well i have told earlier that i scored 98.46 in XAT
yes,i take pride in that,and the performance gave me enough boost and confidence to go all out once again
i have never mentioned my 2 hrs of XAT experience,so thought of sharing it now
prelogue:(events happened before XAT)
i have taken my CAT exam on first sunday of december ,thanks to prometric ,i have no idea ,how i have performed in the exam
what i know is i have written the exam with a cool mind,and the graphs of DI are very confusing as i am not able to read them properly
then came JMET in the second sunday of december and i thought i had done pretty decently(ofcourse i came to know its one of the worst performances soon after)
i scored a pathetic in verbal(the section which i scored 96 in CAT and 99.81 in XAT) owing to spending very less time on that..
well so after CAT,i had solid 3 weeks time(dec 13 is JMET and JAN 3rd is XAT) for XAT
i started prep(welll after completion of CAT,i am not very interested in any more prep)
i solved one XAT paper XAt 2009 and scored 27 overall (the cut off previous year is 30)
so i thought XAT is well in my reach(in this exam i scored 6 marks in english,by not giving its quota time)
and then wrote XAT 2008,scoring this time a balanced score and attempted XAT 2009 again and scored 34 overall with 14 in verbal
my uncle and his family came to visit ooty one week before XAT and they insisted me comong with them,though not very interested went along with them
so all in all my prep for XAT is solving 2 previous year papers
so my strategy before examination is :
XLRI PMIR has higher cut offs in VA than BM ..
BM has highest cut off for QA,where as it is in 80's for PMIR
and the overall cutoff for PMIR is comparitively less for PMIR when compared to BM
so if we can score heavily in VA ,and even though misses QA cut off(worst case)will make the mark for PMIR
so thought of changing the order of my attempts(this also has some thing to do with my VA performance in JMET)
so the order i thought of attempting is VA-LR-QA (40 mins each)
during this time ,i was bit worried abt VA,as in XAT-2009 they have asked questions on figures of speech,so during the time i had also roughly gone through them
coming to LR ,i am pretty confident,can crack a puzzle of 4 questions in 15 min max,so thought if i can crack 2 puzzles along with business scenario questions ,i can sail through this section
QA ,i am confident enough,as it also contains DI part and doing 8-9 questions correctly will clear the cut off even for BM(previous years cut offs were very low)
so went to see my centre one day in advance(i think xaviers collge),had this feeling that i am going to cherish this exam centre forever,had this feel good factor(basically,because i am not expecting very much,no pressure just plain confidence)
called my mom,before entering the exam hall,she said she had a good dream of me doing well in the exam and getting into college(see again good signs)
so i entered my room after routine trip to the loo
Exam Time
............
got the paper it contained 101 questions(3 less than last year,and less negative marking compared to last year)
did not had any predetermined no of attempts in the mind,thought of attempting as many as i acan with confidence
started with english(there were no questions from grammer)
only short passages and parajumbles
started doing the paper confidently and with in 40 mins had 23 attempts in VA
haven't even seen the remaining seven questions,already had the feeling that i blasted the paper
continued to LR,seen through the puzzles and selected 2 which i thought i will attempt
done the fisrt one ,but it took close to 20 mins time (first mistake)
thought that,i cannot trust my answers in business scenarios so went with attempting the second puzzle(biggest mistake) so with 40 mins into LR i had attempted 6 LR questions along with 3 other individual questions,should have continued to QA as planned initially
but business scenario questions seemed to be very easy,so persisted for 12 more minutes and completed them
that left me with 28 mins for QA,even if i take 5 mins(worst case) i can attempt 6 questions correctly ,which would be fairly sufficient for PMIR
but pressure got the best of me..i am desperate to make more attempts
thought even though DI may take time,but i can be sure of answers ,so chose the roses and carnations set and started doing it ..10+mins into it and i completely missed the logic and i am already in panic..so with half done answers i had marked 2 options (both are wrong)
in the last 15 mins done some qa questions and they are correct ,but my scoring coming to 5 ..which is a reason to worry
in the last 10 mins of exam i can see my hand literally shaking (this is the time i understood what pressure can do to u and the importance of not just finsihing the topics required for exam but also prepartion in tackling the exam)
so after 2 hrs i know, then itself i had screwed my qa and chances for xlri
attempted the essay with half heartedness and came out
After exam
..................
