XAT (Xavier Admission Test)

XAT, acronym for Xavier Admission Test is a national level admission test conducted by XLRI Jamshedpur to select students for admission to management courses. There are 35 other Management Institutes which selecting students on the basis of XAT. Some of them include XIMB (Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar), LIBA (Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai), and BIM (Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy).

XAT is usually conducted on the first Sunday of January in 31 cities all over India. These include: Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Bangalore, Berhampur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Goa, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Noida, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Rourkela, Trivandrum, Vadodara, and Visakhapatnam.

Eligibility for XAT: An applicant for XAT must have three-year Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in any discipline recognized by the Association of Indian Universities.

XAT Test Pattern: XAT is an objective paper consisting of multiple-choice questions. There are four alternative answers for each question. One mark is awarded for each correct answer and 1/3 mark is deducted for each wrong answer. The duration of the test paper is 2 hours and there is an essay paper of 20 minutes.

The objective paper comprises three sections: (1) Reading Comprehension and Verbal Ability (2) Quantitative Ability, Reasoning and Data Interpretation (3) General Awareness. There is a time limit of 40 minutes for each section.

For more information on XAT, visit www.xlri.edu/