Out of 2,18,664 registered candidates for CAT 2015, 179602 candidates comprising 58270 females and 67590 non-engineers appeared in the one day 2 session exam on November 29, 2015 across the country marking the CAT 2015 as the most successful exam during last 6 years.

33% girls took CAT 2015 Sharing exclusively with MBAUniverse.com Convener CAT 2015 Prof Tathagata Bandyopadhyay, faculty at IIM Ahmedabad has revealed 179602 aspirants appeared in CAT 2015 exam and out of them 58270 were the girl candidates

Stage is all set for Indias biggest annual MBA career meet, the HBL-MBAUniverse.com MBA Careers Conference that begins on Dec 4, 2015 in Bengaluru. CXOs & HR Heads from top companies like Cognizant, FlipKart, ICICI Bank, Infosys, Titan, HP, Amazon, CISCO will interact with representatives from more than 20 leading B-schools on MBA Career Opportunities 2016 at the prestigious one day career meet. The conference is an annual MBAUniverse.com platform to showcase cutting-edge Industry Practices and highlight corporate expectations from MBAs.

Candidates who registered after 24th November 2015 for MAT DEC 2015 (Computer Based Test) may download their Admit Card from 2nd Dec 2015 (Wednesday),1700 Hrs onwards. Although the registration for paper pen based MAT December 2015 was closed on November 24, 2015, for computer based MAT Dec 2015, it was allowed even after Nov 24, 2015.

It is determinable to a large extent now that your total marks of 201 in first slot and 199 in slot 2 could award you a percentile of 99.9 in CAT 2015 and a gap of 20 marks is expected to exist between the award of 99.9 and 99 percentile in CAT 2015.

With 3 marks awarded for each correct answer and -1 mark for every wrong answer to an MCQ and no deduction for wrong answer to Non-MCQ has made it difficult for the candidates how to assess whether they would get the desired high sectional and overall percentile in accordance with their performance in CAT 2015 exam.

On the occasion of presenting Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE competition awards 2015 at IIM Ahmedabad, Honble President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee on his maiden visit, engaged with the faculty and students of this prestigious institution and emphasized on improving the higher education in the country.

After the successful conduct of shortest ever one day two session CAT 2015 in its computerized format, some of the misleading media reports have been carrying the news that the answer keys for CAT 2015 would be made available shortly by IIMs to the candidates.

Getting panicky and confused by the misleading news items, thousands of CAT 2015 takers have approached MBAUniverse.com whether answer keys would be made available by IIMs for the test questions.

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.