thanks flber...
if you've read something like this, I'm surely making a call to xlri tomorrow.
I hope I or someone else has a similar story to narrate next year...
may God be with me. amen!
Best of luck on it dude...
Best of luck on it dude...
hey guys...
well me dint make it to ne b-school this year...dint make it to XL too...but from my overall view of the calls...(i am surprised Allwyn, Anil, Arun etc havent yet commented)...XL has definitely been very VAGUE in selectin the people....yes of course the guys who have had 95+ in all sections and a 99+ total have made it....but what about those with good percentile in 2 and a pathetic percentile in GK? As what was seen last year, the ones who DINT CROSS THE CUTOFF in GK DINT MAKE IT, and percentiles like 75 etc are too low for cutoff.
Very well, if that is the cutoff....den i spotted another guy with 85 in GK, 95+ in the remainin 2...n a 98+overall...he dint make it too...WAT THE HELL??? Den some guys speak about a 95+ in at least one section...but there pops up someone else with a 99 in verbal and a 93 in Quant and a 91 in Quant...n he DOESNT MAKE IT!!! Can this be explained???
Here is where the acads etc come into play...n also the brand name of the college i guess - IIT for tdubey and many others...howeva i feel the procedure shud be more transparent - at least the badge profile seeked by the institute - whether workex specific, fresher specific or a mix...what do u say guys....??? the guys who are rejected inspite of havin great percentiles shud at least know on what grounds were they rejected...coz some guys really put their head n evrythin else in the exam too...
need some replies to this post...howeva the b-school season ends for me here...shall start postin from CAT 2005 thread now...
Ashish
I came from unknown colleges and places dude... I honestly dont know about the selection criteria... better call the admissions office and ask for a clarification..
heres something for those who believe XL results are based on the following criterion (in no specific order of the absurdity of the claim)
* preferential treatment to kids of XL alumni
* preferential treatment to students of other jesuit institutes (xaviers mumbai etc)
well none of this is true... atleast not at the interview call stage... i can say that for sure!!
any thoughts on this
va 99.8
ga 99.52
qa 94.07
overall 99.87
and no call !!!
1.5 yrs wrk ex...gud acads and the usual.
I'm surprised.
guess I can only laugh over it ...
A frnd of mine with 99.xx/99.x/98.xx in qa/va/gk did not get thru !
Wonder whats thier criterion!
i think u ppl r tsking me wrong!!!
newaz i dont mind.
but XL is one of the top 5 B-schools of the country. they r not fools to give calls by lucky draws as sm1 pointed out. they must be having a rationale and ofcourse they dont want to disclose it.
the reason being - the criterion keep on changing every year and
they dont want to give a ready framework to us to just blow it off.
AND had they told their crietiria in advance, our previous thred of 1400+ posts wud not have reached even 400 posts.
Has ne1 given a thought why it took xl so long to come up wid the calls?
becoz the selection criterion, apart from being the test scores, might include any of the following:
1- academic records and background
2- family background
3- extra curriculars
4- job ex
5- strenghts and weaknesses
6- why mba?
7- essay.
I never want to hurt any1. i know very well tht most of those missed out r infact much better than me 2. i respect their emotions. i have also faced this situation last year and partially this year too.
i think it will some time to get back to work. my friends, v should not loose hope. there is surely a better place destined for us. so i request u to concentrate on available options and try to come out of it as soon as possible as it mit affect the future GD/PIs.
