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XAT 2025 Cut Offs for XLRI BM and HRM Programs

For the 2025 admission cycle, XLRI has set the XAT cut-offs for its MBA Business Management (BM) and MBA Human Resource Management (HRM) programs at 96 and 95 percentile respectively for candidates from engineering and non-engineering backgrounds. These cut-offs served as the basis for shortlisting candidates for the 2025 batch. Below, you can find the XAT cut-off data for XLRI from 2025 to 2015, along with key insights.

XAT 2025 Cut Offs: Highlights

  • Male Engineers: 96 percentile for BM and 95 percentile for HRM

  • Female Engineers: 91 percentile for BM and 90 percentile for HRM (same as XAT 2024)

  • Male Non-Engineers: 96 percentile for BM and 93 percentile for HRM

  • Female Non-Engineers: 91 percentile for BM and 87 percentile for HRM

Factors Influencing XAT 2025 Cut Offs

The XAT cut-off percentiles for XLRI vary based on several criteria, including candidate profile, to promote diversity in the classroom. Differences in cut-offs are seen across gender and academic background.

Here are the eight major factors that determine XAT cut-offs:

  1. Total number of test takers in the given year

  2. Difficulty level of the exam

  3. Number of seats available

  4. Average and highest XAT scores

  5. Overall performance trends in that year

  6. Historical cut-off data

  7. Gender-based average percentiles

  8. Academic stream-based average percentiles

Note: Participating institutes may use additional parameters and determine cut-offs independently for each MBA program.

XAT 2025 Cut Offs for XLRI MBA BM

Category QA VALR DM Overall
Engineer/Tech Male 88 84 84 96
Engineer/Tech Female 82 80 80 91
Non-Engineer Male 88 84 84 96
Non-Engineer Female 82 80 80 91

XAT 2025 Cut Offs for XLRI MBA HRM

Category QA VALR DM Overall
Engineer/Tech Male 83 90 87 95
Engineer/Tech Female 73 85 80 90
Non-Engineer Male 76 90 87 93
Non-Engineer Female 78 85 80 87