28 Dec 2012

3 DAYS TO GET THE FINAL XAT STRATEGY READY-


There are now just three days left for XAT 2012, which is scheduled to take place on January 8, 2012. In these last days before the test you should avoid learning anything new, and instead focus your attention on measuring your strong and weak areas. In short this is the time to think about your plan for attempting the test.

According to XAT exam experts the XAT test paper is designed primarily to check the decision making skills of the candidates with its unique negative marking flavor. The questions are more of reasoning based than being calculation intensive.

There are three sections in XAT test: Verbal & Logical Ability, Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation, Analytical Reasoning & Decision Making. Here you can see that each section has two areas. The Verbal and Logical Ability section consists of questions on English Usage, Reading Comprehension and Logical Reasoning. Questions on Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation are merged in one section and the third section of Analytical Reasoning and Decision Making has questions based on puzzles.

Apart from these sections, there is an essay writing part in the exam of separate duration (additional time) of 20 minutes. XAT 2011 paper saw the Essay Writing question replaced with an Analytical Caselet. This year, there can be a question on either Essay Writing or Analytical Caselet.

The essay is generally based on topics of general awareness. There is progressive negative marking. ¼ mark will be deducted for the first six wrong answers in each section and ½ mark after that.

The best way you can judge your preparation for these sections at this juncture is by taking one or two sample tests or mock tests. New pattern or new types of questions can be expected and therefore getting adjusted and developing a personal strategy towards the exam is very important.

Based on the analysis of previous XAT exams experts advise that those who can anticipate the difficulty level upfront and do not target a ‘pre-fixed’ number of questions would be able to stick to the time limits and have a good, balanced performance in all three sections – which is the key to get the coveted call from XLRI and XIMB.

An analysis of XAT 2011 will also be helpful in giving shape to your exam taking strategy. XAT 2011 had maintained the difficulty level of XAT 2010. The number of questions was 101 and each question had 1 mark. There was ¼ negative marking this time. There was differential marking system for each question which demanded the candidates to look at the marks of each of the questions. Marks per question ranged from one to five.

Most of the questions were time consuming and difficult in nature. Hence, selection of the question was important.

There was a statement given and one had to make a judgement on it. The argument given was:
“The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate and which be nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.”

In this question, the candidate had to write a word analysis on the given argument in 250 words.

To excel in this section, it is important to have clear idea about everything. Many a times, best of ideas flash in your mind just before you fall asleep and just after you get up. It is important to grab those ideas and think over them. It leads you to definite way on writing essay.

In order to crack XAT 2011, you should also know how the exam is different from others. Abhay Mittal, a student of Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (XIMB) differentiates the pattern of XAT with other MBA entrance exams like CAT, IIFT, FMS.

In XAT, the Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation questions are in one section. The second section is English Usage (EU) and RC. The third section is Analytical Reasoning (AR) and Decision Making.

In the recent past, the XAT has had more questions than the CAT exam to be solved in lesser time. While in the CAT exam it may be possible to get a decent shot at all questions, in XAT it is more advisable to drop tough looking questions, and find the easier ones to solve.

Thus, selection of easier questions is very important, which are very well inserted between the tougher questions, the reason for the perception of XAT being a tougher nut to crack than CAT.

For example, one can easily find simpler questions based upon algebra and trigonometry, between two questions which might involve application of calculus. Though the questions based upon calculus and functions are themselves on decline as observed in the past.

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