Btw, CATOphobia,
I have a word doc that contains all the words with their meanings. But im not sure if that'll be of much help to you because it doesnt have sentence usage. can send it to you if you need it.
Well, as Evanescence says that GRE prep is helping in VA, i wud have to agree with it.....I myself prepared for GRE and tht was the only VA prep RC prep I did, its much better and detailed than any coachin insti can give....which meant in CL durin VA classes i wasnt listenin.....and had done their exercises befroe hand....
If one hasnt started barron's list till now.....considering 40 days to CAT ull have to go real hard on it now.....with 50 words a day.....
Its not necessary to do barron's list but then its quite comprehensive......
The method i had followed was making flash cards on my own.....and now time for that is not there........
Still what time is there it can be salvaged.....
Get word list of any of ur frnds in CL/IMS/Time and get it xeroxed and do it......
In all exams i normally followed elimination method, it works......but for that atleast thhora to prepare karna chahiye.......
ciao,
Gaurav
hey thanks gaurav..
i have been learning words as in making lists of my own.... and also from CL vocab book....have completed that...but i wanted to do it comprehensively from barrons coz XAT has been giving analogies directly from barrons...
want to maximise my score in VA since m not too good in GK...so i guess when i do barrons it will also be a revision of whatever i have dne earlier...
is it still too difficult to do barrons in 1 month 20 days that i have after cat(XAT is on 9th jan)...i never prepared from GRE or GMat...
Hello there,
First of all , thanx-a-zillion 4 helping all XAT aspirants all the way...
I downloaded the paper from the link given by you.
I've heard from other ppl also that getting hold of previous
year's XAT papers would surely help. Can anyone upload
previous 3-4 years' XAT papers in the same format as
CL mocks in Exam Resources ?
Btw, I'm applying for XIMB, SIBM and GIM.
Regards,
Aparna
hey aparna, which link r u talkin abt? i dint find one anywhere....
u can find the link in the 2nd page given by me.....
About the previous papers u can always get it from the coaching institutes after the CAT.
Still if any body has it in the online format then please upload for ur fellowmates to take its benefit.
ALL THE BEST for the coming exams!!!!
Xavyen signing off....
have a belief in the hardwork to scale any height as luck always follows the hardwork 😉
Thanks a ton Satyen.............................u were really of great help.Whatever u hv told is good enough to prepare for XAT.As soon as I will give CAT,I will thoroughly prepare for XAT.Well for now I do read weekly magazine Business world,and daily news paper.I will start with some other magazines also and will refresh my wordlist from Norman Lewis..
The only thing which I want is last 2 - 3 yrs XAT papers.Here u will have to help me again............for that there is time but I want to know frm where can I get those papers?
Thanks again,
pooja
rasmus, d link is on page2 of ths thrd
goto ptindia.com....register urself (FREE)
Enter the member's zone & u'll find all the papers of prev. yrs of all exams
mik
Thanks mik.
thx - evan, mik!
well pooja,
The link is forwarded by mik. Try it out, it may be of help to u.
Thank u for appreciating the effort put forth by we all ximbians.
Previous year we were the people who were seeking these kind of help.
So, as now in bschool we felt its our duty to help our future bschoolers..:)
Xavyen
have a belief in the hardwork to scale any height as luck always follows the hardwork;)
hows the life in ximb? work,fun ..etc
Hi krishnalokam,
well LIFE @ XIMB,
well wat do u expect to do in a B School.....
work work n work....
dat is right but then the first thing u need to learn wen u enter a B School campus is Time Management....its THE most important thing....
Second thing is you need to set priorities....for urself.....do u wanna excel academically, or wanna enjoy urself while u can......and learn alongside.....
neways......the life @ ximb rocks.....
we do work here...infact put in night outs to do projects.....
Though i did Bachelors in IT.......still the real multi taskin i learnt here.....
it may be quite possible somedays that u come back from class at 9:45 PM.......
and den u also have to do assignments or prepare for quizzes....
well dat seems to be the horror part....and dat is where time mgt. enters....
well another face of XIMB is dat....we people enjoy ourself to the max.....infact on 6th November was the last day our cultural event "Dhwani" in wich we had performance by Jagjit Singh........
On some days (infact nights) the campus gets into disco mood and Disco is set up right on the campus...for that time and these parties are called JLT (Just Like That)......
This is a short description......
A shorter description can be :
"Work Hard, Party Harder" ;)
There is another article on life here on my blog....link is given below......
Also in some other threads on XIMB, life @ XIMB has been mentioned earlier.......
its fun to be here.....am gonna miss these years here......like nething....
Chalo dats all for now.....hopin Satyen wud give a fresh perspective......
ciao,
Gary
Hi all.. here is a link for some GK stuff that will be useful for both XAT as well as other tests...
http://www.ximb.ac.in/~u104028/web/downloads/index.htm
hope it is of use to you all.....
Regards,
Hi Stayen,
Hope ur diwali went fine...........want to ask u smthg.While filling XAT,XLRI and XIMB online forms there is one thing ..........i hv to write 3 strength and 3 weakness.I want to ask what to write in weakness.tell me 2 weaknesswhat shud i write.....
pooja
ok pooja....
yeah diwali was great n I expect that it was also great for u.......
About the strengths n weaknesses; one can think of thousand things to write. But one thing u should remember is that, u r going to answer each of them when u go to the interview stage.
Now answering such questions is really tricky bcoz there can be so many ramifications which may lead to many more questions.
Now for expl.. u write ur weakness as too much workalcoholic. Now one will ask u how can this a weakness?? The answer may be, I ignore even my physical strain factors while I work. so it becomes a strength in disguise of weakness.
similarly, a weakness can be related to ur impatienceness. now u can answer for this like, when some target I set for myself, at times due to continuous failures of 3 to 4 times I get frustrated n impatient which results in lapse in conc.
Now when u answer like this, the next question automatically follows is what u r doing to improve on these weaknesses??
Prepare some answers for them also.
Remember one thing, sometimes as per our gains we have to conceal our real weaknesses.
Everytime u get an opportunity of PI, just try to be rational while answering as well alert. some areas where u r not comfortable but asked questions.... for expl. in acads, u can always tell from the beginning that I am not comfortable in that area. U can ask me any other subject. But u should be master in that subject u r giving him/her the option.
I hope it will help u in filling the strengths n weaknesses.
Do not worry about the PIs n GDs now. concentrate on CAT now.
ALL THE BEST FOR CAT!!!!!
Do well n let me know how it went. :)
xavyen
have a belief in the hardwork to scale any height as luck always follows the hardwork 😉
Hi Satyen,
Thanks for answering in such a nice way and for CAT................will let u know abt the paper.
pooja
Hi Satyen,
The paper went ok.DI was difficult and quant was ok but VA/RC was confusing............lets see what happens.
pooja
hi Pooja,
Nice to know that ur paper went as per ur expectations....... :)
Hope for the best n apply to SP JAIN etc.
All the best for the rest of the exams.
xavyen
have a belief in the hardwork to scale any height as luck always follows the hardwork 😉