I dont kno how to put tht symbol on the right hand corner of the post. but i think our folks need sm time and not sympathy. they r rational enough to bear a change in criterion this year. i wish all of u BEST OF LUCK for all the prospects ahead. get up n get going.
oh now i kno the emblem is to report a bad or rude post.
but i think i was not rude but Rational.
if i hurt sm1 inbetween, apologies to thm.
hii guys
me got a call for XLRI BM course........ so now tht makes it IIM C,L,K and XLRI
so much talk goin on here about criteria not clear but guyzz i think its pretty evident frm the scores ppl hav put in here tht they hav 95% as QA cutoff, 85% as VA cutoff and 65% as GA cutoff..... i sont think there is ne deviation frm this rule....
how fair it is, thts a different question.... i feel tht with this high QA cutoff.. engineers definitely hav a edge, me being an engineer myself
as for my score i got 98.7QA, 88.9 VA , 96.4 GA and 98.5% overall....
best of luck to all who got a call for final round of interviews
and those who were not so lucky.... guyz cheer up... dont let this result bog u down...
Rohit
hi guys,
jus thought i'll share my grief with u people.
as u musta guessed , dint get a call from XLRI inspite of seemingly high percentiles
QA : 93.24
VA : 98.2
GA : 96.11
Nett: 99.04
Had tried last yr also. missed by a whisker ( coz of VA) and this time is it QA ? I dun think it is fair to relax GA cutoff at the COST of another section.
Remember they had mentioned , Demonstrate ur Competence across all sections n stuff??
now isnt this unfair on ppl who allotted time out for GA from QA ??
Any comments / suggestions?
~pradeep~
wellllll din make it PMIR 98.7 tot.qa-88,gk-82,eng-99+ no regrets
al those ppl trying to get philosphical stop kidding
evrbdy has ideas about how big this MBA thing is othwerwise nobdy would have been here on PG
BTW im off PG hopefully for a long time.
hii guys
so much talk goin on here about criteria not clear but guyzz i think its pretty evident frm the scores ppl hav put in here tht they hav 95% as QA cutoff, 85% as VA cutoff and 65% as GA cutoff..... i sont think there is ne deviation frm this rule....
i wud definitely like to agree to this.
hi guys,
Had tried last yr also. missed by a whisker ( coz of VA) and this time is it QA ? I dun think it is fair to relax GA cutoff at the COST of another section.
Remember they had mentioned , Demonstrate ur Competence across all sections n stuff??
now isnt this unfair on ppl who allotted time out for GA from QA ??
Any comments / suggestions?
~pradeep~
no. of questions in quant 75
ga 35
va 65
time alloted to qa: 52 mins
ga: 24 min
rest to va.
marks to be obtained to clear cutoffs :
qa:arnd 24
va:arnd 18
ga:arnd 4.66
in qa v have 24 marks in 52 mins.(marks per minute=.5)
in ga v hav to score arnd 5 marks in 24 mins.(marks per minute=.2)
i think now even u can also conclude that u shud have given more time to qa
now v can decide where our test strategy went wrong.........
didnt get thrugh..99.5, 80.6, 54,51 total 96.56..
Made it 😃 😃 and along with SP makes it 2.
This has been the Weiiiiiiiirdest of years for me.
1. I get screwed in work/office undeservedly and in CAT 2004(retest) horribly
2. I start prep for CAT like I have never done anything in my life, and start working well too, Start getting decent/very gud scores in mocks
3. A sudden turn around 2 weeks b4 CAT. Start losing confi, became nervous, and wannted to jusssst run away. Eventually gave CAT. Wrote test for only 1.5 hours. Had a terrible neck/back pain that didn't allow me to complete. Scored 92.3 (had 98+ throughout)
4. Was doubly screwed in office, with boss knowing about CAT, and office lapses. My friends leave my place, and I am all alone, with literally no job, my entire year lost on CAT, and health totally down. Went into clinical depression, and met a psychologist regularly. LOST FAITH IN GOD AND THIS WORLD. Contemplated death everyday, but I urged myself - just one more day, just one more day.
5. Given a very poor rating in office. Sessions with the Psych help me, I start coming back to life... Still the neck/back pains torment me. I could not sit for 2 hours at a stretch. Attempted XAT really coolly, had nothing in mind. Knew very little in GK, and ended up guessing a few (Who cares was the attitude). Even the English was quite bad - Ended up guessing a lot in RC.
