XAT 2010 Question Paper with Answer Key PDFs (January 3)

XAT Questions

• 1.

  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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• 2.

  Which of the following is a comet that flew very close to the Earth in December, 2025?
  

  • 3I/ATLAS
  • C/2024 G3
  • C/2025 R2
  • C/2025 A6
  • Halley's Comet
    
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• 3.

  Which of the following GST slabs was abolished, during GST rationalization, in September 2025?
  

  • 18 Percent
  • 12 Percent
  • 40 Percent
  • 5 Percent
    
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• 4.

  Selvam Tutorials offers exclusive face-to-face evening classes from Monday to Friday for students who are preparing for various entrance exams. Selvam Dindigul, the owner, operates from his ancestral house, situated in the middle of the city. There are several instructors, but each teaches only one of the following courses: quantitative ability, verbal ability and decision making. Selvam usually recruits fresh graduates, or those instructors who are working with other tutorials and seeking a job change. As Selvam Tutorials has been expanding aggressively over the past few years, managing it alone becomes challenging for Selvam. Hence, he recruits Kanmani Guna, his niece, who has an online MBA with specializations in Accountancy and HR, as a manager. He asks Kanmani to introduce modern HR practices at Selvam Tutorials while managing cost effectively.

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• 5.

  Business schools’ (B schools) curriculums are filled with group assignments and case competitions. Even when students have just joined the B schools, corporate houses try 38 to catch good talent early by promising them internships based on case competitions. These competitions involve solving the problems presented by the organizations, analyzing the challenges they currently face, and presenting solutions in a manner that convinces the organizations’ representatives.
  For students who are just joining a B school, the capability to actually solve such problems is quite limited. Because of that, the corporate houses generally are more focused on the presentations made by groups. Hence, the groups that communicate better, most often, win these competitions.
  Abirami joins MBS, a B school. As a fresher, she believes she needs to learn a lot about how organizations work and wants to work with others who have joined MBS and have work experience.

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• 6.

  Who is credited for popularizing the telephone greeting "Hello"?
  

  • Thomas Watson
  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • Thomas Edison
  • Adele
  • Lionel Ritchie
    
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