XAT-2016 (OFFICIAL)

Joe was recently promoted to the position of District Manager of Computer Operations for a large company. Mary, Joe's supervisor, calls him to her office. She has just been informed that the CEO has received an anonymous letter from an employee. This letter states that a recently installed (and very expensive) system does not perform as expected and has not achieved the expected results. Joe has been aware that the system's actual performance is really as described in the anonymous letter. Joe had reported this performance problem to Mary before. Although Mary had listened to Joe, she had been the original supporter of the system and continually provides only positive feedback to the CEO on its performance. Mary tells Joe that the CEO expects a reply to the letter. She tells Joe to draft the reply. It should say that the system is performing as projected and that all savings portrayed in the original justification documents are being achieved. She says the documentation provided with his reply should support those statements. ` Joe is upset by this directive. He feels that upper management is being misinformed in the interest of protecting a questionable decision. He approaches Mary with his concern. She says that if he does not provide the reply as requested, she will have serious doubts about his ability to perform the functions of a District Manager for the company. Joe has worked hard to achieve this position and is very worried about her statement.


1. Provide the reply as Mary requested.

2. Provide an accurate reply (which Mary would intercept and stop). 3. Refuse to write a false report 

4. Resign as District Manager of the company

AshleyMadison.com is an online dating website meant for married people who want extra-marital relationship. Its slogan is "Life is short. Have an affair." In 2015, A hacker group "The Impact Team" stole the user data and threatened to leak it unless the owners stopped this "unethical" website that encourages adultery.

Social scientists who study marriage and fidelity say that Ashley Madison doesn't create a market for cheating, the site only helps facilitate our biological predisposition to get a new partner for procreation. Male affairs tend to be physically-driven, while women have affairs for emotional reasons. Just like water will find its level, such male or female will find extra-marital relationship irrespective of Ashley Madison website runs or shuts down. Hence it is not 'unethical' for an entrepreneur to own and operate such website.

1. Is Impact team's action justifiable on ethical grounds? Yes/No and Why?

2.Do you agree with the views given by Social scientists in above passage? Yes/No and Why?

Anyone with a Wren and Martin SOLUTIONS pdf? Please let me know!

Rajiv is a student in a business school. After every test he calculates his cumulative average. QT and OB were his last two tests.83 marks in QT increased his average by 2. 75 marks in OB further increased his average by 1. Reasoning is the next test, if he gets 51 in Reasoning, his average will be ___?

How many three digit numbers are there whose digital sum of digits is 8 ?

at the center of a city municipal park there is a large circular pool . a fish is released in the water at the edge of the pool . the fish swims north for 300 feet before it hits the edge of the pool . it then turns east and swims for 400 feet before it hits the edge of the pool.  it then turns east and swims for 400 feet before hitting the edge again. what is the area of the pool? options 1. 62500n 2. 125000n 3.250000n 4.500000n 5. cannot be answered using this information


ram, shyam and hari went for a 100 km journey . ram and hari started the journey in ram's car at the rate of 25 km/hr while shyam walked at 5 km/hr . after sometime, hari got off and started walking at the rate of 5 km/hr and ram went back to pick shyam. all reached simultaneously. the number of hours required for the trip is : 8,6,7,5, 4

consider a function f(x)=x^4+x^3+x^2+x+1, where x is a positive integer greater than 1. what will be remainder if x^5 is divided by f(x)? options- 1,4,5, a monomial in x , a polynomial in x


Politician: All nations that place a high tax on income produce thereby a negative incentive for technological innovation, and all nations in which technological innovation is hampered inevitably fall behind in the international arms race. Those nations that, through historical accident or the foolishness of their political leadership, wind up in a strategically disadvantageous position are destined to lose their voice in world affairs. So if a nation wants to maintain its value system and way of life, it must not allow its highest tax bracket to exceed 30 percent of income. Each of the following, if true, weakens the politician’s argument EXCEPT:

  • Allowing one’s country to lose its technological edge, especially as concerns weaponry, would be foolish rather than merely a historical accident.
  • The top level of taxation must reach 45 percent before taxation begins to deter inventors and industrialists from introducing new technologies and industries.
  • Making a great deal of money is an insignificant factor in driving technological innovation.
  • Falling behind in the international arms race does not necessarily lead to a strategically less advantageous position.
  • Those nations that lose influence in the world community do not necessarily suffer from a threat to their value system or way of life.

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Find the number of 3 digit numbers possible such that sum of the digits are more than 20 ?

@krhyni  @sagarcat  CL says no OA....

Two teams Arrogant and Overconfident are participating in a cricket tournament. The odds that team Arrogant will be champion is 5 to 3, and the odds that team Overconfident will be the

champion is 1 to 4. What are the odds that either Arrogant or team Overconfident will become the champion?

  • 9 to 1
  • 3 to 2
  • 7 to 1
  • 6 to 1
  • 5 to 2

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kisi ney CL mock 1 kiya hai kya? 

At what percentile can one get a call from XLRI ? and what has been the avg cutoff scores for the same ?

In a right angled triangle , take a point on hypotenuse and draw parallel lines to its sides. We will get two triangles and a square. If the ratio of area of bigger triangle to square is m , then find the ratio of area of smaller triangle to that of square ?

Lottery balls are numbered and coloured balls. In the famous Lotto, six numbered balls are
drawn at random from 49 balls. In each ticket one needs to guess the six numbers that
would be drawn. If no correct guesses are received the prize money is carried to the next
draw. It is not uncommon to see prize money accumulating to several millions of dollars. An
urn contains m white and n black balls. A ball is drawn at random and is put back into the
urn along with k additional balls of the same colour as that of the ball drawn. A ball is again
drawn at random. The probability of drawing a white ball now:

a) Does not depend on k
b) Increases with k
c) Decreases with k
d) Cannot be determined without additional information


The series of differences between consecutive prime numbers is represented as dp1, dp2, dp3, … dpn .Whare dp1 is the difference between the second and the first prime number. Find the sum of series when n = 23, given that the 23rd prime number is 83 ? 

  • 83
  • 82
  • 81
  • 87

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The average of 20 numbers is 0. Out of these 20 numbers, at the most how many can be positive?

  • 19
  • 1
  • none of these
  • 10
  • 0

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In a triangle, two vertices are (2,3) (4,0) and its circumcentre is (2,y) then what would be circum radius of the triangle a) 6/(2+root(13) b) root (5) c) 2 d) 13/6... kindly post the solution.. Thanks in advance.

X + Y + Z = 30, you can use 1,3,5,7 ,9,11,13,15(repetition allowed )

Find all possible triplets ?


For the equation 4m + 7n = 3, how many integer values of m and n are possible such that |m|

  • 144
  • 143
  • 142
  • 141

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