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XAT VALR RC & Poem PYQs (2018–2026), Solved
XAT reading, solved and mapped.
XAT reading comprehension passages and poems from 2018 to 2026, with every option explained, plus the mind map, glossary and tone analysis. Free for everyone.
Answers follow the expert consensus answer key. 50 sets so far.
XAT 2026 RC
Set 1The Inherent Psychological Burdens of Liberal DemocracySet 2Why Communication Fails When Meaning Is Assumed Not NegotiatedSet 3The Twisted Logic Behind Internet Trolling and AnonymitySet 4Why the Discovery of Nuclear Fission Was InevitableSet 5Self-Esteem, Mindset, and the Two Faces of ComparisonPoem 6Old Newspapers as Sleeping Snakes of the PastXAT 2025 RC
Set 1Why Laughter Requires a Cold, Detached MindSet 2Why Character Skills Outperform Cognitive Skills in EntrepreneursSet 3Why Human Group Identity Is Arbitrary Not BiologicalSet 4How Greedy Jobs Widen the Gender Pay GapPoem 5A Trembling Ceiling Fan as Metaphor for Anxious InstabilitySet 6The Unfinished Promise of Meritocracy in Modern SocietyXAT 2024 RC
Poem 1A Woman's Quiet Alienation and Loss of Self IdentitySet 2How Storytelling and Realist Novels Overcome Our Reductive InstinctsSet 3Beauty as Commodified Capital Shaped by PowerSet 4Understanding the Three Moral Axes Behind Political DisagreementSet 5Why Our Confident Certainties Are Often WrongSet 6Vaccination as a Shared Bank of Community ImmunityXAT 2023 RC
Set 1Interpretation as a Historically Contingent Act of MindSet 2Why We Delay: Philosophy and Psychology of ProcrastinationPoem 3The Successful Self and the Person It Left BehindSet 4How Capitalism and Human Centric Thinking Fuel Global WarmingSet 5Why Humanity Needs a New Unifying StoryXAT 2022 RC
Set 1Stupidity as Forcing Old Concepts onto New ProblemsSet 2Frankfurt's Distinction Between Lying and Bullshitting ExplainedSet 3Beyond Pleasure and Purpose: The Case for Psychological RichnessSet 4Arendt on the Difference Between Social Behaviour and Public ActionPoem 5The Little Mermaid Speaks: Love, Loss and the Price of TransformationXAT 2021 RC
Set 1Attitude, Habit and the Search for UnitySet 2How Constant Multitasking Rewires the Brain for DistractionSet 3Why Numbers Helped Ancestors and Bacteria SurviveSet 4Microsoft's Lumia Restructuring Cuts Jobs Yet Signals HopePoem 5A Quiet Invitation to Pause Amid Life's WeightSet 6How the Gender Data Gap Shapes a Male Default WorldSet 7Doubt as the Engine of Scientific ProgressXAT 2020 RC
Set 1How Synthetic Pleasures Numb Our Capacity for JoyPoem 2Frost's Fire and Ice on Desire, Hate and RuinSet 3How Modern Societies Learn to Live with DisplacementSet 4Knowledge Transformed Into a Tradable CommoditySet 5Why Capitalism Keeps Creating Pointless JobsXAT 2019 RC
Poem 1Sylvia Plath's Dark Water Journey Toward Silence and DeathSet 2Does Having a Mood Disorder Really Make You More CreativeSet 3How Public Speech Norms Enforce a Masculine StandardSet 4Confronting Art Means Confronting Our Own LimitationsSet 5Elevation The Emotional Reset Button Behind Human GoodnessXAT 2018 RC
Set 1History as Liberation Rather Than PredictionSet 2Peirce on How Doubt Becomes BeliefSet 3Why Materialism Fails to Solve Consciousness's Hard ProblemSet 4The Dialectic of Labor and Capital in Marxist ThoughtPoem 5Rumi's Vision of Love as Surrender Beyond Reason and SelfQuestions about XAT RC PYQs
Does XAT have poems in the verbal section?
Yes. XAT VALR usually includes one poem set with two or three questions, alongside RC passages. GRADFLIX has every XAT poem and passage from 2018 to 2026, solved.
Are XAT answer keys official?
XLRI does not publish an official key. GRADFLIX answers follow the expert consensus key, and every option is explained.
How many options do XAT questions have?
XAT questions have five options (A to E), with negative marking.