Wow..Guys at The time of CAT I was very Ill from last 4 days...and i went in exam center having fever and headache...even didnt took bath from last 2days that was my worst experience ever in any exam..
Even though the paper was easy then also didnt did well due to my illness..I thought i will do well in XAT. XAT is the second exam in which I planned to appear.....
Ha ha ha......wat a debacle it is .....I went with fresh mind with lots of planning....hoping that surely i am going to get call from XLRI BM.....thats a nice joke....

But I find the easy a tricky one....it was nicely twisted in words...This is my first attempt to XAT ..and I like the way XAT tests the pressure.....even in the there were lots of easy questions...people got stucked in the tough ones only..
I didnt faced much surprise coz i didnt practiced any mock XAT so i was ready for any surprise......LOL.....
I would suggest for PUYS next time you also dont go with any mock XAT practice and be ready for any surprise....you can do well.....

Rest we will see in the results....dont rely on the key of coaching institutes.......And All the Best to All We All are at the Same page ......there is no Superman..........LOL....

Shashank is getting around 87.25 as per the Key of one of the institute .. So now we have the score of the 100 Percentiler with us ..
any guesswork with the cut-offs ?

lol wot else do u expect from our great doc.....aakhir pichle cat ka badla AIR 1 in all xams se hi liya jaa sakta hai:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
moreover i saw his last year's post,few days back........he attempted 71 in such a dfclt paper n 99.96 percentile :drinking:...bang on target

superlike..

Wat a paper .... Chalo feeling not alone after the XAT debacle. Started with verbal, got inferential qns with very confusing answers. After that QA , done some easy but calculation intensive graph qns. But after doing them saw the marks alotted (1 marks) done 3-4 qns(obviously >1 mark). Then the invigilator started giving us goosebumps by saying 30 minutes remaining, was shocked hadn't seen the AR DM section till now. Found puzzles to be tough and mind was eviscerated at that point of time. Done most of the DM qns with >1 marks. And now comes the embarrassing part, i had read gud amount of articles and preapred to face any topic on the earth but ......... after getting the topic i was unable to comprehend the comparison between the ideas, leave alone the judgment and example. So in last 10 minutes i started writing when i thought that there is no need to read further this obscure topic and it is not going anywhere. Now its time to------> :drinking::drinking::drinking:
Anyways nt going to see the keys.... Because they leads to more confusion :splat:

Finally, there is something which can be termed as an exam dealing with decision making....I loved it..wont make it to XLRI as am not good at maths, I will settle for calls from XIMB and GIM, for all criticizing the paper...puys what you think this paper checked !!this was perfect example for checking you decision making capability under pressure, I hope CAT gets back to its unpredictability as well....

QA 7
Verbal 18
LR 26

uske score ka 25-30% subtract karo usi ke score se, that will roughly be the cutoff...thats what my experience with doc says..........
(u can verify it by seeing his FMS,IIFT,scores)

hahaha:)..Most awesome post of the day and true as truth:D

doc score iift>47
subtract 25-30%>avg 27 odd or 11.3..35.7 iift cutoff:P

doc score fms>530 odd
subtract 25-30%>avg 27 odd
~410..Awkwardly Close to expected cutoff:)

so do the same for xat

p.S.Just couldn't resist posting:p

oops dont know how to delete

my score is
quant di 8
verbal 24.5
lr dm 14

total 46.5

i cant seem to get my percentile on TF... can sum1 help me what %ile does anyone wid a score of upto +- 1 has so i get an idea...

i have applied for xlri-bm n ximB.... how are my chances for both??
please help me
:lookround:

Shashank is getting around 87.25 as per the Key of one of the institute .. So now we have the score of the 100 Percentiler with us ..
any guesswork with the cut-offs ?

uske score ka 25-30% subtract karo usi ke score se, that will roughly be the cutoff...thats what my experience with doc says..........
(u can verify it by seeing his FMS,IIFT,scores)

Kya Paper Nikala tha XAT walon ne,
I go to paper with strategy that will solve first DM then QA & then VA.
But after having XAT booklet, I find that there were diffrential marking & no of questions is higher for QA.
As i thought diffrential marking will be like 1 marks or 2 marks,but when i opened booklet,marks for questions are ranging from 1 to 5. I was shocked & that reached to critical limit as i proceed to solve paper.
Those questions looks easy(doable) & after looking at marks i m surprised,asked for 4 or 5 marks & thats getting me more confused(Coz they will nt ask simple Q's for 5 marks).& those who look like diffrent asks
for only one marks,ridiculous???? Dono taraf se lag gayi.....
What i m doing is just reading q's & proceed.
Den i moved to DM,& the same case is repeated.
Till d paper end,My whole 2 hrs are utilized to read paper.