it took me till evening to see for the keys(as i had to travel from bangalore to mysore)
and 1st key gave me a score of 30 (which later increased to 32 with careerlauncher and 31 for time)
have seen the performance of pagal guys and man..people commenting this is the toughest paper of the season(i felt jmet is tougher than this) and my score being among the best of scores(ofcourse screwed sectionals)
but this gave me confidence,that i have enough aptitude to crack XAT and this is my type of exam
well after the results my score card read as follows
VA 99.81 QA 70.99 LR 91.98
might be i am not made up for 2010-2012 batch
might be my destiny lies in 2011-2013 batch
who knows only time can say ;)
yes,i take pride in that,and the performance gave me enough boost and confidence to go all out once again
i have never mentioned my 2 hrs of XAT experience,so thought of sharing it now
prelogue:(events happened before XAT)
i have taken my CAT exam on first sunday of december ,thanks to prometric ,i have no idea ,how i have performed in the exam
what i know is i have written the exam with a cool mind,and the graphs of DI are very confusing as i am not able to read them properly
then came JMET in the second sunday of december and i thought i had done pretty decently(ofcourse i came to know its one of the worst performances soon after)
i scored a pathetic in verbal(the section which i scored 96 in CAT and 99.81 in XAT) owing to spending very less time on that..
well so after CAT,i had solid 3 weeks time(dec 13 is JMET and JAN 3rd is XAT) for XAT
i started prep(welll after completion of CAT,i am not very interested in any more prep)
i solved one XAT paper XAt 2009 and scored 27 overall (the cut off previous year is 30)
so i thought XAT is well in my reach(in this exam i scored 6 marks in english,by not giving its quota time)
and then wrote XAT 2008,scoring this time a balanced score and attempted XAT 2009 again and scored 34 overall with 14 in verbal
my uncle and his family came to visit ooty one week before XAT and they insisted me comong with them,though not very interested went along with them
so all in all my prep for XAT is solving 2 previous year papers
so my strategy before examination is :
XLRI PMIR has higher cut offs in VA than BM ..
BM has highest cut off for QA,where as it is in 80's for PMIR
and the overall cutoff for PMIR is comparitively less for PMIR when compared to BM
so if we can score heavily in VA ,and even though misses QA cut off(worst case)will make the mark for PMIR
so thought of changing the order of my attempts(this also has some thing to do with my VA performance in JMET)
so the order i thought of attempting is VA-LR-QA (40 mins each)
during this time ,i was bit worried abt VA,as in XAT-2009 they have asked questions on figures of speech,so during the time i had also roughly gone through them
coming to LR ,i am pretty confident,can crack a puzzle of 4 questions in 15 min max,so thought if i can crack 2 puzzles along with business scenario questions ,i can sail through this section
QA ,i am confident enough,as it also contains DI part and doing 8-9 questions correctly will clear the cut off even for BM(previous years cut offs were very low)
so went to see my centre one day in advance(i think xaviers collge),had this feeling that i am going to cherish this exam centre forever,had this feel good factor(basically,because i am not expecting very much,no pressure just plain confidence)
called my mom,before entering the exam hall,she said she had a good dream of me doing well in the exam and getting into college(see again good signs)
so i entered my room after routine trip to the loo
Exam Time
............
got the paper it contained 101 questions(3 less than last year,and less negative marking compared to last year)
did not had any predetermined no of attempts in the mind,thought of attempting as many as i acan with confidence
started with english(there were no questions from grammer)
only short passages and parajumbles
started doing the paper confidently and with in 40 mins had 23 attempts in VA
haven't even seen the remaining seven questions,already had the feeling that i blasted the paper
continued to LR,seen through the puzzles and selected 2 which i thought i will attempt
done the fisrt one ,but it took close to 20 mins time (first mistake)
thought that,i cannot trust my answers in business scenarios so went with attempting the second puzzle(biggest mistake) so with 40 mins into LR i had attempted 6 LR questions along with 3 other individual questions,should have continued to QA as planned initially
but business scenario questions seemed to be very easy,so persisted for 12 more minutes and completed them
that left me with 28 mins for QA,even if i take 5 mins(worst case) i can attempt 6 questions correctly ,which would be fairly sufficient for PMIR
but pressure got the best of me..i am desperate to make more attempts
thought even though DI may take time,but i can be sure of answers ,so chose the roses and carnations set and started doing it ..10+mins into it and i completely missed the logic and i am already in panic..so with half done answers i had marked 2 options (both are wrong)
in the last 15 mins done some qa questions and they are correct ,but my scoring coming to 5 ..which is a reason to worry
in the last 10 mins of exam i can see my hand literally shaking (this is the time i understood what pressure can do to u and the importance of not just finsihing the topics required for exam but also prepartion in tackling the exam)
so after 2 hrs i know, then itself i had screwed my qa and chances for xlri
attempted the essay with half heartedness and came out
After exam
..................
it took me till evening to see for the keys(as i had to travel from bangalore to mysore)
and 1st key gave me a score of 30 (which later increased to 32 with careerlauncher and 31 for time)
have seen the performance of pagal guys and man..people commenting this is the toughest paper of the season(i felt jmet is tougher than this) and my score being among the best of scores(ofcourse screwed sectionals)
but this gave me confidence,that i have enough aptitude to crack XAT and this is my type of exam
well after the results my score card read as follows
VA 99.81 QA 70.99 LR 91.98
might be i am not made up for 2010-2012 batch
might be my destiny lies in 2011-2013 batch
who knows only time can say ;)
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