Finally ended up not attempting the vocabs. Feel totally dead, and go back into depression - with many other factors (job, and health).
6. Things start looking up in office, and OUT OF THE BLUE - AN SP CALL. Decide that I WILL NOT DIE. Slowly steadily I start feelling ok.
7. Work turns out really good, and OUT OF NOWHERE - AN XL CALL.
I really do not know what to make of it. Either I get it all, or I lose it all. Anyway one good thing is I MET DEATH, AND SHOOK HANDS WITH HIM. I CAN NEVER FEAR AGAIN...............I HAVE BECOME STRONGER.....
My splits:
90+ and overall -98.05
thanks for the time
Made it
This has been the Weiiiiiiiirdest of years for me.
1. I get screwed in work/office undeservedly and in CAT 2004(retest) horribly
2. I start prep for CAT like I have never done anything in my life, and start working well too, Start getting decent/very gud scores in mocks
3. A sudden turn around 2 weeks b4 CAT. Start losing confi, became nervous, and wannted to jusssst run away. Eventually gave CAT. Wrote test for only 1.5 hours. Had a terrible neck/back pain that didn't allow me to complete. Scored 92.3 (had 98+ throughout)
4. Was doubly screwed in office, with boss knowing about CAT, and office lapses. My friends leave my place, and I am all alone, with literally no job, my entire year lost on CAT, and health totally down. Went into clinical depression, and met a psychologist regularly. LOST FAITH IN GOD AND THIS WORLD. Contemplated death everyday, but I urged myself - just one more day, just one more day.
5. Given a very poor rating in office. Sessions with the Psych help me, I start coming back to life... Still the neck/back pains torment me. I could not sit for 2 hours at a stretch. Attempted XAT really coolly, had nothing in mind. Knew very little in GK, and ended up guessing a few (Who cares was the attitude). Even the English was quite bad - Ended up guessing a lot in RC.
Finally ended up not attempting the vocabs. Feel totally dead, and go back into depression - with many other factors (job, and health).
6. Things start looking up in office, and OUT OF THE BLUE - AN SP CALL. Decide that I WILL NOT DIE. Slowly steadily I start feelling ok.
7. Work turns out really good, and OUT OF NOWHERE - AN XL CALL.
I really do not know what to make of it. Either I get it all, or I lose it all. Anyway one good thing is I MET DEATH, AND SHOOK HANDS WITH HIM. I CAN NEVER FEAR AGAIN...............I HAVE BECOME STRONGER.....
My splits:
90+ and overall -97.95
thanks for the time
dude,
u were really talking abt DEATH, rt ??????!!!!!!!!
:shock: the one after which v r laid down with a ribbon around our face, and cotton in our nostrils, eh ?:shock:
... wonderful to hear that u've come back to life. atleast for some of the ppl, surprises rn't that bad !! frend, never feel lonely man !! all of us r with u ! just keep urself going, ok. u share whenever u feel like not able to face the life all alone. v may not help to sort it out, still sharing can drastically reduce the tension part, ok.
so, DONT EVEN THINK OF DEATH NEXT TIME !!!
all the best for ur gd/pi and more importantly, for ur life .....
cheers mate .......
Note: i still cant digest the fact that u were talking abt the thing v call 'DEATH' !! and did u say u just had a handshake with 'HIM' ? really, was it a 'HIM' ....... or .........
regds,
Rick.
Made it 😃 😃 and along with SP makes it 2.
This has been the Weiiiiiiiirdest of years for me.
