Any idea from where one can get XAT mocks/practice papers as per the new pattern?
Number of attempts or marks for XLRI cut off this year knowing pattern has changed?
Just realized: XAT is screwing the New Year weekend..!
(Please read the passage and answer the questions that follow)
XAT DM 2012
Teknik Group of industries had businesses in different sectors ranging from manufacturing, construction, fish farming and hotels. These different businesses operated as semi-independent units managed by the unit level managers. Teknik's management had an internal consultancy group called as Business Advisory Group (known internally as BAG). The 15 experts in BAG were hired personally by Mr. Teknikwala, the owner of Teknik, who wanted this core group of experts to help his organization grow fast without facing the typical growth hurdles. Most of them were specialists in fields like law, information technology, human resource management, and operations management. Almost all of them had experience spanning decades in the industry. Whenever any of the units faced any significant problems, the unit level managers would put up a request for help to BAG. The problems ranged from installation of internal MIS systems, to financial advice related to leasing of equipment, to handling of employee grievances.
Over a period of 20 years, Teknik's revenues grew from ` 100 crore ` 10,000 crore with guidance of BAG and due to Mr. Teknikwala's vision. Given its reputation in the industry, many people wanted to start their careers in BAG. Often young MBAs, fresh out of business schools would apply. However their applications used to be rejected by Mr. Teknikwala, who had a preference for people with extensive industry experience.
Things changed after the unfortunate demise of Mr. Teknikwala. His daughter Miss. Teknikwali took up the family business. She was an MBA from one of the premier business schools, and was working in a different company when Mr. Teknikwala passed away. She preferred that BAG develop new ideas and therefore inducted freshly graduated MBAs from premier business schools. She personally supervised the recruitment and selection process. Now the entire group constituted of 50 specialists, out of which 35 were the old time members. She also changed the reporting relationships in the BAG group, with some of the older members being made to report to the new members. In IT team, Mr. Shiv, a newly recruited MBA, was made in-charge.
For the older members it was a shock. However, as most of them were on the verge of retirement, and it would be challenging to search for new jobs while competing with younger professionals, they decided to play along.
After one month, all business units were caught up in the ERP fever. This was an idea pushed by Ms. Teknikwali who the need the need to replace the old legacy systems with latest ERP system integrating all the units of Teknik. This was heavily influenced by her experience in the previous where an ERP system was already up and running. Therefore she was not aware of the difference
between installing an ERP system and working on an already installed one.
The ERP implementation in Teknik Group required extensive coordination with senior level managers of all units and it represented an extra work for those who were involved. This coordination was required to understand the different work processes and the users' requirements. This coordination activity was being extensively managed by the old timers as they were familiar with internal processes and people in the different units. An external consultant was also hired for customisation and implementation.
After two months, BAG teams had to fortnightly present their progress to Ms. Teknikwali's team. In the last meeting Ms. Teknikwali was dissatisfied. She explained her thinking that since ERP impacted every aspect of the business, the roll out had to be done faster. She wanted Mr. Shiv to get the implementation completed ahead of schedule. In the meeting she asked Mr. Shiv to get the people in IT team to be more productive. Not willing to disagree, Mr. Shiv committed to a roll-out schedule of complete ERP system in 6 months instead of earlier decided 14 months.
Next day, Mr. Shiv presented the revised project milestone to BAG members. He told them that in order to meet the deadline, the members were expected to work on week-ends till the completion of the project. Along with that, they were also expected to maintain their earlier standards of delivery time and quality for the normal troubleshooting and internal advisory work. Mr. Shiv also pointed out that anyone whose performance did not meet the expectations would be subjected to formal disciplinary action.
The meeting ended without any member commenting on Shiv's ideas, although Mr. Shiv heard a lot of mumbling in the corridor. Over the week, Shiv noticed that the members seemed to avoid him and he had to make extra effort to get ideas from them. After a fortnight Shiv reviewed the attendance register and found that Mr. Lal, an old time member, had not come during the weekends and certain decisions were held up due to lack of inputs from Mr. Lal. Mr. Shiv issued a written reprimand to Mr. Lal. He was speechless on receiving the reprimand but kept silent. It has been three days since that incident. Some of the senior members had put in request for transfer to other business units.
It was rumoured that four senior legal experts had agreed to an offer from a law firm. Other senior members would sporadically come in late to work, citing health reasons. Almost all senior members now wanted a weekly work-routine to be prepared and given to them in advance so that they could deliver as per the schedule. This insistence on written communication was a problem as urgent problems or ad-hoc requests could not be foreseen and included. Also, normal services to other business units were being unattended to, and there were complaints coming from the unit heads.
[CONTD]
How should Mr. Shiv cope with the situation now? Choose the best option, considering Mr. Shiv's career would be at stake if the ERP project fails, and assuming that for carrying out the options, he has the necessary authority to do so.
- Inform Ms. Teknikwali about the situation and get help from her to deal with the old time members. Some old members need to be fired so that others are also disciplined
- Resign from BAG. The project cannot be done as per the re-scheduled time-table. Get a job in another company based on BAG’s brandname.
