Chennai based Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) and Bangalore based IFIM Business School won the coveted IMC Gold Awards at the 7th Indian Management Conclave, held at IIM Ahmedabad on August 5-6. Other winners were IMT Ghaziabad, NMIMS University, Jaipuria Institute and IIM Kashipur. More than 40 B-schools were in competition for these prestigious annual awards.

CAT 2016 follows the pattern of last year exam with the same structure. MBAUniverse.com in order to help CAT 2016 aspirants to understand what exactly lies underneath the CAT 2016 notification got the opportunity to have a brief interaction with awfully busy CAT 2016 convener Prof Rajendra K Bandi, faculty and admission chair at IIM Bangalore.

CAT 2016 registration form will be enabled at 10AM on August 8, 2016 consisting of 5 pages and 32 management programmes offered by 20 IIMs. It may take much of your time to pick and choose first the IIM and then the programme.
Unless you go through the CAT 2016 advertisement released on July 31, 2016, you may simply go on randomly clicking on various management programmes offered by IIMs without giving a serious thought to them at the time of finalizing your registration for CAT 2016. The Notification is available on CAT 2016 website.

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The 7thIndian Management Conclave is all set to begin on August 5 at IIM Ahmedabadwith its two days agenda of thought-provoking discussions on conference theme Institutional Leadership in Management Education.
Top global management thinkers and Deans, CEOs from marquee companies, and Whos Who from Indian management education, and 250 delegates including Directors and Deans from almost all Top 100 B-schools are all set to congregate at IIM Ahmedabad on August 5-6, 2016.

MICA Ahmedabad conducted a one hour session on Media Industry: Opportunities and Challenges with Mr. Siddharth Roy Kapur, MD and CEO, Disney India at MICA campus on July 22, 2016. The Mani Aiyer Auditorium of MICA was packed with eager students from across batches as they gathered to attend the lecture, organized by MICA Leadership Series (MLS), a student-run committee in MICA.

SNAP 2016, the mandatory entrance exam for admission to MBA in 14 Symbiosis institutes will be a traditional paper-pen based exam. SNAP 2016 will be held in a single day single session on Sunday December 18, 2016. You will be able to register and apply for SNAP 2016 with effect from August 22.

SNAP 2016 will be conducted by Symbiosis International University, Pune and all the Symbiosis institutes are affiliated to this University.

Marching on the theme Making India a Global Entertainment Superpower and continuing with its tradition of foraying into uncharted territories, IIM Rohtak organized its maiden edition of Film Summit, a first-of-its-kind conclave conducted by any B-school in India on July 31, 2016.

With CAT 2016 exam staying on exactly the same pattern as that of last year, it may prove to be more advantageous for the second chance takers as they have the experience of taking a fully revamped and modified CAT last year.
In fact CAT aspirants who appeared in the exam last year, whether experienced or freshers, got perplexed with a different type of question pattern, increased number of sections, re introduction of sectional time constraint, introduction of most tricky DILR section, facing new type of questions in Non-MCQ format among other factors.

Get ready to study at IIM Ahmedabad in 2017 after scoring 80 percentile in CAT 2016, so says the top B-school of India. IIM Ahmedabad can shortlist you for admission to PGP 2017-19 batch, even if you score as low as 80 overall and 70 sectional percentile in CAT 2016 provided you have excellent academic record.