XAT
For more than 50 years Xavier Labour Relations
Institute (XLRI) is conducting Xavier Admission Test
on All India level to select the most appropriate
students for admission to their post-graduate degree
programs in management.
Apart from XLRI, there are around 42 management
institutes who subscribe to the XAT score including
the likes of XIM Bhubaneshwar, XISS, LIBA, GIM etc.
The XLRI is ranked amongst the top 5 B-Schools in
India while XIM is ranked among the top 20.
The XAT ‘08 was a 2 hour duration paper with
additional 20 minutes given for essay. It was held
on the first Sunday of January. The number of
questions was 120. The paper was divided into 3
sections viz. Verbal Ability, Quantitative Aptitude
& DI, Logical Reasoning & Decision making.
250 – 300 word essays are expected to be written
with topics ranging from those of social relevance
to propositions to abstract.
The Method of Scoring:
Right Answer: 1 mark
Incorrect Answer: -1/4 mark (for first 6 wrong
answers in each section) & -1/2 marks (for the
remaining wrong answers)
| Section |
No. of Questions |
| Verbal Ability |
38 |
| Quantitative Aptitude & DI |
44 |
| Logical Reasoning & Decision
making |
38 |
Registration for XAT
To register for XAT, candidates have to fill
the XAT Form that is available online at www.xlri.edu.
Once the candidate logs on to this site, a full
set of instructions will appear and following
them, the candidate can obtain his/her ID and
password.
This ID and password are to be indicated for all
the future correspondence with XAT Office,
Jamshedpur. For writing the XAT, the candidates
should select their convenient cities from the list
of city-choices available on the web site.
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