XAT 2014 Question Paper

The defense proposes to show that the incident that the prosecution so _____________ rejects as _______ did indeed take place.

Not just the absence of ____________ , but also the presence of ____________ and honesty is required to bind up the nation’s wound.

In many cases in physics, one has to deal simultaneously with collective and single-particle excitations of the system. The collective excitations are usually bosonic in nature while the single-particle excitations are often fermionic. One is therefore led to consider a system which includes bosons and fermions. Hence, _____________ Which of the following options is most likely to follow the paragraph given above?

Peter has suggested to me that the _____________ of highly systematic and _____________ planning techniques may have led to a substantial ______ in firms’ notions of what is likely to happen in the future, and thus to a _______ in the incidence of mistakes, especially on the part of the ____modern corporations.

Clinical practitioners ___________ integrated mindfulness _____________ treatment of ________ host of emotional and behavioural disorders, ________ borderline personality disorder, major depression, chronic pain, or eating disorders. Number of such practitioners _________ increased substantially.

Ontologies are _____________ equated with taxonomic hierarchies of classes, class definitions, and _______ subsumption relation, _____________ ontologies need not be limited to _____________ forms.

The MBA (1) is hardly a prerequisite for success, but it (2) certainly helps (3), and it has been getting more important (4) in recent years. Most (5) MBA programs equip their graduates to understand how (6) to deal with many of the important questions that their organizations will need to tackle (7) over time, and (8) that they will face in their careers.
The above italicized numbered words will be correctly represented by the following parts of speech:

Read the following paragraph carefully and answer the question that follows:
It is one week since Uttarakhand’s worst disaster in living memory. Flash floods resulting from extremely intense rainfall swept away mountainsides, villages and towns, thousands of people, animals, agriculture
fields, irrigation canals, domestic water sources, dams, roads, bridges, and buildings - anything that stood in the way.A week later, media attention remains riveted on the efforts to rescue tens of thousands of pilgrims and
tourist visiting the shrines in the uppermost reaches of Uttarakhand’s sacred rivers. But the deluge spread far
beyond th Char Dhams - Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath - to cover the entire state. The catchments of many smaller rivers also witnessed flash floods but the media has yet to report on the destruction there. Eyewitness accounts being gathered by official agencies and voluntary organizations have reported devastation from more than 200 villages so far and more affected villages are being reported every day.
Which of the following would the author agree the most with?

Which of the following is the correct form of expression for the underlined part of the
sentence below?

Patna is not only the capital of Bihar, but it is also one of the oldest cities in the world and the largest city in the state.

When you look at the people who make fundamental, revolutionary breakthroughs in any field, you keep noticing over and over again a high preponderance of them have some sort of disability when they were younger, whether it was a physical disability or mental disability, which leads to lower expectations from others, whom they always wanted to prove wrong (1). And what does it do (2)? What does that do to you, when you try to prove someone wrong (3)? You increase your engagement in something because you want to fight against those expectations (4). So it seems like it actually can be a gift having what we label as a disability, or disorder, and cause people to overcompensate and engage in things in other ways (5). A research study shows that higher number of people with dyslexia become social entrepreneurs because they over- compensate their disability through nonverbal communication, initiative and grit (6). And this overcompensation leads to greatness (7).The best match would be:

The fatal consequences of having a routine midday meal for at least twenty-two children in Bihar's Saran district expose the chronic neglect of school education in a large part of India (1). That governments cannot find a small piece of land for a school and are unable to store food materials without the risk of contamination is a telling commentary on their commitment to universal primary education (2). The Bihar horror clearly points to the absence of strong normative procedures for the provision of infrastructure, even for a new school (3).
The best match would be:

Read the following sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.

1. The mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking is one of the most important issues in the present Particle Physics.
2. They are required to give masses for all quarks and leptons and to guarantee the absence of the gauge anomaly.
3. In the standard electroweak model a fundamental Higgs doublet is introduced to cause the spontaneous symmetry breaking.
4. Supersymmetry (SUSY), eliminating all quadratic divergences, may provide a better theoretical basis to describe a fundamental Higgs boson with a relatively small mass to a high energy cutoff scale, say the Planck scale for example.
5. In the minimal SUSY extension of the standards electroweak model the Higgs sector consists of two chiral superfields of Higgs doublets (H1 and H2 with opposite hypercharges).

