After all the ups and downs, the D day for CMAT 2016 has arrived and it is expected that AICTE will take all precautions and measures to conduct the test tomorrow on January 17, 2016 in a glitch free environment. The delay in issuance of Admit Card for CMAT 2016 has although the shaken the trust of aspirants yet the computer based CMAT 2016 remains the last hope to improve your score and explore admission opportunity in MBA/PGDM programme at a good B-school.

None of the 19 IIMs would be going to bestow blessings upon hundreds of candidates out of total 1814 with 99 percentile scored in CAT 2015 by shortlisting them for PI round. The fact that despite scoring a percentile as high as 99 and above, these candidates remain deprived of getting a call from any IIM for admission 2016 is as true as their scores in CAT 2015.

General Awareness or GK in CMAT 2016 would play a very important and decisive role in pushing up or pulling down your scores. You can get an edge with higher score and higher percentile, if your GK is well prepared. The role of General Awareness in CMAT is as important as that of Quant, Verbal or Logical Reasoning.

The scoring pattern as advised by AICTE indicates that CMAT 2016 will have 25 questions with 100 marks allotted to General Awareness (GK) like other 3 sections namely Quant, English and Reasoning.

IIM Kozhikode one of the highly ranked B-schools in the family of 19 IIMs with high placement record has announced the shortlist of candidates for flagship PGP 2016-18 batch on the basis of CAT 2015 result declared on January 8, 2016.

The minimum qualifying score sectional as well as overall in CAT 2015 to be eligible to get shortlisted by IIM Kozhikode has been fixed as 90 overall and 80 sectional percentile. The actual percentile score in shortlisting has gone much higher than prescribed..

CMAT 2016 going to be conducted by AICTE on January 17, 2016 for admission to MBA/PGDM programmes in 400+ B schools in the country can prove to be a very good but last chance to improve your score, if you scored low percentile in CAT 2015.

Pramit Arora, Rajat Jain and Sanuj Mittal of Delhi are among the 17 candidates including a female who have scored 100 percentile in CAT 2015 out of the total 179602 candidates who appeared in the exam held on November 29, 2015. 2 out of the 3 with 100 percentile in CAT 2015 are the IIT Delhi students while one is studying in the final year at Delhi Technological University.

After announcing its shortlisting criteria based on CAT 2015 scores, IIM Ahmedabad has reduced the minimum cut off percentile ranks for CAT 2015 scores from 90 overall to 80 overall and from 80 sectional to 70 sectional percentile scores. In all 24128 candidates have been shortlisted by IIM Ahmedabad for final admission round.

Apart from CAT 2015 percentile scores IIMA has taken into account academic profile & diversity among other parameters to shortlist the candidates.

The blocked Admit card for CMAT 2016 which created panic among the candidates appears to have been released after resolving the technical glitch. Now the CMAT 2016 admit card has been sent to the mail IDs of all the CMAT 2016 aspirants by AICTE. However, AICTE has also claimed that the CMAT 2016 Admit Card is also available for download on the portal.

CAT 2015 in its revamped look has made many test takers cry with multiple times increase in number of candidates scoring negative percentile over last year. There are 6867 candidates who have scored negative percentile in CAT 2015 while this number was somewhere around 2700 in last year CAT exam. The sharp increase has recorded a jump of 2.5 times. Sharing with MBAUniverse.com, IIM Ahmedabad has informed Out of 6872 candidates scoring zero marks and negative percentile scores in CAT 2015 there are 6867 candidates with negative percentile and 5 with zero marks

Placement 2016 at K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai has witnessed more recruiters with more offers being made to the students. A total of 300 plus companies have registered at the campus this year and another 75 propose to follow in quick succession. Industry leaders and top notch brands of various industries and sectors have visited SIMSR and the response is a remarkable improvement over last year.