XAT Part 2: Decision Making — The Framework That Scores, Exam-Ready Notes

DM answers follow an ethic hierarchy; the framework beats intuition.

Question taxonomy

• Business dilemmas: profit vs compliance; employee conflicts; customer harm scenarios.
• Public-policy and personal dilemmas; numerical DM with payoff analysis.

The scoring framework

• Stakeholder scan; option legality; long-term organisational values; transparency test.
• Right answers escalate: consult seniors, gather data, act transparently — never avoid or hide.
• Eliminate options with shortcuts: illegal, manipulative, escapist, emotional revenge.

Practice source

• Past 10 XAT papers hold 200-plus DM questions — the highest-yield bank; mocks under-train DM.

Revise in 30 seconds

• Stakeholders, legality, values, transparency.
• Escalate; never hide.
• Eliminate illegal-manipulative-escapist options.
• PYQ bank is the real trainer.