Choose the best option:
1. Shakespeare did not personally prepare his plays for publication, and no official collection of them appeared until after his death.
2. Some were probably based on actors’ memories of plays.
3. Many of these quartos are quite unreliable.
4. A collection of his sonnets, considered by critics to be among the best ever written in English, appeared in 1609.
5. Many individual plays were published during his lifetime in unauthorized editions known as quartos.

Which of the following statements would be the closest to the arguments in the passage?

Why has the author referred to Rutherford in the passage?

Which of the following, as per author, are psychophysical goods?
1.Concrete
2.Car
3.Mobile Phone

The statement, “The relations between probability and experience are still in need of clarification” implies that:

Author has talked about the two tasks in the above passage. Choose the best option from the following statements relevant to the tasks.

Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?

Which of the following would the author disagree most with?

Which of the following could be a good title for the above passage?

The author of the passage went on to say: “We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards; because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufactures and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end.”

Which of the following, as per author, could have been the end (last words in the lines above)?

According to the author of the paragraph, army is _____________ ?

In general, when would government of majority be good for minorities?

Which of the following statements would the author agree the most with?

Consider the statement given below as true:
“The failure of men to transition from being shoppers and consumers to producers and creators has implications about their manliness.”
Which of the following statements would concur with the above idea and the theme of the main paragraph?

Consider the statement given below as true:
“Men use the plasticity of consumer identity construction to forge atavistic masculine identities based upon an imagined life of self-reliant, pre-modern men who lived outside the confines of cities, families, and work bureaucracies.” Which of the following statements would concur with the above idea and the theme of the main paragraph?

Consider the statement given below as true:
“By appropriating fashion discourse, consumers generate personalized fashion narratives and metaphoric and metonymic references that negotiate key existential tensions and that often express resistance to dominant fashion norms in their social milieu or consumer culture at large.”
Which of the following statements would concur with the above idea and the theme of the main paragraph?

Amitabh picks a random integer between 1 and 999, doubles it and gives the result to Sashi. Each
time Sashi gets a number from Amitabh, he adds 50 to the number, and gives the result back to Amitabh, who doubles the number again. The first person, whose result is more than 1000, loses the game. Let ‘x’ be the smallest initial number that results in a win for Amitabh. The sum of the digits of ‘x’ is:

In which of the following years the percentage increase in the number of Indians going abroad was greater than the percentage increase in the number of domestic tourists?

In which of the following years was the rupee cheapest with respect to the dollar?

Let ‘R’ be the ratio of Foreign Exchange Earnings from Tourism in India (in US $ million) to Foreign Tourist Arrivals in India (in million). Assume that R increases linearly over the years. If we draw a pie chart of R for all the years, the angle subtended by the biggest sector in the pie chart would be approximately:

Which of the following countries, after United States, has the highest spending on military as % of GDP, in the period 2000-2010?

Which country (and which year) has witnessed maximum year-to-year decline in “industry as percentage of GDP”? Given that the maximum value of industry as percentage of GDP is 49.7% and the minimum value of industry as percentage of GDP is 20.02%, in the chart above.

Which of the following countries has shown maximum increase in the “services, value added as % of GDP” from year 2000 to year 2010?

Which of the following could be the correct ascending order of democratic regions for poor?

Which region has the highest disparity, of democratic participation, between rich and poor?

The maximum GDP of African region is higher than the maximum GDP of South American region by factor of:

$x, 17, 3x - y^{2} - 2$, and $3x + y^{2} - 30$, are four consecutive terms of an increasing arithmetic sequence. The sum of the four number is divisible by:

In quadrilateral PQRS, PQ = 5 units, QR = 17 units, RS = 5 units, and PS = 9 units. The length of the diagonal QS can be:

The sum of the possible values of X in the equation |X + 7| + |X - 8| = 16 is:

There are two windows on the wall of a building that need repairs. A ladder 30 m long is placed
against a wall such that it just reaches the first window which is 26 m high. The foot of the
ladder is at point A. After the first window is fixed, the foot of the ladder is pushed backwards
to point B so that the ladder can reach the second window. The angle made by the ladder with the
ground is reduced by half, as a result of pushing the ladder. The distance between points A and B is

Consider four natural numbers: x, y, x + y, and x - y. Two statements are provided below:
I. All four numbers are prime numbers.
II. The arithmetic mean of the numbers is greater than 4.
Which of the following statements would be sufficient to determine the sum of the four numbers?

