XAT 2010 (Sunday, January 3, 2010)
Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) on Sunday, January 3, 2010.  XAT is the entrance exam for Xavier Labour Relation Institute Jamshedpur, Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar and other MBA institutes. The test will be held from 10 am to 12.30 pm

FMS 2010 (Sunday, January 10, 2010)
The next exam to follow is Faculty of Management Studies entrance exam. FMS 2010 is scheduled on Sunday, January 10, 2010. It is a two hour exam and will be held in 20 cities across India.

NMAT 2010 (Saturday, January 30 to Monday, February 8, 2010)
The next exam in the row is Narsee Monjee Aptitutde Test (NMAT), which is the entrance exam for Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) which will be an online test. It will be held in a 10 day window, starting from Saturday, January 30 to Monday, February 8, 2010. The duration of the exam is 150 minutes. The exam will be held in 19 centers across India apart from international test centers.

MAT (Sunday, February 7, 2010)
Management Aptitude Test (MAT), the entrance exam organized by AIMA, which is held four times a year, is scheduled for Sunday, February 7, 2010. As the test will be held in both paper pencil and computer based test, the computer based test will be held from Saturday, February 13 onwards.

ATMA (Sunday, February 14, 2010)
The next exam to look forward to is AIMS Test for Management Admissions (ATMA) which is scheduled on Sunday, February 14, 2010. This is a three hour exam with 170 questions. The last date for the sale of the application kit is Saturday, January 23, 2010 and the last date for online registration is Monday, January 25, 2010.

Maharashtra MBA CET 2010
The Director of Technical Education(DTE) have announced the dates of MBA CET 2010 . The Maharashtra MBA CET 2010 will be held on February 21, 2010 (Sunday)

XLRI Jamshedpur will hold the XAT 2010 on January 3, 2010 for admission to MBA programmes of XLRI and 60 other institutes that consider XAT scores for admission to their MBA courses.

Candidates will need to register separately for XAT and for various courses of XLRI or other institutes.

XLRI Registration
After registering for XAT, a candidate should register for XLRI’s programme(s) at www.xlri.edu. After successfully registering for XLRI, the candidate has to download the XLRI Pay-in-slip. A non-refundable amount is to be tendered along with the pay-in-slip to obtain XLRI Prospectus 2010 from select branches of Axis Bank. The detachable form given in the prospectus has to be filled-up and sent to Admission Office along with the XLRI’s copy of XLRI pay-in-slip (that was signed and sealed by Axis Bank at the time of buying the prospectus)

Alternatively, one can register for XLRI after obtaining a demand draft (DD). A candidate has to first make a non-refundable DD in favour of ‘XLRI Jamshedpur A/c Prospectus’ payable at Jamshedpur and then register for XLRI at www.xlri.edu after registering for XAT. He/she then has to send the XLRI PA Form (that is to be downloaded after registering for XLRI) along with the DD to Admission Office, XLRI, Circuit House Area (East), Jamshedpur-831001. The admission office will dispatch the prospectus to the candidate on receiving the form and demand draft.

The cost of the prospectus depends on the number of programme(s) applied for and is as follows:

For one programme, by paying cash at bank, for general candidates – Rs. 900/-, for SC/ST candidates – Rs. 600/-, through DD from admission office, for general candidates – Rs. 950/-, for SC/ST candidates – Rs. 650/-

For more than one but maximum of three programmes, by paying cash at bank, for general candidates – Rs. 1500/-, for SC/ST candidates – Rs. 1100/-, through DD from admission office, for general candidates – Rs. 1550/-, for SC/ST candidates – Rs. 1150/-

Test centres: Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Bangalore, Berhampur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Cuttak, Dehradun, Goa, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Noida, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Thiruvananthapuram, Vadodara, Visakhapatnam

XAT is also used by more than 60 other Management Institutes for admission. Candidate has to apply separately to XAT associate institute after completing their XAT registration process.

XAT bulletin and XLRI prospectus will be available from Axis Bank XAT office/admission office after online registration from September 1, 2009 to November 30, 2009

For online registration, downloading pay-in-slip for Axis Bank payment and further details, visit  www.xlri.edu.

Last date of registration for XAT and XLRI: November 30, 2009.