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Cycle update · 22 October 2026

What Changed in MBA Admissions: 22 October 2026

By Piyush Agarwal, 10 years in direct admissions counselling · 22 October 2026

The short answer

On 22 October 2026, SNAP Mock Test 2's extended payment eligibility closes tonight at 11:59 PM — the homepage now prints 'DEADLINE EXTENDED' — with the test tomorrow, 23 October. NMIMS's extended window has three days left; KMAT's restored 14 November date holds a fourth day; MAT's September scores are twenty-two days unposted.

What changed?

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SNAP — Mock Test 2 payment closes TONIGHT; the homepage now says 'DEADLINE EXTENDED'Through 21 October, the extended 22 October pay-by line lived only on the mock page, printed quietly the day beforeThe /snap-mock page re-read this morning stands: 'The applicants who have paid for SNAP 2026 by 22nd October 2026, 11:59 PM, are eligible for the mock test. The Mock Test will be held on 23rd October 2026' — so the extended payment eligibility closes TONIGHT and the test sits TOMORROW, 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. New today: the homepage banner now explicitly prints 'Official SNAP Mock Test 2 — 23rd October — DEADLINE EXTENDED' — yesterday's quiet mock-page edit is now a labelled extension. The dedicated EMV question bank promised for 8 October has still never appeared — day fifteen. 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 twelve, three days leftnmat.nmims.edu printed 'Extended Till: 25th October 2026' on 21 October, day eleven 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 twelve of the extension, THREE 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-two, and the page holds a fourth dayAIMA's governing URL held the December 2026 candidate block three consecutive days through 21 OctoberThe content page re-read today HELD the December 2026 block for a FOURTH 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; fees Rs 2,300 per mode, Rs 4,000 both) — the longest no-flip stretch since the twelve-day flip sequence began. The same URL still carries a stale September 2025 schedule block, disclosed as before. No September score notice exists anywhere, twenty-two days past the expired 'by last week of September' promise. mat.aima.in returned 403 to our fetch today (it served the December banner yesterday) — the applicant dashboard remains the only channel that matters
KMAT — the restored 14 November date holds a fourth dayBoth official pages held 'Saturday, November 14th, 2026' three consecutive days through 21 OctoberThe restoration holds a fourth day: the homepage re-read this morning is byte-identical to the restored version (35,579 bytes), and the key-dates page 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, nine days to the registration close. The 20 September sitting's result stays unposted, day thirty-one; kppgca.karnataka.gov.in remains DNS-unresolved, day thirty-one
Watches — SIMC day twenty-eight; Sambalpur 404s a fourth day; Rohtak down a fourth daySIMC's 2027-28 dates unpublished on day twenty-seven; Sambalpur's /admission/ 404'd a third day; Rohtak's site unreachable (HTTP 000) three 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-eight; the prospectus governs. IIM Sambalpur's /admission/ page 404'd AGAIN today — a fourth 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 fourth consecutive day (HTTP 000 on every scheme tried) — its printed documents stand from this week's mirror reads, disclosed on each Rohtak page
Four new fee-verified comparisons join the libraryThe comparison library last grew on 21 October (the Jammu-Trichy, Rohtak-Ranchi, Sambalpur-Visakhapatnam and Kashipur-Nagpur pairs)Today adds four pairs, every figure re-read against official documents this morning: IIM Visakhapatnam vs IIM Udaipur (the 82-overall door with the 48/100 interview against the 94 invitation reading the CAT score — Rs 23,58,590 against Rs 21,51,258 residential), IIM Kashipur vs IIM Visakhapatnam (the JAP partner against the interview-heavy machine — Rs 20,80,000 with the 10%-of-batch waiver against Rs 23,58,590), IIM Jammu vs IIM Sambalpur (the gender-split 91/89 table against the 85-concession no-sectionals door — Rs 22,80,756 against an unpublished fee, 404 day four), and IIM Rohtak vs IIM Trichy (the flat 97 against the JAP-era 95.25 — Rs 17,90,000 against Rs 21,24,000 all-in; Rohtak's side from mirror reads with the site down a fourth day, disclosed)

What should you do now?

  1. If SNAP is your route: Mock Test 2's payment eligibility closes TONIGHT, 22 October 2026, 11:59 PM — the homepage now labels it 'DEADLINE EXTENDED' — and the test sits tomorrow, 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 — three 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 four days, with the admit-card line still TBA. Register on kmatindia.com before the close; the September result is thirty-one days late and the government portal is still dark.
  4. If you sat MAT September: day twenty-two, no score anywhere — but the public page has now held its shape four 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 — Visakhapatnam-Udaipur, Kashipur-Visakhapatnam, Jammu-Sambalpur and Rohtak-Trichy. Sambalpur's fee is still unpublished with its admissions page 404ing a fourth day, and Rohtak's site is down a fourth day — treat any figure quoted for either as unverified until the institute prints or serves.

Tonight is the SNAP Mock Test 2 payment deadline. The official mock page re-read this morning holds the line it quietly moved yesterday: applicants paid for SNAP 2026 by 22 October 2026, 11:59 PM are eligible, and the mock sits tomorrow, 23 October. What is new today is the label: the SNAP homepage banner now explicitly prints “DEADLINE EXTENDED” beside the mock announcement — the two-day extension that lived only in the mock page’s fine print yesterday is now advertised. The promised 8-October EMV question bank has still never appeared, day fifteen. Everything else on the watch board held its shape: NMIMS’s extended window has three days left, KMAT’s restored 14 November date held a fourth day, MAT’s page held a fourth, and both campus outages — Sambalpur’s 404ing admissions page and Rohtak’s unreachable site — entered a fourth day. Four new IIM comparisons join the library, every figure from documents opened this morning.

Where does this fit?

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