The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore has announced that the Common Admission Test (CAT) of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Indore, Kozhikode, Lucknow and Shillong is going to be a Computer Based Test (CBT) from this year onwards.
Two fake students were arrested while appearing CAT 2007 in Chandigarh. Police took the action after IIMC lodging a complaint regarding the possibility of few students appearing the exam on phony names.
IIM B and IIM I will be raising their batch size by 20% and 33.3% respectively for the batch 2008 –10. Source: Economic Times, Tuesday, October 9, 2007
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The AICTE has announced new guidelines for B school to deduct the processing fee when a student leaves the institute before the commencement of classes. As per the new instruction no institute can deduct more than Rs. 1000.