XAT Previous Years Essay Topics
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XLRI is conducting Admission Test on All India level for admission in MBA at XLRI and also for admission into various other colleges across India. Essay writing section in XAT is for a duration of 20 minutes.
Here’s a list of essay topics for XAT from the past years.
XAT essay 1996
“There is no right way of doing a wrong thing.”
XAT essay 1997
“By the third or fourth week of the term, business school had succeeded in afflicting me with a variation of the Stockholm syndrome, named after the incident in which a hostage in a Stockholm bank robbery fell in love with one of her captors.”
XAT essay 1998
Max Weber, a German Sociologist, defined state as an entity that has a monopoly over legal violence. India proves that the converse is also true; if criminals cannot be punished by the law, its effect they become the state.
XAT essay 1999
That is what a Television really is; it is another eye so you can see anywhere; another part of your 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 2000
Ships in harbor are safe; but that is not what they are built for.
XAT essay 2001
“Economic Growth without distributive justice can only lead to violence”
XAT essay 2002
“Indian Economy in the Post WTO Era.”
XAT essay 2003
“To give real service, one needs to add something that cannot be bought or measured, like sincerity and integrity.”
XAT essay 2004
Asked at the age of 83, as to which of his project would he choose as his master piece, Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect answered, “The next one”
XAT essay 2005
“More than one billion Indians: A gigantic problem or a sea of opportunities.”
XAT essay 2006
“India has one of the largest pools of talented manpower, but few innovations and patented products.”
XAT essay 2007
“Economic Growth without environmental damage – a mirage or a reality”
XAT essay 2008
“Gender imbalance will lead to Third world war.”
Source : XAT Essays




