XAT 2021 Exam Pattern
XAT examinations are a nation-wide examination held by the XLRI institutes of management. The exam is mainly for all participating institutions under the XLRI affiliation.
The exam will be a computer-based examination in the month of January 2021. The XAT admit card will release from third week of December 2020.
The registration process will start from third week of August 2020 and stretched till the end of the month of November, 2020.
To be able to qualify for the examination process the candidate should have a graduation degree in any sphere of education.
The scores from the XAT examination will be accepted by XLRI Jamshedpur along with the fellow affiliated institutions as well as other one other 150 business schools that accept XAT scores.
The Exam pattern of XAT is as follows:
| Section in XAT 2020-21 Pattern |
Number of questions |
Time Duration and Limits
|
| Part-1 |
74 Total MCQs |
165 Minutes |
| Verbal and Logical Ability area |
26 |
No Sectional Time Limit |
| Decision Making and reasoning. |
21 |
No Sectional Time Limit |
| Quantitative Aptitude & Data Interpretation |
27 |
No Sectional Time Limit |
| Part-2 |
25 Total MCQs |
15 Minutes |
| General Knowledge |
25 |
|
| Total questions (Part 1 + Part 2) |
99 |
|
Preparation tips:
- The exam pattern of XAT keeps changing year after year and hence determining the exact variable of each section is a bit difficult, so students should concentrate on parts they know.
- Try finishing preparing all the sections covered in the paper in a stipulated time period.
- Try doing the aptitude and the reasoning areas well.
- Read papers and books to get a better hold of the language since there are a lot of twisted questions that come your way.
- Apart from that give a timely revision to each section.
- Go back to reading the previous papers properly in case you feel that solving mocks will make it easier for you to work on the preparation.
- Remember that CAT and XAT are relatively different and need different preparation processes in order to get a hang to it.
The above mentioned below is a list of colleges that you need to know in case you are aiming for a college and thus need to prepare accordingly:
- Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai
- Mount Carmel Institute of Management, Bangalore
- Francis Institute of Management and Research (SFIMR), Mumbai
- Joseph’s College of Business Administration, Bangalore
- Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology, Mangalore
- Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar
- Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship, Bangalore
- Xavier Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai
- Xavier Institute of Management, Jabalpur
- XLRI Xavier School of Management, Xavier Institute of Social Service
