Odisha Assembly has passed the awaited Birla Global University Bill on December 7, 2015 at 7.20 PM and has awarded the Bhubaneshwar campus of BIMTECH the status of a State Private University. The passing of the bill has paved the way for BIMTECH Bhubaneshwar to award MBA degree instead of PGDM diploma to management graduates. The Bill was passed by a voice vote.

AICTE has extended the last date of CMAT 2016 registration for another 3 days from December 10 to December 13, 2015. Year 2015 has seen the extension in the last date of registration for all the important MBA entrance exams like CAT 2015; XAT 2016; SNAP 2015 and now CMAT 2016.

AICTE will conduct CMAT 2016 as a computer based test (CBT) on January 17, 2016. AICTE will now conduct only 1 CMAT exam instead of 2 CMAT exams which were used to be held in the months of September and February every year.

If you score reasonably good and exceeding the threshold limit, your slightly low CAT 2015 score may not be a hurdle in getting shortlisted for PI round at IIM Calcutta for PGP 2016-18 batch. Indian Institute of Management Calcutta has decided not to award 100% weightage to CAT 2015 scores. Only 67% weightage would be awarded to CAT 2015 scores and the rest 33% wightage will be awarded to you, if you possess other qualities prescribed by the IIM Calcutta.

One of the most favourite and largest management entrance tests XAT 2016 will be closing its online registration and application process tomorrow on December 10, 2015. XLRI Jamshedpur the XAT 2016 conducting institute has already provided with 10 more days to register for the exam and extended the last date to apply from November 30 to December 10, 2015. Candidates desirous of appearing in XAT 2016 should register and apply today instead of waiting for the last minute tomorrow in order to avoid any unanticipated technical glitch that may arise due to last day rush on XAT 2016 website.

IIFT 2016, the unique scoring method with variable marking and weightage to its 4 exam components makes the paper-pen based IIFT 2016 entrance exam for admission to MBA (IB) 2017-19 batch not only different but requires a well devised preparation strategy to score high in each section.

In a bid to contribute and recognise the entrepreneurial atmosphere prevalent in the country, International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi would be organizing its annual entrepreneurship summit e-Merge on 12th December, 2015.

After appearing in a fully revamped CAT 2015 exam on November 29, 2015, the test takers have been registering on many websites to get the glimpse of their percentile. All of them claim to be nearly accurate but none of the percentile predictors share how they have arrived at the percentile score of the candidates based on their attempts in CAT 2015 in different sections.

Imposing the penalty of 0.05 for unattempted questions and 0.25 marks for each wrong answer in XAT 2016 had created more confusion among candidates as they were not clear whether the penalty would begin for 14th unattempted question or would also be applied for earlier unattempted questions. Addressing the query of the candidates, XAT 2016 convener Prof Munish Thakur has responded The penalty of 0.05 marks for each unattempted question would begin from the 14th question. It implies that the imposition of negative marking wouldnt include the earlier unattempted 13 questions.

MBA batch 2015-17 at Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD) Pune has achieved great summer placement with 40% rise in average stipend and the highest stipend going up to Rs.240,000/-. According to SCMHRD The adept and small batch of 230 students acquitted themselves exemplarily before the impressive line-up of recruiting stalwarts this year.