Triangle ABC is a right angled triangle. D and E are mid points of AB and BC respectively. Read
the following statements.
I. AE = 19
II. CD = 22
III. Angle B is a right angle.
Which of the following statements would be sufficient to determine the length of AC?

There are two circles $C_{1}$ and $C_{2}$ of radii 3 and 8 units respectively. The common internal tangent, T, touches the circles at points $P_{1}$ and $P_{2}$ respectively. The line joining the centers of the circles intersects T at X. The distance of X from the center of the smaller circle is 5 units. What is the length of the line segment $P_{1} P_{2}$ ?

Consider the formula, $S=\frac{\alpha\times\omega}{\tau+\rho\times\omega}$ positive integers. If ⍵ is increased and ⍺, τ and ρ are kept constant, then S:

Prof. Suman takes a number of quizzes for a course. All the quizzes are out of 100. A student can get an A grade in the course if the average of her scores is more than or equal to 90.Grade B is awarded to a student if the average of her scores is between 87 and 89 (both included). If the average is below 87, the student gets a C grade. Ramesh is preparing for the last quiz and he realizes that he will score a minimum of 97 to get an A grade. After the quiz, he realizes that he will score 70, and he will just manage a B. How many quizzes did Prof. Suman take?

A polynomial y=$ax^{3} + bx^{2 }+ cx + d$ intersects x-axis at 1 and -1, and y-axis at 2. The value of b is:

The probability that a randomly chosen positive divisor of $10^{29}$ is an integer multiple of $10^{23}$ is: $a^{2} /b^{2}$, then ‘b - a’ would be:

Circle $C_{1}$ has a radius of 3 units. The line segment PQ is the only diameter of the circle which is parallel to the X axis. P and Q are points on curves given by the equations $y = a^{x} and y = 2a^{x}$ respectively, where a < 1. The value of a is:

Consider a rectangle ABCD of area 90 units. The points P and Q trisect AB, and R bisects CD. The
diagonal AC intersects the line segments PR and QR at M and N respectively. What is the area of the quadrilateral PQNM?

Two numbers, $297_{B}$ and $792_{B}$ , belong to base B number system. If the first number is a factor of the second number then the value of B is:

A teacher noticed a strange distribution of marks in the exam. There were only three distinct
scores: 6, 8 and 20. The mode of the distribution was 8. The sum of the scores of all the students was 504. The number of students in the in most populated category was equal to the sum of the number of students with lowest score and twice the number of students with the highest score. The total number of students in the class was:

Read the following instruction carefully and answer the question that follows:
Expression $\sum_{n=1}^{13}\frac{1}{n}$ can also be written as $\frac{x}{13!}$ What would be the remainder if x is divided by 11?

A rectangular swimming pool is 48 m long and 20 m wide. The shallow edge of the pool is 1 m deep.
For every 2.6 m that one walks up the inclined base of the swimming pool, one gains an elevation of 1 m. What is the volume of water (in cubic meters), in the swimming pool? Assume that the pool is filled up to the brim.v

The value of the expression: $\sum_{i=2}^{100}\frac{1}{log_{i}100!}$ is:

There are two squares S 1 and S 2 with areas 8 and 9 units, respectively. S 1 is inscribed within S 2 , with one corner of S 1 on each side of S 2 . The corners of the smaller square divides the sides of
the bigger square into two segments, one of length ‘a’ and the other of length ‘b’, where, b > a. A possible value of ‘b/a’, is:

Diameter of the base of a water - filled inverted right circular cone is 26 cm. A cylindrical pipe, 5 mm in radius, is attached to the surface of the cone at a point. The perpendicular distance
between the point and the base (the top) is 15 cm. The distance from the edge of the base to the
point is 17 cm, along the surface. If water flows at the rate of 10 meters per minute through the
pipe, how much time would elapse before water stops coming out of the pipe?

