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.

National Insurance Academy is organizing the 17th Annual C D Deshmukh memorial Seminar to be conducted on January 14 and 15, 2016 at its campus in Pune.

National Insurance Academy (NIA) was established in the year 1980, under the aegis of Government of India and the then Insurers, the public sector insurers in India. The academy focuses on the enhancement of competencies of Insurance professionals and to equip the industry with the best of the talents.

Recently announced admission policy for the PGP Batch 2016-18 of IIM Rohtak emphasizes the need of only minimum 85 percentile in CAT 2015 as against 90 percentile required by other IIMs to qualify to get shortlisted for PI round.

As against other IIMs, IIM Rohtak would award weightage not only to CAT 2015 percentile score but also to other parameters while shortlisting candidates for Common Admission Process (CAP) comprising WAT & PI and to be coordinated by IIM Kashipur for admission 2016-18 batch.

IIM Ahmedabad has announced the shortlist of candidates for the PI round post CAT 2015 result declaration. Hundreds of 99 and above percentilers have not found their names in the shortlist of candidates.
CAT 2015 result declared on Friday January 8, 2016 had 17 candidates with 100 percentile including 1 female candidate who have been shortlisted by IIM Ahmedabad. The 99 percentilers have not been so lucky as many of them have not been found eligible to be shortlisted by IIM Ahmedabad due to major sectional dips in their scoring pattern.

Even after taking due measures to improve gender diversity in class rooms of IIMs, the data released by IIM Ahmedabad containing the list of 17 toppers in the 100 percentile league includes only one female candidate. Sharing the statistics with MBAUniverse.com, convener CAT 2015 and faculty at IIM Ahmedabad Prof Tathagata Bandyopadhyay has informed that There are 17 candidates with 100 percentile in CAT 2015 and they include one female candidate.