20 Marks in XAT Percentile: Section-wise Breakdown, Year-wise Trends, and Colleges Accepting This Score

XAT Questions

• 1.

  An investment company, Win Lose, recruit's employees to trade in the share market. For newcomers, they have a one-year probation period. During this period, the employees are given Rs. 1 lakh per month to invest the way they see fit. They are evaluated at the end of every month, using the following criteria:
  1. If the total loss in any span of three consecutive months exceeds Rs. 20,000, their services are terminated at the end of that 3-month period,
  2. If the total loss in any span of six consecutive months exceeds Rs. 10,000, their services are terminated at the end of that 6-month period.
  Further, at the end of the 12-month probation period, if there are losses on their overall investment, their services are terminated.
  Ratan, Shri, Tamal and Upanshu started working for Win Lose in January. Ratan was terminated after 4 months, Shri was terminated after 7 months, Tamal was terminated after 10 months, while Upanshu was not terminated even after 12 months. The table below, partially, lists their monthly profits (in Rs. ‘000’) over the 12-month period, where x, y and z are masked information.
  Note:
  • A negative profit value indicates a loss.
  • The value in any cell is an integer.
  Illustration: As Upanshu is continuing after March, that means his total profit during January-March (2z +2z +0) ≥
  Rs.20,000. Similarly, as he is continuing after June, his total profit during January − June ≥
  Rs.10,000, as well as his total profit during April-June ≥ Rs.10,000.
  

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• 2.

  An artificial swimming pool is circular and water is flowing clockwise at a speed of 3 km/hr. Two swimmers Ayub and Rana start from diametrically opposite points, Ayub in the anticlockwise direction and Rana in the clockwise direction. They first meet at a point such that Ayub has covered 60 m by that time. Their second meeting point is such that Rana has covered another 180 m after the first meeting point. If the speed of Rana in still water is 3 km/hr, find the time taken by Ayub to cover one full circle in the clockwise direction.
  

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• 3.

  Light Chemicals is an industrial paint supplier with presence in three locations: Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru. The sunburst chart below shows the distribution of the number of employees of different departments of Light Chemicals. There are four departments: Finance, IT, HR and Sales. The employees are deployed in four ranks: junior, mid, senior and executive. The chart shows four levels: location, department, rank and gender (M: male, F: female). At every level, the number of employees at a location/department/rank/gender are proportional to the corresponding area of the region represented in the chart.
  Due to some issues with the software, the data on junior female employees have gone missing. Notice that there are junior female employees in Mumbai HR, Sales and IT departments, Hyderabad HR department, and Bengaluru IT and Finance departments. The corresponding missing numbers are marked u, v, w, x, y and z in the diagram, respectively.
  It is also known that:
  a) Light Chemicals has a total of 210 junior employees.
  b) Light Chemicals has a total of 146 employees in the IT department.
  c) Light Chemicals has a total of 777 employees in the Hyderabad office.
  d) In the Mumbai office, the number of female employees is 55.
  

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• 4.

  Arrange the following generations from the oldest to the youngest:
  1. Generation X
  2. Silent Generation
  3. Generation Alpha
  4. Baby Boomers
  5. Millennials
  

  • 2, 4, 5, 1, 3
  • 1, 2, 4, 5, 3
  • 4, 2, 5, 1, 3
  • 2, 4, 1, 5, 3
    
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• 5.

  Two buses travel between Jamshedpur and Kolkata in the opposite directions, on the same road. On that road, the maximum allowed speeds are different (but constant) for the opposite directions. Usually, both buses travel at the respective maximum allowed speeds to their respective destinations: the bus from Jamshedpur to Kolkata takes 4 hours, while the bus from Kolkata to Jamshedpur takes 3 hours.
  One day, the two buses start at the same time. However, one hour after starting, the bus from Jamshedpur to Kolkata reduces its speed to half of its maximum allowed speed due to congestion on the road.
  If both buses do not stop anywhere in between, how many hours after starting do they meet?
  

  • 21/11 hours
  • 12/5 hours
  • 2 hours
  • 10/11 hours
  • 23/12 hours
    
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• 6.

  What is common among the following celebrities: Val Kilmer, Diane Keaton, Robert Redford, Dharmendra Deol and B. Saroja Devi?
  

  • These celebrities were the co-actors of Kamal Haasan in his 100th movie.
  • These celebrities were born in the same year.
  • These celebrities received Times Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2025.
  • These celebrities are posthumously nominated for 2026 Bharat Ratna Award.
  • These celebrities passed away in 2025.
    
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