Earlier I posted the list of all essay topics that were given in XAT exams in last 9 years, from XAT 2000 to XAT 2008. The list has myriad of topics, ranging from politics to the abstract ones. Following list is my attempt to come up with some topics you may see in XAT 2009. These will at least give you an idea about what to expect.

Here is a list of XAT essay topics for last 8 years,

XAT essay 2000

“Television really is, another eye so you can see anywhere, another part of our heart so you can feel and care about things you never felt and cared about before, another ear to hear strange music…. The first and only international language.”

XAT essay 2001

Ships are safer in the harbour. But they are not meant for the same.

XAT essay 2002

“Economic Growth without distributive justice can only lead to violence”

XAT essay 2003

“Indian Economy in the …

NMAT 2008 is done as well. Yet another exam Sunday is over and as is the trend, analysis and cut-offs are out. According to Time Education analysis of the exam, a score of 110+ will be an excellent score in NMAT 2008. With the kind of methodology NMAT follows, 100+ is the score  you should be looking at if you want to convert the call. NMIMS traditionally gives lot of weightage to the written score and the later rounds do not throw up many surprises. Anyways, back to the analysis.
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NMAT 2008 will be held in a few hours. I hope various blog posts related to NMAT here on R2M were of some help to you guys. Here is a big Best of luck to all you aspirants out there. People do well and do not worry. NMAT has a history of bad examination centers, so leave early and Do Not Panic.
People, just like we did in SNAP, can I have few more NMAT 2008 reviews. Aspirant review adds a different dimension to entire analysis game.
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Following are the cut-offs

Sections
Category-wise cut-off (%)

General Category & OBC
SC/ST & PwD
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1. Analytical Reasoning
38
34
20

2. Quantitative Ability
38
34
20

3. English Comprehension

35
32.5
20

4. Issues of Social Concern
25
21.7
20

Overall
40
38
20

XAT 2009 is round the corner. Hardly any days left before the D-day. Essay is one of the headaches for the exam. But, bigger headache is the fact that there are not many papers for practice available. Some of my XAT 2008 posts can help you in this regard, where I have listed most of the available sample papers.
Only new addition I came across was solved XAT 2008 paper. This one is, again provided by the good folks at the competition master. Thank you people.

It is increasingly becoming hard to find papers for practicing for NMAT 2008 exam came across solved paper for last years NMAT, that is NMAT 2007 and I thought I will pass it on to you guys. Here is the paper. This one is as per the changed paper and without General Knowledge portion. So, this one should be a good practice paper.

Thanks to all good people at various content creation centers for MBA prep, answer keys for SNAP 2008 held on 21st Decemeber 2008 are available now. TCY as always has comeup with sectional key and PT has given keys for various question sets. Click on following links to download the one you need,

The TCY Set

Analytical & Logical Reasoning : Answers
Quantitaive and Data Interpretation & Sufficiency : Answers
General Awareness : Answers
General English : Answers

PT Keys
IMS Keys
CF Keys : You gotta register before you can view answers.

I wanted to do this in time for IBSAT 2008, but couldn’t do it, due to stupid time constraints. Anyways, better late than never. Here, I would give you a brief on how to approach essay writing, of course, a lot depends on your basic writing skills and your reading habits but this post will help you in window dressing your essay.

A few days ago, I came across this article that talked about similarities between an essay and a burger. An essay, it said, is like a burger, You bite …

Apparently there are some discrepancies in answer keys. Read this post on some tips on how to handle this.
Earlier, I posted two of the SNAP 2008 reviews, I had received from the readers. One was from Prashant, who was an ex-faculty with Career Launcher and Another perspective was from an aspirant, Deepika (Read and Contribute). Now, this post has some reviews from the web, sourced from some of the most influential MBA forums and MBA coaching sites. The paper caught some of the students on the wrong foot. Differential marking …