Much earlier than the visit of Mr Prakash Javadekar, Minister of HRD to its campus on September 16, IIM Ahmedabad had revamped its curriculum by introducing compulsory courses in place of electives. The decision was taken by the Review Committee at IIM Ahmedabad after consulting all stake holders which included detailed interviews with students, alumni, corporates, faculty at IIMA and other B schools.

To crack CAT 2016 you will need a well practiced preparation strategy for next 60 days as the tips and tricks can work well only if you can devote sufficient time to practice them. These are the preparation tips shared by Omar Razi, CAT topper with 99.71 percentile and NITIE student of 2016-18 batch.

Omar Razi hails from Muzaffarpur. He is a B Tech in Electronics and Communication with 41 months of work experience. He has interest in blogging and in playing football. He attributes his success to his source of inspiration, his father.

CAT 2016 like last year will be a single day exam to be conducted in 2 sessions slot on December 4, 2016. The positive impact which CAT 2016 would make on test takers is that the candidates will not have to go through the ordeal of longer testing window of 15-20 days and facing the same test with varying difficulty level and getting confused with the scoring pattern and normalization process.

IIM Kozhikode has announced the admission policy and shortlisitng criteria for PGP 2017-19. CAT 2016 aspirants shall have to score a minimum of 90 overall and 80 sectional percentile to qualify for shortlisting by IIM Kozhikode alongwith a minimum of 60% marks in class 10 & 12.

For admission to PGP 2017-19, IIMK will award 75% weight to CAT 2016 and rest 25% is divided among academic profile, Work experience, gender and academic diversity.

Use of on screen calculator in CAT 2016 exam can be a boon or a problem, depending upon your skill to utilize it to your benefit, shares Akshay Kakani, CAT topper with 99.19 percentile and SPJIMR student of PGDM 2016-18 batch.
Sharing the success mantra for the benefit of CAT 2016 aspirants, Akshay is of the view that the exam taker should take more mocks to have proper assessment of his preparation.

CAT 2016 aspirants coming from non-engineering background should expect a little easier passage to top IIMs with more weightage awarded to other factors than CAT scores. However, even the non-engineers will have to score high percentile in CAT 2016 to get shortlisted at the 1st stage.

CAT 2016 registrations after recording all time high number of 232434 since 2010 has also marked an increase of 7000 more women applicants over last year applying for CAT.
Sharing the information, Prof Rajendra K Bandi, convener CAT 2016 and faculty at IIM Bangalore said From the period CAT 2010 to CAT 2016, this is the highest number of applicants. While we still have a majority of male candidates (67%), the percentage of female candidates has marginally increased by 1% compared to last year, which is a good sign

CAT 2016 aspirants must know that CAT is really a crackable exam but they have to make their way to achieve their goal as against those who are born intelligent, suggests Abhirup Mukherjee CAT 2015 topper with 99.11 percentile who preferred to take admission in Department of management Studies (DMS)-IIT Delhi.

Sharing his preparation experience and strategy to take CAT, Abhirup is of the view that nothing is impossible and CAT is a crackable exam so aspirants should not worry about all the fuss in the air.

CAT 2016 registration recorded 6 years high and closed at 2,32,434 candidates finalizing their applications for the exam. The number continued soaring high during last 10 days. It stood at 2.08 lakhs on September 22 as against the 1.83 lakh count of last year for the corresponding period. After getting an extension of 5 days from September 22 to September 27, more than 24000 candidates have registered for CAT 2016 during 5 days. Registration process for CAT 2016 stands closed as at 5 PM on September 27, 2016.

CAT 2016 registration number has broken past 6 years record with 6% increase over last year. The number in CAT 2016 has surpassed 2.32 lakh candidates registered for the exam. Sharing with MBAUniverse.com Prof Rajendra K Bandi Convener CAT 2016 and faculty at IIM Bangalore says Total applications as at 5:00p.m. (closing time) on September 27, 2016 are 2,32,434. Total candidates registered for last year CAT were 218664.