XAT Score Vs Percentile 2025 Breakdown: Check Formula & How to Calculate

Q: My graduation score is less than 50% in aggregate. Am I eligible for XLRI admission?

Yes, candidates with less than 50 per cent in aggregate in graduation are eligible for admission to PGDM courses in XLRI. Candidates need to have minimum passing marks in Graduation. They must have however, completed their graduation from a recognised university only. Candidates planning to seek admission to an MBA college other than XLRI must check its eligibility criteria as the minimum score requirement of AICTE approved colleges is 50 percent (45 percent for Reserved categories). But having 50 per cent and above score is not a guarantee for getting selected for admission. You will need to clear the admission round which is based on XAT cut off percentile. If you do not meet the XAT cut off percentile you will not be selected for XAT personal interview round, which is the main parameter for MBA admission in XLRI.

Q: How is XAT score calculated?

XAT score is calculated on the basis of raw scores obtained a candidate in each section. In the XAT exam, every correct answer carries 1 mark and every incorrect entry carries – 0.25 marks. There is no negative marking for skipping a question. But, in case of eight consecutive unanswered questions, 0.10 marks will be deducted. XAT has about 99 questions on which the score calculation is done. So, for example, if you have got 70 questions correct and 8 questions in correct, then your raw XAT score will be 70 – 1 = 69. If you have not answered 8 questions consecutively, then your score will be 69- 0.10 = 68.90. This raw score will be further calculated to arrive at XAT percentile. Check here the XAT percentile calculation process: https://www.shiksha.com/mba/articles/xat-score-vs-percentile-how-much-xat-score-will-get-me-99-percentile-blogId-52337

Q: What are the XAT cut off determining factors?

XAT cut offs are determined by XLRI Jamshedpur and the important factors it takes into consideration for it include difficulty level of the exam, average scores, average pass percentage, number of seats, number of test takers and previous year’s cut offs. There is no official list of parameters for cut off determination but it is understood that these factors play an important role in the process. It has been seen that XAT cut offs normally don’t change more than 1 or 2 percentile. For example, in XAT 2022, the cut off for PGDM BM course was 93 percentile for male candidates and in XAT 2023, it was 95. In XAT 2021, the cut off for same category was 94.

Q: Which MBA colleges are available with XAT cut offs of 85 percentile and above?

If you score above 85 percentile in XAT you may get selected for admission to top tier 1 and tier 2 MBA colleges such as XIMB-Bhubaneswar, SPJIMR-Mumbai, IMT-Ghaziabad, GIM-Goa, TAPMI-Manipal, IRMA-Anand, MICA-Ahmedabad, Great Lakes Institute of Management, LIBA-Chennai, KJ Somaiya-Mumbai, Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, Institute of Finance and International Management, Bangalore, Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, Amity Business School, Noida, Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, Xavier Institute of Social Services, Ranchi. The XAT cut offs of the abovementioned colleges fall in the range of 85 to 95 percentile. However, in different admission years, the cut offs could be different. You should check the XAT cut offs for these colleges individually to have a better understanding of admission process for that year.

Q: When are XAT cut offs released?

XLRI Jamshedpur releases the XAT cut offs every year in the month of February after the result announcement. The XAT exam is held on the first Sunday of January and the result is announced in the last week of January. And within a week of result announcement, the XAT cut offs are released. The XAT cut offs are released at the official website of XLRI Jamshedpur and are available for download without login. The XAT cut offs are released for PGDM-HRM and PGDM-BM gender and academic stream wise. The document contains sectional and overall cut off percentiles for male, female, male non engineering and female non-engineering categories. Selection of candidates for the Personal Interview and Group Discussion round of XLRI admission is done on the basis of these category wise cut offs.

Q: Are XAT cut offs same for all participating colleges?

No, cut offs of XAT participating colleges are different from each other. These colleges fix cut off percentiles for admission individually basis certain criteria determined by their respective admission cells. XAT cut off for XIMB is different from XAT cut off for TAPMI. XAT cut off for XIMB is usually around 90-93 whereas XAT cut off for TAPMI is 80-85. On the other hand, XAT cut off for KJ Somaiya-Mumbai is 85-90. Most of the MBA colleges shortlist candidates for admission on the basis of overall XAT percentile. However, the candidates must aim to meet sectional XAT cut offs too in the exam to avoid an unwanted situation at the time of admission. Before applying for admission, candidates must check the selection criteria of their target colleges to be sure of requirements.

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XAT score vs percentile: What is the difference between XAT score and XAT percentile? What is XAT score calculator? How much XAT exam score will fetch you 99+ percentile? To crack the XAT 2026 exam with high scores, you need to know these. So, read below.

