Xavier School of Management (XLRI) Jamshedpur in collaboration with Tech Mahindra has announced the launch of six months eMDP program on Strategic Management. The programme will be offered on Education Lanes an initiative of Tech Mahindras Growth Factories division. Education Lanes offers comprehensive direct-to-device education suite with real-time interactive and participative virtual classroom sessions.

Registration to close on Oct 12
Registration for the course has started and will close on October 12, 2015.

The programme

Reintroduction of 60 minute sectional time constraint in CAT 2015 can prove to be a blessing in disguise in the 3 hours and 3 section exam leading to IIMs in 2016. CAT has the history of constant evolution and CAT 2015 is no exception to it.

Common Admission Test (CAT) 2015 is the gateway to 19 existing and 1 proposed IIMs in 2016 apart from other highly ranked B-schools. For the first time CAT 2015 has brought with it the type of questions the wrong answers of which will not be penalized with negative marking.

International Management Institute (IMI) Delhi has announced the application deadlines for admission to flagship PGDM and 15 month executive PGDM programmes beginning 2016. The highly ranked B-school will accept only CAT and GMAT exam scores as one of the mandatory admission criteria. While there will be 360 seats in admission 2016 at IMI Delhi for the 2 year full time PGDM programmes, Executive PGDM intake will be 129 seats bifurcated into self sponsored and company sponsored candidates.

After announcing the exam dates for Management Aptitude Test (MAT) Dec 2015 the registration for the dual mode of exam has been opened by AIMA and will close it on Nov 21. While the last date of buying the application form for MAT Dec 2015 is Nov 21, 2015, for submission of application form the last date is Nov 24, 2015.

MAT Dec 2015 will be held as paper pen based test and also as computer based on-line test across the country. MAT Dec 2015 is the national level exam for admission to MBA/PGDM 2016-18 programme in more than 180 B-schools in India.

SIBM Bengaluru is one of the 14 Symbiosis B-schools affiliated to Symbiosis International University (SIU) whose flagship 2 year MBA 2016-18 admission process is through SNAP 2015. SIBM Bengaluru aspirants will have to apply for SNAP 2015 as well as to SIBM Bengaluru to explore admission opportunity in the B-school.

The registration and application process for SNAP 2015 will close on November 24, 2015 while the last date to apply for MBA 2016-18 admission at SIBM Bengaluru is December 16, 2015.

Pursuing PGP 2015-17 at IIM Ranchi, Raghvendra Singh is an inspiration for CAT 2015 aspirants. He gave up his job to prepare for CAT and his hard work resulted in CAT score of 96.49 taking him to IIM Ranchi.
Raghvendra belongs to a small but well known town Kota in Rajasthan. He is a B.Tech from BITS Goa and M.Sc in Information Systems. Raghvendra also has an experience of 13 months to his credit in Ramco Systems Limited, Chennai.

Under its Students Exchange Program, the Institute of Management Technology (IMT) has been allocated 199 seats from partner institutes in foreign countries like France, Germany, Austria, South Africa, USA, Norway, Spain, Mexico, Belgium, Taiwan, Thailand, USA and UK. This is the first time in India that such huge numbers of seats are allocated by international partner institutes to any Indian business school as an exchange program for a semester term for students.

Preparation experts, mentors for CAT 2015 and toppers from earlier CAT exams unanimously agree that taking good quality & relevant Mocks and their due analysis with the aim not to recur the mistakes can prove to be an excellent measurement of your preparation level providing great help to improve your CAT 2015 scores.

In a deviation from earlier process in shortlisting for MBA admission after declaration of CAT 2015 result FMS Delhi is going to adopt a different shortlisting criteria for the PI round of MBA 2016-18 batch than the one it used to follow till MBA admission 2015. A better bet than many IIMs and other top rated B schools, FMS is going to declare for the first time the shortlist of candidates based on varying weightage to sectional scores in CAT 2015 with a vision to improve academic and gender diversity in FMS class rooms.

S P Jain Institute of management & Research (SPJIMR) Mumbai, has opened application process for PGDM 2016-18. One of the top ranked school of management in India SPJIMR proposes to close the application process on December 7, 2015.

SPJIMR will accept CAT 2015; XAT 2016 and GMAT scores (test taken from January 2013 onwards to 15th December 2015). Candidates will have the opportunity to opt for two specializations at the time of application.The last date to apply at SPJIMR is December 7, 2015.