XAT Admit Card 2026 SOON @ xatonline.in, Live Updates, Download LinkXAT Admit Card 2026: The XLRI Jamshedpur will release the XAT admit card 2026 today, December 20, 2025 . Candidates who had registered themselves successfully before the last date can download the XAT admit card 2025 directly from the official website. To download it, the candidates should log in to their accounts by entering their login credentials, such as the XAT user ID and date of birth. Candidates should make sure that the information mentioned on the XAT admit card is correct; if not, then they should immediately contact the officials to make the corrections before appearing for the exam. As per the schedule, the XAT 2026 exam will be held on January 4, 2026.
Candidates can download the XAT admit card till January 4, 2026, before the examination starts. The XAT admit card is one of the essential documents that needs to be shown inside the exam hall on examination day. Candidates will find the allotted exam centre details mentioned on the XAT admit card. They should report to that exam centre only on the exam day and appear for it.
XAT Admit Card 2026: Expected Release Time
Candidates can check out the expected release time of the XAT admit card 2026 here in the following table:
Particulars | Details |
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Expected release time 1 | By 10 AM (High probability) |
Expected release time 2 | Before 4 PM (If delayed) |
XAT Admit Card 2026: Major Highlights
Find out the XAT admit card 2026 here in the following table:
Particulars | Details |
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Official website to release the admit card | xatonline.in |
Required credentials to log in |
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XAT exam date | January 4, 2026 |
XAT exam time | 2 PM to 5 PM |
XAT Admit Card 2026 Live Updates
01 00 PM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2023 Shift 2 Questions (8)
Separately, Jack and Sristi invested the same amount of money in the stock market. Jack’s invested amount kept getting reduced by 50% every month. Sristi’s investment also reduced every month, but in an arithmetic progression with a common difference of Rs. 15000. They both withdrew their respective amounts at the end of the sixth month. They observed that if they had withdrawn their respective amounts at the end of the fourth month, the ratio of their amounts would have been the same as the ratio after the sixth month. What amount of money was invested by Jack in the stock market?
Options :
1. Rs. 100000
2. Rs. 120000
. Rs. 150000
4. Rs. 180000
5. None of the above
12 30 PM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2023 Shift 2 Questions (7)
Raju and Sarita play a number game. First, each one of them chooses a positive integer independently. Separately, they both multiply their chosen integers by 2 and then subtract 20 from their resultant numbers. Now, each of them has a new number. Then, they divide their respective new numbers by 5. Finally, they added their results and found that the sum is 16. What can be the maximum possible difference between the positive integers chosen by Raju and Sarita?
Options :
1. 67
2. 58
3. 49
4. 40
5. None of the above
12 00 PM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2023 Shift 2 Questions (6)
Let x and y be two positive integers, and p be a prime number. If x (x – p) – y (y + p) = 7p, what will be the minimum value of x – y?
Options :
1. 1
2. 3
3. 5
4. 7
5. None of the above
11 30 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2023 Shift 2 Questions (5)
ABC is a triangle, and the coordinates of A, B, and C are (a, b-2c), (a, b+4c), and (-2a,3c) respectively, where a, b and c are positive numbers. The area of the triangle ABC is:
Options:
1. 6abc
2. 9abc
3. 6bc
4. 9ac
5. None of the above
11 00 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2023 Shift 2 Questions (4)
Socrates believed that akrasia (meaning procrastination) was, strictly speaking, impossible, since we could not want what is bad for us; if we act against our own interests, it must be because we don’t know what’s right. Loewenstein, similarly, is inclined to see the procrastinator as led astray by the “visceral” rewards of the present. As the nineteenth-century Scottish economist John Rae put it, “The prospects of future good, which future years may hold on us, seem at such a moment dull and dubious, and are apt to be slighted, for objects on which the daylight is falling strongly, and showing us in all their freshness just within our grasp.” Loewenstein also suggests that our memory for the intensity of visceral rewards is deficient: when we put off preparing for that meeting by telling ourselves that we’ll do it tomorrow, we fail to take into account that tomorrow the temptation to put off work will be just as strong. Ignorance might also affect procrastination through what the social scientist Jon Elster calls “the planning fallacy.” Elster thinks that people underestimate the time “it will take them to complete a given task, partly because they fail to take account of how long it has taken them to complete similar projects in the past and partly because they rely on smooth scenarios in which accidents or unforeseen problems never occur.”
According to the passage, in regard to time, which of the following statements gives the BEST reason for procrastination?
