XAT 2023 Official Answer Key Released with Objection Form on Jan 17: Check & Verify Your Answers, Calculate Your Score & Check Top XAT Colleges

XLRI Jamshedpur has released the official XAT 2023 Final Answer key on Jan 17, 2023 before release of XAT exam score card after it had released the Candidate response sheet on Jan 10. XAT 2023 exam was conducted on January 8, 2023. Confirming the date of release of XAT 2023 answer key with MBAUniverse.com, XAT 2023 exam convener and XLRI Admission Chair, Dr Vishwa Ballabh confirmed, “XAT 2023 answer key will be released on January 17, 2023.” XAT 2023 structure remained similar to last year with re-introduction of essay writing test after three years gap.

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XAT 2023 Answer Key: Key Highlights

• There are 4-5 sets of XAT question paper. XLRI has released the XAT answer key for all sets of XAT questions paper
• XAT 2023 Answer key is released only for three sections which have negative marking – namely, Verbal & Logical Ability, Decision Making, Quantitative Aptitude & Data Interpretation
• As per the past trends, XAT 2023 result is expected around January 20, 2023 well before the officially announced date of January 31, 2023.
• Since, XAT 2023 was a single session exam, it has been easy for XLRI to publish the XAT answer keys 2023 for all the XAT questions as against other exams which are held in multiple sessions on multiple days.  
• As GK section is not counted for percentile calculation, XLRI does not release the answer keys for GK questions in XAT exam
• The subjective Essay Writing Test is re-introduced in XAT 2023 but its answer key is not published by XLRI

XAT 2023 Answer Key Release: Important Dates
Below are the important dates for release of XAT answer key 2023 by XLRI for XAT question paper

XAT 2023 Activity Schedule	Key Date	Remarks
XAT 2023 Exam Date	Sunday January 8, 2023	2 PM to 5.10 PM
Total Questions in XAT 2023 Exam	101 (Divided in 2 Parts)	75 With Negative Marking 26 Without Negative Marking
XAT 2023 Candidate Response Sheet Release Date	January 10, 2023	Released only for 75 Questions in VALR, DM & QADI sections
Final XAT Answer Key 2023 Release	January 17, 2023	Download with your XAT 2023 Login Details
XAT 2023 Score Card release Date	Expected on January 20, 2023	You can download your score card from official XAT website

Top MBA Colleges Accepting XAT 2023
Below is shared a list of some of the top MBA colleges accepting XAT score with their likely cut off and admission status.

MBA College/B-school	Likely XAT Cut off Percentile
XLRI Jamshedpur	94+
XIM Bhubaneswar	90+
IMT Ghaziabad	90+
IMI New Delhi	90+
TAPMI Manipal	85+
GIM Goa	85+
Great Lakes Chennai	80+
IRMA Anand	80+
MICA Ahmedabad	80+
K J Somaiya, Mumbai	85+
FORE School of Management, New Delhi	85+
Welingkar Mumbai	75+
BIMTECH Greater Noida	75+
Woxsen University	75+

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How to Check your XAT Exam Performance & XAT Score with XAT Answer Keys?
XLRI not only releases the XAT official answer keys but also the question paper along with your answer option that you marked in the exam. So, the release of XAT answer keys will let you know three things:

1. What you attempted in XAT 2023 exam
2. What was your answer; and
3. What is the correct answer.

On the basis of it, you may arrive at your XAT scores and can also check what percentile you could get with the help of XAT answer keys through MBAUniverse.com XAT 2023 Percentile predictor

How to download XAT 2023 Answer keys
XAT 2023 answer keys are released by XLRI on its official XAT website and are available for download in three steps:

• Step-1: Open XAT 2023 website and click on the icon – Candidate Response/Raise Objection
• Step-2: Use XAT Login ID to download the XAT 2023 answer keys PDF file
• Step-3: XAT 2023 Answer keys download is complete, check how you have performed in the exam to determine your score

How to File Objection to XAT Answer Key?
If you are not satisfied with the XAT official answer, you can raise objection by making payment for challenging each answer key.

The last date and time to challenge the XAT 2023 answer key is 2-3 days after release of the XAT answer key. The process closes at midnight.

