In the next 40 days of your preparation for CAT 2015, you could turn your cherished dream of getting into IIM A, B, C or L into reality, if you begin utilizing judiciously your time and develop shortcuts to solve the different type of 100 questions divided in 3 sections.

Summer placement at IIM Kozhikode (IIMK) for the 19th batch of Post Graduate Programme 2015-17 comprising 349 students concluded in a record time of 6.5 days.
With 100+ recruiters, this placement season not only witnessed an upward swing in the average stipend but also saw niche roles being offered to the students. The average stipend increased by 32% to INR 1.06 lakh while the highest stipend was INR 3 lakh.

Boston Consulting Group participated for the first time and recruited 5 students for its Consulting role.

Parina Kolhe CAT topper with 98.09 percentile is a fresher and is an example for CAT 2015 aspirants who think admission to IIM is difficult without work experience.
Parina has no IIT background and pursued her engineering in Electronics &Telecommunication from Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering & Technology, Nanded, Maharashtra. She is presently pursuing her 2 year Management Programme at IIM Ranchi.

MICA Ahmedabad has collaborated with Talentedge, one of Indias top interactive learning solution companies, to offer students an industry-first PG Certificate Programme in Marketing and Brand Management. The 4 month programme has been designed by MICA, Indias premier management school for strategic marketing and communication to provide students a comprehensive view of various practical and applicable aspects of Marketing and Brand Management.

Xavier School of Management (XLRI),one of Indias premier B-Schools, completed the summer placements 2015 for its largest ever first year batch 2015-17 in record time yet again. The entire batch of 360 students at XLRI obtained internship opportunities in a span of only 2.5 days.

The recruitment drive saw 95 companies participating in the process with 92 of them making offers to a batch of 360 students.

The marking scheme announced for CAT 2015 has 3 marks for every correct answer and 1 mark deducted from your credit score for every wrong answer. This year in CAT 2015 there will also be questions which will have no negative marking but their number will be very few.

Paper pen based format in SNAP test is proposed to continue not only for SNAP 2015 but for future exams also till the zero error in computer based format especially while copying the Data Interpretation questions is ensured. According to Dr R Raman Convener SNAP 2015 & Director SIBM Pune SNAP 2015 will be a paper-pen based exam and most probably SNAP 2016 would also be paper-pen based.

The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi concluded the summer placement 2015 in record time for the students of its flagship MBA (International Business) program 2015-17. Despite the tight fisted economy conditions, the highest number of recruiters turned up on the campus to offer summer internship to the batch of 262 students.

Among the top recruiters are Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, ITC, Shell, Boeing, GE, Marico, Dabur, J&J CH, GSK CH, Godrej Industries, eBay, Flipkart, Microsoft, Google & Amazon.

CAT Centre 2015 would be making available the CAT 2015 mock test towards the end of October instead of earlier announced date of October 15, 2015. Experts at CAT Centre 2015 and convener CAT 2015 are incessantly working to enable it on CAT 2015 website at the earliest possible. Sharing with MBAUniverse.com, Prof Tathagata Bandyopadhyay, Convener CAT 2015 and faculty at IIM Ahmedabad says We have been working on the mock test. I expect this to be uploaded at the end October.

SRM University sets a new placement record on Day One with top four IT companies offering jobs to 6064 students. Speaking on the occasion on placement results, Dr. Paarivendhar, Founder Chancellor, said that this is the first time SRM University shared the slot 1 with four companies Cognizant, Infosys, TCS and Wipro.Such sharing helps the students to make their own choice of the company with multiple offers in hand he said.