A pass in JEE Advanced 2021 exam simply does not mean all the things are over. A lot of activity takes place after the popular competitive test is conducted.

JEE Advanced 2021 exam result

The first would be the release of JEE Advanced 2021 exam result. Students who wrote the exam on October 3 this year can check the result on October 15.

Post clicking the link, students can enter their roll number, date of birth and phone number and login and view the result of JEE Advanced 2021 exam.

Students can take a printout once the results in connection with JEE Advanced 2021 exam are visible and preserve them for future use. The printout of the result would be of use during the counselling process.

Before result
There is a small process even before the release of the final result of JEE Advanced 2021 exam. The provisional answer keys would be released just before the final results in connection with JEE Advanced 2021 exam are out.

The copies of the response sheets of the candidates in JEE Advanced 2021 exam will be uploaded on the official website of the exam.

The response sheets can be downloaded by clicking the appropriate link and entering the mobile number, roll number of JEE Advanced 2021 exam and date of birth.

The provisional answer keys in connection with JEE Advanced 2021 exam will be released by 10 am from 10 October onwards. Students can access these response sheets on the official website.

Making use of the provisional answer keys and the response sheets, students can analyse their performance in JEE Advanced 2021 exam.

Post registration of responses, the final result will be released on October 15 along with release of final answerkeys. Release of the final result is the commencement of another process that is equally relevant.

Post release
Students now have to ensure they have the required cutoff in the JEE Advanced 2021 exam. Cutoff is the minimum mark that is required to qualify the exam. Candidates must get marks either equal to the cutoff or more than it to get a seat in IITs.

The cutoff is released either before the declaration of final result of JEE Advanced 2021 exam or shortly after the release. Sometimes it could be released along with the final result.

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Candidates who have achieved the cutoff mark or above it in the JEE Advanced 2021 exam can move to the next phase that would be conducted by JoSAA (Joint Seat Allocation Authority). The next phase is counselling.

Counselling is the process where students can register themselves on the official website of JoSAA and choose the course they wish to study and the IIT where they desire to study the course of their choice.

Cutoffs
IIT Kharagpur which is the conducting authority of JEE Advanced 2021 exam will release the cutoff marks. These marks will be different for various categories of applicants – General, OBCs, SCs, STs.

Candidates who have attended JEE Advanced 2021 exam have to achieve the individual cutoff in each subject (maths, physics and chemistry) and also in aggregate for all the three subjects.

The JEE Advanced cutoffs are prepared after taking into account points like number of students participating in the exam, difficulty level of the exam, seat availability in IITs, previous year cutoffs, performance of the candidate in JEE Advanced exam.

Architecture
Students who have qualified JEE Advanced 2021 exam with required cutoffs and want a seat in IIT will take part in the counselling conducted by JoSAA. Students willing to study architecture have to apply for Architecture Aptitude Test (AAT) soon after release of JEE Advanced 2021 exam.

The results of JEE Advanced 2021 exam will be released on 15 October. Candidates can submit applications from 10 am onwards of 15 October to 5 pm of 16 October on the official website of JEE Advanced exam.

AAT will be conducted on 18 October from 9 am to 12 pm. AAT results will be declared on 22 October. The seat allocation process (counselling) will likely start by 16 October.

Students should ensure that they have attained the required cutoff in JEE Advanced 2021 exam before they take part in the counselling.

After clicking the link of the official website and soon after the webpage downloads, students can click the appropriate link register for taking part in the counselling.

Before registration, the candidates can click the link of ‘Seat Matrix’ on the official website of JoSAA and find out the availability of the seat and course they wish to study in the institute (IIT) of their choice.

Post registration, candidates can login and fill the forms and choose the institute and course they wish to study.

The counselling will be conducted in six rounds usually, those who could not get the course of their choice in the institute they have desired, can make their choices in the subsequent rounds of counselling.

Candidates who have got seats sanctioned in the counselling can report at the centres designated for document verfication and completion of other procedures. Post completion of procedures, students have to pay the fees and join the institution.

Those who are wishing to join management courses in XLRI (Xavier School of Management) can concentrate on this exam which is one of the most popular ones in the country.

Those who take up XAT 2025 Registration from 28 September 2024 onwards, can choose to write exam from the new test centers.

The Newly Added Test Centers Are: Ajmer, Aligarh, Anantapur, Arrah, Baddi, Balasore, Bareilly, Bhagalpur, Bikaner, Bilaspur, Chikkaballapur, Darbhanga, Davanagere, Dhenkanal, Haldwani, Hazaribagh, Hisar, Jodhpur, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga), Kalyani, Karimnagar, Kolhapur, Kurukshetra, Mehsana, Moradabad, Muzaffarnagar, Muzaffarpur, Nanded, Patiala, Salem, Shimla, Sikar, Ujjain, Vellore.

