MBA Entrance Exam

DY Patil Navi Mumbai accepts various national-level entrance tests, including CAT. Thus, students seeking admission can apply via valid CAT scores. According to the CAT schedule for 2025, the exam for the 2025 session is scheduled to be held on November 30, 2025. The registration portal for the same is expected to open in the first week of August 2025.

GIM - Goa Institute of Management MBA cut off 2024 has been released for admission to its MBA/PGDM course. The Institute does not releases the final CAT cutoff publicly and is only accessible through account login to those candidates who appear in the CAT examinations. 

Most of the XAT accepting colleges conduct Personal Interview and Group Discussion for admission. Many colleges conduct Writing Ability Test instead of Group Discussion. Some institutions also ask for Statement of Purpose. While applying to a XAT accepting college candidates must check the selection criteria and prepare for it accordingly. It takes about a month for preparation so as soon as XAT gets over, get on to preparing for the WAT, GD, PI rounds.

It is unlikely that you will get admission as most of the B-Schools have minimum graduation score criteria of 50%. If you belong to Reserved category, you may get admission as the minimum score criteria for such candidates is 45%.

There are some B-schools which do not have minimum score criteria in graduation. So, you may try to seek admission in one of those institutions as 89% is a good score in XAT.

There is no specific counselling fee for XAT. Since, admission through XAT score is not done through centralized counselling process, candidates need to apply to score accepting colleges individually and pay the requisite fee. The college application fee for B-schools usually range between INR 1000 to INR 5000.

The Manipal University accepts CAT, CMAT, NMAT, and XAT. Considering the MAHE cutoff 2024, the CAT, CMAT, NMAT, and XAT percentile for the All India category candidates stood between 85, 95, 80, and 80, respectively.

Candidates preparing for CAT for the admission to MBA at MAHE must achieve certain percentage to qualify. As per the Manipal University CAT cutoff 2024, the required percentile stood at 85 for the open category candidates. 

One can potentially gain admission to the MBA/PGDM programme at Unique Institute of Management (UIM, Pune) without MAT exam. As UIM considers various entrance exams for it's admission, like, CAT, XAT, ATMA, and MAH CET. UIM also have its own aptitude test, UMAT, for admission. 

Candidates can paste a recent photo on CAT admit card with face clearly visible, without goggles or caps. They should preferably paste same photo that they uploaded in CAT application form.

CAT hall ticket download link will be deactivated after the exam day, so candidates will not be able to download it after the exam day. Candidates must ensure they preserve their CAT admit card even after the exam as it may be needed at the time of admission. Do not discard your admit card until the admission process is complete as one cannot access it on the official website after the exam.