According to IIM Ahmedabad, the Short List of candidates to be called for AWT-PI for PGP 2015-17 is likely to be available on January 2, 2015. While AWT stands for Academic Written Test, PI stands for Personal Interview round at IIM Ahmedabad.

Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2015 is going to have a changed face with more number of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) with the same exam time duration of 3 hours. It implies more time constraints to attempt the test as time per question to solve will be less in XAT 2015.

In all there will be 114 MCQs instead of 101 or 103 questions as used to appear in earlier exams. All the questions will carry equal weightage of marks in XAT 2015.

Problems on Decision Making will form an entire section in XAT 2015 with 23 questions in sets or individual pattern emphasising its importance in calculation of percentile and shortlisting for final admission round. Decision Making has gained more importance since XAT 2012 when the questions on Decision Making were increased from 7-8 to 23-25. Besides earlier these questions formed the part of other sections, now a complete section has been carved out on Decision Making problems.

Vodafone India Limited,one of Indias leading telecommunications service providers,will hire over 130 management trainees by 2015, through their Discover Campus Program- a signature cadre program designed for grooming business leaders of tomorrow. Discover is an aspirational management trainee program that provides fast-track career growth, exciting and challenging opportunities and a potential to connect with fellow alumni.

Thousands of CAT 2014 test takers have been approaching MBAUniverse.com after declaration of CAT 2014 result on Dec 27, 2014 in regard to their not very good and uneven sectional performance in the exam. The candidates are in a jeopardy whether they will be shortlisted for admission by highly ranked B schools for admission 2015 with their unexpectedly low scored percentile in CAT 2014. Most of these candidates have registered for XAT 2015 also and it appears that their well planned preparation strategy to take XAT 2015 got a set back after declaration of CAT 2014 result.

IMT Ghaziabad one of the premier top ranked B-Schools in the NCR region has extended the deadline for submission of online application for its 2 year PGDM program via the Common Application form. The extension in admission application process is the result of the delay in announcement of CAT 2014 results. This will provide students who missed the earlier deadline with a good opportunity to apply at one of the leading management schools offering world class education and pedagogy.

Result for CAT 2014 exam is out and for those who have registered for XAT 2015 another chance to improve their score and explore admission in 2015 in a good B school still remains by taking XAT 2015. Essay Writing in XAT 2015 will be an important part of second section of written examination going to be held on January 4, 2015 in a single session in paper pen mode. 30 minutes time will be awarded to the candidates to show their writing skill in XAT 2015.

CAT 2014 result has come out strengthening the belief again that CAT is dominated by engineers from top rated engineering colleges like IITs. At least CAT 2014 result goes to prove it again. 5 students from IIT Kanpur and IIT Bombay are among the 16 candidates scoring 100 percentile in CAT 2014, while one girl candidate of BITS Pilani has first time opened woman empowerment account in CAT 2014 with 100 percentile since 2009.

CAT 2014 result declared on Dec 27, 2014 has brought with it a different type of score card as compared to the score cards in earlier CAT results. The CAT 2014 score card reflects 2 type of scores namely scaled scores and percentile scores but does not reflect your raw scores earned by you in CAT 2014. The scaled scores and percentile scores are arrived at after converting the raw scores to scaled scores and then converting them to percentile scores. The process is known as normalization of scores.

For the first time since 2009, a girl candidate includes the group of 16 candidates who have scored 100 percentile in CAT 2014 exam held on Nov 16 and 22, 2014 for admission to premier B schools like IIMs, FMS, MDI, SPJIMR, IMI, IMT, FORE, NITIE, TAPMI. This is also the first time during past many years that so many candidates have scored 100 percentile in the prestigious MBA/PGDM entrance CAT exam. Sharing the achievement with MBAUniverse.com Dr Rohit Kapoor, Convener CAT 2014 said There are 16 hundred percentilers that includes a girl candidate. We need women leaders.