Tough quant and language skills sections greeted the aspirants on October 15, 2014 in NMAT-2015. Although the test was not much different from the other days questions had twisted forms and were more time consuming. The computer-delivered test in which each candidate got a randomly generated exam from a pool of questions on October 15, 2014 had many twisted questions.

In a swift turn of events, Honble Supreme Court has today on October 15, 2014 allowed the PGDM institutions to go ahead with their admission process 2015-16. The apex court of India has also allowed the B schools to maintain the pre AICTE notification (2010) status which restricted them on various counts. It is a significant order that would bring about clarity on the PGDM admissions 2015-16 as the 300 private B schools offering PGDM programmes were not able to proceed with their admission process for academic session 2015-16 due to lack of clarity on this issue.

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The case regarding staying of the AICTEs Notification (2010) and restoring the status quo and autonomy of PGDM institutions for the year academic year 2015-16 came up before the Supreme Court on October 13, 2014.Honble Supreme Court in its four interim orders earlier had restored the status quo and stayed the AICTE Notification of (2010) for Academic Sessions of 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15.

Single day, single session paper pen mode XAT 2015 to be conducted on January 4, 2015, despite having different series of test papers will test the candidates on same pattern and same set of questions. It not only makes it fairer to calculate percentile and normalize the scores on the same scale but also avoids the glitches that might come up due to varying difficulty level on different set of questions.

National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai has announced its admission process for the full time two years PGDIM and PGDISEM program for the batch 2015-17. Scores of the CAT going to be held on November 16 & 22, 2014 is only the criteria for the Admission in NITIE, Mumbai. It is one the highly ranked Colleges for the management programs.

NITIE has started the admission process on 13th October 2014 and the last date for the online Application submission at NITIE is December 16, 2014 upto 05:00 pm.

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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.