Unlike the older IIMs who have taken into consideration the academic profile and other factors apart from CAT 2014 scores to shortlist the candidates for PI round 2015, the 6 new IIMs propose to announce the shortlist based purely on CAT 2014 performance overall as well as sectionwise

Group Discussion(GD) is one of the key components in final admission round 2015 in top rated B schools. Although a few of the IIMs are not going to conduct Group Discussion at the final stage of admission 2015, a number of highly ranked B schools like FMS Delhi, MDI Gurgaon, IIM Lucknow and many others will be going through the process of Group discussion before offering admission for MA/PGDM batch 2015-17.

What constitutes GD

Healthy debate among 8-12 candidates in a specified time period of 12-15 minutes

Keeping its flag flying high, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) has again achieved 100% placement in final campus placement 2015 with high national and international salary packages. The placement process 2015 at IIFT has been one of the fastest ones among the B schools in the country. In fact number of top rated B schools have not been able to complete the placement 2015 although the same was started in the months of November-December 2014. Feeling happy on the fast completion of placement 2015 in the economic slowdown, Dr.

With the notification out for online Common Entrance Test (CET) for management courses across Maharashtra to be held on March 14 and 15, 2015 at the various test centres across the country, thousands of candidates have become curious about MAH-CET which proposes to cater to the high intake of 45000 seats in MBA/MMS programme 2015-17 across Maharashtra.

MAH CET, conducted by DTE Maharashtra is an online MCQ based exam which will be conducted in multiple sessions across the country on March 14 and 15, 2015. The registration process for the exam is yet to open.

Only a few hours are left to register for the on-line Registration process for AICTE second CMAT 2015 which is going to close today on Jan 15, 2015 after getting extended from Jan 5, 2015. The registration process for CMAT 2015 second test was opened on November 6, 2014 and was proposed to be closed on January 5, 2015. Due to one or other reason the registration date was extended till Jan 15, 2015 which is also going to close today. The CMAT 2015 second test will be conducted from Feb 19 to Feb 22, 2015,

IIM Bangalore has declared the shortlist of Candidates selected for the second phase of admission for its flagship Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) 2015-17 batch, a two-year, full-time, residential MBA programme on January 14, 2015. IIMB is an autonomous Central Educational Institution of the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. IIMB awards students graduating from the PGP a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM), which is equivalent to MBA degree offered by universities.

Xavier School of Management (XLRI),hosted the7th National HR Conferenceon January 10 and 11, 2015 at XLRI Campus, Jamshedpur. The conference was inaugurated byMr. T. V. Narendran, Chairman, Board of Governors, XLRI & MD Tata Steel India and South East Asia in presence ofDr.Pranabesh Ray, Dean (Academics) XLRIand other dignitaries. On the occasion, he also unveiled results of the2nd National HR Survey. The 2-days long conference organised by the flagship HR committee at XLRISAPPHIRE was on the theme-Social HR and Technological Applications in HR.

Not only IIMs but all the top rated B schools apart from IIMs conduct Personal Interview round to assess how the future managers express their views and opinions on various topics and questions related to different walks of life. The short PI round prior to final admission offer by these top B schools is so important that despite scoring a high percentile in CAT 2014 and XAT 2015, even a slight deviation and laxity in preparation for PI round can throw you out of the admission race 2015 in the IIMs, FMS, XLRI, SPJIMR, MDI, IMT, IMI and other highly ranked B schools.

In the 60 years history of Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) gate way to XLRI and other top rated B schools, this is the first time that XAT 2015 conducting XLRI has released the official XAT 2015 answer keys. The answers for all the questions across all the 4 sets of test papers have been released and were published on XAT 2015 website on January 13, 2015.

IIM Indore the sixth in the family of IIMs is going to declare the shortlist of candidates for next phase of admission round on January 16, 2015. Announcing the proposed date of declaring the shortlist of candidates, IIM Indore has already declared the schedule of PI round for admission 2015 in 3 slots of 4 days each beginning from February 2015 to April 2015.