With the CAT 2014 test day guide having been made available to the aspirants by CAT Centre 2014, it has been made clear that Candidates will not at all have the facility to request the CAT Centre to edit and change the exam slot and day according to their convenience. Since number of CAT 2014 takers are also going to appear in IIFT 2014 entrance test, they find them in a fix now. On the top of it, they are unable to get any amendment made in the exam city, day or slot as the same lies on the mercy of CAT Centre 2014 and has been printed in the Admit Card.

A merit list of 43212 candidates has been announced by AICTE for the candidates who have found their names in the merit list. Second CMAT for admission session 2015-16 is proposed in the month of February 2015 details of which are yet to be announced.

Merit list has Candidates with negative marks

Making this ranking the Gold-standard, two stalwarts of Indian management education, Dr MR Rao, former Dean of ISB Hyderabad & Dr Debashis Chatterjee, former Director of IIM K have joined the MBAUniverse.com Ranking Advisory Body.

CAT 2014 proposes to introduce number of changes in the exam pattern as revealed in the practice test made available on CAT 2014 website on October 28, 2014. Going by the pattern reflected in the practice test, the Verbal Ability part in second section appears to get a total face change with number and type of questions. According to Prof S K Agarwal, Mentor and expert on Verbal Ability for CAT preparation it is the Verbal Ability that bears most the brunt of changes in CAT as there is not much scope for CAT paper setters to bring too many changes in Quant and DI section.

AICTE keeping its promise has declared CMAT Sep 2014 results on October 30, 2014. All India merit list has displayed the fate of 43212 candidates who have scored between the highest marks 323 to the lowest 40 out of 400 in CMAT first test for admission session 2015-16. 11 Candidates have scored 300 to 323 marks.

AICTE announced the CMAT result in the early morning of October 30, 2014 and has awarded raw marks along with the percentile. Accordingly the candidate who has scored 323 marks has been awarded 100 percentile.

With the results of first CMAT 2015 conducted by AICTE wef Sep 25 to 29, 2014 for the admission session 2015-16 expected to be declared on October 30, 2014, candidates may seek good admission opportunities in the B schools where admissions have been opened for the PGDM batch 2015-17 on the basis of their CMAT scores. Please remember your sectional scores will also a play an important role in getting shortlisted for final admission round at top rated B schools.

The long awaited Results for AICTE conducted first CMAT during the 5 day test window from Sep 25 to Sep 29, 2014, for admission to 2015-17 MBA/PGDM batch is expected to be announced on October 30, 2014. More than 50 thousand candidates appeared in this test which indicates its importance close on the heels of CAT and XAT. CMAT is held twice a year and for admission to session 2015-16, the AICTE-CMAT Sep 2014 is the first CMAT, second CMAT for admission session 2015-16 will be in Feb 2015.

JK Lakshmipat University (JKLU), Jaipur recently announced the joining of Dr Devi Singh, Former Director of IIM Lucknow as the new Vice Chancellor of JKLU. Dr. Devi Singh has succeeded Dr Upinder Dhar, who was recently elected as the President of AIMS.

Dr. Devi Singh has been a dynamic force of change at IIM Lucknow. The Noida Campus of IIM Lucknow came into being during his tenure as Director IIM Lucknow.There were several other important initiatives taken at IIM Lucknow in his tenure.

With the CAT 2014 practice test available on CAT site now, aspirants should be on their guard to note the changes proposed in CAT 2014. Aspirants should carefully go through the instructions, exam pattern, type of questions and their source topics to ace the test. The practice test has many questions from past CAT exams and questions on number of topics appeared in earlier CAT exams are missing.