XAT 5h Plan

Reading Comprehension: Long passages from diverse topics (business, philosophy, literature, social issues) with inference, tone, main idea, and vocabulary questions — the most time-consuming section in XAT VARC.

Verbal Ability — Fill in the Blanks: Vocabulary-based, grammar-based, and contextual fill-in-the-blank questions — tests word power and usage.

Para Jumbles and Sentence Rearrangement: Arranging jumbled sentences to form a coherent paragraph — XAT tests both logical sequencing and connector usage.

Business Decision Making: Case-based scenarios involving business decisions, cost-benefit analysis, and optimal choice selection — XAT's unique decision-making section tests applied reasoning.

Ethical Dilemmas: Situations involving conflicts between business ethics and profitability, corporate governance issues, and choosing the most ethical course of action — tests moral reasoning.

Number System and Simplification: LCM-HCF, divisibility, remainder theorem, square roots, cube roots, and BODMAS-based simplification — SNAP QA frequently tests these arithmetic basics.

Percentage and Profit-Loss: Percentage change, discount, markup, successive percentage changes, and profit-loss percentage calculations — common SNAP quantitative topics.

Current Affairs - National: Major government policies, schemes (PM-KISAN, Digital India, Make in India), legislative updates, and important national events from the past year - a high-weight area in RAS Prelims General Knowledge.

Current Affairs - International: Important summits (G20, BRICS, ASEAN), international organizations, global economic developments, conflicts, treaties, and India foreign policy engagements.