Till the year before last, question sets on Logical Reasoning in CAT remained as a dependent section clubbed to Verbal Ability. CAT exam takers probably did not award LR the due weightage in preparation as they did not find it so necessary as in other MBA entrance exams like SNAP, XAT among others. But the situation has changed now.

Number of Management Institutes accepting MAT 2016 September scores has gone down to 164 from 330 in last exam. The scores of MAT 2016 September exam can be used for admission to MBA/PGDM 2017-19 programme in these B-schools.

CAT 2016 the gateway to 20 IIMs and other top B-schools is hardly 100 days away and the candidates who appeared in CAT last year but could not make it to their dream B-school due to the mistakes they made during preparation and in the testing room now are hell bent not to repeat them again. They are preparing again to hit a high overall as well as high sectional scores with a vow to get their dream IIM in 2017.

XSeed, the idea and initiative cell of XIMB organized Kickstart- Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive 2016 on July 10, 2016. The drive aims to raise awareness about entrepreneurship amongst the students to encourage them to turn their dreams into reality. The speakers for the occasion were Mr. Rajesh Panda, MD- Corporate Gurukul, Mr. Manish Harodia, Co-founder- Dream Wallets and Mr. Ankur Mathur, Co-founder- Socrates Foundation for Enhanced Living in India. Dr. Partha Sarithi Mishra, IAS and MD of Odisha Small Industries Corporation Ltd was the special guest for the event.

The 7th edition of Indian Management Conclave, Indias biggest management education conference, is all set to be hosted at IIM Ahmedabad campus on August 5-6, 2016. IMC 2016 will be addressed by Policy makers, CXOs from corporate India, Directors and finest minds from Indian and global management education. Joining the stellar line up of speakers, R S Sodhi, Managing Director, GCMMF Ltd (AMUL) will be sharing his perspective on Institutional Building at IMC 2016.

Instead of leaping into the exam which is different and offers more opportunities to improve your score, know well all about the exam, find out the key preparation areas and plan how to maximise your score in subsequent attempts offered by NMAT by GMAC, says expert and mentor on exam preparation Prof S K Agarwal.

CAT 2016 test takers may be in for a pleasant surprise of getting more than 1 day testing window if their request is acceded to by IIM Bangalore who is convening CAT this year with testing partner agency TCS. The CAT 2016 notification, to be released in the last week of July will further clarify the details.

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) proposes to release the notification for MBA (IB) 2017-19 entrance exam between July 11 to 16. The exam is scheduled on November 27, 2016 from 10AM to 12 Noon.
According to IIFT Release of advertisement/Availability of Brochure and application form on IIFTs website will be from second week of July and the Written examination will be held on 4th Sunday of November from 10.00 am to 12.00 noon
The registration process for IIFT entrance exam which starts from second week of July will close in the 1st week of September, 2016.

The world is said to be divided into 2 financial groups Haves and Have-Nots and those pursuing MBA education in India or dream to pursue MBA from one of the top IIMs can also conveniently be divided into CAT takers with high scores and No CAT takers, who remain out of IIMs.