A few months back, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn UniversityinBangkok,Thailand got its new Director (Dean) Dr Dipak C. Jain who has been a visiting professor of marketing since 1989 at the B school.

CAT 2014 conducting IIM categorically declares on CAT 2014 site List of exam centres will be available on the website www.iimcat.ac.in from second week of October 2014. While the list of 99 exam cities where CAT 2014 will be conducted, was made available right from August 6, 2014, the first day when CAT 2014 registration site opened, the list of exam cities is nowhere seen till date despite the promise from IIMs.

7 sessions of NMAT 2015 have passed by since the exam began on Oct 7, 2014. The online test of NMAT will continue till December 20, 2014. Candidates who have registered and applied for NMAT 2015 have the facility of retake and rescheduling of exam. MBAUniverse.com has been sharing the day to day analysis of NMAT 2015 for the last many days. In this analysis we bring a round of tips from exam preparation expert Prof S K Agarwal, apart from sharing the analysis in brief.

The XAT 2015 exam is divided into two parts this year also. The Part 1 is of total 2 hours and 20 minutes duration which consists of Quantitative Ability (QA), English Language Ability & Logical Reasoning and Decision Making. Part 2 of the exam consists of Essay Writing and General Awareness. Duration of this section is 40 minutes. Questions in General Awareness are expected to be from Business, Economics and Politics related to Business Environment. You have to attempt both essay as well as General Awareness section. Totalduration of XAT 2015 is of 3 hours.

Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS) Ranchi, one of the highly ranked B-Schools in India has announced its admission process for the two year full time flagship PGDM program for the 2015-17 batch. Scores of the CAT, XAT or CMAT will be the door for admission to PGDM programs in Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS) for admission session 2015-16. One of the premier and oldest B-schools in India XISS attracts the best talent from all disciplines and backgrounds.

After a few days of moderate and doable test, NMAT 2015 has begun getting tough. Number of candidates have now found the NMAT growing more difficult and would like to go for a re-take of the test to improve their scores. Long calculations in Data Interpretation questions were more time consuming and questions in Logical Reasoning section caught the candidates in a trap. Despite being doable the questions were long and the circuitous route had to be taken by the candidates to solve these questions.

With the reopening of CAT 2014 registration process on October 10, 2014, CAT 2014 aspirants are apprehensive whether they would receive their CAT 2014 admit cards on October 16, 2014 as promised by CAT conducting IIM or the process of issuing the Admit Cards will be delayed further.

Admit Card: A mandatory document

The first annual MBAUniverse.com Asian Management Conclave (AMC) will be held in Singapore on March 12-13, 2015, and will be hosted by Singapore Management University (SMU). AMC was launched in Shanghai on October 9 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Sharing with MBAUniverse.com and thanking for the efforts and support Dr Rohit Kapoor, CAT 2014 Convener and faculty IIM Indore says Thanks for the kind support. Final count: 1.97 Lakhs. Above 7100 candidates have registered in the last day.

CAT 2014: Number is up

Scores in Decision Making Section in XAT 2015 could be a turning point in getting shortlisted for XLRI admission batch 2015-17. Doubts on relevance of introducing the Decision Making section in XAT throng the minds of XAT aspirants off and on. One thing is however clear you can not run away from it and have to grab every opportunity to prepare/learn and clarify doubts on questions in Decision Making Section of XAT Exam.