XAT Notification
Eligibility Candidates must have a bachelors degree under 10+2+3 system from a recognized university or a deemed university. Candidates completing final year examination are also eligible to apply.
Registration The XAT 2011 aspirants have to obtain the XAT bulletin from select Axis Bank branches. After that, they have to logon to the official website for XAT which is www.xlri.net.in. The fee for XAT 2011 is Rs. 950.
Test Centers The test will be held in the cities of Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Bangalore, Berhampur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Dehradun, Goa, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Noida, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Thiruvananthapuram, Vadodara and Vishakhapatnam.
Institutes accepting XAT scores XAT scores will be used by more than 70 MBA institutes across India. Candidates have to apply separately to XAT Associate Institutes after completing their registration process. Some of the noted MBA institutes accepting XAT scores are Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (XIMB), Goa Institute of Management (GIM, Goa; Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) Chennai, S P Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) Mumbai, Welingkar Institute of National Development and Research Mumbai to name a few.
XAT exam format Last XAT was held on Sunday, January 3, 2010. Being a paper pencil based test, it proved to be the toughest exam of the season 2009-10. The paper consisted of 101 questions which was lesser than the previous years.
The duration of XAT exam is two-and-a-half hours. It starts from 10 am and ends at 12.30 pm. The sections are Verbal and Logical Ability, Analytical Reasoning and Decision Making, Data Interpretation & Quantitative Ability. There is also a question on Essay Writing, the duration for which is 20 minutes,