& aftr paper over, the guy behind me doesn't know abt diffrential marking ,He started scratching his heads coz he largely attempts 1 marks q's.

& then essay which i didn't understand after reading nearly 10-15 times.But i manage to write 10-12 lines, which I pray,not to be read by anyone otherwise i will be hanged...........

amazing paper it was :drinking::drinking:... i have no words but i have a song :cheers::cheers: for the great person who conceptualized this paper :biggrin::biggrin:...

Song

Paper Bananewale Kya Aapke Man Mein Samaayi
Kaaheko Paper Banayi
Aapne Kaaheko Paper Banayi

Kahe Banaye Aapne 3 sections
VA tha ok ok
LR & QA mein toh Aapne Duniya Ke Saath Khela
Aur aapne poora 2 hrs Gup-Chup Yeh Tamasha Dekhe,
Wah Re Teri Khudaai
Kahe Ko Paper Banayi...

Kya Paper Nikala tha XAT walon ne,
I go to paper with strategy that will solve first DM then QA & then VA.
But after having XAT booklet, I find that there were diffrential marking & no of questions is higher for QA.
As i thought diffrential marking will be like 1 marks or 2 marks,but when i opened booklet,marks for questions are ranging from 1 to 5. I was shocked & that reached to critical limit as i proceed to solve paper.
Those questions looks easy(doable) & after looking at marks i m surprised,asked for 4 or 5 marks & thats getting me more confused(Coz they will nt ask simple Q's for 5 marks).& those who look like diffrent asks
for only one marks,ridiculous???? Dono taraf se lag gayi.....
What i m doing is just reading q's & proceed.
Den i moved to DM,& the same case is repeated.
Till d paper end,My whole 2 hrs are utilized to read paper.

& aftr paper over, the guy behind me doesn't know abt diffrential marking ,He started scratching his heads coz he largely attempts 1 marks q's.

& then essay which i didn't understand after reading nearly 10-15 times.But i manage to write 10-12 lines, which I pray,not to be read by anyone otherwise i will be hanged...........

hi
i m a newbie
pls tel me... wht to beleive in and wht nt too..
are the keys of tf nd cl worth it.....
i mean cn we trust thm
i dnt knw..........


:oops::oops::oops::oops:

gosh! i have been laughing like hell! the only good thing abt today.. PG posts! thanks puys for making many of us laugh!

I just realised that there's no use comparing scores from different sites!
There's bound to be a lot of discrepancy in all. My scores compared to TF and CL are at the polar extremes! :-(
Good night, bhai log! Pata nahi neend ayegi bhi ya nahi, I just hope XAT ke daraavne sapne na aaye!

if we are getting an answer which is not matching with some insti's key, then better check that with other keys also. You will definitely get respite. In some questions CL, tf and ims all are giving different options. Tomorrow Time will come up with its keys, then we can have the fourth option also as the answer. This way we can keep ourselves going till 31st Jan.

I think the XAT convenor just forgot to add this question:

What would happen if you appear for XAT 2011? Choose the best out of the given options.

a) It will rip you apart.
b) It will tear your clothes
c) You'll tear your own clothes
d) You'll start questioning your existence
e) All of the above.

no matter what the general perception is, one thing is for sure.. number lene walon ke number bhi aayenge aur calls bhi...
but the question is: kis mitti ke bane hain yaar wo !!!??

koi na kake !! apna saathi CAT abhi pada hai.. CAT got our back !!

TF - 53.50 /94.71
CL - 54.25

amazing paper it was :drinking::drinking:... i have no words but i have a song :cheers::cheers: for the great person who conceptualized this paper :biggrin::biggrin:...

