Articles in XAT

Why? The importance of the essay in XAT 2016 went up a notch as XLRI has decided that institutes admitting through XAT can avail of any student’s essay. I think that one of the good ways to improve your essay writing is by practice and here are a few suggestions to put the plan into […]

Decision Making for XAT is often neglected by students while preparing for XAT and at their own peril. Some of the students don’t even realise that it is a whole section in XAT and its score will be used while giving out calls to students. Given below is a table which shows the number of […]

What is Decision Making? Decision making is a cognitive process of reaching a decision with the given information and constraints. Decision Making process is an integral part of modern management. It is required at every level of management to ensure organizational or business goals are achieved. Essentially, rational or sound decision making is taken as […]

Xavier School of Management (XLRI) has, this year, decided to hand over essays of XAT applicants to member institutes. This is in a bid to push candidates to fare better in essay writing. What this means is that any institute admitting candidates through XAT (Xavier Aptitude Test) can now request XLRI to hand over (in […]

XAT, scheduled to be held on January 05, 2014 is the gateway to entry into premier B-schools like XLRI and XIMB. However, it is quite different when compared to CAT as it is a pen and paper test, and has sections on GK and Decision-Making (DM). Many aspirants are bewildered by the DM section. Well, […]

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A;) and corporate restructuring are an important part of business. More often than not they make big headlines across the globe and are often featured in General and Business Awareness section of exams like IIFT, SNAP and XAT. More often than not, the questions are based on big deals that took place […]

All exams have different myths surrounding them. In the case of the XAT exam there is a very popular one that it is a tougher exam than CAT.! Let us analyse some of these myths! 1. XAT is tougher than CAT: Like CAT , XAT also matches the performance of a student against the performance […]

A lot of students face problems in the General Awareness / Business Awareness / General Knowledge section of MBA entrance exams like XAT, IIFT and SNAP. That happens because they start “preparing” for it once they are done with their Quant, LR/DI and Verbal prep (sometimes even after CAT) – which is often too late. […]

The Xavier Aptitude Test (2014) paper will have a few minor changes. To begin with, GK will be made part of the main test and not a separate paper like last year, when it was introduced. This also means that the main test which was of a 2 hours and 20 minutes duration last year […]

Photo Credit: .reid FLASH: Please wait till about 8.00pm to get the final picture. The scores are being uploaded at this time and you might encounter some errors while logging in or in the scores. The process of re-checking the Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2013 papers has been completed. Fresh score-cards have been issued to […]