While gliding through pages of PaGaLGuY one recent news on the fate of CMAT got my eye balls and the reason can be easily guessed. Being a CAT, XAT, SNAP, NMAT, TISS, MICAT, MH-CET, CMAT etc etc. aspirant, these kinds of news are of greater interest for me than those of Rahul-Modi melodrama. Let’s get […]

The Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) is in trouble again. And this could be the final straw. The Delhi High Court has ruled that CMAT cannot be given the ‘exclusive exam’ status that it has been so desperately trying to achieve ever since it came into existence last year. The court said that AICTE did […]

(Photo courtesy: Benson Kua) Management institutes in Maharashtra are just not able to attract candidates. Out of the 45,747 MBA seats in the state, only 12,321 seats have been filled till now, leaving 33,426 seats vacant. This number does not take into account seats allotted at the institute level or minority seats, the information of […]

Apprehensive about vacant MBA seats in Maharashtra, DTE has proposed including ATMA scores for OMS/State seats. Photo credit: foxypar4 (flickr.com) Just when Maharashtra based b-schools were close to figuring out their admission strategy based on Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) scores, the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) in the state has stirred things up again. […]

The Institute of Rural Management, Anand, (IRMA) in Gujarat has filed a writ petition against the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in relation to the now famous court case concering the permitted MBA entrance exams. IRMA is fighting to retain its own entrance exam and not take any of the five exams as […]

Pic: davidking (Flickr) The Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) has announced dates for AIMS Test for Management Admissions (ATMA). The online test will be held on December 9, 2012 from 2 pm to 5 pm. The duration of the exam is 180 mins. Each wrong answer will elicit a penalty of 0.25 marks. The […]

Registration for the Common Management Test (CMAT) is now extended to September 7, 2012. Originally, registrations were to close on September 2, 2012. One would naturally think that AICTE has done it to net in more applicants but apparently the extension has come about because states are gradually announcing their individual decisions to switch over […]

The Supreme Court has extended its last year’s stay order on the AICTE notification that had sought to do away with major MBA entrance exams in favour of only the CAT and MAT. For the coming admission season of 2012-13 too, PGDM institutes can continue their admission processes on the basis of scores attained by […]

Clearing confusion about the acceptance of the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) for admissions at autonomous business schools, the Supreme Court today ordered that CMAT shall not be the singular management entrance test and PGDM institutes could admit anyone with CAT, MAT, XAT, ATMA and JMET (now replaced by the GMAT) scores. The Educational Promotional […]

CMAT 2012 advertisement by AICTE that appeared on December 3, 2011 While b-schools and MBA aspirants have a lot to complain over All India Council for Technical Education’s (AICTE) Common Management Admission Test (CMAT), a senior AICTE official told PaGaLGuY that the exam is not compulsory for its affiliated b-schools. This comes as a breather, […]