Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Sirmaur in Himachal Pradesh has begun its admission process with the launch of its website by the mentor IIM Lucknow on Wednesday June 17, 2015. IIM Sirmaur has become the 15th IIM close on the heels of 14th IIM that is IIM Nagpur who have their websites in place with relevant information available in public domain.

IIM Sirmaur will have an intake of 60 students in its first PGP batch 2015-17 and the classes are proposed to begin in the month of August 2015.

Claiming that the 2016 Editions have 25% new and never-before-seen question content, Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) owner and publisher of the GMAT exam, in association with Wiley announced the publication of updated official study material for GMAT Review 2016 series on June 16, 2015.

According to GMAC This upgrade has been initiated with intent to enhance the quality and efficiency of admissions process through Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT).

With Asias No.1 Business School, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad in command to convene CAT 2015, it is very much possible that not only the exam pattern but the scoring weightage on different sections may also change.

Responding to MBAUniverse.com query why the changes and surprises spring up in CAT and whether the same are expected in CAT 2015 also, Prof Tathagata Bandyopadhyay, convener CAT 2015 and faculty at IIM Ahmedabad has shared a brief reply Every year we review CAT and make certain changes- both operational and content

After it has been made clear that official CAT 2015 notification is going to be out on July 26, 2015 by IIM Ahmedabad, the clock of speculation on the dates of the exam has started ticking the minds of CAT 2015 aspirants. Candidates can expect number of changes in the examination scheduling, dates, scoring pattern in CAT 2015 going to be conducted by IIM Ahmedabad in partnership with CAT 2015 testing agency Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

You may expect an early CAT 2015 and instead of November it could be held sometime in October 2015. The notification containing all the details on Common Admission Test (CAT) 2015 would be published on July 26, 2015 in all the leading newspapers. Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad in partnership with the CAT testing agency TCS would be conducting CAT 2015 for admission session 2016-17.

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.