Aditya has a total of 18 red and blue marbles in two bags (each bag has marbles of both colors). A
marble is randomly drawn from the first bag followed by another randomly drawn from the
second bag, the probability of both being red is 5/16. What is the probability of both marbles being blue?

The G-7 is a group consisting of:

The correct match between countries and their official languages is:

The correct match between the following mountain ranges and their highest peaks is:

The acronym “YAHOO” stands for:

The list of persons not containing an RBI governor is:

The factor that least influences exchange rate fluctuations:

The sequence that contains a wrong match between car manufacturers and their country of origin

As per the Constitution, which among the following is not a fundamental right granted to the citizens of India ?

Jawaharlal Nehru declared ‘Poorna Swaraj’ at:

Who among the following was known as the ‘Saint of the Gutters’?

‘Long Walk To Freedom’ is the autobiography of the following Bharat Ratna recipient

Which seventh century Indian mathematician was the first in the world to treat ‘zero’ as a number and show its mathematical operations ?

Which city houses the headquarters of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Which Indian region is the only place in the world where the Asiatic Wild Ass is Found ?

The number of officially recognized lnguges according to the Eight Schedule of the Indian Constitution is

The ancient civilization of Sumer flourished in a region, which is a part of the following country in the modern world

The following women have been honoured with The Nobel Peace Prize, except:

The correct ascending prder of the countries based on the latest Gross Domestic Product data (Purchasing Power Parity) from IMF is:

The distance covered in half marathon is approximately:

The newest country in the world is:

The main issues of interpretation arising from the work of professionally trained anthropologists are that they are late in colonial/post - colonial trajectories, because professional training shapes their interpretations. However, within field of interest and training, their works are most thorough and systematic
The best conclusion drawn from the above paragraph is analogous to:

Consider merit pay for teachers. Schools face constant pressure to change their management approaches to improve performance, which is usually assessed by standardized reading, math, and science scores. In most school teacher’s pay is determined by seniority, years of total teaching experience, and credentials. Pay is rarely based on performance, which is contrary to the belief among parents and private sector. Parents and business leaders lament that there are no carrots/sticks used to motivate teachers.
Consequently, there has been greater push to implement some form of merit pay to improve
the motivation. Which of the following statements will disapprove the claim of the parents and business leaders?

Read the following newspaper report: In a new study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), researchers explored how caffeine can serve as a “mild anti - depressant”. They concluded that “drinking
several cups of coffee daily appears to reduce the risk of suicide”. Data pulled in from three large studies in the US showed that the suicide risk of those who drank two to four cups of caffeinated coffee a day was
about half of those who drank decaffeinated coffee or very little or no coffee. In the studies, a respondent’s caffeine consumption was assessed every four years through a questionnaire. The respondents were all adults, and the study was published online. The authors, however, cautioned the public from increasing coffee intake as it could result in “unpleasant side effects”. “Overall, our results suggest that there is
little further benefit for consumption above two to three cups/day or 400 mg of caffeine/day,” wrote the researchers. The authors observed that there` was no major difference in suicide risk for adults who drank two to three cups a day from those who drank four cups or more.
Which of the following shaped graph would best capture the above paragraph(x - axis represents “coffee intake” and “Y - axis represents “suicidal tendency”)?

A group of nine runners will finish the 400 meters race in a certain order. The runners are:
Ashok, Benjamin, Chetan, Divya, Eshant, Girish, Himani, and Irravaty. They all finish at different times, and their finishing order is as follow:
1.Faneesh finishes before Ashok
2.Divya finishes before Benjamin and Eshant
3.Irravaty finishes after Chetan
4.Girish finishes after Ashok
Which is the best position Girish can finish?

Which of three members should form the team for the International competition?

Which of the following members should constitute the team for the district level competition?

Ms. Banerjee has to select the team for national competition after she has selected the team for
international competition. A student selected for international competition cannot be a part of national competition. Which is the best team for the national competition?

How much profit can the company expect to earn if it launches the new drug(suppose there are no additional costs)?

Now, Reddy and Rao were in a quandary whether the company should go ahead and market the drug. They
contacted Raj Adduri, a common friend for advice. Adduri was of the opinion that given the risky nature of the launch, it may be a better idea to test the market. Rao and Reddy realized test marketing would cost 10
crores. Adduri told them the previous test marketing results have been favourable 70% of times and success rate of products favourably tested was 80%. Further, when test marketing results were unfavourable; the products have been successful 30% of the times.

