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The Indian Institutes of Management may take their Common Admission Test to foreign shores as early as 2011, along with embellished student-friendly measures, the business schools and CAT service provider Prometric .B-schools from Dubai, Nepal and Sri Lanka have already written to the IIMs seeking greater collaboration, including the setting up of examination test centres in their countries.

At a time when the country is rejoicing over Indian education system’s freedom from the regressive marks based evaluation system, bang comes an announcement from one of the country’s top institutes to offset the jubilant mood. It is a reiteration of their known stand that it will still take us time before we change our mindset to let go of percentages and marks while tapping future talent.

While some might be celebrating the point three percent relaxation in the maximum cut off for the coveted Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad (IIM-A); for others it might be time to actually take a peek into their high school result cards.

The Indian Institute of Managements (IIM) has declared that the results of CAT 2009-2010 exam will be deferred to the end of February this year. Earlier, results of the entrance exam were scheduled to be announced by the third week of this month.

Good news for Management students. Soon, another IIM will add to the list of premier business schools in India. This one will cost must less for the students than the existing IIMs in the country.  As per the plan, the new Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Jharkhand will commence its academic session from June this year.

Despite contemplating an integrated interview process for the IIMs, the HRD ministry has finally decided to hold single city interviews for all the Indian Institutes of Management, from this year onwards.

The number of applicants eyeing the CAT this year seems to have dropped tremendously. With just 241,582, candidates having applied for the elite examination, the 1.8 percent decline from previous highs is the lowest ever in 12 years.

The Common Admission Test is considered one of the most difficult competitive examinations in the country. CAT scores are used to get admission in the most prestigious management schools. As per an assessment of the prospectus of CAT for the year 2008 and 2009, this year nearly fifty more institutes have been added to the list of colleges which will take into account the CAT scores for short listing the students for admission.