XAT Paper 2023

Q. Amit has forgotten his 4-digit locker key. He remembers that all the digits are positive integers and are different from each other. Moreover, the fourth digit is the smallest a…

Q. The problem below consists of a question and two statements numbered 1 & 2. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question.…

Q. Rajnish bought an item at 25% discount on the printed price. He sold it at 10% discount on the printed price. What is his profit in percentage? 10 15 17.5 20 None of the above E…

Q. Given A=|x+3|+|x−2|−|2x−8| . The maximum value of |A| is: 111 9 6 3 ∞ EXPLANATION From the 5 cases above, we observe that the value of A ranges from -9 to 9. So, the maximum val…

Q. ABC is a triangle with BC=5.D is the foot of the perpendicular from A on BC . E is a point on CD such that BE=3 . The value of AB 2 −AE 2 +6CD is: 5 10 14 18 21 EXPLANATION

Q. Jose borrowed some money from his friend at simple interest rate of 10% and invested the entire amount in stocks. At the end of the first year, he repaid 1/5th of the principal …

Q. The Guava club has won 40% of their football matches in the Apple Cup that they have played so far. If they play another n matches and win all of them, their winning percentage …

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Q. ABC is a triangle and the coordinates of A, B and C are (a, b-2c), (a, b+4c) and (-2a,3c) respectively where a, b and c are positive numbers. The area of the triangle ABC is: 6a…

Q. A painter draws 64 equal squares of 1 square inch on a square canvas measuring 64 square inches. She chooses two squares (1 square inch each) randomly and then paints them. What…

Q. A non-flying ant wants to travel from the bottom corner to the diagonally opposite top corner of a cubical room. The side of the room is 2 meters. What will be the minimum dista…

Q. Suppose Haruka has a special key Δ in her calculator called delta key: Rule 1: If the display shows a one-digit number, pressing delta key Δ replaces the displayed number with t…

Q. A small jar contained water, lime and sugar in the ratio of 90:7:3. A glass contained only water and sugar in it. Contents of both (small jar and glass) were mixed in a bigger j…

Q1. The addition of 7 distinct positive integers is 1740. What is the largest possible “greatest common divisor” of these 7 distinct positive integers? 42 60 74 140 None of the abo…

Q. ABCD is a trapezoid where BC is parallel to AD and perpendicular to AB . Kindly note that BC<AD . P is a point on AD such that CPD is an equilateral triangle. Q is a point on BC…

Q1. EXPLANATION Q2. Separately, Jack and Sristi invested the same amount of money in a stock market. Jack’s invested amount kept getting reduced by 50% every month. Sristi’s invest…

Q1. Raju and Sarita play a number game. First, each one of them chooses a positive integer independently. Separately, they both multiply their chosen integers by 2, and then subtra…

Q1-3. Go through the information given below, and answer the THREE questions that follow. The three graphs below capture relationship between economic (and social) activities and s…

Q. Read the following statements. The leave policy is bound to be unpopular either with the management or among workers. If the leave policy is unpopular with the management, it sh…

Q. When facing various challenges, people in today’s digital world heavily rely on private, online information seeking behaviour. Individuals who experience depression will often a…

Q1. Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence: I’m not sure when I first became aware of the Singularity. In the almost half century that I've immersed myself in computer an…

Q. Fill up the blanks with appropriate words. Oil painting did to appearance what capital did to social____________. It reduced everything to the ____of objects. Everything became …

Q1. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows. As a generation, we are rethinking what we are to others. Our technological prowess has become a wireless lifel…

Q1. Read the following sentences carefully. The boss accused her employee for stealing information. The boss had better discuss the issue with the employee concerned. The India of …

Q. Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows. The fundamental laws that govern the smallest constituents of matter and energy, when applied to the Universe …

Q1. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows. More people signed up for Harvard’s online courses in a year, for example, than have attended the university in…

Q1-2. Read the poem and answer the TWO questions that follow. The slow person you left behind when, finally, you mastered the world, and scaled the heights you now command, where i…

Q1-3. Instructions Socrates believed that akrasia (meaning procrastination) was, strictly speaking, impossible, since we could not want what is bad for us; if we act against our ow…

1. Identify the sectors into which the Indian economy is divided, for the calculation of GDP? Government, Private and Social Agriculture, Defence, Information Technology and Manufa…