Friday 3 August 2012

XAT 2013 on January 6: XLRI Director confirms to MBAUniverse.com

XLRI Jamshedpur has finalized the date for the XAT 2013 and is all set to announce it soon. XAT 2013 exam will be held on Sunday, January 6, 2013.

Fr. E Abraham, Director, XLRI Jamshedpur confirmed the dates with MBAUniverse.com. Fr. E Abraham said, “XAT 2013 will be held on Sunday, January 6, 2013. We are following the usual schedule of holding the exam on first Sunday of January. The official announcement of XAT 2013 will be made on next Sunday.”

XAT 2012 scores were accepted by over 101 B-schools in India. Some of the prominent B-schools are XLRI Jamshedpur, Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (XIMB), S P Jain Institute of Management Research (SPJIMR) Mumbai, Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) Chennai to name a few.

XAT 2012 was held on Sunday, January 8, 2012. XAT is a paper pencil based test. The duration of the paper is two hours and twenty minutes. The paper has three sections, Data Interpretation & Quantitative Ability, Analytical Reasoning & Decision Making, Verbal & Logical Ability. XAT also has a question on Essay Writing whose duration is 20 minutes.

XAT 2012 had 85 questions with comparatively easier difficulty level. January 8, 2012. The exam paper had a lot of changes compared to the previous years’ papers. The difficulty level of the exam was easier compared to previous years. The number of questions reduced from 101 to 85. The duration of the paper was two hours. The Decision Making Section had no Analytical Reasoning question. This year, instead of marking with pencil, the test takers had to mark with pen in the OMR sheet. This means, the marked answers could not be changed later and the test takers had to be very careful while choosing the answer options. So the sections of the exam were Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation, English Language Ability & Logical Reasoning, Decision Making and Essay Writing. Instead of one topic, candidates were given a choice of two topics for the Essay Writing.

The total mark of the paper was 100. XAT continued the pattern of differential marking this year. There was 25 per cent negative marking for each wrong answer.

MBAUniverse.com will keep you updated on the exam pattern of XAT 2013 in coming days.

MBAUniverse.com was the first media to break the other MBA entrance exams of the year, CAT 2012, IIFT 2012, NMAT 2013 and CMAT 2013.

Stay tuned to MBAUniverse.com for more on MBA entrance exams 2012-13.

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