where can i find detailed solutions for XAT Past year papers
For people who gave xat in previous years, we should read gk of entire year or only past 3 months, like that?
are there any groups for XAT mock discussions?
Suggestion for mocks
I have already enrolled for Cracku XAT mocks.
and now i am planning to take CL mocks for the same..however i had access to CL's dm sectional test and the pattern was a bit different than what we get in actual exam. So if anyone of you has enrolled for CL mocks ..are they any good?
I wanted to go for ims but dont want to buy that entire package of admat(bcoz i plan to take only XAT).
TIA
XAT DM Om Chowdhury was one of the supervisors in the Fire and Safety (F&S) department of Maqsood Textile Mills. He was a distant cousin to Mr. Bhiwani, General Manager (Personnel & Administration). Personnel & Administration department was given the responsibility of all personnel related decisions. It was often rumoured that Om had obtained the job due to his cousin’s influence. However, Om was meticulous in the performance of his duties and didn’t give anyone a reason for complaint. It was known that Om was not much given to talking and kept to himself and to his duties. All F&S supervisors reported to Mr. Rabindra, the shop-floor manager. The mill operated on a three-shift basis and Rabindra allocated the supervisors to different shifts. They were required to be present at all times during the shift operation and carry out scheduled checks of machinery and fire fighting equipments. For some reasons, Om was allotted the night shift more often than other supervisors. Om accepted these allocations without any objection, while it was known that other supervisors would often plead and bargain with Rabindra to be allocated the day shifts. During the night shift, keeping awake and remaining mentally alert were some of the major challenges faced by the supervisors. Of late, Rabindra observed signs of indifference from Om. On two occasions he found Om absent from his cabin. Rabindra heard from others that Om was often found in different parts of the shop floor talking to employees. Rabindra called him to his office and reminded Om of his responsibilities. Om did not counter Rabindra. He promised that he would not be lax in his duties again. Rabindra also broached the subject with Mr. Bhiwani. Mr. Bhiwani called Om to his office arid talked on a very personal basis. He reminded Om that their family relations made it uncomfortable to all concerned. Om nodded and agreed to do better. Soon his performance became that of a model supervisor. It was often found he went beyond his official duties to sort out problems of employees. About three months later, Rabindra happened to visit the plant during night. As he looked into F&S office, he found Om playing solitaire on the office computer. Mr. Rabindra immediately fired Om. The next morning Mr. Bhiwani called Mr. Rabindra and asked how he can fire an employee. He suggested that Mr. Rabindra reconsider Om’s dismissal. “This decision has already been made. There will be no turning back” replied Rabindra. Q1. The options below give combinations of possible root cause of the problem and the justifications thereof. Given the details in the case, which one can be inferred to be the best option? A. Hiring of Om. Reason: That ensured Om was perpetually casual towards his duties. B. Om favouring to work during the night shift. Reason: Absence of Rabindra ensured that Om could relax. C. Rabindra’s bias against Om. Reason: Rabindra had been assigning too many night shifts to Om while for other supervisors he was lenient. D. Rabindra jumping to conclusions. Reason: He should have investigated whether Om had carried out his duties. E. Rabindra’s firing of Om. Reason: It led to a clash between Rabindra and Mr. Bhiwani. Q2. The details of the entire episode have become common knowledge among all the employees of the company. Out of the options below, which one presents the best way for the top management to resolve the issue so as to benefit the organization as a whole? A. Revoke Rabindra’s order. It can be communicated to others that firing was too severe a punishment for such a small incident of indiscipline. B. Ask Om for clarification. It can be communicated that since Om had clarified regarding his duties, the order has been taken back. C. Declare Rabindra’s order as void. Reiterate officially the disciplinary processes that need to be followed by managers along with their scope of authority. D. Ask feedback from other employees on the shop-floor regarding Om’s performance. This can be used to revoke Rabindra’s order. E. Take the feedback of other F&S supervisors as to the work involved during night shift. This would better explain Om’s behaviour. Does anyone know the answers ? In time, CL and HKF I got 3 varying keys.
