XAT 2026 Registration: The Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT 2026) registration procedure is anticipated to open shortly at XLRI-Xavier School of Management. Applications will be accepted from qualified and interested candidates via the official website, xatonline.in. The official website states that XAT 2026 registration dates will be revealed shortly.
XAT 2026 Registration: Important details
Registration Closes: November 30, 2025
Admit Card Download: December 20, 2025 (Tentative)
XAT 2026 Exam Date: January 4, 2026
Exam Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
XAT 2026 Registration: Eligibility criteria
Applicants must have completed a bachelor’s degree of at least three years in any discipline.
Final-year students can also apply, provided they complete their final exams by June 10, 2026.
There is no minimum percentage requirement in graduation to appear for XAT 2026.
XAT 2026 Registration: Steps to registered
Candidates can register online for XAT 2026 by following the instructions listed below.
Step 1: Go to xatonline.in, the official XAT website.
Step 2: Click the link for registration on the main page.
Step 3: To register yourself, provide the information as requested.
Step 4: You will receive an email or message created by the system.
Step 5: Click the offered link to confirm your email address, then continue with the application procedure.
Step 6: Complete the application, check it over carefully, then press the submit button.
Step 7: Download and save a printout of the confirmation page for your records.
XAT 2026: Exam pattern
XAT 2026 will be administered as a computer-based test (CBT) and will have the same format as prior years. The overall duration of the exam will be 3 hours and 30 minutes. There will be four primary sections to the test:
-Data Interpretation and Quantitative Ability (QA & DI)
-Decision Making (DM)
-Logical reasoning and verbal ability (VA & LR)
-General Information (GK)
Each segment is intended to evaluate a candidate's proficiency in analytical, logical, and management decision-making domains, and all questions will be of the objective-type (MCQ) variety.
The General Knowledge portion is assessed independently and is frequently used in the last rounds of selection by institutions such as XLRI, even though the first three sections go towards the percentile score used for admissions.
XAT 2026: Exam centers
XAT 2026 will take place in several Indian cities. These include Agra, Ahmedabad, Ajmer, Aligarh, Allahabad, Ambala, Amravati, Amritsar, Anantapur, Arrah, Aurangabad City (Maharashtra), Baddi, Balasore, Bareilly, Bhatinda, Bhagalpur, Bhilai Nagar, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Bikaner, Bilaspur, Bengaluru, Berhampur, Chandigarh/Mohali, Chennai, Chikkaballapur, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Darbhanga, Davanagere, Dehradun, Delhi-NCR, Dhanbad, Dhenkanal, Dibrugarh, Durgapur/Asansol, Ernakulam, Gandhinagar, Goa, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Gwalior, Haldwani, Hazaribagh, Hisar, Hooghly, Hubballi (Hubli), Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Jodhpur, Jorhat, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga), Kalyani, Kannur, Kanpur, Karimnagar, Kolhapur, Kolkata, Kota, Kottayam, Kurnool, Kurukshetra, Lucknow, Madurai, Mangalore, Mehsana, Moradabad, Muzaffarnagar, Muzaffarpur, Mumbai, Mysuru (Mysore), Nagpur, Naharlagun, Nanded, Nashik, Patiala, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Rajahmundry, Rajkot, Ranchi, Roorkee, Rourkela, Salem, Sambalpur, Shimla, Shillong, Sikar, Siliguri, Surat, Tejpur, Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirappalli, Tirupathi, Tiruvallur, Udaipur, Udupi, Ujjain, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vellore, according to the information on the official website.
Candidates are advised to visit the official XAT 2026 website for additional information.
