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.
CAT 2017 Important updates:

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.

Conducted by IIMs, CAT 2024 is the largest MBA entrance exam for MBA admission 2025 in 21 IIMs and 100+ top MBA colleges in India including FMS, IIFT, TISS, SPJIMR, MDI. This year IIM Calcutta will conduct CAT on November 24, 2024 in three slots of 2 hours duration each.  The first step to get admission 2025 into any CAT accepting college is to complete the CAT 2024 registration process carefully and without error. CAT 2024 registration process is open at iimcat.ac.in. for next few days.

60 years legacy of XLRI-XAT as paper based test is broken with the announcement of Online XAT 2018 to be held on January 7, 2018 in 3 hours duration. Online registration for XAT 2018 has been opened by XLRI, the XAT 2018 conducting institute on August 16 and will remain open till November 30 without late fee.

Releasing the XAT 2018 notification, XLRI has changed and revamped the XAT 2018 exam pattern from paper pen based to online computer based test. Sharing about the changed pattern of XAT 2018 exam XLRI has informed Mode of Examination is Online.

The biggest challenge that most business schools face today is how to bring the corporate decision-making experience into the classroom as an effective learning pedagogy. To address this urgent training need, IIM Lucknow has launched National Management Faculty Development Center (NMFDC) to ease this crisis, at its Noida campus.

Equipped with last years CAT exam experience, the second timers going to appear in CAT 2017 will get an edge over their peers to crack the exam with high scores given the fact that CAT 2017 exam stays on exactly the same pattern as that of last year.

NMATbyGMAC 2017: Registrations open. Apply now. NMAT by GMAC exam opens doors to leading management programmes.

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) has changed its eligibility criteria and IIFT 2017 exam registration criteria for admission to MBA (IB) 2018-20 programme. This year IIFT has prescribed minimum 50% marks in graduation to register and apply for admission to MBA (IB) 2018-20 as against the admission criteria announced last year when no such percentage of marks to register and apply for the IIFT entrance exam 2016 was prescribed.

If you wish to fill your new CAT 2017 registration form without any error and do not want to waste your Rs.1800/- paid for CAT 2017 registration fee due to any error in CAT registration process, you should follow the IIM Lucknow suggestion to go through the registration instructions and gather beforehand all the required documents as advised in CAT 2017 registration guide before moving forward to fill up your CAT 2017 registration form.

IIMs are desperate about the good student counselors who can help in minimizing the drop out rate of students at the campus in the very 1st year. Not only this, many students of final year PGP who accept job offers during campus placements at IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta and Lucknow do not join the work place, causing embarrassment to the IIMs.