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.

CAT toppers do not come from metros only; aspirants from historical cities and small towns also make it big and convert their dream to get into IIM Ahmedabad into reality.
MBAUniverse.com has brought a round of CAT 2014 toppers success stories for the benefit of CAT 2015 aspirants. In the series we present the success story of a determined girl from Agra, Swapnil Agarwal who scored 99.79 percentile in CAT 2014 and converted her admission call to IIM Ahmedabad improving the gender diversity in IIMA classroom.

IIM Amritsar, Punjabs first IIM mentored by IIMK inaugurated its first batch of Post Graduate Programme (PGP) 2015-17 on Aug 6, 2015 with 65 students. In the presence of Prof. Kulbhushan Balooni, director, IIM Kozhikode and mentor director IIM Amritsar, Deans, Faculties and Senior Administrative staff of IIM Kozhikode, the Minister for Higher Education & Languages of Punjab, Sardar Surjit Singh Rakhra inaugurated the maiden batch at Amritsar.

INSEAD is one of the worlds largest graduate business schools with campuses in Europe (France), Asia (Singapore) and Abu Dhabi. Currently ranked number 4 by Financial Times 2015, INSEAD became a pioneer of international business education with the first MBA class graduating on the Fontainebleau campus in Europe in 1960. In 2000, INSEAD opened its campus in Singapore and in 2007 another campus was opened in Abu Dhabi. While the campuses at France and Singapore are full fledged, the Abu Dhabi campus is now a module open to selected MBA students for undergoing electives.