MBA Entrance Exam

Focus on NMAT and get a high score in the exam. Since 70% weightage in the cdpi round is carried by the NMAT score, a high score will obviously give you an edge over the others during the CDPI. Good luck.

Yes,you can apply through your xat score.

The cutoff for xat last year was around 75 percentile.

You should have a valid MAT, CAT or IB-SAT score . If you don't have a valid score for the year. you will be denied for admission.

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all colleges are good but it depends on various criteria on which a clge is ranked at 1 or 2 and so on. some colleges r good for btech some for mba etc. some are good for providing placement some are known for their faculties.
so it would b better if you specify the on which basis you want to know which clge is best at.

IimS.other mbas are good from govt run universities

Career launcher and IMS are the two top performance based coaching classes. there are other low cost option as mentioned below.
http://blog.oureducation.in/top-coaching-centre-for-mba-entrance-in-nasik-maharashtra/

CAT exam duration has been increased from 170 mins to 180 mins. Previously, it consisted of 2 sections Quantitative Aptitude and Verbal and Reading Comprehension From this year CAT 2016 is going to be held in completely new form. The number of question has also been changed section wise as:
Quantitative Aptitude and Verbal and Reading Comprehension will have 34 questions eachandData Interpretation, Logical Reasoning will have 32 questions. The candidate cannot switch between sections while answering.

Around 99 percentile is must if you target top 7 IIMs. Rest coll require atleast 80perce tile. Cutoff for SC ST OBC is comparatively lesser to general category.