XAT Preparation Tips: Data Interpretation - Logical Reasoning

XAT 2022 Preparation Guide And Advice By Sravya Rangavajjula, XLRI'23

Sravya Rangavajjula is a Computer Science Engineer, passed out from JNTU Kakinada in 2019. Post-graduation, she has been working as an SDE with FACTSET Systems India Pvt Ltd for the last 2 years. She scored 81% in her graduation and topped her batch. She has also scored 97.8 % in 12th and 10 CGPA in 10th. In this interview, Sravya talks about her CAT and XAT preparation, and her advice to future aspirants. Read on!

Team InsideIIM24 Jun 2021

How To Crack XAT - 10 Strategies By 10 Toppers

With CAT 2020 done and dusted, a lot of you will be looking to redeem yourself or increase your probability of making it to a top business school by attempting XAT 2021. Make no mistake - this exam is no breeze. Some consider the XAT exam to be even tougher than CAT, given the highly complex Decision Making section. However, the one key to cracking an exam like XAT is to have a strategy to prepare for and attempt the exam. With just a few weeks left to the exam, here are some tried and tested strategies adopted by XAT toppers, a lot of whom made it to XLRI Jamshedpur!

Team InsideIIM12 Dec 2020

Must Read Tips To Crack The Decision Making Section In XAT

Decision Making is a section, which is unique to XAT and carries tremendous weightage. A common mistake that many aspirants make is to ignore this section because they believe it is very intuitive and is not supported by data. Do not fall into this trap.

Ashi Jain30 Dec 2019

XLRI Student's Last Minute Tips To Crack The XAT

XAT is a different ball game altogether: Several of my batchmates at XLRI had a messed up CAT and had lost all hopes but aced the XAT. With less than a week before the XAT, go through the following strategies and adopt them during the exam to make it through:

Akram Khan29 Dec 2019

The Ultimate XAT 2020 Reading List By XAT 99.139 Percentiler

XAT is taken by all serious MBA aspirants. Right after CAT, all these serious aspirants start preparing for XAT which makes scoring a high percentile all the more difficult as everyone will play his/her A-game (Unlike CAT where around 40-50% aspirants take the test as a trial). Also, less no. of institutes coming under the ambit of the exam, as compared to CAT, make the completion all the tougher and the stakes higher. Hence, one needs to put in much more effort with less time in hand to ace the race to get into one of the most prestigious institutes of India-XLRI Jamshedpur (BM and HR) and elite institutes like SPJIMR, Mumbai. For all those who could not give their best in CAT, XAT is a chance for redemption and fulfilling their dream of doing MBA from elite b-schools in India.

Nikita Tayal13 Dec 2019

5 Tips And Tricks For XAT 2020

I hope you are prepping well for the next big exam – XAT, to be held on 5th January, 2020. Here are a few tips and tricks that will make your journey towards the test a bit more sorted.

PRERNA AGGARWAL11 Dec 2019

Strategies To Crack XAT By XAT 99.139 Percentiler

XAT is an exam known for its formidable Quantitative aptitude and calculative Data Interpretation Sets. As a non-engineer myself, I faced the same situation and to be honest, XAT seemed like the most difficult exam to crack but it’s not that engineers are not intimidated by the exam. Verbal and Decision Making puts them in a difficult situation as well. It’s only the strategy for attempting every section that will create the difference. Here are my 2 cents as to how to approach each section -:

Nikita Tayal06 Dec 2019

Tips To Transform Your Low DI/LR Score To A Winning One

In the previous two CATs, the DI/LR section has been quite tricky. The level of difficulty has increased over the past few years. It is possible that this year as well, CAT will follow the same trend and the questions will be very different from what you have been practising in your mocks. So how do you make sure that you make the cut and get that competitive score.

Aroon Koshy03 Oct 2017