SCMHRD (Symbiosis Centre for Management and HRD, Pune) is one of the management schools I've applied to, and their entrance test was yesterday evening.  The centre was Little Flower High School, Hyderabad.  It was a 2½ hour test (3 PM to 5:30 PM), and there were six sections in the paper.  Five of them were similar areas as in the CAT exam, and the last one was General Awareness.  Out of the 200 questions, I answered about 120 or so, and I don't know whether that is a good thing or not!  Anyway, the General Awareness section was really hard, they asked a lot of economic facts like the amount of money India and China get from tourism, and stuff like that!  The Maths part was much easier than CAT's, but the Reading Comprehension section was difficult.  Of course, the advantage of a test like this, is that, like CAT, everything is relative - if you found the exam tough, a lot of the other people would have found it difficult as well.  The scores don't really matter I think, the final entrance to the institute depends on how you did relative to the others.

They also had a short 10 minute section with 4 questions which you had to answer in short sentences.  Interesting.  My next management exam is the XAT (for admission into the Xavier Labour Research Institute or XLRI, Jamshedpur), which is on January 5th.