XAT Score vs Percentile 2025 - 'What is XAT percentile and how is it different from XAT score?', 'How can I predict my XAT percentile?' These are questions that comes to mind aspirants preparing for XAT exam. To optimise performance in the exam, it is very crucial to know how many correct attempts will lead to how much XAT score and what will be the corresponding XAT percentile.

For example, if a student manages to solve 60 out of 100 questions correctly in XAT exam, they must know what will be their raw XAT score and final XAT percentile. This knowledge will help them in assessing their chances of admission in the desired colleges. Since there is no normalisation of scores in XAT, it is fairly easy to compare XAT marks vs percentile.

To help the XAT 2026 aspirants in this regard, we have explained meanings, definitions and calculation methods of XAT score and percentile. There's also a comparison of XAT 2025 score vs percentile, along with XAT cut off percentiles of previous years.

Table of content

What is XAT Score?
What is XAT Percentile?
XAT Percentile Calculator Formula?
Why is XAT Percentile Important?
XAT Percentile Predictor: Score vs Cut Offs 2025
XAT score vs percentile (sectional)
XAT Cut Off Percentiles for XLRI Admission
XAT Cut Offs 2023
XAT Cut Offs 2022

What is XAT Score?

XAT exam score refers to the raw score obtained by a candidate in the exam based on the total number of correct and incorrect attempts. Let’s take a look at the XAT marking scheme to understand this:

Total number of XAT questions is 95
Total marks of XAT exam 2025 is 95
For every correct attempt, one mark is awarded
For every incorrect answer, 0.25 marks will be deducted
After eight consecutive unattempted questions, 0.10 marks is deducted for every unattempted question
General Knowledge scores are included in XAT percentile calculation

Based on the above marking scheme, XAT score calculator formula can be understood with the following example:

Suppose if a candidate attempts about 85 questions out of 95, out of which he solves 75 questions correctly and 10 questions incorrectly.

Then his overall XAT score will be 75 +7.5 = 82.5.

Also Read: XAT Exam Pattern and Marking Scheme 2026

What is XAT Percentile?

XAT percentile is basically the rank of a candidate against all the test takers of that year. It can also be described as the total percentage of candidates who scored less than or equal to a particular candidate.

For example, if a candidate’s XAT percentile is 99.7, it means his/her performance was better than 99.7 per cent of the total XAT test takers that year. Thus, one can say, that XAT percentile is the indicator of a candidate’s comparative performance viz. other test takers.

XAT Percentile Calculator Formula?

The formula to calculate XAT percentile is same as that of other MBA entrance exams, i.e. Number of candidates – Rank of a candidate/Number of candidates x 100. Let’s understand this with an example.

Suppose, 10,000 people appeared for XAT exam and candidate A got the highest score. It means 9,999 candidates have scored less than candidate A. Then XAT percentile of candidate A will be 9,999/10,000x100= 99.9. Candidates can use this XAT percentile calculator formula to check their expected scores.

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Why is XAT Percentile Important?

The MBA colleges accepting XAT score shortlist candidates for MBA admission on the basis of percentile and not the raw score. Thus, it is important to know how much XAT score will convert into how much percentile. The score accepting MBA colleges release XAT cut offs in percentile. And to be able to have a target B School in mind, one needs to know how much raw score will be needed. Thus, aspirants must know how much XAT percentile is required for admission to which institute.

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XAT Percentile Predictor: Score vs Cut Offs 2025

The table given below indicates a range of XAT scores and corresponding XAT percentiles to highlight XAT cut off marks vs percentile comparison. This comparison is mere prediction and for reference purpose only.

XAT score 2025	XAT percentile 2025
47 and above	99
42 and above	96
40 and above	94
36 and above	85
32 and above	80
24 and above	75

Also Read: MBA Colleges Accepting XAT Score for MBA Admission

XAT score vs percentile (sectional)

In XAT, sectional score and percentiles are of a lot of significance. XLRI considers the sectional as well as overall scores of XAT test takers during the selection process. Check below the table indicating estimated XAT 2025 score vs percentile.

XAT Percentile	VALR	QA & DI	DM	Overall
99	14.75	17	12.5	36.25
97	13.25	14.25	11.5	32.75
95	12	12.75	10.5	30.25
90	10.5	10.5	9.5	27
85	9.5	9	8.75	24
80	8.5	7.75	8.25	22.25
70	7.25	6	7.5	19.75

XAT Cut Off Percentiles for XLRI Admission

Given below are previous years' XAT cut offs for reference. Candidates must aim to score the percentile given in the table below to ensure chances of admission into XLRI.

