PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Aug 20: The entrance test – Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT- 2022) for admission to premier B-school XLRI will take place on January 2.
This will be the second year when the entrance test will be conducted online because of the pandemic.
The last date for applying ( or registration) is November 30. The duration of the test will be three hours.
For more than 70 years the B-school is conducting XAT at all India level to select the most appropriate students for management education.
XAT- 2022 will accept applications for XLRI-Jamshedpur as well as XLRI’s new campus at Delhi-NCR. Registration for the entrance test began last week.
A candidate can choose two preferred test cities for the test. The XAT score is being used by more than 160 institutes for admission.
XAT, though one of the oldest competitive examinations in the country, has always kept pace with cutting-edge testing methodology.
XATs multi-dimensional testing framework strives to assess the aptitude of candidates for business management education meaningfully.
“XAT has a multi-pronged examination structure and in-built fairness to evaluate candidates aspiring to be future business leaders, ” said an XLRI official
XAT-2022 would be conducted across various cities. Among them are Agra, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad City (Maharashtra), Allahabad, Ambala, Amravati, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Berhampur, Bhatinda, Bhilai Nagar, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Bokaro Steel City, Chandigarh/Mohali, Chennai, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi-NCR, Dhanbad, Dibrugarh, Durgapur, Asansol, Ernakulam, Gandhinagar, Goa, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hooghly, Hubli, Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Kannur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Kota, Kottayam, Kurnool, Kurukshetra, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Madurai, Mangalore, Mumbai, Mysore, Nagpur, Nashik, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Rajahmundry, Ranchi, Roorkee, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Siliguri, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram Tiruchirappalli, Tirupathi, Tiruvallur, Udaipur, Udupi Vadodara, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Warangal.
