IIM Bangalore has declared the 5 component based criteria for short listing of candidates for PI and WAT round for admission 2015 to its flagship PGP programme close on the heels and IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Calcutta. While IIMA and IIM C have declared their respective shortlist of candidates, IIMB would like to declare the shortlist of candidates a little late although the PI round is proposed to begin in the first week of February 2015.

There will be 2 test sessions of 3 hours each on every day; the first one will be from 9.30 AM to 12.30 PM and the second one will be from 2.30 PM to 5.30 PM.

All the candidates who are graduates or are in the final year of graduation in any discipline are eligible to apply for Second CMAT Feb 2015. The only condition is that their results should be declared prior to commencement of admission 2015.

Known for implementing significant changes to bring transparency and accountability in the AICTE administration, Dr S S Mantha has relinquished the office of Chairman AICTE on January 2, 2014. Confirming the development, Dr S S Mantha said Yes, I have demitted office on January 2 after a very fruitful tenure in AICTE as its Chairman.

XAT 2015, held on January 4, 2015 had more number of questions than used to appear in earlier XAT exams. XAT 2015 had surprise elements also with number of questions placed in the exam from forgotten topics. MBAUniverse.com forewarned the aspirants to watch out for the same. The aspirants who paid heed to the suggestions and tips shared with them definitely did better in the test.

To help bridge the employability gap, MBAUniverse.com is organizing the MBA Career Development Conference 2014-15 on January 17 in Bangalore where Placement Heads and Students from more than 25 B-schools in Bangalore and South India will connect with CXOs & HR Heads from leading companies like Accenture, Citi Bank, Deloitte, Myntra.com, Oracle, Cafe Coffee Day, Tata Elxsi, IBM, SAP Labs, Mindtree and many more. The Special Address will be delivered by Mr Sanjeev Gupta, Managing Director - H&PS, Govt Relations and Corp Affairs at Accenture India.

IIM Calcutta has declared the shortlist of candidates for the Written Ability Test (WAT) & Personal Interview round (PI) today on January 5, 2015 for the flagship Post Graduate Program in Management (PGP-PGDM) 2015-17.
IIM Calcutta (Kolkata) promised that the Shortlist of candidates to be called for Personal Interview (PI) and Written Ability Test (WAT) for PGP-PGDM batch 2015-17 is likely to be available on January 5, 2015. Keeping the commitment IIMC took care to declare the shortlist of candidates on the pre-declared date.

Written Ability Test (WAT) in post CAT 2014 scenario is an important part of next phase of admission round 2015, the PI round at IIMs and other top rated B schools. Almost all the IIMs and other highly ranked B schools have started conducting Written Ability Test of 15-30 minutes. The shortlisted candidates on the basis of CAT 2014 scores will have to show their skill on writing ability.

XAT 2015 is only a day away. Tomorrow on January 4, XAT 2015 aspirants will arrive at the respective exam centres at 9.30 AM, an hour before the scheduled commencement of the exam. Please remember XAT 2015 will have the same duration of 3 hours with more number of questions in the test. Instead of 103 MCQs XAT 2015 will have 114 MCQs. The sectional bifurcation is going to be as follows Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning-28 questions; Decision making-23 questions; Quant & DI-33 questions ; GK-30 questions.

IIM Calcutta has declared the shortlisting criteria on the basis of CAT 2014 scores and academic profile of the candidates for next phase of admission round 2015 consequent upon declaration of CAT 2014 result on Dec 27, 2014. While IIMC awards weightage to high score in X & XII classes, no weightage to graduation score is awarded in shortlisting the candidates for final admission round.

Keeping its promise to make available the shortlist on Jan 2, IIM Ahmedabad has declared the shortlist of candidates for PI round on its site on January 2, 2015 at 4 PM. Candidates who have scored high sectional percentile as well as overall percentile in CAT 2014 and have excellent academic profile have been shortlisted by IIMA for AWT and PI round for admission 2015.