How much profit can the company expect to make if the product is launched after favourable test marketing results(assume there are no additional costs)?

Now, Reddy and Rao were in a quandary whether the company should go ahead and market the drug. They
contacted Raj Adduri, a common friend for advice. Adduri was of the opinion that given the risky nature of launch, it may be a better idea to test the market. Rao and Reddy realized test marketing would cost 10
crores. Adduri told them the previous test marketing results have been favorable 70% of times and success
rate of products favorably tested was 80%.Further, when test marketing results were unfavorable; the products have been successful 30% of the times.

What is the probability of product failure if Reddy and Rao decide to test market it?

Now, Reddy and Rao were in a quandary whether the company should go ahead and market the drug. They
contacted Raj Adduri, a common friend for advice. Adduri was of the opinion that given the risky nature of launch, it may be a better idea to test the market. Rao and Reddy realized test marketing would cost 10
crores. Adduri told them the previous test marketing results have been favorable 70% of times and success
rate of products favorably tested was 80%.Further, when test marketing results were unfavorable; the products have been successful 30% of the times.

If Rao and Reddy decide to launch the product despite unfavourable test marketing, how much profit can the company expect to earn?

If you analyze the three reports above, which of the following statements would be the best inference?

Assume report1 and report3 are both correct, which of the following can be a reason for seemingly divergent ranks of different companies and their products?

If report1 and report3 are both correct, which of the following can be a reason for seemingly divergent ranks reported for different companies and their products?

Which of the following is more likely to be a correct conclusion about the respondent/reader in report2?

Some of the consultants were adept at applying old solutions to new problems. Ajay was not very
sure if this would work for long. Some of the clients had complained about the performance of
old and reputed consultants. Ajay was mulling over the following five solutions to tackle this problem.

1.Decrease time spent on client interaction and increase time spent for generating solutions.
2.Increase support staff to help consultants to remain updated.
3.Decrease the number of simultaneous projects handled by consultants.
4.Make it compulsory for consultants to work on inter-industry and inter-domain problems.
5.Recruit more consultants.
Which of the following would be the best sequence of decisions taken by Ajay (starting from immediate to distant)?

After Ajay implemented some of the steps mentioned above, consultants wanted to renegotiate their contract with the organization. It seems that the organization had never mentioned that consultants have to work across industries and domains. Some of the old consultants were reluctant to change their ways,
while many of the younger consultants were willing to follow Ajay’s advice. Which of the following decision can be taken by Ajay to handle this situation?

Ajay was to retire in five years and he wanted to leave behind a legacy. Order the following
activities, from the most important to the least important, that Ajay should undertake in next five year:
1.Do nothing.
2.Set a future direction for the organization in these challenging times.
3.Benchmark performance with respect to the best consulting company in industry.
4.Empower senior consultants and at the same time seek opinion of all others for handling future challenges.
5.Infuse fresh thinking by hiring outsiders.
Choose the best option from the following sequences

What must not be done by Ram?

Rahim set up a “brand” committee comprising of a few selected managers, headed by Robert. The
committee proposed that IBM should continue to manufacture the three differently branded products. It also proposed to recruit a new brand manager for improving brand image of the products. It agreed with Rahim that the company should increase the price. Rocket Singh, head of sales, was confused because he realized that customers were miffed with “run - of - the - mill” and “maxi - max”.
What should Rocket Singh do?

Some of the managers in production department were discussing the problems faced in shipping
products in time. They complained that they had to undertake responsibility of creating financial and marketing plans in addition to responsibility of production planning. At the same time, finance
and marketing managers were to be involved in preparing production plans. It was expected that
this will reduce customer complaints. It was rumored that these changes were initiated by the managers educated in the U.S.
Which of the following is the best possible course of action available to the affected managers?

Who is the best person for Rajinder to talk to?

After delibertation with many people and a lot of research, Rajinder came across a study published
in leading journal, which stated that most local farmers benefited because Bigmart bought agricultural produce directly from the farmers.
Which of the following actions would you prefer Rajinder to take, after he got this fresh information?

Which is the right ascending order, in terms of proportion of population, benefitting from Bigmart, in and around Bhathinda?