1. I get screwed in work/office undeservedly and in CAT 2004(retest) horribly
2. I start prep for CAT like I have never done anything in my life, and start working well too, Start getting decent/very gud scores in mocks
3. A sudden turn around 2 weeks b4 CAT. Start losing confi, became nervous, and wannted to jusssst run away. Eventually gave CAT. Wrote test for only 1.5 hours. Had a terrible neck/back pain that didn't allow me to complete. Scored 92.3 (had 98+ throughout)
4. Was doubly screwed in office, with boss knowing about CAT, and office lapses. My friends leave my place, and I am all alone, with literally no job, my entire year lost on CAT, and health totally down. Went into clinical depression, and met a psychologist regularly. LOST FAITH IN GOD AND THIS WORLD. Contemplated death everyday, but I urged myself - just one more day, just one more day.
5. Given a very poor rating in office. Sessions with the Psych help me, I start coming back to life... Still the neck/back pains torment me. I could not sit for 2 hours at a stretch. Attempted XAT really coolly, had nothing in mind. Knew very little in GK, and ended up guessing a few (Who cares was the attitude). Even the English was quite bad - Ended up guessing a lot in RC.
Finally ended up not attempting the vocabs. Feel totally dead, and go back into depression - with many other factors (job, and health).
6. Things start looking up in office, and OUT OF THE BLUE - AN SP CALL. Decide that I WILL NOT DIE. Slowly steadily I start feelling ok.
7. Work turns out really good, and OUT OF NOWHERE - AN XL CALL.
I really do not know what to make of it. Either I get it all, or I lose it all. Anyway one good thing is I MET DEATH, AND SHOOK HANDS WITH HIM. I CAN NEVER FEAR AGAIN...............I HAVE BECOME STRONGER.....
My splits:
90+ and overall -97.95
thanks for the time
that was a really good post friend...its amazing how life throws up unexpected challenges/fruits in front of us n we actually sail through..so..in reality the effect is not one of exhilaration but that of surprise..
ATB for S.P.Jain n XLRI
Its been a plasant surprise getting a call from XLRI for BM.
That too after getting all the feedback from last year's inputs that xlri is very conscious on gk..but now i feel they have kept a very low gk cutoff..or have they kept it at all...its a good morale booster for my SPJ interview this sat.
nyways i guess sometimes its sheer bad luck and sometimes good luck as in mdi ppl below my net got a call thanx to di score..and now it may be the other way round....with a 97.25 getting a call..
seriously zindagi mein its "kabhi haan kabhi naa"
am i sounding a bit philosophical...
guess life's like that!!
ciao..gud nite...
saurabh
My recommendation to all the high scorers who didn't make it.
The first time I loaded the site of the XXLRI calls, it said I haven't got a call.
Within 5 minutes I checked again and it said Congrats.
So knowing the kind of crap thats been done by XLRI, I would serisouly recommend you guys double-check your call status.
I am not trying to raise any unnecessary hope of anybody.
But I want to tell you my case. 5 minutes is all it took to chnage my status from Sorry to Congratulations!!!
all i can say...this is simply impossible ..
the most probable reason is tht first time in a hurry u hav put a wrong id ..since there is no need to put in pwd here..so even if u miss only one digit u wll get a sorry instead of congratulation...!!
before commiting this kindda statement just give a lill bitta thought bout the kind of IT infrastructure..that goes behind it ..thn u will surely appreciate my frnd this kind of 5 mins magic does nt happen..
Their thirst for surprises continues.
after that bonkers of a paper,now they come out with a bizzare selection list.i personally believe that several other(god knows what 
) factors were taken into consideration before giving out calls.
My personal performance was pretty dismal
QA-96.77
VA-94.52
GA-65.34
OA-96.87
well,i was sort of stunned to see a call for myself.
Several questions arise but will remain unanswered.
well,for the ones who couldn't make it,guys,don't take much from this.
there's no clarity in the selection procedure....
chillax.
Joydeep
guyzz ne idea as to how many calls has XLRI issued this yr.
again it seems everything is fitting into 95% cutoff for QA, 85% for VA and 65% for GA as i wrote in my prev post....
wat is the selection procedure frm here on..... i mean there is no GD as i hav heard... but is there ne psychometry test as smone just told me.. XLers plzz clarify
cheerz
Rohit