XAT Preparation Tips: MBA Students - Alumni

How I Scored 99.89%ile On XAT Despite A Disappointing CAT Ft. Kamal Koushik, XLRI

Kamal Koushik was the first to graduate from his immediate family based in a village that is difficult to find even on Google Maps. To support his college education, he took up a job at Starbucks and continued to develop his skills. One key skill that he developed during this time was ‘networking’, which helped him get a UI UX designer job. It is around this time in his career that he decided that he wants to go for higher education and CAT seemed the right way to go about it. But, things didn’t go as planned for him. His CAT tanked badly. But, the fighter that he is, he never lost hope. ‘CAT Nahi Toh XAT Sahi’, says Kamal in this motivating video, where he shares his journey and crucial tips to crack XAT.

Team InsideIIM15 Dec 2021

XAT 2022 Preparation Tips By Avani Raghuwanshi, XLRI BM'23

Avani Raghuwanshi is an Instrumentation and Control engineer of Nirma University, batch 2020. She has been a gold medalist throughout her engineering career and pursued a minor specialization in finance along with it. After graduating, she started working at Reliance as a Graduate Engineer Trainee, while preparing for CAT 2020 and XAT 2021 simultaneously. She has joined XLRI Jamshedpur BM class of 2023 this year. She’s a professional diploma holder in Kathak, associated with various NGOs and fundraiser organizations. She is deeply passionate about healthcare, education and body positivity.

Team InsideIIM13 Dec 2021

"Concepts Are Over-Rated, Don't Waste A Lot Of Time Understanding Them" - Nandeesh Singhal, XAT 99.9%iler, XLRI Delhi

Nandeesh is a marketeer by profession and an electrical engineer by education. He has worked with ION Exchange India Ltd. for 1.5 years, Where he joined as a trainee and left as a senior officer. Coming to academics, those were never his strongest suit, to say the least. When his batchmates gave 45 end-term exams, Nandeesh gave 70, which piled up to him getting a year back in his Btech, finally passing it with 60.7%. He scored 63% in his 12th and 7.6 GPA in 10th. He also got a 99.9 in XAT and 98.1 in CAT. How? Let's find out!

Team InsideIIM02 Aug 2021

XAT 2022 Preparation Strategy | Ft. Incoming Batch Of XLRI, Jamshedpur

With XAT 2022 around the corner, it is imperative to acknowledge that the four sections of the XAT exam need a systematic preparation schedule. Looking at the level of difficulty and surprise elements that appear in XAT every year, a thorough strategy is required to crack XAT. You need to study smartly and with an intelligent approach to crack the questions correctly in minimum time to achieve a high score. Here are a few tips from the current batch of XLRI.

Shakshi Sodhani09 Jul 2021

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 I Scored 99.5332%ile In My First XAT Attempt || Ft. Aryaman Chand, XLRI (BM) '23

Aryaman Chand is an engineering graduate from Amity University, Noida. He prepared for the management entrance examinations as a fresher, and after securing 99.5332 %ile in XAT 2021 and clearing the subsequent interview round, he is joining XLRI Jamshedpur's PGDM-BM programme in 2021! Aryaman loves photography and he's also interested in history, aviation, automobiles and warfare. In this article, he has detailed his preparation journey, and his advice to future aspirants. Read on!

Team InsideIIM28 May 2021

Preparation Strategy That Helped Kshitij Score 99.878%ile In His Third XAT Attempt

Kshitij Verma hails from the city of Navi Mumbai where he pursued his 10th and 12th from Delhi Public School scoring a CGPA of 9.6 and a percentage of 90.8 respectively in CBSE. He went on to pursue a bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Manipal where he graduated with a CGPA of 9.26 out of 10 and then pursued his Masters in Product Design from Berkeley. He came back to India and started working in Reliance as the Executive Assistant to the President for Reliability in the head office, where he looked after strategy management and implementation for industry 4.0 transformation. In this interview, Khsitij has shared his XAT preparation strategy in details. Have a look!

Team InsideIIM24 May 2021

From 44%ile In Mock Test To 99.2%ile In XAT 2021 || How Aman Garg Aced The Decision Making Section

When I first started preparing for various B-school entrance exams around April 2020, I was fairly familiar with the CAT exam pattern. I had taken the exam a couple of times before, and I knew the three sections that it tested candidates on. However, this was the first time I had decided to write XAT as well. And it takes just one look at the exam pattern to realize that this paper is unlike any other B-school entrance exam you will write.

Aman Garg19 May 2021