Hosted at IIM Bangalore, the 3day fest of ideas, competitions and panel discussions EXIMIUS 2015 has concluded. The event saw over 5000 participants from management schools across the country. From historian Ramachandra Guha to business leader Mahesh Murthy; from filmmaker Ketan Mehta to start-up stars Anjana Vivek and Rajiv Raghunandan, Eximius 2015 witnessed enthusiastic participation.

The list of Non-IIM member B-schools authorized to accept CAT 2015 scores has surpassed past record and one day still remains to expand this number further. The earlier list of Non-IIM member institutes comprised total 81 B-schools. The number was shorter by only a few B-schools, but the fresh updated list of Non-IIM member institutes despite containing 101 B-schools does not have JBIMS, Great lakes among others. It is expected that this number will further increase after August 20 and the highly ranked B schools which are not included in the list will also find a place.

The accelerated MBA at Lee Kong Chian School of Business (LKCSB) of the Singapore Management University (SMU) is designed to train candidates to become successful business leaders in Asia. The program can be completed in 12 months and prepares students to face global business challenges and be an effective leader. The admissions committee carefully picks the qualified candidates from among thousands of application and keeps the class size as small as possible. Last year only 60 candidates were selected to participate in the SMU MBA programme.

The first CMAT 2016 to be convened in January 2016 with be a yearly event and will be the last CMAT of the calendar year 2016. The scores of CMAT 2016 January exam will remain valid for the academic session 2016-17. The CMAT aspirants from now on will not have the opportunity to improve their scores in next exam as was available when 2 half yearly CMAT exams were conducted by AICTE in one academic year.

CAT 2015 notification released on July 26, 2015 with the launch of website as well has many firsts and more changes in structure and content in the exam pattern. Not only this CAT 2015 has brought with it number of changes in the weightage, duration of the exam and its scoring pattern.

National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School MBA case competition brings the best and brightest students from top business schools in the world. These competitions are used as platforms to measure your skills against one another and solve business problems faced by business leaders and managers. Competing teams work under high pressure to solvecomplex business problems, using research and analytical skills, time-critical deadlines and incomplete information and other simulated business conditions, to conceptualize their goals and needs.

Top rated B-schools accepting only CAT 2015 score to shortlist candidates for admission in their flagship MBA/PGDM 2016-18 batch have started the application process. One of such management institutes is Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon who is going to start its admission process on August 25, 2015.

Guesses on the LOD and structure of the entrance test for MBA (IB) 2016-18 batch at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) scheduled to be held on November 22, 2015 are underway as IIFT has not shared much about the exam pattern and contents.

The IIFT entrance test for admission to its Delhi and Kolkata campuses has so far been a paper pencil mode exam and as has been announced by IIFT this year also that it will continue with the same format but no mention of number of questions and other details has been made.

CAT 2015 is going to offer you more than what you expect in the form of higher intake in flagship PGP 2016-18 at 19 IIMs; increased CAT 2015 testing time with same number of questions; more choice of questions in the test; no botheration of self scheduling of test. So get ready, prepare well and get into an IIM in 2016-18 batch, chances are more.

Sounds good, when you suddenly come to know that your cherished dream to get into an IIM is going to be a reality in 2016, your heart begins throbbing faster and sure it should.

Said Business School is the business school of the University of Oxford, the worlds second oldest university. Although business education at Oxford University dates back to as early as 1965, Said is relatively a new business school established in the year 1996. Back then it was the Oxford Centre for Management Studies which was responsible for business management education. Top ranked and world renowned, Said Business School is 2nd best in UK and 22nd best in the world by the Financial Times Ranking 2015.