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Cycle update · 20 October 2026

What Changed in MBA Admissions: 20 October 2026

By Piyush Agarwal, 10 years in direct admissions counselling · 20 October 2026

The short answer

On 20 October 2026, SNAP's Mock Test 2 payment window closes tonight at 11:59 PM — the test sits 23 October. NMIMS's extended window has five days left; KMAT's restored 14 November date holds a second day; MAT's September scores are twenty days unposted; IIM Sambalpur's admissions page is 404ing a second day.

What changed?

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SNAP — Mock Test 2 payment closes TONIGHTThe /snap-mock page moved to Mock Test 2 on 18 October: pay by 20 October 11:59 PM, test 23 OctoberDeadline day. The mock page re-read this morning stands unchanged: applicants who have paid for SNAP 2026 by 20 October 2026, 11:59 PM — TONIGHT — sit Mock Test 2 on 23 October; the mock is MCQ-only, 60 questions in 60 minutes, with credentials arriving by SMS, WhatsApp and email at registration contact details. The homepage banner now reads 'Official SNAP Mock Test 2 — 23rd October — Eligibility: Complete Your SNAP Application by 20th October'. The dedicated EMV question bank promised for 8 October has still never appeared — day thirteen. The calendar re-verified at the canonical /snap-important-dates URL: registration closes Wednesday 25 November, admit cards 7/11/18 December, tests 13/19/26 December, result Tuesday 12 January 2027
NMAT — extension day ten, five days leftnmat.nmims.edu printed 'Extended Till: 25th October 2026' on 19 October, day nine of the extensionThe portal re-read this morning still prints 'NMIMS MBA 2027 Application Extended Till: 25th October 2026' beside the live countdown — day ten of the extension, FIVE days to the close. The handout's internal inconsistency (schedule table 25 October, summary table 10 October) is unchanged; the live portal banner governs. NMIMS still counts only your first NMAT attempt; the GMAC exam-delivery window runs 2 November-20 December
MAT — day twenty, and for once no flipAIMA's governing URL flipped a tenth time on 19 October, back to the December 2026 candidate blockThe content page re-read today HELD the December 2026 block for a second consecutive day (PBT registration closes 14 December, admit card 17 December, test 20 December; CBT closes 21 December, admit card 24 December, test 27 December; scores by the first week of January 2027) — the first two-day hold in over a week. No September score notice exists anywhere, twenty days past the expired 'by last week of September' promise. mat.aima.in serves the December 2026 registration banner; the applicant dashboard remains the only channel that matters
KMAT — the restored 14 November date holds a second dayBoth official pages restored 'Saturday, November 14th, 2026' on 19 October after twelve days TBAThe restoration holds: the homepage re-read this morning is byte-identical to yesterday's restored version (35,579 bytes), and the key-dates page still prints registration ending 31 October 2026 beside the restored test date — Saturday, November 14th, 2026, MBA 10:00 AM-12:00 PM. Admit card and practice test remain TBA — the next watch line. The 20 September sitting's result stays unposted, day twenty-nine; kppgca.karnataka.gov.in remains DNS-unresolved, day twenty-nine
Watches — SIMC day twenty-six; Sambalpur 404s a second day; Rohtak down a second daySIMC's 2027-28 dates unpublished on day twenty-five; Sambalpur's /admission/ 404'd on 19 October after a serving week; Rohtak's site unreachable (HTTP 000)SIMC's MBA-CM page re-read today still prints 'Admission Open for 2027-28' with both batch fee tables (2026-28 at Rs 3,75,500 per instalment; 2025-27 at Rs 3,57,500) and no date table — day twenty-six; the prospectus governs. IIM Sambalpur's /admission/ page 404'd AGAIN today — a second consecutive day after serving 12-18 October; the flagship MBA fee remains unpublished everywhere. IIM Rohtak's website was unreachable from our vantage for a second consecutive day (HTTP 000, homepage included) — its printed documents stand from their last verified reads
Four new fee-verified comparisons join the libraryThe comparison library last grew on 19 October (the Sambalpur-Ranchi, Jammu-Raipur, Jammu-Udaipur and Rohtak-Kashipur pairs)Today adds four pairs, every figure re-read against official documents this morning: IIM Kashipur vs IIM Raipur (the JAP partner against the JAP host — Rs 20,80,000 printed against Rs 20,08,000 with the mess outside, and Kashipur's printed 10%-of-batch full tuition waiver), IIM Kashipur vs IIM Ranchi (the intra-JAP budget pair — Rs 20,80,000 against the signed Rs 19,20,000 plus mess Rs 28,350 a term, all-in bills about Rs 10,000 apart), NIBM vs SIBM Pune (the RBI institute's signed Rs 17,84,000 all-in against the SNAP flagship's Rs 26,20,000 academic), and XIME vs Christ (Bangalore's multi-exam doors — Rs 12,90,000 against Rs 11,40,000-11,60,000, a weighted score against an eligibility-only gate)

