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XAT exam is generally held after the CAT, between the 3rd week of December and 2nd week of January. The test centres include Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Delhi, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Noida, Patna, Pune and Vishakhapatnam. The centres are subject to change during a particular year.
Pattern of XAT :
XAT usually comprises 3 sections - with a time limit of 40 minutes for each of the sections. One section is Reading Comprehension and Verbal Ability questions. Another section is Quantitative Ability, Reasoning and Data Interpretation questions and the Third section is General Awareness Questions.
The Number of Sections: 3 (With an Essay after the test)
The Number of Questions: 200 (It may change time to time)
No of Choices per question: 4
Time given for the paper: 120 min
Time given for the essay: 20 min
Marks for correct answer: +1
Marks for wrong answer: -1/3
Essay Topic: Students are expected to write an essay of about 250-300 words in 20 minutes.
Syllabus
| Section | ||
| 1 | Verbal Ability/Reading Comprehension Synonyms Fill-in-the-blanks Analogies Antonyms (with a passage given) Logical Ability Puzzles Reading Comprehension Paragraph Forming |
80 |
| 2 | Quantitative Ability/Data Interpretation/Reasoning Series Functions Permutations & Combinations Reasoning (Weights of boxes) Simple Arithmetic Questions 2 sets of Data Interpretation Sets of Quant Questions Data sufficiency Quant Individual Questions |
60 |
| 3 | General Awareness Geography Quotes History Management Science Political Science |
60 |
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