The stage is set for the 2nd Asian Management Conclave the Pan-Asia management education conference organized by MBAUniverse.com and hosted by Singapore Management University (SMU). Whos who from Asian Management education will address AMC 2016 on March 7-8 in Singapore on the theme Enhancing Competitiveness of Asian B-schools.

Now that you know your CAT 2015 scores, you will be looking for B-schools to apply. While applications to IIMs, XLRI, SPJIMR and MDI are closed, a few good B-schools are still accepting applications. One such option is Pune based FLAME University, which offers a two-year full-time residential MBA program with specializations in Finance, Marketing, HR, Operations and Entrepreneurship.

IIM Calcutta has announced the 1st stage shortlist of candidates for the flagship PGP 2016-18 programme and has awarded higher weightage to academics at the cost of CAT 2015 scores. The weightage to academics has gone up from 20 to 30 percent while it has been reduced from 77 to 67 for CAT 2015 scores in its shortlisting process for PI round to PGP 2016-18 batch.

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With the year 2015 over on a positive note for MBA graduates, 2016 appears even stronger as far as employability prospects for MBAs are considered. This is what that is revealed in GMAC survey released on January 14, 2016.

CMAT 2016 in its revamped pattern was held on January 17, 2016 from 9.30AM to 12.30PM with no technical issues. Most of the CMAT 2016 test venues recorded around 60 to 65% attendance of candidates. CMAT 2016 was held in the single session followed by GPAT 2016 at the same test venue. The test centres which were expecting around 100 candidates got about 65 CMAT 2016 test takers despite the fact that CMAT would not offer any other opportunity to improve the scores in 2016 as it has become a yearly exam with effect from CMAT 2016 as against twice a year exam earlier.

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..