Previous years XAT essays!!

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List of Essay topics that occurred in XAT in previous years

1996
There is no right way of doing a wrong thing.

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.” (Peter Robinson in Snapshots from Hell : The making of an MBA)

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. (The Economist September 27, 1997)

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. (Allan Sherman in “A Gift of Language”).

2000
Ships in harbor are safe; but that is not what they are built for.

2001
Economic growth without distributive justice will lead to violence.

2002
Indian Economy in the post WTO regime.

2003
To give real service, one needs to add something which cannot be bought or measured, like sincerity and integrity.

2004
When asked which of his works was a masterpiece, the 83-year-old architect Frank Llyod Wright replied” my next one.”

2005
One billion Indians: Sea of opportunities, or India’s biggest problem.