Options:
1. Time is not planned according to the task
2. Time is taken as linear in the task
3. Time is estimated according to the new task
4. Time is underestimated for a particular task
5. Time is not taken into account
10 30 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2023 Shift 2 Questions (3)
Fill up the blanks with appropriate words.
Oil painting did to appearance what capital did to social____________. It reduced everything to the __________of objects. Everything became __________because everything became a commodity. All reality was mechanically__________ by its materiality.
Options:
1. Reality, randomness, saleable, located
2. Relations, equality, exchangeable, measured
3. Construction, minuteness, commercial, evaluated
4. Justice, level, expensive, understood
5. Setup, understanding, useless, identified
10 00 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2023 Shift 2 Questions (2)
Which of the following sentences has the CORRECT usage of punctuation?
Options:
1. Italy is famous for its composers and musicians, France, for its chefs and philosophers, and Poland, for its mathematicians and logicians.
2. Italy is famous for its composers and musicians, France for its chefs and philosophers, and Poland for its mathematicians and logicians.
3. Italy is famous for its composers and musicians. France for its chefs and philosophers. Poland for its mathematicians and logicians.
4. Italy is famous for its composers and musicians; France, for their chefs and philosophers; Poland, for their mathematicians and logicians.
5. Italy is famous for its composers and musicians; France, for their chefs and philosophers; Poland, for their mathematicians and logicians.
09 30 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2023 Shift 2 Questions (1)
Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence:
1. Our knowledge about life developed over the centuries thanks to the many philosophers, physicists, chemists, and biologists, who examined such complex matters according to their different points of view.
2. Out of this long history, I wish to quote here only one date, the year 1953.
3. In that year, Miller and Urey carried out their famous experiment about the primordial universal soup, whose foundations had already been expounded by the Russian chemist Alexandre Oparin in 1924.
4. From a mixture of five gases, methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and water vapor, and an electric discharge as the source of energy, complex molecules were produced, including amino acids.
Options:
1. 1,4,2,3
2. 1,3,4,2
3. 1,2,3,4
4. 2,3,1,4
5. 3,1,2,4
09 00 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2024 Shift 2 Questions (13)
Which city hosted the recently concluded Asian Games 2022 (which happened in 2023)?
Options:
1. Incheon
2. Hangzhou
3. Jakarta
4. Guangzhou
5. Busan
08 30 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2024 Shift 2 Questions (12)
Who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023?
Options :
1. Barack Obama
2. Shirin Ebadi
3. Narges Mohammadi
4. Maria Ressa
5. Center for Civil Liberties
08 00 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2024 Shift 2 Questions (11)
Claudia Dale Goldin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2023 in recognition of her groundbreaking research in the field of:
Options:
1. Women in the Work Force
2. Behavioural Economics
3. Human Trafficking
4. Unemployment in the Global South
5. Poverty in Africa
07 30 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2024 Shift 2 Questions (10)
Which country has formally pulled out of the “Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe?”
Options:
1. Israel
2. Russia
3. Italy
4. Germany
5. Turkey
07 00 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2024 Shift 2 Questions (9)
What is the name of Air India’s Artificial Intelligence-powered chat assistant that introduced a generative AI virtual agent?
Options:
1. Niyaa
2. AirBuddy
3. Sathi
4. Maharaja
5. Frenz
06 40 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2024 Shift 2 Questions (8)
In November 2023, which state government declared a fish named “Ghol” as the state fish?
Options:
1. Uttar Pradesh
2. Haryana
3. Gujarat
4. Bihar
5. Maharashtra
06 20 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2024 Shift 2 Questions (7)
Which Indian city set a world record by illuminating 22.23 lakh earthen lamps on the eve of Diwali 2023?
Options:
1. Ayodhya
2. Prayagraj
3. Varanasi
4. Udupi
5. Rameswaram
06 00 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2024 Shift 2 Questions (6)
Which company has launched a dedicated air cargo service in India to speed up deliveries?
Options :
1. Amazon
2. Flipkart
3. Jiomart
4. Tata Cliq
5. Snapdeal
05 00 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2024 Shift 2 Questions (5)
Which of the following prefectures of Japan was MAJORLY affected by an earthquake on January 1, 2024?
Options :
1. Ishikawa
2. Osaka
3. Tokyo
4. Hiroshima
5. Fukushima
04 00 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2024 Shift 2 Questions (4)
Which of the following Indian states does the River Ganges not flow through?
Options :
1. Uttarakhand
2. Bihar
3. Jharkhand
4. Haryana
5. Uttar Pradesh
03 00 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2024 Shift 2 Questions (3)
What is the common terminology used to describe the following applications: ChatGPT, Google Bard, Chatsonic?
