XAT 2021 NOTIFICATION IS OUT: ALL THE IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT XAT 2021 EXAM
XAT 2021 will be conducted on Sunday, January 3, 2021. Xavier School of Management (Formerly Xavier Labour Relations Institute - XLRI) conducts XAT on behalf of XAMI. For more than 70 years XLRI is conducting XAT at all India level to select the most appropriate students for management education. The XAT score is being used by more than 160 institutes for the admission in their Management programs be it PGDM or MBA.
XAT 2021 would be conducted across India in the following cities.
Agra, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad City (Maharashtra), Allahabad, Ambala, Amravati, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Berhampur, Bhatinda, Bhilai Nagar, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Bokaro Steel City, Chandigarh/Mohali, Chennai, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi-NCR, Dhanbad, Dibrugarh, Durgapur/Asansol, Ernakulam, Gandhinagar, Goa, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hooghly, Hubballi(Hubli), Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Kannur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Kota, Kottayam, Kurnool, Kurukshetra, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Madurai, Mangalore, Mumbai, Mysuru(Mysore), Nagpur, Nashik, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Rajahmundry, Ranchi, Roorkee, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Siliguri, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram Tiruchirappalli, Tirupathi, Tiruvallur, Udaipur, Udupi Vadodara, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Warangal.
XAT 2021 ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
Applicants must fulfil the eligibility criteria in order to take the XAT 2021 exam. The eligibility criteria are as follows-
- Applicant must have completed a 3 year bachelor’s degree or equivalent in any stream from a recognised university.
- Foreign candidates and NRI applicants may register on the basis of their GMAT Scores to study in XLRI. This does not refer to candidates from Dubai and Kathmandu where XAT centers are available.
- Applicants in their final year of graduation are also eligible to apply on the contingency that they fulfill the admission criteria before the required deadline given by the Institute
- There is no bar on the upper age limit to apply for the XAT 2021 exam.
XAT 2021 EXAM APPLICATION FEES:
Application Fee For XAT 2021 can be paid through ONLINE or OFFLINE mode
| Application fee (without late fee) | 1750 INR |
| Application fee (with late fee) | 2000 INR |
| Extra fee for each XLRI program | 300 INR |
| XLRI program fee (with late fee) | 500 INR |
SYLLABUS OF XAT 2021 EXAM:
| Subject | Important Topics |
|---|
| Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation | Geometry, Tables, Graphys, Arithmetic, Trigonometry, Statistics, Profit and Loss, Speed and Distance, Clocks |
| Verbal and Logical Ability | Grammar, Para Jumbles, Para Completion, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension |
| Decision Making | Analytical Reasoning, Situational events, Caselets, Data Arrangement Sets |
| General Knowledge | Politics, History, Sport, Nation and States, Business, Literature, Economics, International Relations, Society |
XAT 2021 IMPORTANT DATES:
| Important Day | Dates | Details |
|---|
| XAT Application- start date | September 12, 2020 | Registration Process is completely online |
| XAT Application- end date (without late fee) | November 30, 2020 (Upto 11:59 PM) | Last Date to Fill the Form- Extended dates Mostly Provided |
| XAT Application- end date (with late fee) | Second week of December 2020 (Tentative) | Late fee of INR 300 to be Paid |
| XAT Admit Card | December 20, 2020 onwards | Document can be Downloaded till Exam Day |
| XAT Exam Date | January 3, 2021 | To be held in 46 cities across India |
| XAT Answer Key | Second week of January 2021 | Can be downloaded to calculate score |
| XAT Result Date | Last week of January 2021 (Expected) | Scorecard available on Official Website |
XAT 2021 EXAM PATTERN:
| Question | Number Of Questions | Time Limit |
|---|
| Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation | 27 | 165 Minutes |
| Decision Making | 21 |
| Verbal and Logical Ability | 26 |
Part 2 is of 15 minutes and it includes:
| Question | Number Of Questions | Time Limit |
|---|
| General Knowledge | 25 | 15 Minutes |
XAT EXAM BEST PREPARATION:
Both ONLINE and CLASSROOM Courses for Preparation of XAT for different duration are available at SG ACADEMICS, the most student- friendly institute of Kolkata for Management Entrance Exams. ONLINE STUDY MATERIAL and ONLINE TEST SERIES for XAT EXAM are also available separately.
XAT 2021 ONLINE APPLICATION LINK:
HIGHLIGHTS OF XAT 2021 EXAM:
- It will be conducted online as a computer based test(CBT). Total time duration for XAT 2021 is 3 hours(180 minutes).
- Each correct answer will be awarded one mark and each wrong answer will deduct 0.25 marks.
- The XAT 2021 exam is divided into 2 parts - Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1 time allotment is 165 minutes and it consists of 74 questions in total.
- Part 2 time allotment is of 15 minutes and all 25 questions in this section will come from General Knowledge topics.
- Any candidate who leaves over 8 unattempted questions will attract a penalty of 0.05 marks on every question.
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