IIM Lucknow the CAT 2017 convening IIM, warns the aspirants not to make mistakes at various registration and application points while filling up the CAT 2017 registration and application form. The CAT 2017 registration process requires a bit diligent attention and the basic reason is that many details are not allowed to be changed later on.

XAT 2018 despite being conducted as online computer based test for the first time will not change its exam format. This is confirmed by the XAT 2018 convener Fr Antony Uvari SJ, admission chair at XLRI Jamshedpur.

If you scored 75 percentile in CAT last year or your preparation strategy for CAT 2017 gives you somewhere around 75 or 80 percentile in Mocks, you need a little more to achieve your goal of 90 or 95 percentile to get shortlisted by IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore or Calcutta provided you have good academic profile also.

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CAT 2017 scores will not play a major role in admission process for PGP and PGP-HRM 2018-20 batch at IIM Indore and candidates with excellent academics will be preferred by IIM-I in the shortlisting process and final admission round. This has been confirmed in the IIM Indore admission policy 2018-20 announced recently close on the heels of admission policy announced by IIM Ahmedabad, Calcutta and Lucknow lowering the CAT 2017 cut offs and awarding less weightage to CAT 2017 score,

CAT 2017 is not going to be much different from last two years of Common Admission Tests leading to IIMs, FMS, SPJIMR, MDI, IMI, IMT, TAPMI or many other MBA programmes in 2018. This fact has been confirmed by convener of CAT 2017 exam Prof Neeraj Dwivedi, faculty at IIM Lucknow.

CAT 2017 registration and application fee of Rs. 1800/- will not attract any additional GST or other taxes, this has been confirmed by Prof Neeraj Dwivedi, Convener CAT 2017 exam and faculty at IIM Lucknow. However, there are still bank transactions charges that you need to pay in addition to the CAT 2017 Registration and application fee which may go beyond Rs. 51 unless you explore the cheapest mode of CAT 2017 registration online fee payment which can be as low as Rs.13 or so.

Great Lakes Institute of Management, a premier B-school in the country with campuses in Chennai and Gurgaon, has announced the commencement of admission for its flagship full time One Year Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM). The admission announcement is for academic session 20182019 which will commence in April/May 2018.
Admission process with 2 cycles

There will be two cycles of admission and the deadlines for applying are:
Cycle-1: November 30, 2017
Cycle-2: January 24, 2018.
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Substantial changes in CAT syllabus have occurred during last 2-3 years of CAT exam and as such the different topics included in all the sections of CAT 2017 exam syllabus may throw different questions which are not traditionally asked in Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by IIMs.

CAT 2017 is the entrance exam for admission to 20 IIMs and other top B-schools like FMS, SPJIMR, MDI, IMI, IMT, JBIMS, TAPMI among others. This year IIM Lucknow is convening CAT 2017. The exam will be held on November 26, 2017 in 2 sessions.
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With only 85 sectional percentile required in CAT 2017 for admission to PGP 2018-20 batch, IIM Lucknow has announced its admission criteria and award of weightage to CAT 2017 scores as well as other parameters.

Now, with the exam dates for all the national level MBA entrance tests announced, candidates are contemplating which 2-3 exams they should write since it is difficult to appear in all the MBA entrance exams. It is of utmost importance to choose the best fit exam which can offer you best suitable MBA admission opportunity in desired B-school.