Anticipating discriminatory features in proposed IIM Bill 2015 that could make adverse impact on PGDM schools, Indian Association of Autonomous Business Schools (IAABS)recently organizedTheFirst Indian B-Schools Summitto discuss and deliberate on the possible promulgation of the IIM-MBA Bill and other important management education - centric issues at XIME Bangalore.

MDI Gurgaon concluded its Summer Placement 2015 in 2.5 days breaking its own record of 3.5 days in 2014. Summer internship is a mandatory requirement for the fulfillment of the MBA curriculum.

Since 2010 Data Interpretation (DI) and Logical Reasoning (LR) in CAT have remained clubbed with Quant and Verbal Ability sections. CAT 2015 is going to be the first exam having created a separate section on DILR with 32 questions of MCQ and Non-MCQ type.

You will be allotted 60 minutes to solve 32 questions in this section equally divided as 16 DI and 16 LR questions appearing in sets as well as individual questions.

DILR: Equal weightage

IIM Rohtak organized 5th Management Conclave, MANCON 2015, a 2 day convention on Oct 10 & 11, 2015 at its campus. The conclave focused on the topic Opportunity in Crisis: Call for Intelligent Innovation. The conclave witnessed the participation of top business leaders Deepak Tuli, Co-Founder and COO, Goibibo; Anil Chopra, Business Head, Technical Skill Development, Siemens; Murlee Dhar Shyamm, VP-Group, RJ Corp Healthcare; Vivek Tripathi, CHRO, Lava International; Rakesh Kharwal, Director - Intel Security, McAfee and Mr Murthy NSN, Director and Leader, Smart Cities among others.

CAT 2015 aspirants going to appear in the largest MBA entrance exam with 2.18 lakh candidates writing the test to get one of the top IIMs, need to ensure that they have other weights with them apart from scoring high sectional and overall percentile as IIMs have modified their admission criteria for PGP 2016-18 batch.

Busting the Halo effect of studying in IIMs despite being offered admission, Shourya Jain, FMS Delhi student & CAT topper with 99.95 percentile motivates and inspires CAT 2015 aspirants with his go with ease preparation tips and key advice not to complicate the things to score high in CAT 2015. Shourya Jain also scored a high percentile of 99.7 in XAT 2015 and was offered admission at XLRI as well.

Indias top MBA Recruiters from leading companies like Cognizant, ICICI Bank, Infosys, Titan and many more will address HBL-MBAUniverse.com conference on December 4, 2015 in Bangalore. Mr Lakshmi Narayanan, Vice Chairman, Cognizant Technology & Former Chairman of NASSCOM will deliver the Special address at the conference. Cognizant is Indias largest MBA recruiter amongst Top 25 B-schools. The conference is an annual MBAUniverse.com platform to showcase cutting-edge Industry Practices and highlight corporate expectations from MBAs.

Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2016, the mandatory exam to get into XLRI and other top B-schools in India will have an increased time limit of 30 minutes to solve around same number of questions. In an exclusive response to MBAUniverse.com Prof Munish Thakur, Convener XAT 2016 and admission chair at XLRI clarifies The objective of increase in the time is to allow students answer more questions. The increase in time would allow students to increase the score.

Transforming Indian Higher Education the book authored by Dr H Chaturvedi, Alt President EPSI and Director BIMTECH Greater Noida has been unveiled by Honble Chief Minister of Punjab S Prakash Singh Badal at inaugural session of EPSIs national summit in Chandigarh on October 8, 2015.

The book is all about the contemporary issues and challenges to the Indian Higher Education. Education Promotion Society for India (EPSI) is convening its national summit at Chandigarh on the theme Higher Education for Skill Development & Employability.