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Cycle update · 21 October 2026

What Changed in MBA Admissions: 21 October 2026

By Piyush Agarwal, 10 years in direct admissions counselling · 21 October 2026

The short answer

On 21 October 2026, SNAP's mock page quietly extended Mock Test 2's payment eligibility two days — to 22 October, 11:59 PM — with the test on 23 October. NMIMS's extended window has four days left; KMAT's restored 14 November date holds a third day; MAT's September scores are twenty-one days unposted.

What changed?

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SNAP — Mock Test 2 payment window EXTENDED two days, to tomorrow nightThrough 20 October, the /snap-mock page printed payment eligibility closing 20 October 11:59 PM for the 23 October sittingThe mock page re-read this morning has QUIETLY moved the line: 'The applicants who have paid for SNAP 2026 by 22nd October 2026, 11:59 PM, are eligible for the mock test' — a two-day extension from the 20 October cutoff it printed through yesterday. The test itself still sits 23 October 2026 with the same four-section shape (General English 10, Analytical and Logical Reasoning 20, Quantitative/DI/DS 20, Ethics, Morality and Values 10), 60 questions in 60 minutes, 0.25 negative marking, credentials by SMS/WhatsApp/email. The dedicated EMV question bank promised for 8 October has still never appeared — day fourteen. The calendar re-verified at the canonical /snap-important-dates URL: registration closes Wednesday 25 November 2026, admit cards 7/11/18 December, tests 13/19/26 December, result Tuesday 12 January 2027
NMAT — extension day eleven, four days leftnmat.nmims.edu printed 'Extended Till: 25th October 2026' on 20 October, day ten of the extensionThe portal's raw HTML re-read this morning still prints 'NMIMS MBA 2027 Application Extended Till: 25th October 2026' beside the live countdown — day eleven of the extension, FOUR 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-one, and the page holds a third dayAIMA's governing URL held the December 2026 candidate block two consecutive days through 20 OctoberThe content page re-read today HELD the December 2026 block for a THIRD consecutive day (PBT registration closes 14 December, test 20 December; CBT closes 21 December, test 27 December; scores 'by first week of January 2027') — the longest no-flip stretch since the twelve-day flip sequence began. No September score notice exists anywhere, twenty-one days past the expired 'by last week of September' promise. mat.aima.in serves the December 2026 registration banner — the portal's 'December 7' PBT line that surfaces in the raw HTML is inside a commented-out stale marquee, not live content, verified today. The applicant dashboard remains the only channel that matters
KMAT — the restored 14 November date holds a third dayBoth official pages held 'Saturday, November 14th, 2026' two consecutive days through 20 OctoberThe restoration holds a third day: the homepage re-read this morning is byte-identical to the restored version (35,579 bytes), and the key-dates page's raw HTML still prints 'Online Registration End Date October 31st, 2026' beside 'KMAT 2026 Test Date Saturday, November 14th, 2026'. Admit Card Release Date and Practice Test Date remain TBA — the next watch line. The 20 September sitting's result stays unposted, day thirty; kppgca.karnataka.gov.in remains DNS-unresolved, day thirty
Watches — SIMC day twenty-seven; Sambalpur 404s a third day; Rohtak down a third daySIMC's 2027-28 dates unpublished on day twenty-six; Sambalpur's /admission/ 404'd a second day; Rohtak's site unreachable (HTTP 000) two days runningSIMC's MBA-CM page re-read today still prints 'Admission Open for 2027-28' branding 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-seven; the prospectus governs. IIM Sambalpur's /admission/ page 404'd AGAIN today — a third 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 third consecutive day (HTTP 000, homepage included) — its printed documents stand from today's mirror reads, disclosed
Four new fee-verified comparisons join the libraryThe comparison library last grew on 20 October (the Kashipur-Raipur, Kashipur-Ranchi, NIBM-SIBM Pune and XIME-Christ pairs)Today adds four pairs, every figure re-read against official documents this morning: IIM Jammu vs IIM Trichy (the gender-split 91/89 table against the JAP-era 95.25 — Rs 22,80,756 against Rs 21,24,000 all-in), IIM Rohtak vs IIM Ranchi (the flat 97 against the JAP partner — Rs 17,90,000 against about Rs 20.9 lakh all-in; Rohtak's PDFs re-read via mirror with the site down a third day, disclosed), IIM Sambalpur vs IIM Visakhapatnam (the 85-concession no-sectionals door against the 82-overall bar with the 48/100 interview — an unpublished fee against Rs 23,58,590), and IIM Kashipur vs IIM Nagpur (the JAP partner against the solo three-stage door — Rs 20,80,000 with the 10%-of-batch waiver against Rs 21,00,000 with twenty scholarships)

What should you do now?

  1. If SNAP is your route: the Mock Test 2 payment eligibility now closes TOMORROW, 22 October 2026, 11:59 PM — the page quietly extended it two days — and the test sits 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 — four 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 three days. Register on kmatindia.com before the close and watch the admit-card line next; the September result is thirty days late and the government portal is still dark.
  4. If you sat MAT September: day twenty-one, no score anywhere — but the public page has now held its shape three days running, the longest stretch since the flips began. Ignore the shapes and check your mat.aima.in applicant dashboard directly.
  5. If you are weighing the newer IIMs: today's four comparisons price every pair from documents opened today — Jammu-Trichy, Rohtak-Ranchi, Sambalpur-Visakhapatnam and Kashipur-Nagpur. Sambalpur's fee is still unpublished and its admissions page is 404ing a third day, so treat any figure you are quoted for it as unverified until the institute prints; Rohtak's site is down a third day, but its printed Rs 17,90,000 and 97-flat bar were re-read today via mirror, disclosed.

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

The headline is SNAP’s: the mock page has quietly extended Mock Test 2’s payment eligibility two days — the line now reads paid by 22 October, 11:59 PM (tomorrow night), against the 20 October cutoff it printed through yesterday — with the test itself still sitting 23 October and the promised EMV question bank missing on day fourteen. NMIMS’s extended application holds at its 25 October close on day eleven (four days out).

The standing watches: KMAT’s restored 14 November test date has now held three consecutive days — registration to 31 October, admit card next; MAT’s September scores remain unposted twenty-one days past the expired promise, with AIMA’s page now holding the December block three days running (the ‘December 7’ line on the MAT portal is a commented-out stale marquee, verified today, not live content); SIMC’s 2027-28 dates remain unpublished on day twenty-seven; IIM Sambalpur’s admissions page is 404ing a third day after a serving week; IIM Rohtak’s site is unreachable a third day.

The four new comparisons: IIM Jammu vs IIM Trichy (the gender-split 91/89 table against the JAP-era 95.25 bar — Rs 22,80,756 against Rs 21,24,000 all-in), IIM Rohtak vs IIM Ranchi (the flat 97 against the JAP partner — Rs 17,90,000 against about Rs 20.9 lakh all-in), IIM Sambalpur vs IIM Visakhapatnam (the 85-concession door with no sectionals against the 82-overall bar with the heaviest interview in the series — an unpublished fee against Rs 23,58,590), and IIM Kashipur vs IIM Nagpur (the JAP partner against the solo three-stage door — a 10%-of-batch waiver against twenty named scholarships).

Where does this fit?

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