Registration process for NMAT by GMAC is closing today on October 3, 2016 for the candidates who wish to apply and appear in the exam without payment of late fee. The facility to register and apply for NMAT by GMAC with additional late fee of Rs.300/- will be available till October 12, 2016. NMAT by GMAC will be conducted in a 75 days test window from October 7 to December 20, 2016 as a computer based on line test with the facility of re-scheduling and 3 retakes.

CAT 2016 aspirants going through their preparation journey in full swing may find number of situations coming with different type of challenges before the D-day. There are many firsts introduced by IIM Bangalore in convening CAT 2016 and many such information items on which nothing has been divulged by the CAT 2016 convener in the name of confidentiality.

IFIM Business School students presented their final observations and reports on the SIP -Social Immersion Project, on August 16, 2016 to a panelist of representatives of NGOs and senior academicians.

CAT 2016 aspirants are left with 60 days including the big festival time of Dussehra and Diwali to face the mother of MBA entrance exams on December 4, 2016. During these 2 months, the CAT 2016 preparation plan can be devoted to improve the level of accuracy alongwith reducing the time taken to solve the questions.

CAT 2016 preparation in next 60 days will require key tips and success mantra to help the aspirants to score high percentile in the exam. Learning and using Vedic Mathematics to increase the pace of speed can be an important tool to succeed in CAT 2016 is the success mantra shared by Dev Iyer, CAT topper with 99.70 percentile and IIM Rohtak student.

The error correction process after submission of CAT 2016 application form has been enabled today on October 1 as earlier promised by Convener CAT 2016 Prof Rajendra Bandi, faculty at IIM Bangalore. In case of any mistake made while filling in the CAT 2016 registration form, candidates have 5 days to rectify these errors. The activation of the error correction module by IIM Bangalore is with a rider that only limited 3 type of mistakes can be corrected.

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.