Your high score in XAT 2016 on January 3, 2016 will open the gates in 148 dream B-schools including XLRI, SPJIMR among others.
Please remember XAT 2016 will have additional duration of 30 minutes with no breaks in between and as such the exam will be of 210 minutes duration instead of earlier 180 minutes. Despite the increase in time, the number of questions in the test will be less. Instead of 114 questions in MCQ form, XAT 2016 will have 103 questions with a reduced level of difficulty.

No facility to download your XAT 2016 Admit Card will be available after today as it will be disabled by XLRI from XAT site post eod on December 31, 2015. If you have not yet downloaded your XAT 2016 Admit Card as yet, download it and take prints of the same. Please remember XAT 2016 Admit Card is the mandatory document the hard copy of which will be required at the test venue.

Next 4 days to XAT 2016 could be crucial and testing for you to get ready for the exam going to be held in revised format on January 3, 2016. In view of Prof S K Agarwal, expert on Verbal Ability and mentor on XAT 2016 preparation the significant aspirant friendly changes brought about in XAT 2016 giving more time to solve fewer and not so difficult questions can make you score 99 percentile by maximising your attempts with judicious time management.

How many IIMs are there in India - 19 or 13? According to MHRD, there are only 13 IIMs and not 19 as the 6 new IIMs that started operating their maiden academic session in 2015 are not considered by MHRD as existing and working. The list of IIMs published by the Ministry of Human Resource Development at the link http://mhrd.gov.in/iims consists of only 13 IIMs.

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Out of the 26 questions in Verbal Ability section 3 to 4 are expected on Analogy in XAT 2016 going to be held on January 3, 2016. The 15% share of analogy questions can turn the table in your favour by giving an edge over your peers.

Despite the commitment to declare the CAT 2015 result in the second week of January 2016, it has not been possible for the IIM Ahmedabad the CAT 2015 convening IIM to announce the exact date of the result. Now it appears that the CAT 2015 result may not be declared in the 2nd week of January 2016 in absence of any date available on CAT 2015 site.

One of the significant changes announced by XLRI for XAT 2016 is the reduction in number of questions from 84 to 78 across the 3 major sections responsible to determine your percentile for next phase of shortlisting. The Verbal Ability section in XAT 2016 would now comprise 26 questions instead of earlier 28 and the section is expected to comprise 5 RC passages followed by 15 questions.

Dilemma on declaration of CAT 2015 result persists and has created a sense of anxiety among the IIMs aspirants as the date of CAT 2015 result declaration has not yet been announced by the CAT Centre 2015. Even the Convener of CAT 2015 Prof Tathagata Bandyopadhyay, faculty IIM Ahmedabad, is not aware about the exact date of CAT 2015 result as he shares with MBAUniverse.com CAT 2015 result date is not yet decided but it should be within second week of January

Ranked 3rd in the world in the Financial Times (FT) Global Masters in Finance Post-experience Ranking 2015, the Lee Kong Chian School of Business (LKCSB) of Singapore Management University (SMU) Singapore is the only B-school in Asia and in Singapore ranked among top 5 B-schools placed just after London Business School and University of Cambridges Judge Business School.