XAT - Test Pattern

Xavier Admission Test (XAT) is conducted for admission to post-graduate degree programmes in management at XLRI, XIM, XISS, LIBA, etc. XLRI is ranked amongst the top five B-school in India and XIM, Bhubaneshwar, is ranked among the top 20 management institutes in India .
The Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur conducts XAT. The advertisement for form appears in late August. The entrance exam is usually held on the first Sunday of January and the interviews are held in March.

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XAT is a two-hour paper and usually has 200 questions.

The paper divided into three sections and sectional timings are enforced.

The Method Of Scoring Is
Right answer: 1 mark;
Incorrect answer: - 1/3 mark.

Section --------------- No. of questions

English --------------- 80

Reasoning and Quantitative Ability --------------- 60

General Awareness --------------- 60

In the last 20 minutes, you are expected to write a 250-300 word essay with topics ranging from those of social relevance to propositions to abstract.

Registration: To register for XAT, candidates have to fill the XAT form that is available online at www.xlri.edu/xat. Once the candidate logs on to this site, a full set of instructions will appear and the candidate can obtain his/her ID and password following them.

This ID and password are to be indicated for all the future correspondence with XAT Office, Jamshedpur . For writing XAT, the candidates should select their convenient cities from the list of city-choices available on the web site.