What should you do now?

  1. If SNAP is your route: pay for SNAP 2026 by TONIGHT 20 October 2026, 11:59 PM to be eligible for Mock Test 2 on 23 October. Registration proper closes 25 November; tests 13/19/26 December; result 12 January 2027. The 8 October question bank never appeared publicly; do not pay anyone selling it on the side.
  2. If NMIMS is your target: the extended window closes 25 October 2026 — five days. Complete Step 2 on nmat.nmims.edu (Rs 3,000) on or before the day preceding your NMAT exam date; NMIMS still counts only your first attempt.
  3. If KMAT is your Karnataka door: registration stays open to 31 October and the restored test date — Saturday 14 November 2026 — has now held two days. Register on kmatindia.com before the close and watch the admit-card line next; the September result is twenty-nine days late and the government portal is still dark.
  4. If you sat MAT September: day twenty, no score anywhere — but the public page has finally held its shape two days running. Ignore the shapes and check your mat.aima.in applicant dashboard directly.
  5. If you are weighing the budget IIMs or the Pune/Bangalore doors: today's four comparisons price every pair from documents opened today — Kashipur-Raipur, Kashipur-Ranchi, NIBM-SIBM Pune and XIME-Christ. Sambalpur's fee is still unpublished and its admissions page is 404ing again, so treat any figure you are quoted for it as unverified until the institute prints; Rohtak's site is down a second day, but its printed Rs 17,90,000 and 97-flat bar stand from the documents.

The watch layer, re-read against official sources this morning, plus four new fee-verified comparisons.

The headline is SNAP’s: the Mock Test 2 eligibility window closes tonight — pay for SNAP 2026 by 20 October, 11:59 PM, sit 23 October — while the promised EMV question bank stays missing on day thirteen. NMIMS’s extended application holds at its 25 October close on day ten (five days out).

The standing watches: KMAT’s restored 14 November test date has now held two consecutive days — registration to 31 October, admit card next; MAT’s September scores remain unposted twenty days past the expired promise, but AIMA’s page finally held the December block a second day running; SIMC’s 2027-28 dates remain unpublished on day twenty-six; IIM Sambalpur’s admissions page is 404ing a second day after a serving week; IIM Rohtak’s site is unreachable a second day.

The four new comparisons: IIM Kashipur vs IIM Raipur (the JAP partner against the JAP host — a printed Rs 20,80,000 against Rs 20,08,000 with the mess outside), IIM Kashipur vs IIM Ranchi (the intra-JAP budget pair, all-in bills about Rs 10,000 apart), NIBM vs SIBM Pune (the RBI institute’s signed Rs 17,84,000 all-in against the SNAP flagship’s Rs 26,20,000 academic), and XIME vs Christ (Bangalore’s multi-exam doors — a 35%-weighted score against an eligibility-only gate, Rs 12.9 lakh against Rs 11.4-11.6 lakh).

Where does this fit?

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