Options:
1. Generative AI Tools
2. Dating Tools
3. Gaming Applications
4. News Aggregators
5. UPI Applications
02 00 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2024 Shift 2 Questions (2)
Ques. Which of the following governors-general of India introduced the policy of the “doctrine of lapse?"
Options :
1. Lord Wellesley
2. Lord Curzon
3. Lord Mountbatten
4. Lord Dalhousie
5. Lord Reading
01 00 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: XAT 2024 Shift 2 Questions (1)
Ques. Aman decides to buy only onions, in whatever maximum quantity possible (in positive integer kilograms), with the money he has come to the market with. How much money will he be left with after the purchase?
Options:
1. Rs. 12
2. Rs. 9
3. Rs. 7
4. Rs. 5
5. Re. 1
12 00 AM IST - 20 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Important Topics of QA & DI
- Foundational understanding of Arithmetic
- Algebra
- Modern Maths
- Mensuration
- Geometry
Note that the DI questions are about the summarization, interpretation, and insightful analysis.
11 00 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Important Topics of Decision Making
- Problem-Solving Skills
- Critical Thinking
10 30 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Important Topics of VALR
- Vocabulary
- English grammar
- Reading Comprehension, including Cartoons & Passages, Poems
- Para Jumbles
- Cloze Tests
10 00 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Reporting Time
The XAT 2026 exam will start at 2 PM. Candidates are advised to reach the exam centre at least one hour before and complete the reporting process.
09 30 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Previous Years' Section-Wise Questions Asked
XAT Exam Year
Section-wise number of questions
XAT 2026
VARC: 26
DM: 21
QA & DI: 28
GK: 20
XAT 2025
VARC: 26
DM: 21
QA & DI: 28
GK: 20
XAT 2024
VARC: 26
DM: 22
QA & DI: 28
GK: 25
Essay: 1 (to be evaluated upon shortlisting)
XAT 2023
VARC: 26
DM: 22
QA & DI: 28
GK: 25
Essay: 1 (to be evaluated upon shortlisting)
XAT 2022
VARC: 26
DM: 21
QA & DI: 28
GK: 25
Essay: 1 (to be evaluated upon shortlisting)
XAT 2021
VARC: 26
DM: 21
QA & DI: 28
GK: 25
XAT 2020
VARC: 26
DM: 21
QA & DI: 28
GK: 25
09 00 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Section-Wise Good Attempts
Sections
Questions
Maximum Marks
Good Attempts
Decision Making
21
21
17-18
Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning
26
26
20-22
Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation
28
28
20-22
Total
75
75
57-62
08 30 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Past 4 Years' Exam Analysis in Terms of Difficulty Level
Particulars 2024 2023 2022 2021 XAT Difficulty Level Moderate to Difficult Expected- Moderate to Difficult Difficult Difficult 08 00 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Past 4 Years' Exam Analysis in Terms of Total Number of Questions
Particulars 2024 2023 2022 2021 Total Number of Questions 101 102 101 100 07 30 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Verbal and Logical Ability Analysis
- Question on a cartoon from the New York Times, which had an intriguing interpretation
- The Grammar section mainly focused on the sentences using prepositions
- The reading comprehension passages were lengthy
- Most of the questions were asked about making inferences or drawing conclusions
07 00 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Section-Wise Difficulty Level
Section Questions Difficulty Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning 26 Moderate Decision Making 21 Moderate to Difficult Quantitative Ability & DI 28 Moderate to Difficult General Knowledge 20 Easy to Moderate 06 30 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Decision Making Question Breakdown
Question Topics Number of Questions Asked Level of Difficulty ABC Business School policies 3 Moderate to Difficult HR Caselet – ‘Symbolics’ IT firm 3 Moderate to Difficult HR Caselet – Experience credentials 3 Moderate to Difficult Deep Sea Natural Gas Extraction 3 Moderate Competition between taxi drivers 3 Moderate Car sales 3 Moderate Wrongful termination of domestic help 3 Moderate 06 00 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Analysis on General Knowledge
- The GK section was comprised of 20 questions; among them, 12 questions were asked on current affairs, and the rest of the questions were asked from Static GK
- 14 to 15 questions were easy to answer
05 30 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Analysis on Decision Making
- Candidates got 21 questions from this section. Note that there were no Quantitative Decision Making sets last year
- Among them, a total of 11 to 12 questions were easy to answer
05 00 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Analysis for Quantitative Aptitude
Sub-Sections Easy Medium Difficult Total Scatter Plot / Line Graph (observation) based set 0 3 0 3 Arithmetic based set 0 3 0 3 Average based set 0 3 0 3 Number-matrix based set 0 3 0 3 Total DI 0 12 0 12 Total QA-DI 5 18 5 28 04 30 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Analysis for Quantitative Aptitude
Sub-Sections Easy Medium Difficult Total Arithmetic 2 1 0 3 Geometry 1 2 2 5 Modern Math 0 1 2 3 Algebra 2 1 0 3 Numbers 0 1 1 2 Total QA 5 6 5 16 04 00 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Number of Good Attempt of Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning
A total of 26 questions were asked from Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning, among them a total of 17 to 18 questions were easy to answer. As per the experts' analysis, the expected percentage of good attempts of Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning was approximately 75-80% accuracy level.
