XAT - 2018
Xavier Apptitude Test - 2018
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                      XAT 2018 will be conducted on Sunday, January 7, 2018. XLRI conducts XAT on behalf of the XAMI. For more than 60 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 150 institutes for the admission.

                      XAT 2018 would be conducted across India in the following cities. Agartala, Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Berhampur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi, Goa, Greater Noida, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mangalore, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nasik, Noida, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Surat, Tiruchirapalli, Trivandrum, Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam. Two International Cities : Dubai and Kathmandu. 
XAT Exam Dates
Events Date
Application date starts 16th August 2017
Application date ends 30th November 2017
Online & offline fee payment 16th August – 30th November 2017
Editing of application details 16th August – 30th November 2017
Downloading Admit Card 20th December 2017
Date of Exam 7th January 2018 (10:00 AM to 1:35 PM)
For offline mode 28th April 2018 (10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon)
Result Declaration 31st January 2018
Counselling Begins After declaration of Result
Classes Start 16th July 2018
Eligibility Criteria
Nationality: All Indian candidates can appear for XAT 2018.
Qualification: Candidates must have a bachelor’s degree of minimum three years duration or equivalent in any stream from any recognized college or institution.
Appearing Candidates: Candidates completing their final examination by June 10, 2018 are also eligible to apply.
Foreign Candidate: NRI & foreign candidates can also apply through GMAT score (except Dubai & Kathmandu wherein candidates have option to appear in the XAT 2018 examination).
XAT Exam Pattern
Exam Mode: The exam will be conducted through pen & paper based mode.
Number of Papers: The XAT exam is divided in two sections i.e. is paper 1 and paper 2.
Number of Questions: The paper 1 will consist of 72 questions and paper 2 will consist of 25 questions & one essay topic.
Duration: It will be conducted from 10:00 AM to 1:35 PM.
XAT Syllabus
               There is not any fixed syllabus for XAT exam. The XAT syllabus will comprise of various topics such as Decision Making & Analytical Reasoning, Verbal Ability, Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation and General Knowledge. In XAT exam, questions will be asked from the above mentioned topics.
XAT Admit Card 2018
• Candidates can download their admit card via online mode.
• XAT Hall Ticket will be released from 20th December 2017.
• It is mandatory to bring the admit card at the examination hall.
• Admit card contains various details like personal details, time, exam date, exam centre, and important instructions regarding the exam.
XAT Result 2018
• XAT 2018 Result will be announced on 31st January 2018.
• Candidates can access their result via online mode through the website.
• To check the result, candidates are needed to enter their roll number & other required details.
• After releasing the result, candidates can go for the further process of counselling.
XAT Admission 2018
• On the basis of the score of the candidates in the XAT entrance exam, candidates will be invited for XAT counselling procedure 2018.
• Counselling will be held through online process.
• During the admission procedure, candidates will have to go through the process of GD (group discussion) & PI (Personal Interviews) rounds.
• Candidates will be shortlisted for admission as per the marks obtained by them in the examination and GD/PI.
Application Fee
• Candidates interested in XAT but not in XLRI need to pay Rs. 1650/- only.
• Candidates interested in XLRI programmes need to pay an additional fee of Rs.300/- each.
• The late fee will be Rs. 2000/- (for XAT) and Rs. 500 (for XLRI programmes).
• The fee payment can be done through online mode like debit/credit card or net banking.
• For cash payment, candidates have to take a printout of XAT Pay-In-Slip visit the nearest IDBI bank and pay the application fee.
• For payment through DD, make a DD in favor of “XLRI Jamshedpur A/c XAT” payable at Jamshedpur from any bank.