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Last minute Tips for XAT January 6, 2013


MBA aspirants who are appearing for XAT tomorrow need not panic and keep confidence.  Study all the topics, practicing DI and quantitative problems are of utmost importance. While this builds up your speed and analytical skills, it also gives you much-needed confidence to crack the exam.

After you have attempted mock papers, identify your strong and weak areas. You should know which section to start with and which areas to attack first in each section. Set your time limits. Do not spend time on a question from an area you are not comfortable with. That time can be utilized to get you points from a section you know better.

Also, during an exam, if you feel the section is too tough, remember that if it is tough for you, it is tough for everybody else. Never forget this golden rule that solving a question is not an ego issue.

Keep in mind when you go into the examination hall that you need not try to predict the paper or close your options by forming a strategy for a particular pattern. A paper like XAT will always give you a shock when you see the instructions and, unfortunately, 30 to 35 per cent of candidates lose out then and there.

It is important to keep a cool head, take time to form your strategy and go through the whole paper once before starting with any particular section. Spend the first three minutes scanning through the entire paper, so there are no rude surprises awaiting you. This serves a dual purpose. It gives you a general feel of the difficulty level and, as you write, helps your mind subconsciously condition itself for the paper.

Maintaining an accuracy level of at least 75 to 80 per cent is very important. This also gives you the leeway to, once in a while, mark an option based on chance.






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XAT 2013 Paper Pattern!



XAT usually comprises 3 Objective type Multiple Choice sections and an essay writing section. 

Details are : Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation (Math) - (Objective Type Multiple Choice), Verbal Reasoning (English) - (Objective Type Multiple Choice),Analytical Reasoning and Decision Making - (Objective Type Multiple Choice) and an essay writing section

The duration of the test is 120 minutes for the objective type section and an additional 20 minutes is provided at the end of the 2 hours for the essay writing section.

In the recent past, the XAT has had more questions than the CAT exam to be solved in lesser time. While in the CAT exam it may be possible to get a decent shot at all questions, in XAT it is more advisable to drop tough looking questions, and find the easier ones to solve.

Thus, selection of easier questions is very important, which are very well inserted between the tougher questions, the reason for the perception of XAT being a tougher nut to crack than CAT.

Go ahead and prepare with XAT Mock Tests and be successful in forthcoming XAT on January 6, 2013 



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XAT 2013: Quantitative Ability



Forthcoming XAT on January 6, 2013 will be different exam for MBA Aspirants. You need to be well prepared for Quantitative ability section as this might prove to be the trickiest among all sections.
The level of difficulty of the questions in Quantitative Ability will vary from moderate to slightly tough with the overall level of difficulty compared to the previous year’s papers.
Questions might be distributed across areas like Number properties, Arithmetic.  Questions will be  across topics like TSD, Ratio & Proportion, Mixtures, Simple interest, Statistics, Geometry ,Algebra, questions based on Algebraic equations, Modern Math, questions from Venn Diagrams and questions on Data Interpretation.
You need to take XAT Mock paper as number of times as you can. Hopefully you will be successful in XAT 2013 !!!




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Be ready for Essay in XAT 2013



MBA aspirants who are taking XAT on forthcoming January 6, 2013 should be ready for Essay as you might be given topic of current affairs which you will have to complete in 15-20 minutes of time. 

Possibility is high that you need to write an argumentative essay. You need to be careful for not offering comments. Let us take example that is, if the topic is on corruption so you need not mention comments of social media or the crusade being run by civil societies. You need to be focused on topic only with conclusion on pros & cons of scenario. 

Reading General Awareness topics will keep you updated and you are bound to gain confidence which will be greatly helpful to achieve success at XAT 2013



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Be Alarmed on XAT 2013



The statistics which states that only 1 of 250 candidates makes it into XLRI can rattle any candidates, but if the number of serious aspirants is taken into account, it would drastically fall. You should understand that this exam is designed to measure your ability of maintaining a level head under pressure.

So avoid getting demoralized or disheartened by such statistics. It's not as much an examination of your knowledge base as much as it is of your nerves. Maintain a cool head during the examination.

Confidence does not come overnight. Studying all the topics, practicing DI and quantitative problems is of utmost importance. While this builds up your speed and analytical skills, it also gives you much-needed confidence to crack the exam.

Go for XAT Mock paper and get success!!!



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How to crack XAT 2013?



The duration of the test is 120 minutes for the objective type section and an additional 20 minutes is provided at the end of the 2 hours for the essay writing section.

In order to crack XAT, you should first know how the exam is different from others. In XAT, the Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation questions are in one section. The second section is English Usage (EU) and RC. The third section is Analytical Reasoning (AR) and Decision making.

In the recent past, the XAT has had more questions than the CAT exam to be solved in lesser time. While in the CAT exam it may be possible to get a decent shot at all questions, in XAT it is more advisable to drop tough looking questions, and find the easier ones to solve.

Thus, selection of easier questions is very important, which are very well inserted between the tougher questions, the reason for the perception of XAT being a tougher nut to crack than CAT.

Go for XAT Mock paper and get success!!