XAT aspirants nearing 100,000

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In a couple of days, around 90,000 management aspirants, will be taking the Xaviers Admission Test (XAT).

This is a 20 per cent increase in the number of candidates taking XAT from last year, when the figure stood at 75,000.

The number of colleges accepting XAT scores has also doubled from 23 in 2004 to 46 this year.

“The Indian industry today has a capacity to absorb management graduates like never before. Moreover, even the top B-schools have increased their batch sizes to meet the growing demand,” KK Raman, executive director, KPMG said.

“A recent trend has emerged where good B-schools are accepting Common Admission Test as well as XAT scores. So deserving candidates who could not perform well in CAT for any reason, see XAT as an opportunity to get into a good business school (B-school,” he adds.

XLRI to hold XAT 2008 on January 6

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Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) Jamshedpur has announced dates for its entrance exam Xavier Admission Test, popularly called XAT.

Fr N Casimirraj S J, Director, XLRI informed MBAUniverse.com, “XAT will be held on Sunday, January 06, 2008. The online registration for XAT and XLRI will start from September 1, 2007.” Apart from XLRI, XAT score are also used by many other B-Schools like Xavier Institute of Management Bhuneshwar, (XIMB), Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS), Goa Institute of Management (GIM), Goa.

The last date of registration to XAT is November 30.
According to XLRI, XAT covers three objective-type test areas: verbal ability, quantitative ability and decision-making ability. There are also questions on Values. Students also have to write essays on a topic based on current value systems.

XLRI has been conducting its all-India admission tests for more than 50 years. Using this experience and expertise it has extended this test to other Management Institutes. Last year there are 35 other Management Institutes that select students using XAT 2007.

Founded in 1949, one of India’s premier management institutes, XLRI is running two-year full time Management Programmes in Personal Management and Industrial Relation Programme; General Management Programme; Executive PG Programme; Fellow Programme in Management.