The Other Test Centers Are: Agra, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad City (Maharashtra), Allahabad, Ambala, Amravati, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Berhampur, Bhatinda, Bhilai Nagar, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh/Mohali, Chennai, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi-NCR, Dhanbad, Dibrugarh, Durgapur/Asansol, Ernakulam, Gandhinagar, Goa, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hooghly, Hubballi(Hubli), Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur,Jalandhar, Jaipur, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Kannur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Kota, Kottayam, Kurnool, Lucknow, Madurai, Mangalore, Mumbai, Mysuru(Mysore), Nagpur, Nashik, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Rajahmundry, Ranchi, Roorkee, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Siliguri, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirappalli, Tirupathi, Tiruvallur, Udaipur, Udupi Vadodara, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Warangal, Tejpur, Jorhat, Rajkot, Shillong, Naharlagun.

The process of submitting the application started on 15 July 2024. Admit card for the exam will be available for download from 20 December 2024.

Exam will be conducted on 5 January 2025 from 2:00pm to 5:30pm. The process of application (XAT 2025 Registration) has begun.

The scores in the exam will be used by other well-known management institutions for admission into courses offered by them.

There are other prestigious B Schools that offer admission into management courses based on scores in XAT and these institutions are known as XAMI (Xavier Association of Management Institutes).

Point to remember

The official website for the exam is ready and it can be visited with the help of URL ‘https://xatonline.in/’ The candidates can read the information about the exam.

The link to take up XAT 2025 registration is active, candidates can take up XAT 2025 registration and apply for the test.

About the exam

The full name of the exam is Xavier Aptitude Test which is popularly known to all as XAT. It is conducted every year by XLRI of Jamshedpur.

It is a national level exam that has to be passed to gain admission into management courses offered by XLRI and other participating institutions.

XAT 2025 is meant to be conducted for the year 2025. The test will be conducted across 75 cities in India.

Even apart from participating institutions, many other b schools across India offer admissions based on scores in this exam.

Who can take up XAT 2025 registration?

Candidates willing to take up XAT 2025 registration must have passed Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent from a recognized educational institution located anywhere in India.

Candidates appearing for the final year of their qualifying degree examination and those who have completed degree requirements and are awaiting results can also take up XAT 2025 registration.

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However, they have to pass the exam and provide a proof for it by the time of admission process commencement in XLRI or its associate institutions.

1. The URL mentioned above must be typed into the browser and submitted to allow the website to download.

2. Once the website is ready, candidates can click the information brochure and know about the exam.

3. After reading the information, candidates can click the button Register.

4. Clicking the above button will open another webpage with URL ‘https://applications.xatonline.in/?_gl=1*17pi4n7*_ga*MTM4OTUzOTQ1NC4xNzIwODU1NjQw*_ga_44L83023B1*MTcyMDg1NTY0MC4xLjEuMTcyMDg1NTgyMC42MC4wLjA.’

5. When the webpage with above URL opens, candidates can provide the required information and create an account with username and password.

6. Post account creation, candidates can login and start applying for the exam.

Link to take up XAT 2025 Registration is Here

Registration fee

Candidates have to pay XAT 2025 registration fee of Rs 2200 while applying for the exam. Those applying for XLRI programmes, have to pay Rs 200 per programme.

How to download admit card?

Candidates who have successfully completed their XAT 2025 registration will alone be able to download admit card and its process is explained below:

1. Candidates have to visit the official website for the exam at ‘https://xatonline.in/’

2. Once the website is ready, candidates have to click the link for downloading hall ticket which may open another webpage.

3. When another webpage opens, candidates have to type their application number and other required information and submit them to obtain the admit card.

Exam pattern

XAT 2025 will be conducted online as a computer based test where the questions have to be answered on a computer screen at the test centre.

Duration to complete answering is 3 hours 30 minutes. The test will have questions related to Decision Making, Verbal & Logical Ability, Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation, General Knowledge, and Essay Writing.

Candidates who have taken up XAT 2025 registration must remember that XLRI has decided to make changes in exam timings. XAT 2025 exam timing stands changed from morning to afternoon.

The exam has to be passed with required qualifying marks which is also known as cutoff scores.

Cutoff score is the minimum marks candidates have to get in the exam to be eligible for next phase of admission.

The score of the candidates in the exam must be either greater than cutoff or equal to it.

Those who pass can appear for the next stage which comprises group discussion, interview, document verification. Those who get the seat can pay the money and join the institution for classes.

Point to remember

It is to note that many institutions accept XAT scores for admission into management programmes offered by them, their admission process and schedule may vary from that of XLRI.

Candidates have to visit the websites of those institutions and obtain information about their admission process before submitting applications there.