Articles in XAT 2017

Aman from Pune, with an overall percentile of 99.997 in XAT 2017, is perhaps among the top three percentile holders of the exam this year. Needless to say, with such a high score, the 23-year-old, has received a call from XLRI Jamshedpur. Speaking to PaGaLGuY, Aman mentioned that he was assured of getting a 99 […]

The much anticipated Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) results were out on January 25 and since then, PaGaLGuY has been bringing you the success stories of those who’ve fared above 99 percentile. But, here’s Vidit Jain, who with a 99.973 percentile is among the top ten percentile holders of the exam. Elated with his achievement, Jain […]

The Xavier Admission Test 2017 results were out on January 25. Ever since the results, PaGaLGuY has been bringing you the cream of those who did well in XAT 2017. We got Kanishka Singh’s story within few hours of the results and we are sharing some more success stories. Bhavya Desai (99.33 Percentile) Bhavya Desai, a […]

Kanishka Singh from Jharkhand, with an overall percentile of 99.29 in XAT 2017, is confident enough of getting admission in his preferred course at XLRI Jamshedpur. Talking to PaGaLGuY Kanishka mentioned that he was assured of getting at least 99 percentile after the official answer key was released. Kanishka got his BE degree from PESIT […]

The Xavier Admission Test (XAT) results have been declared today. Check here for your scorecard. XLRI has also put up the Cut-offs. ​

Xavier Aptitude Test or XAT is an MBA entrance exam conducted on a national level by XLRI Jamshedpur for the admission to post-graduate management programmes at over 150 B-schools in India. This year it was conducted on January 8 and the official XAT 2017 Answer Key and Question Explanation was released on January 16, 2017 […]

​ According to XLRI-Jamshedpur, Assistant Professor-Strategic Area, Munish Thakur, following are the six important things every candidate should read/know before the announcement of the XAT 2017 results. 1. XAT 2017 results can be expected by the end of this month (January-end) 2. There may be some variations, but the percentile-marks relationship will be comparable for […]

OVERVIEW: The overall structure of XAT-2017 underwent some changes compared to XAT-2016. The exam consisted of 2 Parts and Part 1 consisted of 3 sections having 24, 21 and 27 questions respectively (total 72 questions) to be attempted in 170 minutes. Further, Part 2 contained 25 GK questions and one essay-writing exercise, to be attempted […]

XAT (Xavier Aptitude Test) 2017 got off to a fairly smooth start this morning in over 47 cities across the country. We at PaGaLGuY spoke to a few candidates , who described their exam taking experience as a pleasant one, with no discrepancies noted in their centres. In total, the paper contained 72 questions that […]

Candidates taking the Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) on January 8, 2017 should remember the following points.  Unattempted questions may result in negative marking. If aspirants leave more than 12 questions, it may result in a deduction of 0.05 mark per questions. The negative marks for such questions will be deducted proportionately across part 1. XAT paper will […]