Top MBA Entrance Tests in India

CollegeDunia is a very trending website to check colleges and course info. This is very easy to navigate and gives ample info you need. If you are looking for the top management exams that are held in India, this article will surely help you.

1. CMAT: "Common Management Admission Test” was started in the year 2012 and it’s valid all over India. Good score in this test can help candidate to avail admission in any type of Management programs which is approved by AICTE. CMAT 2015 was on 19th February, 2015. CMAT is National Level Screening Test. If you are from general categories, your application fees will be approx Rs. 1400 (ex bank charges).

2.  XAT: Xavier’s Aptitude Test XAT is also a National Level aptitude test. The B- schools of Jamshedpur- Xavier Labour Relations Institute conducts it. The criteria to qualify this are to have minimum of 3yrs Bachelor Degree. This is an entrance test for get admissions in XLRI and also other Xavier Institute of Management and also Goa Institute of Management. The results of this test are declared by the end of January and XAT 2015 was held on 4th January, 2015. 

Management Exams: CAT and GMAT 2015

Common Admission Test (CAT) 2015.

This exam is online recognised throughout  India. Its a very reputed selection test for the students who wish to take admissions in any top management institutions of India. This aptitude  test is jointly held by IIM every year to get admissions in all13 IIMs, Indian Institute of Science and also Management programs in Indian Institute of Technology.

But, this is not just the criteria to avauil admission in any Management colleges and thus its followed by the rounds of some Group Discussion, an Interview, and Written Exams.

CAT  started in the year 2007 for Management stream. The total no. of CAT Applicants are 195000. The  seats for the year 2014-16 are 3335 

Reservation for CAT

·        15% (SC),

·        7.5%(ST),

·        27% (OBC),

·        3%(DA)

·        47.5% (GEN)

Information for CAT 2015

·        To qualify the exam, you will need minimum 50% in the Bachelor’s Degree that has to be Recognized By the University Grants Commission.

·        The average Cut-off for the Top 10 Colleges in India is 97 Percentile.

·        You can apply this exam till September 30 and the exam will be held on November 16& November 22.

·        The results will be out on 27th December, 2015.

·        The application fees for this exam is Rs.1600 (GEN/OBC) and Rs.800 (SC/ST/DA)

·        To register for CAT 2015 the Window Opens in the month of August and is held via the Online Mode only.

·        Examination Pattern will include 2 sections: Data Interpretation & Qualitative Ability, while the other being verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning. Each will have 50 questions.

·        You can see the CAT result on its official website. For this you must have your username, the password and your roll number.

·        The obtained Scorecard of 2015 will only be valid till the December 31, 2015.

University of Delhi - [DU], New Delhi: Review

About Delhi University:

This chief university of India is considered the best among all other universities in the world. This was established in 1922 by Central Legislative Assembly. It has PG, M.Phil, UG, Ph.D, Certificate or Diploma or Advanced Diploma Courses in many streams.

During its start, this just has 3 colleges in Delhi named, St. Stephen’s College, Ramjas College  and Hindu College that later amalgamated into an university with 2 personnel: Arts & Science.  

Delhi University has 2 main campuses: North Delhi and South. North Delhi campus has popular institutions like Hindu College, St. Stephen’s College, Miranda House, and Delhi School of Economics and so on; while campus of South includes Faculty of Arts & SP Jain Centre for Management Studies.

In present time, it has about 77 colleges under the affiliation along with 86 departments & 5 recognized institutes that spread in the city. This university has vast number of students counting to 13,2435.

This university also has a special Central Placement Cell that places their students in the very reputed MNC’s, govt Organisations, NGO's and also many private sector units.

Anna University,Chennai -Review

Hy all,

I have reviewed few other universities on this blog in the recent days and even today I have an overview of an Indian university named “Anna University, Chennai”.  This University in Tamil Nadu is famous worldwide and also a very old one. 

About Anna University, Chennai:

It was established in the year 1987on 4^th of September as unitary type University.  It has Engineering, allied Sciences and technology study streams to offer. Besides this it also promotes research and the disseminating knowledge.  You get a perfect cooperation of academic knowledge with industrial communities. This University was established by integrating 2 very well-known institutions (technical) of Madras.  

·        College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG)(1794)

·        Madras Institute of Technology, Chrompet (MIT)(1949) and 3Technological Departments of the University of Madras.

·        Alagappa College of Technology (ACT)(1944)

·        School of Architecture and Planning (SAP)(1957)

 This vast Spread University is located in southern part of Chennai that has campus over 100 hectares. The MIT of Chrompet is the second largest campus that extends to more than 20 hectares. These campuses have various buildings that serve many needs of University. The 3^rd campus extends to more than 80 hectares and is located at Taramani, Adyar.

Since the year 2001, it’s highly renowned Affiliated University that 426 Self-financing Engineering Colleges, 6 Government Colleges & 3 Government-aided Engineering colleges which is located in different various parts in the state of Tamilnadu. This university is member of Association of Indian Universities, the Association of Commonwealth Universities and also a Partner of UNESCO International Center for Engineering Education. It has gained Five Star Status by UGC for academic and research.

Director of this University, Prof .D P Kaliraj had the motto “Progress through knowledge”.  In present time, this university has 479 faculties with ratio of 1: 4.1. Faculty: Student

The Reservation of seats:

·        General - 44%

·        OBC (Other Backward Caste) - 29%

·        SC (Scheduled Caste) - 7%

·        ST( Scheduled Tribe) - 7%

·        Handicapped - 2%

·        Management - %

Bharati Vidyapeeth University Review

Bharati Vidyapeeth University is known for its quality education with global standards. This was established in the year 1964 by popular name Dr. Patangrao Kadam. This university was started with an objective for providing best education to get social transformation. The university is well known national educational organizations that have multidisciplinary character, intellectual rigor and also practical outlook. The Bharati Vidyapeeth is a parent body of the Bharati Vidyapeeth University that has over 130 educational institutions of many kinds. This has its campuses in the popular cities like Pune, New Delhi, Karad, Navi Mumbai, Solapur, Kolhapur and Sangli.

This university has students from almost 30 different countries in the world. This is a member of Association of Indian Universities & Association of Commonwealth Universities. It has gained ‘A’ Grade from National Assessment and also Accreditation Council. Few of its constituent units has been accredited ‘A’ Grade from National Board of Accreditation. 

BVU has post-doctorate, graduate and masters course that is taught by supportive staff. Bharati Vidyapeeth University has major campus in Delhi city that spreads over 8 acres of the land. All their campuses are spacious, very impressive and also the imposing buildings, maintained accommodation add more to it.

CollegeDunia-An Online Education Portal Raises 1 Crore in Angel Funding For Raising Technology

CollegeDunia a popular online education portal raises 1 crore in angel funding for the purpose of raising technology. This portal is a best to get many education details at one place including college info, college address, form submission dates, etc.  This website is a venture of CollegeDunia Web Pvt Ltd that is Delhi based and was incepted in the year May 2014 by Sahil Chalana.

CollegeDunia has recently done angel funding for more than $160,000 i.e., Rs 1 crore from their various investors that are known and some remain undisclosed. This funding has been done from Gaadi.com (CEO-Umang Kumar) and also some other investors whose are unnamed. This is defiantly a big event for CollegeDunia’s founder Mr. Sahil Chalan who has an aim to use the funds for technological advancements of this portal and also some amount for the marketing and its operational activities as the news reported online.