Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar

Last date for applying online to XIMB is December 10, 2007.

Visit www.ximb.ac.in and register online for admission to XIMB. There are no paper-based application forms for seeking admission to XIMB. The application fee (Rs.1000/- for each programme) may be paid after filling the online application, as instructed there in.

Indian Institute of Forest Management

Sale of IIFM application forms starts: 20.08.2007
Submission of completed application forms to IIFM: December 5, 2007

Step 1: All applicants seeking admission in PGDFM at IIFM, have to appear forCommon Admission Test (CAT) to be held on 18th November, 2007. The CAT application form and bulletin can be obtained from selected branches of UTI/ Vijaya Banks from July 16th till August 16, 2007. The last date for submitting CAT application is 8th September, 2007. The IIFM will use the CAT score only for short-listing the candidates for postgraduate programme. IIMs have no role either in the selectionprocess or in the conduct of the programme.

Step 2: IIFM Application Form: Candidate should also obtain IIFM application form personally or by sending DD of Rs.700/- (350 for SC & ST) only, in favour of The 'Director IIFM, payable at Bhopal. The candidate should keep a photocopy of Bank Draft with them as it would be needed at the time of filling the application. Alternatively, the application form can also be downloaded from the website given below but in such cases the filled in forms must accompany a Bank Draft of Rs.700 (Rs.350 for SC/ST).

Step 3: GD/Interview: Short-listed candidates shall be called for Group Discussion and Interview at IIFM, Bhopal during February/March 2008.

Application form can be downloaded from www.iifm.ac.in/admission or www.envindia.com or www.paryavaran.com .

XAT NOTIFICATION

XAT 2008
Day: Sunday
Date: January 06, 2008

XAT is also used by 41 other Management Institutes for Admission.
XAT Bulletin containing the details of XAT and application procedure for admission to XLRI and other institutes can be obtained from the branches of State Bank of India for Rs.700/- (Non-refundable). Enclose the third copy of XAT/Bank pay-in-slip along with the XAT PP Form that can be downloaded from: www.xlri.edu. Alternatively one can obtain the XAT Bulletin by sending a DD for Rs.750/- (Non-refundable) drawn in favour of XAT Jamshedpur payable at SBI, XLRI Branch, (4660) along with the XAT PP Form that can be downloaded.

TEST YOUR VERBAL ABILITY

In the following paragraph, certain words are missing. Construct the paragraph by choosing the best alternatives from among the four choices (A, B, C, or D) for each of the blanks. More than one of the choices could conceivably answer the question. However, you are to choose the best answer; that is, the response that is most accurate.

Only steadfastness of purpose and humility enable the student to shift his position to meet the new conditions in which new _____1_____ are born, or old ones are modified beyond recognition. And, the honest heart will keep him in touch with his fellow students, and furnish that sense of _____2_____ without which he travels an arid waste alone. I say _____3______ an honest heart – the honest head is prone to be cold and stern, given to judgement, not mercy, and not always able to entertain that true charity which, while it thinks no evil, is anxious to put the best possible ____4____ upon motives of fellow worker. It will foster, too, an attitude of generous, friendly _____5______ untinged by the green peril, jealously, that is best preventive of the growth of a bastard scientific spirit, loving seclusion and working in a lock-and-key laboratory, as ____6____ of light as is a thief.

1. A. truths B. ideas C. thoughts D. realities
2. A. comradeship B. camaraderie C. self-sufficiency D. self-adequacy
3. A. advisedly B. deliberately C. consciously D. purposely
4. A. interpretation B. perspective C. perception D. construal
5. A. rivalry B. spirit C. enthusiasm D. enmity
6. A. timorous B. afraid C. unsure D. apprehensive

NMAT NOTIFICATION

NMAT Exam for entry into the PG Program of NMIMS

Date of Exam: December 30, 2007
Time: 9:00 AM
Sale of forms begin: September 17, 2007
Cost of form: Rs.1500
Last date of reciept of form: September 30, 2007

For detailed itenary of NMAT 2007 please click here.