Many entrepreneurs try to control the composition of their boards of directors, but more experienced entrepreneurs tend to share control, inviting participation from institutional investors and outside directors. Which option best summarizes the idea that might be guiding experienced entrepreneurs‟ behaviour? A. The experienced entrepreneurs expect experienced directors to monitor the performance of the enterprise and be a sounding board. B. The experienced entrepreneurs expect the institutional investors to support the opinion of entrepreneurs on all major decisions. C. The experienced entrepreneurs expect the institutional investors and outside directors to agree to higher remuneration for the board members. D. Experienced entrepreneurs expect the experienced directors to engage in day-to-day management of the company. E. More the number of influential people on board, the easier it is to raise finances
XAT DM
Indian government may hold top executives responsible if state-run power companies fail to meet performance targets and punish them with fines and transfers. The strict performance parameters are aimed at ensuring that at least the reduced target for 62,000 MW of generation capacity addition is achieved before the end of the II th Plan, said a power ministry official. Performance of chairmen and managing directors of the power Public Sector Units (PSUs) in project implementation will be assessed as per the terms and conditions stipulated in the company’s memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the power ministry, he said, requesting anonymity. Performance parameters of executives had come under strict scrutiny due to a lack of progress in capacity addition program. While the target for the II th five year plan has already been scaled down by the government from 78,500 MW, in the first three years of the plan yielded only 22,302 MW of fresh capacity.
If you were the chairman of one of these power PSU’s, which of the following
statements (all of which are assumed to be true) could best be used in order to strengthen your case against the government holding top executives responsible?
i. The labour unions, owing allegiance to ruling party at the Centre, are not allowing work to progress with their demands for wage hikes that are untenable ii. The actions of the mid-level management are not In line with the objectives laid down by the top management
iii. The delays have been due to difficulties in obtaining funds at reasonable interest rates on account of the recessionary conditions
iv. We are not to blame. The government is not doing enough to ensure availability of sufficient fuel to power the existing plants, let alone the new plants.
v. The government had ignored the infrastructure availability like roads etc., and environmental clearances required for such projects and therefore set an unrealistic target to begin with, and the revised target is also unrealistic as well.
A. i and ii
B. i and iii
C. i, iii and iv
D. ii, iv and v
E. i, ii, iii, iv and v
This was the toughest DM I have come across yet so posting it here -
Mr. Rajiv Singhal, Chairman of the Board of directors of Loha India Ltd. (a steel manufacturing company) had just been visited by several other directors of the company. The directors were upset with recent actions of the company president, Mr. Ganesh Thakur. They demanded that the board consider firing the president. Mr. Thakur, recently appointed president, had undertaken to solve some of the management-employees problems by dealing directly with the individuals, as often as possible. The company did not have a history of strikes or any other form of collective action and was considered to have a good work culture. However, Mr. Thakur felt that by dealing directly with individuals, he could portray the management’s concern for the employees. An important initiative of Mr. Thakur was to negotiate wages of the supervisors with each supervisor. In these negotiation meetings, he would not involve anyone else, including the personnel department that reported to him, so as to take unbiased decisions. After the negotiation, a wage contract would be drawn up for each supervisor. This, he felt, would recognize and reward the better performers. Mr. Thakur successfully implemented the process for most of the supervisors, except those working in the night shift. For them, he had drawn up the contracts unilaterally benchmarking the wages of supervisors of the night with that of the supervisors of the day shift. For several days, Ram Lal, a night shift supervisor, had been trying to seek an appointment with Mr. Thakur about his wages. He was disgruntled, not only over his failure to see the president, but also over the lack of discussions about his wage contract prior to its being effected. As a family man with six dependents, he felt his weekly wage should be higher than that granted to him. Last Thursday afternoon, Ram Lal stopped by the president’s office and tried to see him. Mr. Thakur’s secretary refused his request on the grounds that Mr. Thakur was busy. Infuriated, Ram Lal stormed into the president’s office and confronted the startled Mr. Thakur, with his demands for a better wage. Mr. Thakur stood up and told Ram Lal to get out of his office and express his grievance through official channels. Ram Lal took a swing at the president, who in turn punched Ram Lal on the jaw and knocked him unconscious.
