SNAP 2016 exam notification will be released on Sunday August 21, 2016, confirmed Mr Pranav Vyas, the SNAP test head at Symbiosis International University, Pune. Registration process for SNAP 2016 is expected to begin on Monday August 22, and the SNAP test for admission to MBA 2017-19 in all the Symbiosis institutes will be held on December 18, 2016 in paper-pen mode. SNAP 2016 is the only exam the scores of which will be accepted by 14 Symbiosis institutes for admission to their MBA 2017-19 batch.

In CAT 2016 high overall percentile will not come to my rescue, if I repeat the same sectional score mismanagement as I did in last year CAT. I am one of those 1814 candidates who scored 99 percentile but many of them were not shortlisted by any IIM. On the contrary there were candidates who scored lower percentile of 93 or 95 but were shortlisted for PI round by many IIMs.

XAT 2017, Xavier School of Management (XLRI) Jamshedpur will conduct Xavier Aptitude Test on January 8, 2017. This is the first time during the past many years that XAT 2017 will be conducted on 2nd Sunday of January instead of the first.

CAT 2016 with proposed structural and content level changes may bring more surprises by increasing further the weightage of Reading Comprehension part in VARC section. Past trends in last few CAT exams further strengthen this fact. With the increasing weightage on RC based questions, it may not be possible for CAT 2016 aspirant to score a good percentile if due attention to RC part is not given.

Gold Monetisation Scheme 2015 is a hot current affairs topic and more GK questions in recent entrance exams including MBA entrance tests have been framed on it. Questions on GK or General Awareness form an important section with a weightage of 15 to 25% in almost all the national level MBA entrance tests including XAT, IIFT, SNAP. They are also the source of discussion during GD, PI, WAT, Extempore topics for MBA admission in IIMs, FMS, MDI, SPJIMR, XLRI and other highly ranked institutes.

CAT 2016 notification will be released on July 31, 2016, it is confirmed now. The Notification will be available in all the leading news papers simultaneously on Sunday July 31, 2016. The sources have further revealed that CAT 2016 notification may bring many changes in the structure and content of the exam.

Expected changes in CAT 2016 CAT last year had a changed face. Sources have confirmed that CAT 2016 will again have a changed face. Last year CAT was totally revamped. Entire structure and content of the exam was changed.

Lot of debate is going on Net Neutrality in India and on its merits and demerits. Net Neutrality in India is one of the current hot topics and in all probability top MBA entrance exams in 2016 may ask one or two questions in their GK section on Net Neutrality. Candidates who have recently appeared in writing ability tests at various IIMs and other B-schools have encountered this topic also.