FLAME University, Pune established as a State Private University in 2015 under an act passed by the Government of Maharashtra, looks poised for a lot of action.

Well known management academic Dr Devi Singh, who was the Director of IIM Lucknow for 10 years and Director of MDI for 5 years, recently took over as the Vice Chancellor of the FLAME University. He has ambitious plans to make FLAME University as one of the leading Universities in India and Asia. Dr. Singh has also carved out plans to make the Universitys MBA program as one of Indias most reputed program.

MICA Ahmedabad has introduced new admission process for its PGDM-C 2016-18 batch and has launched computer based MICAT 2016. The exam will be held on December 13, 2015 in 14 cities. Post MICAT exam, MICA proposes to conduct GE-PI in Bengaluru, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai by mid-January 2016. The registration and admission application process for MICA is open and is proposed to close on December 4, 2015.

MBAUniverse.com presents a first-person account of a candidate who took the CAT 2015 exam in forenoon session on November 29, 2015 to help the CAT aspirants know about the important points on test day. Candidates account of his CAT 2015 experience follows:

Hi CAT aspirants,

Giving a major relief to XAT 2016 aspirants who could not register till the last date of November 30, XLRI the XAT 2016 conducting institute has provided with 10 more days to register for the exam. The last date of registration and application for XLRI XAT 2016 has been extended from November 30 to December 10, 2015.

Registration for XAT 2016 was opened on September 4, 2015. The last date to register and apply for XAT 2016 now stands extended to Dec 10, 2015. XAT 2016 exam will be held on January 3, 2016 in a single session in paper pen mode.

CAT 2015 in its fully new attire greeted the test takers with anticipated changes and unanticipated surprises also on Nov 29, 2015 in both the sessions. Commendably, despite a high number of candidates, to be accommodated in a single day exam across the country, no technical snags and major inconvenience has been reported in the conduct of the exam.

Both the morning and afternoon sessions began on time and as instructed candidates adhered to the 90 minutes prior to exam reporting time at the test venue. The process was smooth and aspirant friendly.

Taking a sigh of relief as the CAT 2015 D-day has passed on Nov 29, 2015 and putting their fate whether they would be getting the desired IIM in 2016, in the hands of IIM Ahmedabad, more than 2 lakh candidates now wait for the outcome after an ordeal of preparing for the most important exam of ones life Thousands of the students who interacted with us after coming out of the testing hall proclaimed that the CAT 2015 test paper was easy except that the Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning was pretty tough.

Forenoon session of CAT 2015 began on time at 9.00AM today Nov 29, 2015 with no technical glitches and a totally revamped test at the test venues assigned with more testing labs accommodating 500+ candidates in each session.

It was a cool morning carrying cold breeze in Delhi NCR without sufficient Sunlight at 7.30AM the reporting time for the first session. As anticipated the test had number of changes and surprises. Reporting time for the test was 90 minutes before the exam in CAT 2015, while it was 120 minutes in CAT 2014. It made the candidates a little comfortable also.

Questions with different accent, different topics and different composition in more sections fixing sectional time limit would appear in CAT 2015. The full length practice test on CAT 2015 contains variety of questions divided in 3 sections. The hidden guideline is that the aspirants should not stick to the type of questions that appear in the practice test but should prepare and practice variety of questions on different topics and give their best shot in the exam on November 29, 2015.