1. The most likely premise behind Mr. Thakur’s initiative regarding individualized meetings with the supervisors seems to be:
(1) Involvement of the company’s president in wage problems of employees will lead to a better goodwill towards the management among the workers.
(2) Employee related policies should allow scope for bargaining by employees which leads to unsatisfied employees.
(3) Individual agreements with supervisors would allow the management to prevent any further collective action by the supervisors.
(4) Management will be able to force supervisors to accept lesser wages individually this way.
(5) He would be able to know who the trouble makers in the plant are by interacting with the supervisors.
2. Out of the following, which one seems to be the most likely cause of Ram Lal’s initial grievance?
(1) His disappointment with the management’s philosophy of having one to one interaction as the supervisors were in a way being forced to accept the wage contracts.
(2) His being in the night shift had worked for his disadvantage as he could not interact with the management regarding his problem.
(3) He was not allowed to meet the chairman of the board of directors of the company.
(4) Employment in the night shift forced him to be away from his family during the day time and therefore he couldn’t interact with his family members much.
(5) All of these.
3. The most important causal factor for this whole episode could be:
(1) Trying to follow a divide-and-rule policy in his dealings with the supervisors.
(2) Paternalistic approach towards mature individuals in the organization.
(3) Legalistic approach towards employee problems.
(4) Inconsistent dealings of Mr. Thakur with supervisors.
(5) Inadequate standards for measurement of supervisors on job performance.
4. The situation with Ram Lal could have been averted if Mr. Thakur had:
A. Delegated the task of negotiation of wage contracts for night shift employees to the personnel department.
B. Created a process for supervisors working the night shift so that they could have an opportunity to interact with him.
C. Created an open door policy that would have allowed employees to see him any time without any appointment.
D. Postponed the decision of wage revision for supervisors of the night shift for two months, since supervisors were rotated on different shifts after every two months.
The option that best arranges these managerial interventions in decreasing order of organizational impact is: (1) D, B, C, A (2) D, C, B, A (3) D, C, A, B (4) D, A, B, C (5) B, C, A, D
5. Apart from the supervisors working the night shift, executives of which of these departments will have justified reasons to be disgruntled with Mr. Thakur?
A. Production department– for not being consulted regarding the behaviour of supervisors on the shop floor.
B. Finance department– for not being taken into confidence regarding the financial consequences of the wage contracts.
C. Marketing department– for not being consulted on the likely impact of the wage contracts on the image of the company.
D. Quality control– for not being able to give inputs to Mr. Thakur on how to improve quality of steel making process.
E. Personnel department– for it was their work to oversee wage policies for employees and they had been ignored by Mr. Thakur.
(1) A, B and C
(2) A, D and E
(3) A, C and D
(4) A, B and E
(5) C, D and E
6. Which of these following managerial attributes does Mr. Thakur seem to lack the most?
(1) Emotional instability under pressure.
(2) Proactive problem solving
(3) Ethical behaviour
(4) Independent decision making
(5) Emotional stability under pressure
Very detailed key with solutions for XAT 2016 - http://learningroots.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/XAT-2016-Detailed-Explanation.pdf
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Ms. Banerjee, class teacher for 12th standard, wants to send teams (based on past performance) of three students each to district, state, national, and international competition in mathematics. Till now, every student of the class has appeared in 100 school level tests. The students had following distribution of marks in the tests, in terms of “average” and “number of times a student scored cent per cent marks”.
