The registration begins from the date of release of Notification unless XLRI specifies some other date.

For the past many years XAT is conducted on the first Sunday of January. As such the XAT exam date 2025 is unlikely to be changed.

It is a computer-based test and is conducted at exam centres in more than 70 cities in India

It is conducted once in a year. For the last many years, the exam is conducted on the first Sunday of January every year.

XAT is one of the largest and reputed MBA entrance exams and is larger than CMAT but is not larger than CAT. Number of registrations last year had gone up by 40% at 1.35 lakhs which is higher than the number of CMAT test takers

The exam is conducted only by XLRI Jamshedpur for the last seventy years.

You should look for the faculty, past results, students’ reviews about the coaching before taking a final decision of choosing a particular Coaching institute.

All the CAT coaching institutes offer good preparation courses. While the city wise CAT coaching centres may have their own merits and demerits, the best CAT coaching institutes in India offer a uniform preparation material for CAT based on the current and expected CAT exam pattern.

The number of QA questions in CAT remain between 8 and 12 on Arithmetic. This can vary from slot to slot also. In CAT 2023 slot-1, there were 10 questions on Arithmetic, while in slot-2 this number was 12.

MCQs carry 1/3rd negative marking for each wrong answer while there is no negative marking for wrong answer for Non-MCQ type questions