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, […]

AIMS is a networking organisation of B-Schools in India, like ACBSP, EFMD, AACSB. AIMS was established in 1988 (on August 27) and was registered as a society and is a non-profit professional organisation. Individual B-Schools of national and international repute have become members of AIMS. ISB, IIMs, Xavier Institutes, Welingkar, NMIMS, ICFAI, MDI, S P […]

Pic from David Feltkamp’s photostream The Association of Indian Management Schools, which is the largest body of b-schools in India, has no plans of discontinuing ATMA its own management entrance exam. Unlike the Management Aptitude Test (MAT) which is contemplating closing down not too far in the future knowing that eventually there will be only […]

The IITs’ (Indian Institutes of Technology) loss is GMAT’s (Graduate Management Aptitude Test) gain. With the canning of the Joint Management Entrance Exam (JMET), regulatory body All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has added the GMAT to the six acceptable entrance tests for admissions to the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) offered at […]

While schools newly opting for the Common Admission Test (CAT) made headlines last few weeks, now it’s time for some ‘opposite’ news – schools that have decided to opt out of taking CAT 2011 scores. At least the list (of b-schools taking CAT) on the CAT website says so. This year about (excluding the Indian […]

First it was the business schools of the Indian Institutes of Technology that scrapped the Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) in favour of the Common Admission Test (CAT). Then came Delhi University’s Faculty of Management Studies. Are more expected to go the CAT way and is all this a plan to get into a single-test […]

Is the closure of Joint National Management Test (JMET), only the beginning of the end of the various other specialised b-school entrance exams? SS Mantha, chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education told media last week that from 2013 onwards, only one entrance exam (the CMAT) will come into force from 2013 onwards, […]

(Photo credit: albertogp123) Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) will revert to accepting the Common Admission Test (CAT) score for shortlisting candidates for the MICA test (MICAT) for admissions to the 2012-14 batch. A minimum of 90 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) will be required to reach the MICAT stage, said GK Nair, […]