XAT 2016: Know your percentile and cut offs in top 10 B-schools; check your admission chances

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January 23, 2016
Draw your plan to choose the best B-school as per your scores in XAT 2016 and percentile that you are going to get in the exam
Your score of 29 marks can fetch you a percentile above 90 in XAT 2016 leading to admission in top rated B school

With XAT 2016 scores accessible on the basis of individual answer sheet made available to you by XLRI, it is time to know whether you would be able to be shortlisted by one of the top rated among 148 B-schools accepting XAT 2016 scores.

You can very well utilize the opportunity even before the official XAT 2016 result is declared by January 31, 2016 and draw your plan to choose the best B-school as per your scores in XAT 2016 and percentile that you are going to get in the exam.

In fact number of candidates who could not fare so well in CAT 2015 and scored low sectional percentile could not be shortlisted by top rated B-schools. XAT 2016 may become a very good opportunity for them. There are 148 B-schools accepting XAT 2016 scores and among them the top rated ones will also accept XAT 2016 scores.

Know your percentile in XAT 2016
On the basis of correct and incorrect answers marked in your XAT 2016 answer sheet now provided to you by XLRI on XAT 2016 website, you can very well calculate your raw scores. These raw scores will lead you to arrive at the percentile score even before the declaration of XAT 2016 result.

XAT  has always remained a tough exam for the test takers and this fact has been admitted by XLRI also while announcing the significant changes in XAT 2016 ‘In the previous years, students would attempt only half of the questions reducing the range of marks scored among students’. But, despite claiming to simplify and make XAT 2016 an easier test, XLRI continued with a tough XAT 2016. This as per the experts would result in higher percentile with low scores and would open admission chances in top B-schools. Your score of 29 marks can fetch you a percentile above 90 in XAT 2016 leading to admission in top rated B-school.

Following is expected to be your percentile calculated on the basis of various factors and finally on the basis of score samples in individual answer sheets of XAT 2016

Score range obtained in XAT 2016 (Your answer sheet score)
NB-78 questions in Part-1 of  XAT with 3 sections are responsible for percentile calculation

Expected to fetch you following
percentile in XAT 2016

29-31

90

23-25

80

20-21

70

Source: MBAUniverse.com & Vistamind Research

Cut offs in top B-schools
XAT 2016 remained on tougher side, is the view of experts and mentors as well as the past XAT toppers. The expected cut offs in top B-schools may even go lower than last year. However, going by the cut-offs applied by the highly ranked B-schools, following percentile score in XAT 2016 might be the cut off in shortlisting the candidates for PI round in admission 2016 in below shared B-schools

XLRI, Jamshedpur
The top rated B-school XLRI accepts only XAT scores. Admission application process to the B-school is closed now.

Expected XAT 2016 percentile cut-off: 95
Number of students admitted with XAT scores: 360

SPJIMR, Mumbai
The B-school has finalised the profile based shortlisting. The candidates with XAT 2016 scores will finally be shortlisted as per following expected percentile

Expected XAT 2016 percentile cut-off: 93
Number of students admitted with XAT scores: 64

IMT Ghaziabad
The B-school accepts both CAT and XAT scores. More number of candidates than last year are expected to be shortlisted and admitted on the basis of XAT 2016 scores at IMT Ghaziabad

Expected XAT 2016 percentile cut-off: 90
Number of students admitted with XAT scores: 234

Great Lakes, Chennai
The B-school accepts both CAT and XAT scores. Application process is open

Expected XAT 2016 percentile cut-off: 80

IFMR, Sri City Andhra Pradesh
The B-school is about 70 Kms from Chennai and will accept CAT and XAT scores.

Expected XAT 2016 percentile cut-off: 80
Number of students admitted with XAT scores: 45

K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research (KJSIMSR), Mumbai
The application process for admission 2016 is open at this highly ranked B-school. K J Somaiya offers admission on the basis of MAH-MBA-CET exam; XAT; CAT and CMAT.

Expected XAT 2016 percentile cut-off: 85
Number of students admitted with XAT scores: 21

LIBA Chennai
The B-school is expected to have following cut offs

Expected XAT 2016 percentile cut-off: 70
Number of students admitted with XAT scores: 77

TAPMI, Manipal
One of the highly ranked B-schools TAPMI will shortlist candidates with CAT as well as XAT scores

Expected XAT 2016 percentile cut-off: 80
Number of students admitted with XAT scores: 156

XIMB, Bhubaneshwar
The highly ranked B-school accepts XAT and CAT scores.

Expected XAT 2016 percentile cut-off: 90
Number of students admitted with XAT scores: 219

XIME, Bangalore
The admission application process is open at XIME. The B-school will accept CAT, XAT and CMAT scores

Expected XAT 2016 percentile cut-off: 70
Number of students admitted with XAT scores: 99

According to the experts it is very much possible that you would score a very high percentile – sectional as well as overall with low score in view of the difficulty level in each of the 3 sections in XAT 2016. You have your XAT 2016 answer sheets now and calculate your scores leading to the expected percentile calculated above.

XAT 2016 was held on January 3, 2016. There were 78 questions in Part – I divided in 3 sections of Verbal Ability with 26 questions, Decision Making with 23 questions and Quant with 29 questions. Each question carried a maximum weightage of 1 mark. The first section of Verbal and Logical Ability had high difficulty level although questions in Decision Making and Quant sections were a bit easier.

Negative marking of one fourth mark for wrong answer was applied while a penalty of 0.05 mark per question was applied in case the test taker left more than 13 questions unattempted.

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