The national level aptitude test conducted for the admission for Business Management (BM), 15 months full-time residential GMP (General Management Program) and Personnel Management and Industrial Relations (PMIR) program is known as Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT). It is considered the second highly competitive Management Exam after CAT in order to get admission in the management program. The Coming Xat 2016 Exam is going to be conducted on 3rd January 2016.
How to Apply?
In order to register yourself for Xat exam, you have to go to the xatonline.net.in web address and select on Register, with your personal email id you have to create a new account where you will receive your registration link as well as your unique XAT ID. After that fill the necessary details that is mentioned. If you have total work Experience of 5 Years as on 31st March 2016 is eligible to apply for GMP. Then select the center for your Xat Exam. You should have the soft copy of your photograph and signature. Then you have to select the mode of payment. There are three ways how you can make the payment:
1. Through Online Payment.
2. By Cash payment, for this you have to take the print out of the Xat pay in slip and make the payment in any IDBI bank.
3. By Demand draft, For this you have to make a DD from any Bank in favour of "XLRI Jamshedpur A/c XAT" payable at Jamshedpur.
Those candidates has to make a payment of Rs 1500/- (Rupees One thousand five hundred only) if they want to apply for XLRI then you have to pay Rs 250/- more.
Eligibility:
The Candidates who are appearing for XAT exam 2016 must fulfill the following eligibility criteria. The candidates should have a bachelor degree with minimum duration of 3 years in any discipline from any recognized university. Or the candidates who would complete their graduation by 10thJune 2016 are eligible to apply. However the foreign and NRI candidates can apply through GMAT score except Dubai and Kathmandu candidates.
XAT Admit Card
You can download the Admit card from the official website of XAT at least a week before the examination.
XAT Exam Pattern
The pattern of XAT exam and the time duration are as follows:.
| No. Of Papers | Section | Questions | Time Duration |
| Paper 1 | Decision Making | 25 | 140 min. |
| Verbal and Logical Ability | 30 | ||
| Quant and D.I. | 36 | ||
| Paper 2 | General Awareness | 30 | 40 min. |
| Essay | One topic |
The candidates should also note that for every incorrect option 1/4th marks would get deducted from the question.
Important Dates
| Date of Commencement of Application | 4th September 2015 |
| Last Date for Applying | 30th November 2015 |
| Last Date to change Test City | 26th November 2015 |
| Downloading of Admit Cards | 20th December 2015 - 31st December 2015 |
| Date of Exam | 3rd January 2016 |
| Test Timings | 10.00 am to 01.30 pm |
| Mode of Examination | Paper & Pen based * |
| XAT 2016 Cities | Cities within India : 47 |
| Cities outside India : 2 | |
List of Test Centres
India:
Agartala, Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Berhampur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi, Goa, Greater Noida, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mangalore, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nasik, Noida, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Surat, Tiruchirapalli, Trivandrum, Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam.
Abroad:
Dubai, Kathmandu.
XAT Result
The result of XAT Exam would be declared in the official site of XAT in the third week of January 2016.
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