XAT 2023 Answer Keys: How to Calculate your Score with the XAT Scoring Pattern?
Each correct answer in XAT 2023 carries +1 mark and each wrong answer will impose a negative penalty of -0.25 mark. However, there is no negative marking for wrong answers on questions in GK & Essay writing section. Following table will guide you about your expected score as per the XAT 2023 sectional composition:

 

XAT 2023 Answer Keys: How to Calculate your Score with the XAT Scoring Pattern?
Each correct answer in XAT 2023 carries +1 mark and each wrong answer will impose a negative penalty of -0.25 mark. However, there is no negative marking for wrong answers on questions in GK & Essay writing section. Following table will guide you about your expected score as per the XAT 2023 sectional composition:

Section	No. of Questions	Max Marks per correct answer	Negative Marking for each wrong answer
Verbal & Logical Ability	26	+1	-0.25
Decision Making	21	+1	-0.25
Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation	28	+1	-0.25
General Knowledge	25	+1	0
Essay Writing Test	1	+3	0
Total	100	103	--

XAT Answer Key 2023 Release is for 3 Sections & 75 Questions   
Following are the key sections with number of questions for which XLRI will release the XAT 2023 Answer Keys:

Section in XAT 2023 Question paper	Number of questions
Part-1: XAT Answer Key will be Released for this Part	75 Total MCQs
Verbal and Logical Ability	26
Decision Making	21
Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation	28
Part-2: No Answer Key will be Released	25 MCQs + 1 Essay Writing Question
General Knowledge	25
Essay Writing Test	1
Total questions (Part 1 + Part 2)	101

XAT Answer Key Release: 5 Key Facts

1. Only actual XAT 2023 Test Takers can view and download XAT answer keys
2. XAT 2023 answer keys are released by XLRI only
3. Answer keys of XAT 2023 are released for the three sections – Verbal & Logical Ability; Decision Making; Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation as they are counted for percentile calculation in XAT.
4. XAT 2023 answer key are available online
5. XAT answer key enable the test takers to check & verify their XAT answers and thereby arrive at their expected XAT score to explore chances for MBA admission 2022 in XLRI, XIMB and other preferred colleges. 

XAT Answer Key PDF
XAT Solutions 2023 by XLRI consists of the XAT answer keys for the questions in those sections which are counted for percentile calculation. XAT is now a computer based online test and is divided into Part 1 and Part 2, with 100 questions in MCQ format. While the XAT answer keys for 3 sections with 75 questions in Part-1 will help in assessing the score and percentile in XAT 2023 exam, the XAT answer keys for GK section serves no such purpose and therefore are not required as the score of GK section is not taken into account to prepare the percentile in XAT exam. 

Number of questions in XAT exam 2023 for all the sections are 101.  XAT solutions 2023 are released only for three core sections in XAT 2023 exam, the total number of XAT 2023 answer keys per question set are 75. 

XAT previous year answer keys
XAT answer keys which were released for the first time in 2015 had 84 answers. Total questions in XAT at that time were 114. There were 4 question paper sets titled A, B, C, D in XAT and XLRI had also released a separate document which contained only answer keys in respect to each set of XAT questions as well as all the 4 sets of question papers with solutions.  

XAT Answer Key: Important Points

• XAT Answer Keys are released with XAT Question paper
• Separate XAT answer keys are released for each set of question paper
• Only the candidates who actually appeared in XAT 2023 exam can check XAT answer keys
• An objection form is made available to challenge official XAT answer key
• A nominal fee has to be paid to challenge XAT answer key
• All the objections to official XAT answer keys have to be submitted online
• 3-4 days will be given to the candidates to raise objection on XAT official answer key

Earlier, when XAT used to be paper based test, candidates were allowed to take the question booklet with them. In the 70+ years history of XLRI - Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT), the XAT answer keys Pdf was released for the first time in January 2015 for XAT exam. The official XAT solutions 2023 contain the XAT answer keys for all the questions across all the questions sets of XAT test paper. The XAT answer keys helped them to assess their performance and calculate the scores they would be getting based on the accuracy of the answered questions.  The detailed XAT solutions with explanations also helped the test takers in ascertaining their chances to be shortlisted by XLRI or other top rated B schools and also provided them guidance for the future. With the computerized XAT exam now, XLRI releases the XAT Question Papers with solutions pdf as only XAT answer keys may not suffice.  

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