With XAT 2016 scores accessible on the basis of individual answer sheet made available to you by XLRI, it is time to know whether you would be able to be shortlisted by one of the top rated among 148 B-schools accepting XAT 2016 scores.

You can very well utilize the opportunity even before the official XAT 2016 result is declared by January 31, 2016 and draw your plan to choose the best B-school as per your scores in XAT 2016 and percentile that you are going to get in the exam.

Survival or no survival might be the key question for newer IIMs who are running their classes below the approved intake but have still pegged high the requirement of CAT 2015 score to shortlist the candidates for PGDM 2016-18 batch.

Surprisingly, the CAT 2015 percentile overall as well as sectional required by the new IIMs is higher than what is required by IIM Ahmedabad to shortlist the candidates for 2nd stage of admission round.

Moving forward with the preparation to announce the final XAT 2016 result and in an attempt to avoid any grumbling of the test takers after declaration of result, XLRI has enabled on XAT 2016 website the scanned copies of OMR sheets filled in by the individual candidates who appeared in the exam on January 3, 2016. Candidates can now view and download their own answer sheets reflecting the correct and incorrect answers to all the 78 questions divided in 3 sections which are responsible to arrive at the percentile score for next stage shortlisting.

CMAT 2016 result declared by AICTE after 10PM on January 21, 2016 for all the 55084 test takers has been the fastest process in the history of CMAT result declaration. AICTE despite conducting CMAT 2016 as a yearly exam in a single day and in single session on January 17, 2016 in 62 cities across the country declared the result in 5 days.

Displaying the National Merit List for 55084 CMAT 2016 test takers including 623 candidates with negative marks AICTE has confirmed that all the test takers have been ranked and no one has been disqualified.

IIM Ranchi is going to shortlist around 1500 candidates purely based on a score of 90 and above percentile in CAT 2015 for the Common Admission Process (CAP) 2016 to be coordinated by IIM Kashipur in 5 cities namely New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata.

The minimum sectional percentile in CAT 2015 required for shortlisting is 80 as prescribed by IIM Ranchi. The proposed intake in PGP 2016-18 at IIM Ranchi is 120 which may increase by a few students when final admission offers are made.

Thousands of candidates awaiting CMAT 2016 result declared today on January 21, 2016 have been raising queries on the declaration of AICTE-CMAT 2016 test result, institutes accepting CMAT 2016 scores, admission prospects, how to use the result and other key facts about CMAT.

Team MBAUniverse.com has gathered all the relevant information and compiled to respond to CMAT 2016 result related queries of the aspirants to enable them to choose the right B school after declaration of CMAT 2016 result.

XAT 2016 result expected before January 31, 2016 may bring pleasant surprise for the aspirants who may get shortlisted at XLRI, SPJIMR, XIMB, IMT and other top rated B-schools despite scoring a bit low percentile.
It has happened in CAT 2015 and it may be repeated in XAT 2016 result. Candidates scoring a bit low sectional percentile in CAT got shortlisted by top rated IIMs, on the same ground you can expect to be at XLRI or other top rated B-school even with a slight dip in XAT 2016 scores.

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Awarding 76% weightage to CAT 2015 scores, IIM Lucknow has announced the shortlist of candidates for various PGP 2016-18 programmes offered by this highly ranked B-school. It will be of interest to note that many candidates shortlisted by IIMA have not been able to make it to IIML.For a total intake of around 500 students, IIM Lucknow has shortlisted about 20000 candidates from different categories out of 1.80 lakh CAT 2015 test takers.