Song

Paper Bananewale Kya Aapke Man Mein Samaayi
Kaaheko Paper Banayi
Aapne Kaaheko Paper Banayi

Kahe Banaye Aapne 3 sections
VA tha ok ok
LR & QA mein toh Aapne Duniya Ke Saath Khela
Aur aapne poora 2 hrs Gup-Chup Yeh Tamasha Dekhe,
Wah Re Teri Khudaai
Kahe Ko Paper Banayi...

awesome song bro...

Does anyone think that 39 wud be a decent score for GIM ??

Could a Senior puy or experienced GIM aspirant care to help....

Regards,
Dev

Just a bit of advice:

STAY AWAY from Tcy's answer key! Looks totally out of place compared to TF!

ACC to TF my scores :

VA&LR8.25; :banghead::banghead:
AR&DM15.75;
DI&QA12.75;:banghead:
TOTAL36.75 :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:
Dream shattered :drinking::drinking::drinking::drinking:

ACC to TF my scores :

VA&LR8.25;
AR&DM15.75;
DI&QA12.75;
TOTAL36.75

Can someone make a poll here for marks. It will give some insight how people have performed.

I sense a lot of frustration in this thread!
Some real witty comments in store here! :P
Will ease my Monday morning blues in office tomorrow!

Series C:
Qn 40.

XAT waale kahaaani likh rahe hain....
Rakhael is looking for a field....
Rakhael finds a local farmer Gopal...

Then Gopal tells Rakhael he will build a wall, but then Rakhael realises blah blah blah....

Chahte hain 2 ghante mein Rakhael aur Gopal ki kahaaniyan padhein...

Hi puys

I JUST CAME TO KNOW FROM WHERE QUESTIONS FOR TODAYS (XAT) PAPER WERE DIRECTLY TAKEN ----------
RAJNIKANT'S BOOK FOR MENTAL MATHS AND ORAL REASONING

:drinking:

paper was

QA -10:banghead:
VA - 22:biggrin:
ARDM- 21:biggrin:
OA - 53:wow:
according to career launcher keys hope they r correct....:banghead: :oops:


::drinking:

Shashank is getting around 87.25 as per the Key of one of the institute .. So now we have the score of the 100 Percentiler with us ..
any guesswork with the cut-offs ?

Doctor saab ke liye XAT to formality hai. IIMA awaits him.

getting 52.5 in TF and 57.5 in CL puys....

Rahul Bindra Says

TF giving me 34 percentile @ 59

TF has gone mad....seems like they r in shock too...and trust me, i dont think anyone can give even 80% of correct answer keys for today's disaster...

What a horrific start to the New Year!!! :-(
Dazed, wide-eyed..Surprise, shock..Such an emotional cock-tail!!

Has Shashank commented on the paper yet? Can someone redirect me to that post, if possible?
His review of the exam still not out?? :-o

His review is not out, magar his performance is out...
Take a look... Doctor baabu has beaten up the paper like it is his rotten Step-child. Kyaa aadmi hai!

http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/cat-and-related-discussion/56482-the-pg-dream-team-2010-a-103.html

Shashank is getting around 87.25 as per the Key of one of the institute .. So now we have the score of the 100 Percentiler with us ..
any guesswork with the cut-offs ?

am getting the same score accoring to test funda as well as CL
QA-13.25(5 no ke ques me silly mistake)
VA-22.5
LR-17.25
OA-52
donno what to make of it.. i guess anything can happen.. ab sab bhagwaan pe hai..

I found you then. We have two similarities. 1] We are getting same score through both keys 2] We both are dumbos or careless to do silly mistakes. I did 1 0r 2 I think, both of them 3 marks Qn., I never learn my lesson, wasted 6-7 marks in SNAP through silly mistakes and ended up with 110 odd score. Koi Concentration ki dawa hain kya Bhai?

Hi,
i am getting score as below as per CL Answer Keys :
OA : 30.00
Eng : 16.75
Maths : 4.50
LR & DC : 8.75
and essay was horrible.. i am v poor in writing skills....
fingers crossed

i want my 2500 bucks back....

XAT - Baap of all exams!!

I had several strategies in mind regarding this paper. But to my surprise xat ne sab choor choor kar diya

There was this stupid invigilator in our room who dint even know in what sequence the papers were to be distributed.
He distributed and took back and then again distributed.. this went on for three times.. A**!

