(Photo credit: Stevie Gill, flickr.com) A day to go for the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), (New Delhi and Kolkata) entrance test 2012. On Sunday, November 25, 2012, the exam will be held at 51 centres in nearly 20 cities. Known as an unpredictable exam, the IIFT test typically contains four sections: quantitative ability, […]

SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai has tweaked its admission process slightly for the two-year full-time Post Graduate Diploma Programme (PGDM) for the academic year 2013-15. The institute will call aspirants separately for interviews based on profiles and scores. The institute also plans to call in more applicants this year. Until last […]

Dr Nagesh Rao, MICA director Dr Nagesh Rao took over as President and Director of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) earlier this year. Having earned a doctorate in Communications from Michigan State University in 1994, Dr Rao taught in various universities in the US for over two decades. He earned the ‘Teacher of the […]

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 […]

Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) September 2012 topper Anirudh Batra is very unlike your common breed of toppers. While being happy about the fact that he has topped the exam, he is not over the moon yet. Pursuing his fourth year engineering course in electronics and telecommunications from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) […]

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 Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2013 notification is out today. Like we mentioned in the earlier article the exam will be conducted on January 6, 2013 and while last year there were 38 centres, this year there are in all 44 centres with additionas like Kanpur, Trichy etc. This is being done to give people […]

The XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur which owns and conducts the XAT (Xavier Admission Test) is planning some surprises this year. According to sources at XLRI, while some changes have been finalised, some are still at the discussion stage. The test will be held on January 6, 2013 and the form notification […]

Prof SSS Kumar At the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, Prof SSS Kumar, CAT Convenor for 2012 is known as Triple S. And the name suits him rather well because being perpetually dressed in a loose shirt and casual trousers, he can easily be mistaken for a student. With a face that breaks into a […]

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 […]