MBA Entrance Exam – XAT Exam

Xavier Aptitude Test is going to be held on 03^rd of Jan in the year of 2021. This examination is conducted by XLRI on behalf of XAMI for the students who are aptly competent for the management education also the score of the same examination is accepted to consider a student in almost 160 institutes across the country. But the top business schools who take the high rank holders of the exam are XLRI, IMT,XIMB,TAPMI,XIME.

If we talk about the syllabus of XAT exam in Part I it is  Verbal and logical ability, decision making, Quants and data interpretation and in Part II it covers the General knowledge section.

There will be no subjective type questions or essay writing in XAT examination which is a big relief for the applicants. But the best part about XAT is there will not be any negative marking for GA paper as for the papers of Part I they would do the minus marking for the wrong answers.

Xat 2021 pattern

Exam Details: Pattern, Questions, Scoring
XAT is an online computer based test. The aggregate maximum marks in XAT are 100 granted for a total 100 questions which is respectively divided in 4 sections. Each correct answer is awarded +1 mark and single wrong answer will attract the penalty of -0.25 mark. Total time duration for the exam is 3 hours. XAT 2021 exam pattern is as below:

Sections in Exam	Number of questions	Overall Time Duration
Part-1	75 Total MCQs	165 Minutes
Verbal and Logical Ability	26	No Sectional Time Limit
Decision Making	21	No Sectional Time Limit
Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation	28	No Sectional Time Limit
Part-2	25 Total MCQs	15 Minutes
General Knowledge	25
Total questions (Part 1 + Part 2)	100

Candidate are allowed to go to Part 2 after completing the time duration of 165 minutes in Part 1 

XAT Cut Off Determining Factors

XAT cut off percentiles for XLRI admission are determined on the basis of various factors. Listed below are the three main determining factors of XAT cut offs:

• Number of candidates appearing in the XAT Exam that year
• Difficulty level of the XAT question paper
• Number of seats available for admission

XAT 2020 Cutoffs (XLRI, Jamshedpur)

Given below are category-wise and section-wise XAT cut offs for admission to 2020 batch of XLRI Jamshedpur’s Business Management (BM) and Human Resource Management (HRM) programmes.

Business Management (BM)

XAT sections	Male	Female
VALR	74	72
DM	78	74
QA	85	75
Overall	95	93

Human Resource Management (HRM)

XAT sections	Male Engineer	Female Engineer	Male Non-Engineer	Female Non-Engineer
VALR	79	74	78	73
DM	73	68	73	68
QA	75	70	70	65
Overall	93	91	90	88

Section-wise and overall XAT 2020 score Vs percentile
The expected XAT 2020 score leading to different percentile range is shared below:

Section-1: Verbal & Logical Ability

Raw XAT score	Percentile XAT score
9.5	85
10.5	90+
13.5	95+

Section-2: Decision Making

Raw XAT score	Percentile XAT score
9.0	85
10.5	90
11.5	95+

Section-3: Quant & DI

Raw XAT score	Percentile XAT score
10.5	85
12.5	90
15	95+

Overall

Raw XAT score	Percentile XAT score
28	89
30	90+
32	93
35	95
40.5	99+

XAT 2020 Score Vs Percentile Cut offs
To help you to know what score in XAT 2020 could lead you to the cut off percentile in top B-schools, a comparative analysis is detailed below:

MBA College	City	Expected XAT 2020 Actual Cut off percentile
XLRI	Jamshedpur	95+
SPJIMR	Mumbai	90+
XIMB	Bhubaneswar	91+
IMT	Ghaziabad	90+
GIM	Goa	85-88
TAPMI	Manipal	80-84
Great Lakes	Chennai, Gurgaon	80-84
IRMA	Anand (Gujarat)	80-84
MICA	Ahmedabad	80-84
K J Somaiya	Mumbai	84-85
LIBA	Chennai	80-85
IFMR	Chennai	79-80

Last Updated – 16th Dec 2020

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