CAT 2014 five big challenges and their expert solutions; no need to panic

CAT 2014 has brought many changes and challenges for the aspirants and more may be in stock to appear in due course but before the exam. CAT 2014 site still remains unfolded on various issues and an uncertain situation of what next is there in CAT 2014 store continues to persist among the aspirants.

IIM Calcutta becomes first IIM to earn AACSB Accreditation

ISB Hyderabad and TAPMI Manipal are the only two Indian institutions to get AACSB accreditation in India. AACSBs global headquarters in USA informed MBAUniverse.com about this significant development today, August 18.
AACSB congratulates Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Director Prof. Saibal Chattopadhyay on earning accreditation, and we welcome them into the family of AACSB-accredited business schools, said Robert D. Reid, executive vice president and chief accreditation officer of AACSB International.

IMC Award 2014 Winners Case-study: How TAPMI increased its applications in a slowdown

TAPMI Manipal won the IMC Silver Award 2014 for its initiative titled Experience TAPMI. The initiative highlighted how TAPMI has managed to grow applications to its PGDM program for Admissions 2014, when most other B-schools were struggling to meet even their last years numbers.

MBAUniverse.com presents the highlights from Experience TAPMI Initiative. This detailed Case-study, along with all IMC Award Winners & Finalists, will be published as a book by global publishing company McGraw Hill in September.

Excerpts from TAPMI Case-study:

XAT 2015: 7 Steps of Registration; fill up the information with patience

XAT 2015 to be conducted by XLRI on behalf of XAMI, is proposed to be conducted on January 4, 2015, the first Sunday of New year of 2015. XLRI has been conducting Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) for the last 60 years at All India level. XAT is aimed to select the most appropriate candidates who wish to pursue management education. Apart from XLRI, XAT scores will be used by 11 member institutes and 123 other B schools apart from XLRI as the criteria for admission to MBA/PGDM programmes for 2015-17 batch.

How to Register and apply for XAT 2015; know the steps

CMAT Sep 2014; how to prepare Language Comprehension in one month

Test of English in CMAT Sep 2014 is not going to be the English Language Comprehension test only; it will be a comprehensive English test which includes the test of grammar, tenses, vocabulary, jumbled paragraphs, reading comprehension and all other parts of English language usage. CMAT is proposed to begin on Sep 25 and will continue till Sep 29, 2014. So there will be a total of 10 exam sessions in the 5 days test window in morning and afternoon on each day.

XAT 2015 to assess multidimensional capability: XLRI Admission Chair

As reported by MBAUniverse.com today morning, XAT 2015 will be held on January 4, 2015. http://www.mbauniverse.com/article/id/7865/XAT-Exam-date-2015 In an exclusive interview with MBAUniverse.com, XLRI Admission Chairperson shares the important features of XAT 2015, and offers guidance to XAT 2015 aspirants.

Excerpts from the MBAUniverse.com interview with XLRI Admission Chairperson follows:

Are there any significant changes in XAT 2015?

XAT 2015 exam date: notification out, exam on January 4

Last year, almost 90,000 students took the XAT exam, making it second most popular exam after CAT.
The test score will be used by XLRI and other XAMI institutions and also more than 100 other B-schools.

XAT 2015 Exam will be divided in four sections:

Quantitative Ability
English Language & Logical Reasoning
Decision Making
GK and Essay

Important XAT 2015 dates are:
Date of Commencement of Application
12thAugust 2014
Last Date for Applying
22ndNovember 2014

Last Date to change Test City