For more than 75 years XLRI has conducted XAT at all India level to select the most appropriate students for management education. The XAT score is being used by more than 250+ institutes for the admission.

The following is the list of some of the good B-Schools that accept XAT score for admission into their Post-graduate program in Management:

1. XLRI – Jamshedpur and Delhi
2. IMI Delhi
3. IRMA Anand
4. IMT-Ghaziabad
5. MICA-Ahmedabad
6. TAPMI-Manipal
7. IFMR-Chennai
8. Great Lakes Institute of Management-Chennai
9. KJSOM-Mumbai
10. Welingkar-Mumbai
11. LIBA-Chennai
12. XIM-B Bhubaneswar

For a complete list of B-Schools which are scheduled to accept XAT-2025 score, please check out the following link

https://xatonline.in/associate

As per T.I.M.E. B-school categorization, XLRI is rated among the Top 10 B-Schools of India; XIMB ,MICA,IMI Delhi, and IMT Ghaziabad are counted among the AA grade B-schools. IRMA ,TAPMI Manipal ,Great Lakes Institute of Management and GIM Goa are counted among the "A" grade B-Schools. IFMR, Welingkar Mumbai,KJ Somaiya Mumbai,GLIM Gurugram & LIBA are graded in the "BBB+" category.

It is usually conducted in the month of January. This year, the entrance test is being conducted on 5 January 2025. Yes, it is a computer-based examination. Registration for XAT 2025 ends on 30 November 2024.

• XAT Registration Fee – Rs. 2200/-
• Candidates interested in XLRI programmes need to pay an additional fee of Rs. 200/- each.

Yes, they are eligible to apply for XAT

The following is the eligibility criteria for the examination

Candidates should possess a recognized Bachelor’s Degree of minimum three years duration or equivalent in any discipline. Those completing their final examination by June 12, 2025 may also apply. All Indian candidates must appear for XAT 2025. However, NRI and Foreign candidates may apply through GMAT score.

Yes. Candidates interested in XLRI programme(s) needs to pay an additional fee of Rs.200 for each program opted.

No

The XAT Result will be declared 3 weeks after the conduct of XAT-2025

Structure of the XAT 2025 Exam

The total number of questions in XAT 2025 is expected to be around 75 and 20 in Part-I and Part-II respectively.

Part-I has three sections:

• Verbal and Logical Reasoning-About 26 Qs
• Decision-Making-About 21
• Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation-About 28

Part-II has questions based on General Knowledge-Abour 20 Qs

The duration of the test is 170 minutes for the first part and 10 minutes for the second.

The BM course is a regular Program which is designed to give inputs on all the functions of management (Marketing, Finance, HR etc). It is like a regular MBA program. Whereas, the HRM aims to equip the students with the knowledge and skills required for managing HRM Functions. HRM should be taken up by only those who are genuinely interested in making a career in the HR domain.

XLRI offers a two-year full time Programme in HRM on the completion of which, students are conferred with Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management. The HRM course is the oldest and the most prestigious of the Institute's teaching programmes. It is one of the best programmes in India; it aims to equip the students with the knowledge and skills required for managing HR in a way that contributes to the development of individuals and organisations.

• Duration - 2 years
• Intake - 180* at Jamshedpur
• Fees* – 27.5 Lacs (last year)
• Placements Details
• Average Salary 29.8 lacs p.a(2022-24 batch)

*can be revised this year

XLRI offers a two-year full-time programme on Business Management, on the completion of which, candidates are conferred with Postgraduate diploma in Business Management (PGDBM). This programme is extremely prestigious and is rated as one of the finest of its kind in the country.

• Duration - 2 years
• Intake – 240 at Jamshedpur and 180* at Delhi
• Fees* – 27.5 Lacs (last year)
• Placements Details
• Average Salary 29.8 lacs p.a(2022-24 batch)

*can be revised this year

XAT contains a section by name Decision Making.

This section contains case lets which could be business related, human resources related, management related etc. You are provided with ten practice papers for Decision Making (LAT1022506 to 2515) and ten mock tests that would give sufficient practice in decision making.

There are occasions where analytical puzzles were given as part of this section. The CAT students have received the reasoning study material - SM 1002505 and 2506 for puzzles (with solutions) . SM 1002505 and 2506 have two exercises for each of the topics in puzzles. The practice exercise book (SM1002515) contains exercises for all the analytical puzzles. There was a thorough discussion on each of these kinds of questions in Logic Basics - 1, 2, 3 and 4 (LRHO 1002201 and 04) , and in LRPEs, LWHOs & LATs.

Critical Reasoning questions have been part of the course for the CAT students. They can revise these concepts by working out questions from CRHO 1002101, 2102, 2103, 2104, 2105; these handouts will sharpen the skills of students in areas like analysing and evaluating arguments, Conclusion and Inference, Assumptions and Strengthening and Weakening of arguments. CRPE 1002101 and 2102 will help the students revise the concepts. CRPT 1002101 and 2102 will help the students test themselves in a timed environment.

For the English Language part, it would be advisable for students to revise concepts pertaining to RC, Sentence Correction, Vocab based questions (words confused), Para formation, Logical reasoning questions (especially on identifying argument structure and argument elements, and inference-based questions). Students should also focus on Figures of Speech as there have been questions on identifying metaphors, oxymorons, personification, etc. in previous years' XAT papers.

The RC passages in XAT are often based on 'off-beat' topics (Passages include subjects such as Psychology, Science and Sociology). Poem-based RC questions are a unique feature of XAT.

SM1002402 (RC & CR), SM1002116 & SM1002117 have practice passages and exercises on a wide range of subjects and contain exercises on all types of CR questions & RC contexts and questions.

Refer to VAHO1002111, SM10002109 (Vocab practice SM) for information and practice exercises on figures of speech; idiomatic expressions, confusable words etc.

For the section on Quantitative Ability, a good Preparation for CAT should be more than sufficient. Though it must be added that some of the questions in XAT tend to be pretty tricky and it would be advisable for students to be very judicious while attempting questions. It would also be advisable for students to brush up on their Speed Maths concepts as some of the questions in DI tend to be calculation intensive For preparation on General Awareness, in addition to reading newspapers regularly, it would be advisable for a student to prepare from the following sources:

Also, in the various issues of MBA Education & Careers magazine, focus on features like Business GK, Current Issues & Events, and Current Event Chronicle (this feature captures important tid-bits).

In addition to the above, please run through the GK Model Papers feature titled, Improve your GK.

Go through the GA Note (Study Material) booklet for stock GK (like history and geography). Also use the GAT papers, each with 50 questions.

Manorama & CSR Year Book - it helps in preparation for stock type questions

In Manorama Year Book and CSR, please focus on the following chapters.

• Who is who
• What is what
• Science scan
• Human body
• Computers
• Landmarks of history
• The Universe

While preparing for this section, it would be advisable for students to focus more on issues related to business, economics and politics related to the business environment.

Finally, OMETs for XAT are perhaps the best source for preparation. It comes very close to the actual XAT entrance exam paper and one should give maximum importance to these question papers. Also, going through the last few years XAT papers would help.