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.

Most awaited credible B-school Ranking of India is finally out! Former NASSCOM Chairman and Vice-Chairman of IT services major Cognizant Lakshmi Narayanan, Management Guru Dr TV Rao; Shailesh Kekre, Principal, McKinsey India; Sundar Kondur, Vice-President of Kasturi and Sons (The HinduGroup) and Amit Agnihotri, founder of MBAUniverse.com, released The Hindu BusinessLine-MBAUniverse.com B-school Rankings 2016 on December 4 in Bengaluru. The Rankings were unveiled at the MBA Career Conference organized by MBAUniverse.com and HBL. Complete ranking is now live on MBAUniverse.com.

CAT 2015 exam right from the beginning aimed to improve academic diversity in IIM class rooms in the academic session beginning 2016. The strategic planning and move to restructure CAT 2015 on the pattern and content with the objective to achieve this goal has turned out to result in more number of non-engineers appearing in the exam than in previous CAT exams.

With barely 15 days left for SNAP 2015 going to be held on December 20, 2015 the prospective test takers are supposed to update their study plan to ace the exam. While preparing for SNAP 2015 the important factor to be kept in mind is that the SNAP cut off percentile for shortlisting at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM) Pune usually goes high. According to Dr R Raman, Director SIBM Pune For the past 5 years, for the MBA program at SIBM, Pune,the cut off percentile has never gone below 97 percentile.

National level Fee Fixation Committee headed by Justice B N Srikrishna has submitted recommendations to Ministry of Human Resource Ddevelopment to curtail the MBA & other professional courses tuition fee charged by private institutes. The recommendations are proposing another blow instead of providing level playing field for Private B-schools with IIMs as the committee has refrained from recommending any fee reduction in IIMs.