MBAUniverse.com is continuously publishing success stories of CAT Toppers to guide CAT 2014 aspirants in their preparation for CAT 2014 exam. In this sixth article of CAT Topper 2013 series we present the success story of Kuldeep Jha, an engineer and a working professional.

IFIM Business School, Bangalore hosted the 18th Convocation in the gracious presence of Dr. K.C. Chakrabarty - Former Deputy Governer of RBI as the Chief Guest and Padma Bhushan Mr. Ajai Chowdhry - Co-founder of HCL, Professor S. Sadagopan - Director, IIIT, Bangalore as the guests of honour.

While the Convocation was declared open by Mr. V.B. Padode, Chairman, Centre for Developmental Education, Dr. S Baskaran, Director of IFIM B-School shared the Annual Report followed by Dr. R.S. Nirjars welcome speech.

With just around 100 days to go for CAT 2014 exam, its time you do a self check on yourself.

CAT exam is one of the most difficult and important exam for management aspirants in India. You cant fulfill your dreams of scoring high marks in CAT 2014 with guess works, selective study or a one night study philosophy before exams.

There are many students who just fill the CAT registration form for the sake of it but dont really analyze their chances, the requirements to excel in Common Admission Test.

CAT 2014 aspirants, involved sincerely in their preparation have some genuine query whether their decision to drop one year while preparing for CAT stands on merits.

The recently published shortlist of candidates for GDPI 2014 at FMS Delhi contains 2572 candidates in all categories against an intake of 216 in flagship full time MBA programme. An approximate ratio of 1:12 (12 candidates shortlisted for 1 seat) appears to have been fixed in short listing the candidates.

AIMA claims that hundreds of B schools are accepting May MAT 2014 scores but with admission season in most of the B schools over, you can either hold the high scores of May MAT 2014 for admission in 2015 (as the scores are valid for 1 year) or explore admission opportunities in other B schools accepting May MAT 2014 scores.

Addressing the joint session of the parliament, Honorary President Pranab Mukherjee said the government would set up IITs and IIMs in every state. "We will set up IITs and IIMs in every state.” the president said in his speech.

An IIM and IIT in every state, what will be the implications? While few people have raised their objection over the matter, there are many who are excited with this prospect.

MBA is the most preferred Post Graduate degree/ Professional degree among students in India. Every other report suggests the same and hence its a matter of great joy for the MBA education fraternity.

But, this news also brings a cause of worry for several B-schools. The demand of MBA has resulted in several new ventures into MBA colleges, various reputed organizations have opened their own MBA University and new B-schools are coming up at a rapid pace.

Being apprehensive, questioning your ability to perform in CAT 2014 is very natural, given the volume of competition and level of test difficulty. But the coveted nobility attached to good performers in CAT in the form of awarded admission to IIMs cannot be undermined too.

How is the PGDM retail in BIMTECH? With CAT percentile of 80+, should I go for it? It is one of the many queries that MBAUniverse.com has been receiving from the MBA aspirants all over the country on specialized MBA programmes offered by B schools where the admissions are available for the session 2014.