Well it is nice to see a dedicated XAT thread being opened finally! Good job sirsij...
I will just give u some figures now---
1. In the 8 mocks i wrote for CAT(n XAT) , i had 99.5 and above in 4. By the way i missed both the SimXATs due to some personal reasons.
2. In spite of such confident figures behind me, i found XAT 2007 a very tough exam. It shows from the fact that i could ATTEMPT only
41 questions in all... u have seen it right... no typo here
3. my Attempt breakup was : English 18, DI-LR 12, QA 11 !!!
4. The English cutoff for PMIR (the only course i had applied for that is) was 96.6+ and with those 18 attempts i had scored 98.9%ile in the English section... and the 11 attempts in QA gave me a 92.33%ile.
All i wanted u to know thru these figures is that there is one thing which is of extreme importance in XAT and that is ACCURACY! Frankly speaking i have never SCORED as low as 41 in any of my Mocks and thus it was very difficult to keep up the self confidence after attempting 41! However, i have learnt that with XAT it is not how many u do but more importantly how well u do them!
I know loads of friends who attempted more than 20 questions in English and ended up with not crossing the cutoff. And there are similar cases for QA as well... So basically even if u find the paper to be tough, DO NOT give up and fight well
All The Best!!!
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XLRI- PMIR
Batch of 2007-09