Success stories of CAT/XAT toppers have always inspired the aspirants going to appear in these most reputed MBA/PGDM entrance exams paving the way to IIMs, XLRI, SPJIMR, FMS and other top B-schools.
In the series MBAUniverse.com brings a round of preparation journey and key success Mantra of CAT toppers for the benefit of CAT 2015 aspirants. One of such toppers Saransh Shah scored 98.9 percentile in CAT 2014 and 99.45 percentile in XAT 2015 and has taken admission at one of the top rated B-schools in India SPJIMR Mumbai.

Singapore is a major hub for business as well as for business education today and probably no country in Asia can claim to be more focused on its MBA education as Singapore is. This is the reason despite having very few B-schools; Singapore is a preferred destination for MBA Abroad aspirants.

Defying the scenario of slow-growing economy and ensuring the maximum ROI, IMT Ghaziabad Indias premiere B-School has successfully placed 95% of students from its PGDM (Executive) batch of 2014-15.The B-school marked a great placement record, as the highest CTC offered was Rs. 19 lac per annum along with the average CTC of Rs. 10.9 lac per annum, proving institutes mettle in the industry yet again.

Common Admission Test (CAT) 2015 is not going to be a cake-walk for the aspirants as it will not be on the pattern of earlier CAT exams. Apart from Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) the non-MCQ types of questions have also been introduced in CAT 2015. With no answer options available after the questions, the Non-MCQ type of questions will test your answering approach while arriving at the final answer of the question.

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Singapore Management University (SMU) Singapore is the first publicly funded autonomous university in Singapore and is built on the model of University of Pennsylvania-Wharton. Their collaboration is augmented by theWharton-SMU Research Center, giving Wharton a physical presence in Asia. SMU MBA was established in 2008 at Lee Kong Chian School of Business. Accredited by AACSB and EQUIS, Singapore Management University is one of the youngest universities to receive accreditation from the two international bodies.

It is but natural for the NMIMS aspirants to understand and know well if the NMAT exam in its new form NMAT by GMAC allows them to utilize the previous year experiences for their benefit or the exam will be in an entirely different format.

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.