He Left a Travel-Heavy Job After Seven Years Away From Exams. Then He Converted XLRI Jamshedpur Preparing for an MBA entrance exam alongside a travel-heavy job had already failed for Abhishek Pramanik. The problem was not a lack of resources. He could not build a routine that survived his work schedule.
Scored 98.90 Percentile in XAT After 3.5 Years at TCS. Her Biggest Advantage Was Knowing When Not to Rush By the time Samadrita Ghosh sat for XAT, she had already spent three and a half years working as a software developer at TCS. She was also preparing after having worked on CAT, which meant the syllabus was familiar.
XAT 2026, held on January 4th, has officially concluded. The verdict? It was a paper that demanded high endurance and strictly penalized guessing. While the structure remained familiar (95 questions), the internal difficulty of sections shifted significantly compared to last year.
I’ll be honest, when I first started prepping for my MBA applications, I fell hard into the hustle trap. Early mornings, late nights, juggling GMAT practice with school research, networking, resume edits, and that constant, creeping guilt that I still wasn’t doing enough. Sounds familiar? Everywhere you look, MBA prep feels like a high-performance sport. Forums are filled with people clocking 40+ hours of studying per week. We then start thinking, “Is this what it takes to get in?” But here’s the thing no one really talks about, we don’t have to out hustle everyone. We just have to out-focus ourself. I call this the anti-hustle approach to MBA prep. It’s not about being lazy. It’s about being intentional, cutting the fluff, ditching the guilt, and doing what actually moves the needle.
XAT 2025 took place on 5th January 2025 in a 3-hour shift from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The exam was divided into two sections of 170 minutes and 10 minutes, around 1.3 lakh students appeared for the exam. A general feedback that we have been receiving from the candidates who wrote the exam conducted by XLRI was the lengthy sections and questions. Read below to better understand the section-wise XAT 2025 exam analysis.
The XAT 2025 exam is expected to have around 26 questions in the Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning (VALR) section. The XAT VALR section is considered more tricky than the CAT VARC section mainly because of five options which makes option elimination difficult, the presence of CR questions, and poem RCs. In this article, we have briefed you about a few XAT 2025 VALR last-minute tips and tricks that can help you scale your XAT 2025 verbal score.
Do you know what makes or breaks an aspirant's XLRI dream? The confusing Decision-Making section! With the CAT 2024 result released recently and SNAP tests concluding, XAT is the next major management exam to focus on. The Decision Making section is unique to XAT and candidates have not prepared for it in any other MBA entrance. This makes them fret about the Decision Making but in contrast, this section can push your overall percentile to the top, helping you achieve the cutoffs for XLRI Jamshedpur, XLEI-Delhi, and other top institutes.
XAT QA follows the same syllabus as CAT and other OMETs. It is combined with a few sets of Data Interpretation. What sets XAT’s QA apart from other exams is that it does not follow a set pattern for the weightage of topics and there are many questions set on a combination of two or more topics. In this article, we will guide you on how to prepare for XAT QA 2025, highlight the year-wise weightage of quants topics, important topics you should focus on, and target attempts for BM and HRM cutoffs.