And then the amazing thing on the first bell he asked everyone to start (and it was before the time lol) after ten minutes, the senior guy came in and scolded him big time and asked us to close our papers and wait for the next bell to start Hahaha... everyone was laughing off their A*****..

Okay enough of the jokes.. i started with VA moving on to LR and dint notice the time that i was left with only half an hour
What a state of mind was i in that i dint track my time and was thinking i still have an hour to go when there was just 25 minutes left and the whole QA section... My hands started shivering... somehow i started and question after question i was just reading and biting my nails wth..

Questions hil ni rahe the somehow i managed few questions (very few)..

Cherry on the pie - The great mahaan essay writing part!!
The paper's over!!

Baaki toh raam he raakhe!!

P.s - Biggest blunder and stupidity and dumbness, i did not see the marks allotted parallel to each question! In short i am doomed (How the hell i dint see the marks given )

CHEERS!!

What a horrific start to the New Year!!! :-(
Dazed, wide-eyed..Surprise, shock..Such an emotional cock-tail!!

Has Shashank commented on the paper yet? Can someone redirect me to that post, if possible?
His review of the exam still not out??

it sure was a looong exam season, more than anything im glad its over
all the best for their results:cheerio:
tim to have some fun :cheers::biggrin:

At the end of the paper, I thought there was no point of writing the essay !! It was enough to give anyone who considers an area as his strongest a big doubt if he will still think it as one !

http://web.iitd.ac.in/~gate/jmet/jmetresult/pressrelease.pdf

guys check this

TF Score:
VA - 13.25
ARDM- 17.5
QA - 2
Overall - 32.75

CL Score:
VA - 7.5
ARDM - 14.5
QA - 7(one ambiguos question awarded mark)
Overall - 29

Hopes are getting shattered..But i will keep it live..Many puys are with me

silent_assassin Says

its QA+DI which is usually 2 sections in most exams..and here its one...just the LR part of DI is in the other section..and when cutoffs are low..as in 40 % or so of total marks..that means u dont need to look at total weightage of the section..its coz in QA u need more variety to choose from so its fair for all with different strengths..VA mein there is not much strenght weaknesses..so u can put in fewer questions and be fair to all..thats the rationale behind more questions/weightage to QA

Agree, but previous XAT papers were a bit more balanced with almost equal weightage to each section.

Moreover, giving more weightage to Quant/DI means that the paper places emphasis on knowledge, and not necessarily innate reasoning skills and decision making abilities. This places arts graduates at a serious disadvantage. I had science until 12th and was decent at quant so could still understand a few questions. My friends who had arts in 12th as well as in college (i.e. the 'pure' arts students) would've found this paper simply incomprehensible.

yaar wo pq.rq walaa =xxx
is it not d

999 is the only no which is true for pq*rq

37 * 27

which can be answered with both ..r instis findin it so dif to anser

dats true....cl quant keys are nt so correct

We Want To ReWrite XAT 2011 ,SAME PAPER IN 4 Hrs. Hahaha

Guys come on we should at least mail XLRI our feedbacks,post trauma. They gave us such a rememorable paper on the first sunday of this new year and i think its our responsibility to give them our precious feedback.Just tell them what you feel like after this paper(the truth of course)

After checking my score through TF Keys first and then through CL Keys and then reading the posts. I think I am the only guy whose score hasn't changed much.

TF - 50.75
CL - 50.75 ( May rise to 52, if XLRI doesn't consider the ambiguous answer and award full marks to everyone who has solved that particular Qn. 75 - A Set)

This message is not related to XAT
But anyways JMET 2011 results are out

The question 'Alex company .....' had a grammatical error:

It said 'Some managers did not indicate any preference for some rooms, as they did want to be there under any condition.'

Shouldn't it be 'did not'?

I felt that the question doesn't make sense after this statement and hence left it. What do you guys say??