XAT 2025 Cut Offs: MBA BM

The below table indicates sectional and overall XAT 2025 cut offs for MBA BM programme.

Category	QA	VALR	DM	Overall
Engineer/Tech Male	88	84	84	96
Engineer/Tech Female	82	80	80	91
Non-Engineer Male	88	84	84	96
Non-Engineer Female	82	80	80	91

XAT 2025 Cut Offs: MBA HRM

The below table indicates sectional and overall XAT 2025 cut offs for MBA HRM programme.

Category	QA	VALR	DM	Overall
Engineer/Tech Male	83	90	87	95
Engineer/Tech Female	73	85	80	90
Non-Engineer Male	76	90	87	93
Non-Engineer Female	78	85	80	87

XAT Cut Offs 2024

Check the category wise sectional and overall XAT 2024 cut offs for PGDM BM (Business Management) programme and PGDM HRM (Human Resource Management) programme.

XAT 2024 Cut Offs for XLRI MBA BM

Category	Overall XAT percentile	QA percentile	VALR percentile	DM percentile
Engineer Male	96	86	83	85
Engineer Female	91	81	80	80
Non-engineer Male	95	85	83	86
Non-engineer Female	90	80	80	81

XAT 2024 Cut Offs for XLRI MBA HRM

Category	Overall XAT percentile	QA percentile	VALR percentile	DM percentile
Engineer Male	95	80	90	85
Engineer Female	90	73	85	78
Non-engineer Male	93	75	90	85
Non-engineer Female	88	68	85	78

XAT Cut Offs 2023

Check the category-wise and section-wise CAT cut offs for admission to 2023 batch of XLRI Jamshedpur's Business Management (BM) and Human Resource Management (HRM) programmes.

XAT Cut Offs 2023: Business Management (BM)

General Engineers	Verbal Ability	Decision Making	Quantitative Ability	Overall
Males	75	75	85	95
Females	75	75	80	92
General Non-Engineers	Verbal Ability	Decision Making	Quantitative Ability	Overall
Males	75	75	85	95
Females	75	75	80	92

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General Engineers	Verbal Ability	Decision Making	Quantitative Ability	Overall
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XAT Cut Offs 2022

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XAT Cut Offs 2022: Business Management (BM)

Category	VALR	Decision Making	Quantitative Ability	Overall
Male	75	72	80	93
Female	72	72	75	90

XAT Cut Offs 2022: Human Resource Management (HRM)

Category	VALR	Decision Making	Quantitative Ability	Overall
Male (Engineering)	80	70	75	92
Female (Engineering)	80	70	64	90
Male (Non-Engineering)	80	70	70	90
Female (Non-Engineering)	80	70	60	87

XAT Cut Offs 2021

Check the category-wise and section-wise XAT cut offs for admission to 2021 batch of XLRI Jamshedpur’s Business Management (BM) and Human Resource Management (HRM) programmes.

Business Management (BM)

Category	VALR	Decision Making	Qantitative Ability	Overall
Male	76	74	83	94
Female	70	70	75	92
SC	60	60	60	65
ST	55	55	55	60

Human Resource Management (HRM)

Category	VALR	Decision Making	Quantitative Ability	Overall
Male Engineering	80	75	80	93
Female Engineering	75	68	74	90
Male Non-Engineering	80	75	73	90
Female Non-Engineering	75	68	64	87
SC	55	55	55	65
ST	50	50	50	55

XAT Cut Offs 2020

Check the category-wise and section-wise XAT cut offs for admission to 2020 batch of XLRI Jamshedpur’s Business Management (BM) and Human Resource Management (HRM) programmes.

Business Management (BM)

XAT sections	Male	Female
VALR	74	72
DM	78	74
QA	85	75
Overall	95	93

Human Resource Management (HRM)

XAT sections	Male Engineer	Female Engineer	Male Non-Engineer	Female Non-Engineer
VALR	79	74	78	73
DM	73	68	73	68
QA	75	70	70	65
Overall	93	91	90	88

XAT Cut Offs 2019

Check the course-wise XAT cut off percentiles for admission to BM and HRM programmes in 2019:

Business Management (BM)

XAT 2019 cut off	Male candidates	Female candidates
VALR	79.46	75
DM	80	75
QA	90	75
Overall Cut off	96	95

Human Resource Management (HRM)

XAT 2019 cut off	Male candidates	Female candidates
VALR	85	80
DM	75	70
QA	72	67
Overall cut off	94	93

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