XAT 2020
I started preparing for XAT with full might.
From around the 20th December, I was taking 2 mocks a day and analyzing them. One thing that seemed to work in my favor with XAT that unlike CAT which is a quant intensive paper (The DI-LR section is also, math dominant to some extent), XAT was a language intensive paper, in the sense that 2 of the 3 sections were language intensive, even though the quant section by itself, is said to be slightly tougher than CAT.
I worked hard on the decision- making section, which is said to be the make or break section of XAT. I solved the past year questions, and tried to gauge the rationale behind each solution, and then applied the same during my mocks.
The exam went well, and I was expecting the results to be favourable. When the results were released, I was pleasantly surprised. I had a 99.844 percentile. I started GDPI preparation from the next day itself.
I had my interviews for XLRI, in the first week of March. Most students in the panel had good work experience and some even had national-level achievements, and here I was sitting; a fresher. The GD and the Interview went well. A major part of my interview went discussing the research papers that, I had published and presented in the duration of my undergrad.
The Result
The Coronavirus delayed the final results by almost a month and a half. The results were announced on the midnight of the 20th of May, just as I was about to turn in for the night, it was surreal. I was ecstatic, the hard work had finally paid off!
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