The buzz around MBA exams is on a high since the announcement of CAT 2014 exam.

While CAT 2014 exam is regarded as the most popular exam in terms of number of registration, and is accepted by the 13 IIMs and several Top B-schools; there is another important MBA entrance exam which scores high marks over other exams in terms of seat: registration ratio. This is IIFT 2015 exam for admission to IIFT Delhi and IIFT Kolkata campus only.

CAT 2014 aspirants have been raising queries on various implications and how to cope with the officially/unofficially announced proposed changes and crack CAT 2014. The notification and other news published in newspapers and MBA portals about these changes have placed the aspirants in a fix and as such they find it difficult whether to continue the same preparation strategy or change the same.

CAT 2014 will be held on November 16 and 22, 2014 in four sessions across 99 cities in India. IIMs have announced many changes this year in CAT 2014 exam. MBAUniverse.com spoke to Dr. Rohit Kapoor, CAT 2014 Convener on the reasons behind all these changes in CAT 2014 exam.

When MBAUniverse.com asked about the reasons behind changes in the schedule of CAT exam, Dr. Kapoor said, We have changed the test schedule pattern from earlier 21 days to 2 days because we wanted to reduce the load from our system.

CAT 2014 exam pattern has undergone a lot of changes since last year including Exam dates, Registration process, results, exam pattern, CAT 2014 paper pattern, etc. With an aim to make CAT 2014 exam more user friendly, IIM Indore and TCS have gone ahead and made some distinctive changes in the CAT 2014 exam pattern.

This might be surprise news for many CAT 2014 aspirants who were busy preparing for their exams based on the pattern of last year as they now have to re-adapt themselves with the new and changed CAT 2014 exam pattern.

IIM Indore in partnership with newly appointed CAT 2014 testing agency TCS has scrapped the facility of buying CAT 2014 vouchers offline for registration. CAT 2013 provided dual facility of buying CAT vouchers off-line as well as online. No doubt the registration process in CAT 2013 was also online in CAT 2013 but the candidates with no credit card or net banking facility were not deprived of applying for CAT. The facility to buy the voucher off line from any of the designated banks as well as from IIMs was very much available along with the online purchase.

Moving away from the past years, CAT 2014 notification has brought many surprises and changes in its process of registration, selection of test centre, conduct of test, duration of test, pattern of test and declaration of result. MBAUniverse.com had already anticipated many changes and surprises in CAT 2014, with the change of guard in testing agency from Prometric to TCS and has been advising the aspirants in this regard from time to time.

Appended are the 10 Big changes that will happen in CAT 2014

1. CAT 2014 will be a month late

IIM Indore announced the CAT 2014 notification on Saturday, June 26, 2014. As per the Official CAT 2014 exam notification, aspirants will experience a lot many changes in this years CAT 2014 exam.

This year CAT 2014 candidates will have to wait to finally know where and when they will be giving their CAT 2014 exam. Unlike last year, candidate will be allotted the test site on a random basis based on their preferred choice.

Solve every type of question, study all the topics, make you basics strong, Attempt past year CAT question papers and many more..

As a CAT aspirant, you must be swarmed with these types of suggestions from your seniors, Ex CAT Takers, experts, etc. Right?

Well, then lets add one more item in this wish list to make your dream of achieving highest percentile in CAT 2014 exam a reality. The task which you need to add and perform with due diligence and concentration is the Mock Test.

Time is ripe enough to begin the IIFT 2015 entrance test preparation on English Comprehension along with other MBA entrance exams. Entrance examination to IIFT flagship MBA programme in International business, to be held on 23.11.2014, is around 120 days away and you cant say that there is ample time nor you can excuse yourself by saying that time is too short to prepare. 1-2 hours dedicated preparation on 5 key areas in Verbal Ability (English Comprehension as IIFT names it) can do wonders.