Student Average Number of times a student scores cent per cent
1 70 7 2 60 15 3 65 8 4 70 1 5 65 6 6 65 10 7 65 4 8 60 12 9 65 3 10 60 8 11 70 1 12 65 6 13 70 2 14 60 20 15 65 5
Ms. Banerjee has carefully studied chances of her school winning each of the competitions. Based on in-depth calculations, she realized that her school is quite likely to win district level competition but has low chances of winning the international competition. She listed down the following probabilities of wins for different competitions. Prize was highest for international competition and lowest for district level competition (in that order).
Competition Probability of win District 0.95 State 0.6 National 0.1 International 0.05
Section B: Decision Making
All the students are studying in the school for last twelve years. She wanted to select the best team for all four competitions (Ms. Banerjee had no other information to select students).
Q Which of three members should form the team for the International competition?
A. 4, 11, 14
B. 2, 8, 14
C. 1, 6, 12
D. 13, 14, 15
E. 1, 3, 4
I am unable to understand the solution provided!!
Which of the following quotes would the author agree with the most ?
1. Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to avoid falling,you must keep moving .
2 .The only thing constant in life is change.
3 You must be the change you wish to see in the world .
4.If you do not change you will be changed .
5.What we can't cure we must endure .
Purushottam sends a batch of sweets to the Police station across the street every day. Ratan construed it as a bribe and wanted to stop this practice.
Which of the following arguments, IF TRUE, would BEST convince Ratan NOT to give up this practice?
A. In the last three years, three attempts to burgle Puru and Sons were effectively foiled by the Police.
B. Each policeman receives only two pieces of sweet, too small to be considered a bribe.
C. The police in return send two policemen in mufti to mingle with the customers during rush hours to prevent pickpockets.
D. Every day, Purushottam also sends a batch of sweets to the school next to the station, an orphanage nearby and the temple at the end of the street.
E. Purushottam’s competitor Uttampurush who runs a sweetshop in the same street and his neighbour Mahapurush who runs a samosa stall, both do similar things every day.
XAT VA
two conflicting answers by TIME and CRACKU answer keys and both seem reasonable, thoughts ?
does anyone has idea about intake in new campus?
http://learningroots.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/XAT-2016-Detailed-Explanation.pdf
Guys, can someone provide input for the 45th question in XAT 2016 (distribution based DM question)
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Mukesh Routray, a shopkeeper in a remote village was surprised to read in the newspaper, his only source of information, about harmful chemicals in Crunchy Chips. He had stocked a large quantity of Crunchy Chips for the forthcoming festive season. He also realized that people in his village are completely unaware of this controversy. He had the following options:
1. Sell the entire stock at a discount before the news spreads.
2. Destroy the entire stock and advise customers not to buy this product from other shops as well.
3. Donate the entire stock of Crunchy Chips to a local orphanage.
4. Inform customers about the controversy but understate its seriousness.
5. Ignore the news and sell the stock at the forthcoming festive season as planned.
6. Explore the veracity of the report and then take decision. If arranged from ethical to unethical which of the following is DEFINITELY the WRONG order?
A. 6, 5, 1
B. 6, 1, 4
C. 4, 5, 1
D. 2, 4, 3
E. 2, 4, 1
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In recent past, Indian football team has lost most of the matches in international football tournaments. The most successful coaches in Indian club football tournaments are from Latin American countries. In most of the Latin American countries, football is more popular sport than cricket. From the passage above, choose the correct option:
A. It can be DEFINITELY concluded that “In India, cricket is more popular than football”.
B. It can be DEFINITELY concluded that “Most Latin American countries are successful at football”.
C. It can be DEFINITELY concluded that “In recent past, coaches of Indian football teams are not from Latin America”.
D. It can be DEFINITELY concluded that “European football coaches are less successful than their Latin American counterparts for Indian national team”.
E. It cannot be DEFINITELY concluded that “The more popular a sport the better the chance of producing a successful coach in that sport”