- Create a joint team of old members and new members within BAG to take care of ad-hoc requirements. They would be socialized in outbound programmes like mountaineering etc., which will be conducted during week-ends.
- Develop work-routines aligned to the ERP project requirements. Hire extra resources for dealing with other ad-hoc requirements and for the ERP project requirements.
- Align the new members of the BAG group to his side by promising them rewards at end of the project. Obtain approval from Ms. Teknikwali for the same.
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Mrs. Jansen recently moved to Arizona. She wants to fill her new backyard with flowering plants. Although she is an experienced gardener, she isn't very well-versed in what plants will do well in the Arizona climate. Also, there is a big tree in her backyard making for shady conditions and she isn't sure what plants will thrive without much direct sunlight. Her favorite gardening catalog offers several backyard seed packages. Which one should Mrs. Jansen choose? a. The Rainbow Collection is ideal for Northeast gardens. It includes a variety of colorful perennials that thrive in cool, moist conditions. b. The Greenhouse Collection will blossom year after year if planted in brightly lit locations and watered regularly. c. The Treehouse Collection will provide lush green plants with delicate colorful flowers that thrive in shady and partially shady locations. d. The Oasis Collection includes a variety of perennials that thrive in dry climates and bright sunlight.
Puys hope u can help me out with this.
In my XAT admit card, my uploaded photo and signature is not being displayed.i tried reloading the admit card many a times,but to no avail.
What could be done?
#XAT 2013, unable to understand what they mean by 'product' here:
Students from four sections of a class accompanied by respective class teachers planned to go for a field trip. There were nineteen people in all. However, on the scheduled day one of the four teachers and a few students could not join the rest. Given below are some statements about the group of people who ultimately left for the trip. I: Section A had the largest contingent. II: Section B had fewer students than Section A. III: Section C’s contingent was smaller than Section B. IV: Section D had the smallest contingent. V: The product of the number of student from each section is a multiple of 10. VI: The number of students from Section C is more than 2. VII. The product of the number of students from each section is a multiple of 24. VIII. The largest contingent has more than 4 students. IX: Each section contributed different number of students The statements that taken together can give us the exact number of students from each section:
- I, II, III, IV, VI, VII
- I, II, III, IV, V, VI
- I, II, III, IV, VI
- I, VI, VIII, IX
- I, IV, VI, VII, IX
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Does XAT release its official keys? Else, which key is the most reliable one? Testfunda and TIME are giving different answers to many questions...#XAT 2013
Find the number of integral solutions of 'X' for
2/x - 1/root(y) = 15 ?
Find all values of K such that equation (2^x)- k(2^-x)=1 has exactly one real solution.
On tossing a die and getting "1" you gain RS 100, gain RS 200 in getting "2" ,and so on What is the EXPECTED total gain if you throw the die 100 times?
A pair of rabbits are put in a field and, if rabbits take a month to become mature and then produce a new pair every month after that, how many pairs will there be in twelve months time?
100 pirates needs to allocate 100 identical laptops among them. Their democratic system works as follows:
All pirates are ranked by their seniority. First, the most senior pirate (called "Majority leader") propose an allocation plan that states exactly how many laptops each pirate would get. The 100 pirates would vote on the plan (no filibuster) and it would pass if more than or equal to half pirates voted for it. If it passes, pirates take their laptops and go home. If it fails, the one who proposed the plan (the most senior pirate in this case) would be killed, and then the second most senior pirate would take the place of "Majority leader" and propose his plan. We repeat the same process above in the order of seniority until someone's plan is passed.
Assume every pirate makes his decision based on the following priorities:
1. He doesn't want to die.
2. Given he's not going to die, he would prefer to get as many laptops as possible.
3. Given he's going to get the same number of laptops, he would prefer as many other pirates to die as possible.
Also assume every pirate is smart and knows everyone else is smart, and so on. What will happen? i.e. whose proposal will be passed and what is the proposal?
Decision making can be rather nerve wracking sometimes. Let's postulate our key learning points from the questions we do. We can share and have it down to a "science" :). I think it will really help us in scoring well. Some points can be obvious for some people but they do help nevertheless! As for me, my key learning points for today have been : 1. Two options which present the same idea in convoluted words are a good hint. After all two options can't be right. Delete them. 2.Always take a stand when you have to fight against something that is wrong. (It may not be the most practical thing in life) But for XAT purposes ask yourself what would "GOD" do here? 😃 Please share your points as well.
Hello, If anybody could tell me the sectional and overall cutoffs for XL, XIMB & GIM in XAT 2008 ?
What overall score fetched 99 percentile in XAT last year..??
And with change in level of difficulty what score will help bag the same this year..??
If |x| and |y| are prime numbers such that x^2 -y^2 = 2010, how many different values can (x, y) take? (in numerical value)
Mention approach too.
Find HCF of (2002 + 2, 2002^2 + 2, 2002^3 + 2)....... so on
A} 334 B) 1002 C) 6 D) Can not be determined.
Mention the approach too.
What is the weightage of GK+Essay section in the final merit calculation?
And what is the marks breakup? Both GK & Essay has same total marks?