: A proposition from which another statement is inferred or follows a conclusion.
Assumption: Something, which is accepted as true.
Fact: Something, which can be checked.
Reason: A cause, explanation or justification for an action or event.
Conclusion: An end, finish or summarization of process or argument.
Proposition: A statement that expresses judgment or opinion.
Question: A sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit opinion.
Inductive Inference: An end, finish or summarization reached for “the whole” based on “a particular” real incidence.
Deductive Inference: An end, finish or, summarization reached based on the combining and recombining two or more than two assumptions.
3.When you look at the people who make fundamental revolutionary breakthroughs in any field, you keep noticing over and over again a high preponderance of them have some sort of disability when they were younger, whether it was a physical disability or mental disability, which leads to lower expectations from others, whom they always wanted to prove wrong (1). And what does it do (2)? What does that do to you, when you try to prove someone wrong (3)? You increase your engagement in something because you want to fight against those expectations (4). So it seems like it actually can be a gift having what we label as a disability, or disorder, and cause people to overcompensate and engage in things in other ways (5). A research study shows that higher number of people with dyslexia become social entrepreneurs because they over-compensate their disability through nonverbal communication, initiative and grit (6). And this overcompensation leads to greatness (7).
The best match would be:
A.1-Assumption, 2-Question, 3-Reason, 4-Fact
B.1-Assumption, 2-Question, 4-Reason, 7-Conclusion
C.1-Fact, 2-Question, 4-Reason, 6-Reason
D.1-Fact, 3-Question, 4-Reason, 7-Inductive Inference
E.3-Question, 4-Reason, 5-Fact, 6-Proposition
4.The fatal consequences of having a routine mid-day meal for at least twenty two children in Bihar’s Saran district expose the chronic neglect of school education in a large part of India (1). That governments cannot find a small piece of land for a school and are unable to store food materials without the risk of contamination is a telling commentary on their commitment to universal primary education (2). The Bihar horror clearly points to the absence of strong normative procedures for the provision of infrastructure, even for a new school (3).
The best match would be:
A.1-Fact, 2-Reason, 3-Deductive Inference
B.1-Reason, 2-Reason, 3-Inductive Inference
C.1-Inductive Inference, 2-Fact, 3-Inductive Inference
D.1-Inductive Inference, 2- Inductive Inference, 3-Inductive Inference
E.1-Reason, 2-Reason, 3-Reason
Directions for questions nos. 5 – 6. Read the following sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.
5. 1.The mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking is one of the most important issues in the present Particle Physics.
2.They are required to give masses for all quarks and leptons and to guarantee the absence of the gauge anomaly.
3.In the standard electroweak model a fundamental Higgs doublet is introduced to cause the spontaneous symmetry breaking.
4.Supersymmetry (SUSY), eliminating all quadratic divergences, may provide a better theoretical basis to describe a fundamental Higgs boson with a relatively small mass to a high energy cutoff scale, say the Planck scale for example.
5.In the minimal SUSY extension of the standard electroweak model the Higgs sector consists of two chiral superfields of Higgs doublets (H1 and H2 with opposite hypercharges).
A.1, 3, 4, 5, 2
B.1, 4 ,3 , 5 ,2
C.3, 4, 2, 5, 1
D.1, 5 ,2 , 3 , 4
E. 5, 4, 2, 3, 1
6.1.Shakespeare did not personally prepare his plays for publication, and no official collection of them appeared until after his death.
2.Some were probably based on actors’ memories of the plays.
3.Many of these quartos are quite unreliable.
4.A collection of his sonnets, considered by critics to be among the best ever written in English, appeared in 1609
5.Many individual plays were published during his lifetime in unauthorized editions known as quartos.
A.1, 2 ,3 , 5 ,4
B. 1, 2 , 4, 5 , 3
C.3 , 1 , 4 , 5 ,2
D.3, 5, 1 ,2 , 4
E. 1, 4, 5, 3, 2
Analyze the following passage and provide appropriate answers for the questions 7 through 9 that follow.
The assumption of rationality puts an economist in a position to “explain” some features of market behavior, such as the dispersion of prices of psychophysically identical goods such as beer according to the amount spent on advertising them (no doubt, the fact that most beer is bought by individuals rather than as a raw material by firms, which could be expected to be more rational than individuals, is part of the explanation). Clearly, something is wrong somewhere with the usual model of a competitive market with perfect information, for the virtually content less advertising cannot be considered as increasing the utility of beer in an obvious way. But if one can keep the assumption of rational actors, one need not get into the intellectual swamp of sentiment nor of preferences that depend on price. If one agrees, for example, that consumers use advertising as an index of the effort a producer will put into protecting its reputation and so as a predictor of quality control efforts, one can combine it with the standard mechanism and derive testable consequences from it.
But why, logically speaking, does it not matter that any of us, with a few years’ training, could disprove the assumptions? It is for the same reason that the statistical mechanics of gases is not undermined when Rutherford teaches a lot of only moderately bright physicists to use X-ray diffraction to disprove the assumption that molecules are little hard elastic balls. The point is, departures that Rutherford teaches us to find from the mechanism built into statistical mechanics are small and hardly ever systematic at the level of gases. Ignorance and error about the quality of beer is also, unlikely to be systematic at the level of the consumers’ beer market, though it would become systematic if buyers imposed quality control procedures on sellers in contracts of sale (as corporations very often do in their contracts with suppliers). So, when we find beers that are apparently psychophysically identical selling for prices that depend on their advertising budgets, we have a dull alternative hypothesis and an interesting one. The dull one is that advertising can make the ignorance and error systematic at the level of markets, just as lasers with wavelengths resonant with the internal structures and the sizes of molecules can make molecular motions in gases systematic. The interesting one is that virtually contentless advertising is nevertheless information to a rational actor.
7.Which of the following statements would be the closest to the arguments in the passage?
A.Individuals are more rational than firms.
B.Firms are rational
C.Firms are more rational than individuals
D.Firms are, most of the times, more rational than individuals
E.Market behavior of psychophysical goods would be the same as that of physical good
8.Why has the author referred to Rutherford in the passage?
A.To prove that molecules are elastic
B.To highlight that we should not compare apples and oranges
C.To hint that only very good students understood Physics taught by Rutherford
D.To equate beer with little hard elastic balls.
E.To state that Mechanics is more amenable to application of Statistics than gasses.
9.Which of the following, as per author, are psychophysical goods?
1.Concrete
2.Car
3.Mobile Phone
A.1 and 2
B.2 and 3
C.1 and 3
D.1, 2 and 3
E.None of these
10.Clinical practitioners integrated mindfulness treatment of host of emotional and behavioral disorders, _, borderline personality disorder, major depression, chronic pain, or eating disorders. Number of such practitioners increased substantially.
A.have, in the, a, such as, has
B. have, in the, the, like, have
C.were, for, a, like, has
D.have, for, a, like, has
E.could, in the, the, such as, have
Answers –
1.C
2.A
3.B
4.D
5.A
6.E
7.D
8.B
9.E
10.A