ENGINEERS BEWARE!!! LAST CHANCE TO MAKE IT TO THE IIT's IF YOU HAVENT

JMET NOTIFICATIONS ARE OUT.

JMET 2008 will be conducted on Sunday, December 09, 2007 from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM.
Applications are to be made online.
Start Date: September 03 2007
End Date: October 03 2007

Announcement of Results of JMET 2008 : Friday, January 4, 2008
For detailed list & description of Institutes participating in JMET 2008 and their profiles please click here.

Institute Notifications - CAT 2007

1.SPJAIN, Mumbai

Website: http://www.spjimr.org

Important Dates:
Last Date of Online Application: 30 November 2007

2.MDI, Gurgaon

Cost of Form: Rs. 1,500
Website: http://www.mdi.edu & http://www.mdi.ac.in

Important Dates:
Start of Form Sale: 10 August 2007
End of Form Sale: 09 November 2007
Last Date of Form Receipt: 14 November 2007

3.IMT - Ghaziabad & Nagpur

Cost of Form: Rs. 1,600

Website: http://www.imt.edu

Important Dates:
Start of Form Sale: 31 August 2007
End of Form Sale & Last Date of Form Receipt: 30 November 2007
Last Date of Online Application: 02 December 2007

4.NIRMA

Cost of Form: Rs. 1,100

Website: http://www.imnu.ac.in

Important Dates:
Start of Form Sale: 25 August 2007
Last Date of Form Receipt: 30 November 2007

5.FORE

Cost of Form: Rs. 1,300 (for PGDM) and Rs. 1,350 (for PGDM-IBM)

Website: http://www.fsm.ac.in

Important Dates:
Start of Form Sale: 13 August 2007
End of Form Sale: 14 November 2007
Last Date of Form Receipt: 17 November 2007

6.K.J.Somaiya PGDM

Website: http://simsr.somaiya.edu

Important Dates:
End of Form Sale & Last Date of Form Receipt: 15 December 2007

7.IMDR, Pune

Cost of Form: Rs. 1,000

Website: http://www.imdr.edu

Important Dates:
Start of Form Sale: 14 August 2007
Last Date of Form Receipt: 30 November 2007

SYMBIOSIS TEST DATES

SNAP is poised to be conducted on 16th. December 2007. Time: 2:00 - 4:00 PM.
For further details visit http://www.snaptest.org
Registration needs to be made online.

INSTITUTE NOTIFICATIONS

The following Institutes have come out with there notifications in Times Of India dated 15th. July 2007 :

1. IIFT (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade) - http://www.iift.edu/

FORM FILLING PROCESS IS ONLINE.
Last date for sale of prospectus by post : 20th.August 2007
Last date for sale of prospectus at IIFT counter: 3rd. September 2007
Last date for receipt of completed applications: 3rd. September 2007
Written Test Date: 25th. November 2007 (10:00 AM to 12:00 PM)

2. TAPMI (T.A.Pai Management Institute) - http://www.tapmi.org/

FORM FILLING PROCESS IS ONLINE.
Last date for sale of forms: 30th. November 2007
Last date for receipt of completed application forms: 6th. December 2007.

3. IMI (International Management Institute) - http://www.imi.edu/

FORM FILLING PROCESS IS ONLINE.
Availability of application forms from: 6th August 2007
Last date of sale of application form: 10th December 2007
Last date of completed application form: 10th December 2007

KITTY KITTY....CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG!!!!

The IIM's have declared the following dates for CAT 2007

Test Date: NOVEMBER 18, 2007
Test Timings: 10.00am to 1.00pm
- Issue of CAT Bulletins by UTI Bank/Vijaya Bank STARTS : JULY 16, 2007
- Issue of CAT Bulletins by UTI Bank/Vijaya Bank ENDS : AUGUST 16, 2007
- Issue of CAT Bulletins by IIMs ENDS : AUGUST 20, 2007
- Last date for receiving the completed CAT Application Forms at the IIMs: SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

For the complete schedule of CAT 2007 please click here.

