Articles in XLRI Jamshedpur
It’s surprising that XAT 2016 continues to remain a paper-pencil exam when other academic examinations globally have gone online. It is far easier to conduct an online exam than a conventional pencil-paper one. XLRI’s Dr. Munish Thakur, in charge of XAT 2016, admitted to PaGaLGuY that it would have been far more convenient and easier […]
Strategies & Mistakes on CAT Preparation : Every management aspirant dreams of getting 99 percentile in CAT, one of the most coveted management exams in India. However, only a handful of people realizes this dream. Yogesh Mehra – 99.03%ile CAT 2014 Nagendra Rawat- 99.10%ile CAT 2014 What drives these people? What motivates them? What does it […]
Not so great story of another run off the mill software engineer IIT JEE Results, June 2008 Life took a vicious turn for a boy of 18, his dreams shattered to smithereens. 2 years of working hard yields no result as he leaves the city of Jamshedpur; his hometown, head hung down in pain and […]
March 11th, Afternoon slot, BM /GM XLRI Jamshedpur XAT:- 97.13 GK:- 7.5 UG:- 7.58 (B.Tech & M.Tech, Mechanical Engg., IITKGP) GD Topic- Globalization promotes economic group but wipes out cultures. Only 4 out of 9 present. Our GD was ended after 20 min. PI – Three professors, same power seating arrangement, senior most Prof. Madhukar […]
My tryst with the CAT is quite different from that of others. It starts with my floundering academics in my Undergrads. I had waltzed through 10th with 88% in a relatively easy state board, taken up biology next (doctor dreams, you see) and after having a front-row show of bio, decided that medicine was never going […]
Finally I’m writing on this sacred thread. Firstly, I would like to thank everyone who shared his/her story here and inspired me .Please read at your own risk because this may not sound interesting. Coming to me…..I was always a good student in school. Though I was very active in class, I could never replicate […]
Well, not all endings are as happy as you daydream about them. It happened with me as well. But none the less, it is a success story. It started with the fifth semester of my engineering. Like most students, I joined coaching classes for preparation. Like most engineers, strong at quant. I was weak in verbal, perhaps from my schooldays. I had scored 67/100 […]
And that good news came. Out of 42 months, we can do industrial training in last 9 months. I opted for that opportunity. Had a hang of the financial markets in the free time. Sounded interesting. So wanted to do something in that area. The resume was good. So didnt find it difficult to get […]
XLRI’s decision to make the OMR sheets public is a turning step for MBA in India. For a while now, MBA entrance exams have attracted a fair share of heart burn among candidates. Be it ‘time-worn’ issues like the never-to-be understood normalisation process or just the always unanswered questions about wrong ‘questions.’ In some […]
The XLRI aspirants versus the XAT 2015 wrangle has taken an interesting turn with XAT officials deciding to publish scanned images of the OMR sheet on Wednesday. This was confirmed by Prof Munish Thakur, head of Admissions at XLRI. Prof Thakur added that it was very unfortunate that despite being transparent with the answer keys, […]