Releasing the notification for CMAT January 2016, AICTE has informed that the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) will no longer be held twice in a year, instead it will be a yearly test. The first CMAT after the policy change will be conducted in January 2016 and the detailed notification will be issued shortly by All India Council for Technical Education in this regard.
MBAUniverse.com already updated the CMAT aspirants on the policy change of AICTE regarding the once a year CMAT in place of twice a year CMAT.

Mercatique, the flagship business conclave of MAXIM, the Marketing Association of XIMB, was organized on August 2, 2015 at Bhubaneshwar. The topic of the discussion for this years conclave was Evolution of Brand and Customer Interaction. The event was graced by eminent speakers from various fields of marketing like, Susmita Misra, SVP Karvy Insights, Arvind Suri, DMG Sales Sun Pharma, Mahesh Rao, Ex-CEO Switz Industrial Bakery Middle East and Ex-commercial Director, HJ Heinz and Amit Gope, Head Marketing, Century Plyboard.

Common Admission Test (CAT) 2015 the mandatory exam for admission to flagship PGP programmes 2016-18 at 20 IIMs, FMS, NITIE, MDI, IMI and other top rated B schools will be a different test as notified on July 26, 2015. The notification for CAT 2015 was released on July 26, 2015 by the exam convening IIM Ahmedabad and left the aspirants confused and surprised due to the fact that absolutely different exam pattern was announced. The changes have called for the change in preparation strategy as well. The changes are more than they were there in CAT 2014.

Deviating from the earlier XAT years, XLRI Jamshedpur the XAT 2016 conducting institute will announce the opening of registration for XAT 2016 in the 4th week of August 2015 instead of 2nd week of August as used to happen in past XAT exams. The exam is going to be held in a single day in paper-pen format on January 3, 2016.

As shared by XLRI official the XAT 2016 registration is proposed to open in the last week of August 2015 and the notification for the exam is also proposed to be released sometime around the 3rd or 4th week of this month.

To improve academic diversity in IIM class rooms, CAT 2015 has increased number of sections from 2 to 3 reducing the weightage of Quant section from 50 to 34 as regards number of questions although all the questions in CAT 2015 will carry equal marks whether of MCQ or Non MCQ type. Prof S K Agarwal, mentor on CAT 2015 preparation shares the specific points which require even greater focus to prepare on Quant in CAT 2015 and suggests a well devised preparation plan to score high.

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida organized the second open MDP on Management of Discipline, Vigilance and RTI from July 29 to 31, 2015 in New Delhi. The inauguration was conducted by Dean- MDP, Shri B.D Singh, Shri. Biplab Mitra (Sr. ConsultantMDP & Ex- CVO- Allahabad Bank, UCO Bank) and AGM- Amit Mohapatra along with team members- Kumar Uttam, Gaurav Sharma & Reema Gupta.

Better late than never, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow the 4th in the IIM family and one of the top rated B-schools in India has announced scrapping the Group Discussion from its final admission round from the academic session 2016-17 and the PGP batch 2016-18. Other top rated IIMs like IIM Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Bangalore, Indore as well as the 6 new IIMs (Kashipur, Raipur, Ranchi, Rohtak, Trichy and Udaipur) have already done away with GD round in their final admission process.