SNAP 2014 is only a week away. The last week before the D day is usually nerve wrecking especially when you have been preparing very well for the examination and wish to come out with flying colours. Candidates are apprehensive, not knowing what to expect. With all the talk of exams and a to-do list a mile long, its completely natural to be freaking out.

CAT 2014 are getting more apprehensive of receiving yet more surprises from CAT 2014 results as the adopted scoring normalization method is not only new but has also not been shared well to substantiate its claim of fairness and transparency. So far CAT 2014 takers got the surprises in conduct of CAT 2014, its testing pattern, different type of questions, navigating tools and different type of testing experience than they had in earlier CAT exams.

XAT has been emphasising more on the Decision Making skills of MBA/PGDM aspirants. How they take decision in a given situation and how good is the decision, is the very purpose of testing the future managers on Decision Making in XAT 2015. In fact, XAT 2015 is all set to place a separate section of 25 questions on Decision making with equal weightage as given to Verbal and Quant sections.

Despite the assurance from Dr Rohit Kapoor, CAT 2014 Convener duly conveyed to CAT 2014 takers by MBAUniverse.com that final checks are going on to declare the results, the CAT 2014 takers are worried about the result day and are apprehensive about ups and downs like delay in result declaration, changes in expected percentile due to changed exam pattern and different score normalization process in CAT 2014.

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XAT 2015 will be the very first prestigious MBA entrance examination in 2015, going to be held on Sunday, January 4, 2015. More than 120 coveted B-schools will accept XAT-2015 scores for admission to their various MBA/PGDM batch 2015-17 courses.

BIMTECH Greater Noida hosted the 9th International Conference on Management Cases (ICMC 2014), a premiere conference on case studies in India on 4th and 5th of December 2014. David Blake Willis, and Michael Manning inaugurated the session that witnessed the 60 participants including, faculty, students, research scholars.

Fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship as its long-term goal, the recent tie-ups with corporates by IIM Ahmedabad have brought in a funding of Rs. 20 crores which will be spent towards cutting-edge research in financial markets, infrastructure and entrepreneurship. Announcing the achievement on Dec 10, IIMA has shared that this is the second tranche of fund-raising efforts from IIMA in 2014. The institute had announced in June, earlier this year, of commitments of 16 crore INR from Government and corporate bodies.

Final checks on CAT 2014 results are underway and the results are expected to be announced in the middle of 3rd week of December 2014 even before Dec 20. CAT Centre 2014 had promised in its press release while inviting applications for CAT 2014 that CAT 2014 results would be declared in the third week of December 2014. Despite many odds and delays in various activities during the CAT 2014, it appears CAT Centre 2014 will adhere to the result declaration schedule for the exam.

AICTE-CMAT 2015 (Second test), another well known Computer Based MBA/PGDM entrance Test, gateway to good B schools will be held in the month of February 2015 across the country. CMAT 2015 second test will be the next important test after XAT 2015 in the year 2015. While XAT will be the paper pen mode test CMAT will be the computer based test. High scores in CMAT 2015 will enable the test takers to seek admission opportunities in good B schools across the country even in the B schools that accept state level exams like MAH-CET and other state exams.