XAT 2016 Institute and Course wise Cutoff
The Expected XAT 2016 Cutoff for the top B-schools will be announced by end of January and based on the overall scores and according to
the percentile, the colleges will announce their cutoff percentile of XAT 2016 Exam.This year XAT 2016 exam that happened on January 3 the difficulty level turned out to be of ‘moderate level’.
XAT 2016 was taken by approximately 90,000 candidates and it is expected the cut off will remain in similar range that was in 2015. Although XLRI Jamshedpur, the conducting body has announced the shortlist, but the XAT 2016 Cutoff is yet to be announced by the B-School.
XAT 2016 Result Declared
The result for XAT 2016, a national level admission test, conducted by XLRI (Xavier Labour Relations Institute) has been released on 22 January.
XAT 2016 result/score is now available online and can be accessed at the authorized XAT website www.xatonline.net.in
Candidates who will attain the minimum cut-off marks will be called to the Group Discussion/ Personal Interviews. More than 100 reputed institutes accept the XAT 2016 score for admission to their management courses.
XAT 2016 Score has been Released (OMR Answer Sheet) – Click here
Check out the XAT 2016 Answer Key – Click Here
Log in to the XAT Result 2016 and Score Card download page by entering registration number and password. 
After the declaration of result, The candidates meeting the XAT 2016 Cutoff will be shortlisted for the next round of selection procedures including Group Discussion (GD), Personal Interview (PI) and or Essay Writing/Written Ability Test (WAT).
The expected XAT 2016 Cutoff for the other top B-schools is given in the table below.
The following table brings to you the expected XAT 2016 Cutoff for XLRI Jamshedpur.
| XLRI Jamshedpur Programme | XAT 2016 Cutoff (Expected) |
| PG Diploma in Management (Business management) | 94 percentile |
| PG Diploma in Management (HRM) | 88 percentile |
| Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Global Management) | 90 percentile |
The expected XAT 2016 Cutoff for the other top B-schools is given in the table below.
| B-School | XAT 2016 Cut off (Expected) |
| XIM Bhubaneswar | 95+ percentile |
| LIBA Chennai | 90+ percentile |
| XISS Ranchi | 85+ percentile |
| XIME Bangalore | 80+ percentile |
| XIM Jabalpur | 80+ percentile |
| Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Usha & Lakshmi Mittal Institute of Management (BULMIM), New Delhi | 80+ percentile |
| BIMTECH Greater Noida | 75+ percentile |
| Goa Institute of Management (GIM), Goa | 90+ percentile |
| IFMR Chennai | 85+ percentile |
Note: The above mentioned XAT 2016 Cutoffs are tentative and based on last year’s cutoff.
Overall XAT 2015 Cutoff:
The Cutoff for XAT 2016 as predicted above are tentative as they based on the Cutoff released last year. However, it is expected that XAT 2016 Cutoff will be almost similar to last year’s cutoff.
Following is the overall cutoff criterion for the selection of candidates for various management programmes –
|
Business Management |
94.23 |
|
Human Resource Management |
90.04 |
|
Global MBA Programme |
90.04 |
|
General Management |
67.98 |
These also have different sections:
XAT Cutoff Business Management –
|
BM – 2015-17 |
78.41 |
|
Decision Making |
81.06 |
|
Quant & DI |
90.58 |
Cutoff of XAT: Human Resource Management –
|
HRM programme |
86.49 |
|
Decision Making |
79.09 |
|
Quant & DI |
72.44 |
Global MBA –
|
Global MBA programme |
78.41 |
|
Decision Making |
76.95 |
|
Quant & DI |
80.86 |
XAT Cutoff – General Management –
|
GM Programme |
45.29 |
|
Decision Making |
43.29 |
|
Quant & DI |
61.48 |
The exam pattern of XAT 2016 was as below:
| Section | Area | Number of Question | Marks | |
| Paper 1 | Section A | Verbal and Logical Ability | 26 | 26 |
| Section B | Decision Making | 23 | 23 | |
| Section C | Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation | 29 | 29 | |
| Total | 78 | 78 | ||
| Paper 2 | General Knowledge | 25 | 25 | |
| Essay Writing |
