XAT

Hi,
Novels do have levels when related with CAT/XAT preparation. Talking about Indian issues, these are the novels you can prefer -
India after Gandhi
Getting India Back on Track
Day-to-Day Economics
The Argumentative Indian
The Last Mughal
India Unbound
Referring History, economics:
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The World is flat
Freakonomics
The Undercover Economist
These are intended to help in your vocabulary as well as reading skills.
I hope this will help you.

If fresher decent CAT/ XAT score >86 percentile.
if work exp/ excellent past academic record >84%

HR -70,RM- 50,FINANCE -60,MARKETING-60 and IT-35

The cutoff percentile for diff exams is different every year and changes every time according to the exam. There is no fixed cutoff. Last year cutoff for CAT- 86 percentile , XAT - 78percentile and CMAT - 96 percentile.
For more information
https://www.somaiya.edu/media/pdf/PGDM_Admissions_Brochure_2017-19.pdf
For application form
http://simsr.somaiya.edu/simsr/adm/pgdm17/onlineform/login.aspx

For MBA-HRM you need 80 percentile above in CAT and 70 percentile in XAT.
For MBA-BM you need above 85 in both CAT and XAT

You can go for CAT exam.

Yes, you can, apart from those exams SNAP, IRMA, ATMA, KMAT, MH-CET are there. You can get good college by appearing in these exams.

Hi clain39378,
The application deadline for registration is 3rd Jan 2017.
CAT is on Dec 4 2016,
XAT is on Jan 8 2017,
CMAT is on 28th Jan 2017.

It will have. So, you can wait for the official notification.

XAT can help you to get into XLRI. It is one of the top management institutes in India. MAT and even if you can be in top 10 ranks in India, you can get into JBIMS – Mumbai. It is pretty easy to score in MAT, but difficult to be in top ranks. XAT with a 95% percentile and a good profile can get you a call from XLRI.