CAP ROUND 1 RESULTS

Please click here to check out the allotment of seat by CAP ROUND 1.

K.J.SOMAIYA GUJRATI MINORITY LIST

To check for selected candidates under Gujrati Minority Quota please click here.

To check for waitlisted candidates under Gujrati Minority Quota please click here.

Distribution of seats

The DTE has published a list of Distribution of seats according to the categories institute wise. Check out this link.

Online Option Form

Find the online option form link here.

N.L.DALMIYA PG RESULTS

Click here for results of N.L.Dalmiya PG Program.

CET MERIT LIST WITH SAMPLE

For the MAH-MBA/MMS-CET-2007 Provisional Merit-cum-Result please click here.

The option form filling begins from 3rd. July 2007. Please check this site in future for further details.

CAP PROCESS DETAILS

For the Centralized Admission Process (CAP) schedule please click here.

LAST YEAR'S RANK CUT OFFS

PLEASE CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO OPEN

The above is a comprehensive list of rankwise cut-offs of various Institutes "last year". This should give you fair indication as to where you stand.
--> N/A implies that either the institute is a minority institute or students of that category did not enrol.
--> All ranks mentioned above are State Ranks and not Home University Ranks.
--> OMS students are a different category altogether.

CET SCORES

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT YOUR CET RESULTS

SAMPLE CET SCORE CARD

The above is the sample scorecard of MHCET. The above is that of a student from the Borivali Center. The name, roll number etc have been erased to protect the identity of the student.

Results Update

Latest news from a passing bird is that the results of CET 2007 would be made available any day after 10th. June 2007.

Estimated cut-offs rankwise for CET 2007

The above is a comprehensive list of B-schools ranked under MHCET with their probable cut-offs for CET 2007. OMS cut-offs would be 6-9 marks higher than the marks stated above in their respective category.

Results Of CET 2007 GD/PI

As the MBA CET 2007 GD/PI process is nearing completion ,there is great curiosity in the air as to when will the results be declared.The DTE has not come up with any dates as to when the results will be out.But looking at last years trend we can make a guesstimate about the result dates.Click Here to know more

QUESTIONNAIRE FOR CET 2007

As always this year too the D.T.E has not changed its intial questionnaire that needs to be filled by a student during the GD/PI process which is detrimental for the marks obtained finally. It looks somewhat as mentioned below:

• Educational Qualifications?
• Family Background?
• Academic Awards And Achievements (If-Any) ?
• Extra Curricular Activities?
• What according to you should be done to see that India emerges as a global power in the 21st century?
• What are your Strengths & Weakness ?
• What makes you feel that you that you will make a successful manager ?
• Which event according to you has been the most significant event of the last decade?

GD TOPICS IN CET 2007 PROCESS

The following are the GD topics that have figured in CET 2007 selection process:

1.Should Rich countries help the poor countries?
2.Should Dance bar be banned?
3.Is common sense or genius necessary to succeed in business?
4.Hindi Should be used as language for national Integration.
5.Smaller the state better the administration
6.Adult franchise should be banned
7.33% reservations for women in all sectors
8.Relevance of U.N
9.Quota in Private sector
10.Children learn faster then adults .
11.Should parents use corporal punishments?
12.Hard work vs Smart work?
13.India is a rich country of poor people.
14.Public sector is vital for India's development.
15.Capital Punishment should be abolished.
16.How can we curb international terrorism.
17.Advantages of coeducation.
18.Steal a few lakhs and you're a criminal, steal a few hundred crores and you become an industrialist.
19.Science a boon or bane?
20.Labour laws should be improved to encourage FDI.
21.The business of business is not just business.
22.Mergers and acquisitions, view the situation as a manager.
23.Does society offer greater opportunities to both genders today?
24.Management like Swimming Cannot be Taught in a classroom through lectures.
25.Dotcom or Doubtcom ? (Last year's topic)
26.Should sex education be really made compulsory?
27.Should Pandher and Kohli be hanged?

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