03 30 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Analysis for Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning
Sub-Sections Number of Questions Asked Level of Difficulty Grammatically correct sentence 2 Moderate Fill in the blanks (4 blanks) 1 Moderate Jumbled Paragraphs (5 statements) 2 Moderate Critical Reasoning 3 Moderate Main idea/message of the given image 1 Moderate RC Passages – 5 (300-450 words) 15 Moderate to Difficult Poem-based passage 2 Difficult 03 00 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Section Wise Marks Distribution
Sections Name of the Sections Total Questions Asked (Expected) Time Duration Part 1 Verbal and Logical Ability 26 170 minutes Decision Making 21 Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation 28 Part 2 General Knowledge 20 10 minutes Total 95 180 Minutes 02 30 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Marking Scheme
- +1 for every correctly marked answer
- -0.25 marks for every incorrectly marked answer
- -0.10 marks for more than 8 consecutive unanswered questions
- No negative marking for the GK questions
02 00 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Paper Pattern
Before appearing for the exam, the candidates are advised to check the XAT exam pattern once.
- Time duration: 180 minutes
- Number of questions asked: 95
- Type of questions: MCQs
- Number of sections: 5
- Total marks: 95 marks
01 30 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Is it easy to get 99 percentile in XAT?
If the candidates want to get 99 percentile, then they should obtain 38+ marks in the XAT 2026 exam. To score 99 percentile, the candidates should study strategically and solve a full-length mock test every day, and they need to go through the self-assessment process.
01 00 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Difficulty Level of 2025
The overall difficulty level of XAT 2025 was moderate to difficult. The expected XAT cutoff was likely lower than XAT 2024.
12 30 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Is it possible tochange exam centre?
Once the XAT admit card 2026 is released, the candidates will not be allowed to change the exam centre further.
12 00 PM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Exam Day Guidelines
- Candidates should not forget to carry the XAT admit card and their IDs to the exam centre
- Candidates should report to the exam centre on time. Once the gate is closed, noone will be allowed to enter inside the exam hall
- Do not leave the exam hall before the exam ends
- Candidates should not carry any rough sheets on their own. They will be given it as per their requirement inside the exam hall
- Do not carry any electronic gadgets, a calculator or a mobile phone inside the exam centre
- Carry a recent passport sized photographs of the candidates
11 40 AM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: List of Documents to Bring
- Voter ID card
- Aadhar Card
- PAN Card
- College ID
- Employee ID card
- Passport
- Driving License
11 20 AM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Details Mentioned
- Name and signature of the candidates
- Date of birth
- XAT exam date and time
- Exam centre name and venue
- Reporting time to the exam centre
- XAT exam day guidelines
11 00 AM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Steps to Download
- Go to the official website
- Click on the Login tab
- Enter the login credentials and click on the login button
- Choose the "hall ticket" tab
- XAT admit card will be displayed on the screen
- Download the XAT admit card and take a printout of it for future reference
10 40 AM IST - 19 Dec'25
Last Date of Downloading the XAT Admit Card 2026?
There is no last date for downloading the XAT admit card 2026. Candidates can download it before the examination starts on January 4, 2026. However, to avoid the last-minute hassle, the candidates can download the admit card beforehand.
10 20 AM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026: Where to be released?
The mode of releasing the XAT admit card 2026 is online only. The candidates will not receive the hard copy of the XAT admit card at their postal addresses or email IDs. Candidates should visit the official website of XAT and download the admit card. Or else, the candidates can stay connected with this live blog. The direct link for downloading the admit card will be added here soon.
10 00 AM IST - 19 Dec'25
XAT Admit Card 2026 Release Date
The XAT admit card 2026 will be released tentatively tomorrow, that is on December 20, 2025. Once the XAT admit card is released, the direct link to download it will be added here.
