Fucked! Nightmare! Screwed! Two hours of mind fuck! What am I going to do next? XAT goes down the drain! etc. etc. are some of the phrases that best sum up the two and a half hour agony, that was XAT 2010. Paper they say was well managed and if anything, IIM’s can try to learn something from XLRI and display a better show when they conduct CAT 2009 retest on 30th of January this year.

The paper took almost everyone by surprise, If tweets are anything to go by then 90% of those appeared for XAT are not happy with their performance in the exam. All of them thought, essay topic was a cake walk, verbal was the easiest and Quant had lot of higher level mathematics and reasoning had no reasoning for it being so difficult. Most of them resorted to age old tactic of guess work in such desperate situation.

Marking scheme too was a deviation from previous years. For the first five incorrect answers in each section, 0.2 of the allotted would be deducted and for the subsequent incorrect answers in the section 0.25 mark would be deducted. And with that they made sure that all the strategies and work arounds that you had planned for XAT 2010 were out of the window.

Answer keys for XAT 2010 are already out and are hosted on testfunda and pagalguy both. As always, all the institutes are also out with their analysis of the exam and how, one could have attempted the paper. How was your XAT 2010 experience?