Hello,

CAT, XAT, MH-CET are three different exams for admission in various MBA colleges in India.

CAT (Common Admission Test) is considered the head of all exams because this is how MBA is actually known in India and it is conducted by IIMs, which happen to be the autonomous educational institutions of our nation known for providing managerial-quality education. All the IIMs and almost all the B-schools of India (except a few which conduct their own exams for admission in their respective institutes like SNAP, NMAT, IIFT) consider CAT scores.

XAT is Xavier Aptitude Test that is conducted by Xavier institute for admission in all the existing Xavier institutes in India and its scores are considered by a number of other B-schools as well.

These other institutes consider CAT/XAT scores.

MH-CET is another exam for entry in colleges of only Maharashtra that offer MBA programs.

Now there are certain institutes like IRMA, MICA, etc. which though consider CAT/XAT scores as a pre-requisite, yet conduct their own exams for admission in these colleges.



Answering to your doubt of priority, there is no criteria specified or any priority as such for any of the institutes. Most of the institutes are ready to accept any of the higher percentile (score) of either CAT or XAT, in whatever you might score more. So, even if you mess up with CAT, for instance, you still have a chance to get into a good bschool based on your XAT scores (definitely not IIMs because IIMs consider only CAT PERCENTILE).



Now, distribution of seats in bschools depend largely up in your performance in the aptitude test (CAT/XAT/CMAT/IIFT/SNAP/MAT/ATMA/MH-CET) coupled with your past academic and non-academic performance and your work experience. What I mean by performance in aptitude test is largely percentile i.e., how better are you as compared to other students who appeared for the same test in the same year.

Your past academic performance includes graduation, class 12th and 10th. Non-academic performance includes co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. And work experience is the number of years you worked, company in which you worked, your job profile and projects you worked upon.

Combining all these along with GD-PI-WAT performance, your cumulative scores are prepared which decide your position or seat allotment  in MBA colleges.



Hope this helps.

All the best!!

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