XAT

For more than 50 years XLRI is conducting Admission Test on All India level to select the most appropriate students for management education.There are 42 other Management Institutes who are selecting students from XAT 2006
The XAT is conducted for admission to Post-Graduate degree programmes in Management at XLRI, XIM, XISS, LIBA etc. The XLRI is ranked amongst the top 5 B-Schools in India and XIM Bhubaneshwar is ranked among the top 20 management institutes in India.

The Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur conducts the Xavier Admission Test (XAT). The advertisement for form appears in late August. The entrance exam is usually held on the first Sunday of January and the Interviews are in the month of March.XAT 2007 (Xavier Admission Test), the entrance exam to XLRI (Xavier Labour Research Institute, Jamshedpur] is also the entrance test to be taken by MBA aspirants seeking admission to many other reputed Top B-Schools in the country such as XIM [Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar], LIBA [Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai], BIM [Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy] and most recently SP Jain, Mumbai.

The XAT is a two-hour duration paper, with number of questions being 200. The paper divided into 3 sections with sectional timings being enforced.In the last 20-min you are expected to write a 250 ?€“ 300 word essay with topics ranging from those of social relevance to propositions to abstract.

XAT usually comprises 3 Objective type sections and an essay writing section.

1. Verbal Reasoning (English) - (Objective Type Multiple Choice)
2. Quantitative Ability and Reasoning (Math) - (Objective Type Multiple Choice)
3. Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning - (Objective Type Multiple Choice)
4. And an essay writing section

The duration of the test is 120 minutes for the objective type section and an additional 15 minutes at the end of the 2 hours for essay writing.