Please correct me if I am wrong. Mine was Booklet Series 'B'.
I am surprised why all the institues have neglected it in their answer keys

sashas Says

You will agree that the paper was grossly lacking in balance with almost 45% of the total marks devoted to Quant alone (and then institutes complain that they don't get arts/humanities graduates). Add to it the low cut-offs and chances of sheer flukes in 5 mark questions sailing through.

its QA+DI which is usually 2 sections in most exams..and here its one...just the LR part of DI is in the other section..and when cutoffs are low..as in 40 % or so of total marks..that means u dont need to look at total weightage of the section..its coz in QA u need more variety to choose from so its fair for all with different strengths..VA mein there is not much strenght weaknesses..so u can put in fewer questions and be fair to all..thats the rationale behind more questions/weightage to QA

Iam 300% totally confused about whether paper was tough or not relatively, it is surely toughest of all the exams in last 3-4 years!!! :shock::|:wow::wow:

And Iam 500% sure that iam not going to look the answer key of any of the institute because according to me, solutions to this paper will be much different for various institutes and it will surely be add to my confusion!!! :-(

So, iam now focussing on MICA and CET and wait for the XAT results!!! :biggrin:

ALL THE BEST puys!!! :cheerio::thumbsup::cheerio::thumbsup::cheerio:

Moderators please put up poll so that we can have some idea about cutoffs

I wish I could thank each and every good post I read in this thread that made me laugh. After this XAT exam I did not think anything would cheer me up, but this PG thread has done the impossible. Kudos to you all

Bhidu Log XAT Maamu ne aisi waat laagaayi ki zindagi bhar yaad rahega apun ko....

For the first 20 minutes I had been wondering which question to attempt and which one to leave...Started with the quant section and got goosebumps....Bhai professor baithe hain ya kasaayee jo aise paper set kiya???

Anyway, quant took one precious hour and there was juz an hour left for VA and LR...i could attempt only 7 in LR and 12 in VA...Thanks XAT for the awesome New Year Gift...

silent_assassin Says

i see from all of ur reactions that the paper was grossly tough..but dont worry coz it was the same for all..and it should be remembered that its UNIFORM..and not different for people like some other exams ..if u get different easy papers..trust me its worse than one uniform tough exam..so dont worry..just wait for results patiently

You will agree that the paper was grossly lacking in balance with almost 45% of the total marks devoted to Quant alone (and then institutes complain that they don't get arts/humanities graduates). Add to it the low cut-offs and chances of sheer flukes in 5 mark questions sailing through.

Firstly, I was stupid enough not to notice the differential marking for almost 110 minutes into the exam. That shows the vigil and level of mental preparedness I had.

Best of CL and TF tells me that I get :
around 25 in DIQA
Around 15 in VA/LR
3-10 marks in AR (Damn it, 3 !!!)

When I read the essay topic, I couldn't help but touch my heart and say "AAL IZZ WELL, AAL IZZ WELL"..

Where do they get such topics !!!

Firstly, I was stupid enough not to notice the differential marking for almost 110 minutes into the exam. That shows the vigil and level of mental preparedness I had.

Best of CL and TF tells me that I get :
around 25 in DIQA
Around 15 in VA/LR
3-10 marks in AR (Damn it, 3 !!!)

When I read the essay topic, I couldn't help but touch my heart and say "AAL IZZ WELL, AAL IZZ WELL"..

Where do they get such topics !!!

Just One Thing:

XL Badnaam Hui,
XAT-2011 Tere Liye !

I mean I still cant fathom what qualities were the XAT paper-setters looking for in the test-takers.....i dont think anything except candidate's LUCK will be tested in this exam.....

feeling low. shame on XAT.

i see from all of ur reactions that the paper was grossly tough..but dont worry coz it was the same for all..and it should be remembered that its UNIFORM..and not different for people like some other exams ..if u get different easy papers..trust me its worse than one uniform tough exam..so dont worry..just wait for results patiently

hey....requesting ppl again to plz answer these two questions. The answers vary between tf keys....n' i'm getting only 10.25 according to tf but cl says 17.75.

q1. Impressions are direct, ideas are copies

q2. odd one out - wisdon:folly

plz answer anyone

Just One Thing:

XL Badnaam Hui,
XAT-2011 Tere Liye !

I mean I still cant fathom what qualities were the XAT paper-setters looking for in the test-takers.....i dont think anything except candidate's LUCK will be tested in this exam.....

feeling low. shame on XAT.