List of top Questions asked in XAT

A few years back Mr. Arbit and Mr. Boring started an oil refinery business. Their annual earning is currently just 50,000 million rupees. They are now exploring various options to improve the business. Mr. Xanadu, a salesperson from Innovative Technology Solutions (ITS), is trying to sell a new oil refinery technology to Mr. Arbit and Mr. Boring. This technology could potentially enhance their annual earning to 150,000 million rupees within a year. But they have to make one-time investment of 100,000 million rupees to implement the technology. If the technology is not successful, the investment would be lost. Mr. Arbit and Mr. Boring are discussing about possible risks of the investment.

Life Saving Pharmaceuticals (LSP) is India-based Pharmaceuticals Company. Their business mostly revolves around a couple of generic drugs and a few patented drugs. LSP operates in 30 odd countries and more than 50% of their sales volume is from outside India. 

Mohan’s was a popular fast-food joint at Connaught Place, Delhi. Initially Mohan handled his business alone. His sons, Ram and Kishan, joined the business after graduation from college. Ram was entrepreneurial in nature. Subsequently, another branch of Mohan’s was opened in Panipat. Mohan had chosen Ram to head the Panipat branch. Though Ram increased sales in short time, he had stopped using premium quality organic vegetables, the speciality of Mohan’s. Mohan and Kishan were not happy with his way of doing business.
Now, the foremost challenge for Mohan was to sort out this issue with Ram. Mohan knew that replacing Ram with Kishan was difficult as Kishan did not want to leave Delhi. However, giving a freehand to Ram might have long term negative consequences. Mohan was confused about the future course of actions. 

MBA entrance examination comprises two types of problems: formula-based problems and application-based problems. From the analysis of past data, Interesting School of Management (ISM) observes that students good at solving application-based problems are entrepreneurial in nature. Coaching institutes for MBA entrance exams train them to spot formula-based problems and answer them correctly, so as to obtain the required overall cut-off percentile. Thus students, in general, shy away from application-based problems and even those with entrepreneurial mind-set target formula-based problems.

As a part of employee improvement programs, every year an organization conducts a survey on three factors:
1. Number of days (in integers) of training undergone, 
2. Amount of bonus (in lacs) received by an employee and 
3. Employee effectiveness score (on the scale of 1 to 10). 
Survey results for last two years are given below for the same seven employees.

Twitter allows its users to post/share and read short messages known as tweets. Tweets can be of three types– Positive Tweets (in support), Negative Tweets (against) and Neutral Tweets. The following table presents the Number of Votes and Tweets received by certain political parties.
Any party which has secured less than 2% of the total votes falls under ‘Other Parties’ category. For example, Party E secured less than 2% of total votes, in the year 2000. Note: If the vote share (%age of total votes) of a party changes from 15% to 40%, gain in vote share would be 25% (= 40%,– 15%).
Consider the following statements related to Ukraine:
i. It supplies gas to Russia.
ii. Russia sells gas to Ukraine.
iii. Sochi is not located in Ukraine.
iv. In a referendum, people of Crimea decided to be a part of Ukraine.
v. Simferopol is the Capital of Crimea.
Which of the following options contains wrong statement(s) related to Ukraine?
Consider the following statements about the Syrian crisis:
i. It was initially related to Arab Spring.
ii. Many Syrian refugees flee to Jordan and Lebanon.
iii. Bashar Al Assad is involved in Syria crisis.
iv. There has been a single party political government in Syria for over a decade.
v. Syrian crisis is not related to Tunisia.
% Question continuation Which of the following options does not contain false statement pertaining to Syrian crisis?
Consider the following statements related to Brazil:
i. Brazil’s GDP is higher than Italy’s GDP.
ii. Dilma Rousseff was elected as President of Brazil.
iii. Maracana stadium hosted world cup football final.
iv. Of all of Brazil’s neighbours, Argentina has the longest border.
v. Real is the currency of Brazil.
Which of the following options does not contain false statement(s) related to Brazil?
Which of the following options correctly lists all the dignitaries who visited India in 2014?
What is a “Bachpan Bachao Andholan”?
Which of the following authors has not been awarded Pulitzer Prize?
Consider the following names:
i. Cadbury
ii. GarlicBread
iii. Honeycomb
iv. KitKat
v. Lollipop
Which of the following options lists all the correct names of Android Operating System?
Which of the following Indian movies did not get nominated for `Academy Awards' in the `Best Foreign Language Film' Category?
Which of the following cities is least likely to experience a cyclonic disturbance?
Which of the following towns is not associated with coal/lignite mining?
Four possible industrial belts are given below:
i. Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Madurai
ii. Mumbai - Pune
iii. Ahmedabad - Vadodara
iv. Hugli - Region
Which of the above are well known industrial belts (regions) in India?
Which is the following set of cities/regions associated with Indian Super League (ISL) teams?
Consider the following list of some Countries and Capitals:
Match the countries with their capitals:
Which of the following statements is correct about Union Budget 2014?
How many smart cities have been announced in India?
What is "Qualified Institutional Placement"?
What is ``Quantitative Easing''?
As per 2011 census, which is the second most urbanized State in India (in percentage terms)?
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