Emphasizing that the future of education is online and the vast Indian talent pool has traditionally been handicapped by physical capacity constraints of premier educational institutions, IIM Bangalore has partnered with edX to roll out free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The highly ranked B school proposes to launch 8 courses in the first year.

IIM Bill 2015 which has been put under discussion and is going to take the shape of IIM Act 2015 after nod from Parliament may have many issues to address and one of them could be that it may not satisfy the international standards. A petition to make the degree proposed to be awarded by IIMs at par with international standards has been submitted to the Prime Minister of India as well as to the Minister of Human Resource Development by the past and present students of highly ranked IIMs.

Sixth edition of Indian Management Conclave (IMC) 2015, to be held on July 29-30, 2015 at the ISB Hyderabad campus, is all set to host the whos who from the Corporate World and Management Thinkers. While the Valedictory Address will be delivered by Mr Dilip Shanghvi, Founder and MD of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries; Mr RS Sodhi, MD, GCMMF Ltd (AMUL) and Ms Avani Davda, CEO, Tata Starbucks will bring their rich corporate experience on Management in Practice theme to IMC conference.

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore has further moved up among top Universities of Asia and has been ranked 4th in the Asian University Rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) released on Wednesday June 10, 2015.

IIMs have always been the dream B-schools to pursue PGP (MBA) from one of them. Since Common Admission Test (CAT) 2015 will be the mandatory exam to seek admission in one of the IIMs, the test taker has to prepare hard for the exam and has to score high in each of the 2 sections as well as overall.

Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT) exam is conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the global non-profit council of business schools. GMAT is the exam that measures the skills you have and the skills schools need. The GMAT exam is relied upon more by graduate business schools worldwide. The scores of GMAT are accepted by more programs and schools than acceptability of any other MBA entrance exam in the world.

GMAT Examination Pattern

GMAT is an online computer adaptive test. Test Components and duration are as follows

Till 2013 the Verbal Ability section in Common Admission Test (CAT) excluding Logical Reasoning had to be divided in 4 parts to smoothen the line of preparation with clear study goals. Each part in Verbal Ability could be prepared separately to bell the CAT in the respective exam. But since 2014 when CAT changed its face and increased the number of questions in Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning (VALR) section from 30 to 50 and from 20 to 34 only in Verbal Ability, this division has become more cumbersome as the type and pattern of questions has also changed.