Following on close heels of the scrapping of MICAT entrance exam by MICA and the JMET entrance exam by the Department of Management Studies of IITs, comes another breaking news of the big entrance exam of Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi getting scrapped.

The month of September is already here. Approximately 50 days are left for CAT 2011. If you are preparing for taking CAT 2011 seriously, then you must have completed at least the basic preparation. The next step is to check where you have reached and identify your areas of concern. The best method is by taking mock tests. This article of MBAUniverse.com will discuss the strategies of taking mock tests.

Ideal time to start taking mock tests

The Indian Institutes of Management have already declared the list of B-schools to accept the CAT 2011 scores in the official CAT 2011 website. Although the total number of B-schools that will consider CAT 2011 scores is 145 excluding IIMs, which is less than the number of B-schools which accepted CAT 2010 scores, which was 147, the encouraging sign this year has been the entry of new institutions who have enlisted themselves for considering CAT 2011 scores.

Though the pattern of the CAT 2011 has changed and the Verbal Ability area is merged with the Logical Reasoning area, the Reading Comprehension questions will remain as it is. In this new pattern, you have to be very careful about the time as well as the accuracy. You will have to utilize full 70 minutes in one section. In this article of MBAUniverse.com, we will tell you the strategy of solving the Reading Comprehension questions faster, through the method of speed reading. Speed reading is often considered the best way to solve the Reading Comprehension questions.

There are around 50 days left for CAT 2011. By this time you must have had a detailed study on the basics and approached towards the mock test level. But along with taking mock tests, it is also necessary that you keep revising the sections. Now that the DI and LR has been merged with Quantitative Ability and Verbal Ability, MBAUniverse.com is offering you suggestion for the two sections of CAT 2011. Along with your daily preparation you should take enough practice so that you can find out strategies and manage the 70 minutes better.

IIM Calcutta officially announced CAT 2011, the entrance exam for the 13 IIMs and over 150 B-schools in India, on 25 July 2011. CAT 2011 will be held in a 20 day window between October 22, 2011 and November 18, 2011.

XLRI Jamshedpur has made the announcement of XAT 2012, which is going to be held on Sunday, January 8, 2012. With more and more MBA entrance exams changing their mode from paper pencil based test to computer based test, the question prevailed for XAT as well. In a recent announcement, XLRI has announced that XAT will remain a paper pencil based test like the erstwhile years in order to ensure a fair test for all.

MBAUniverse.com is continuing with the special series on Live Expert Chat on CAT 2011 preparation. Now that it is hardly two months left for CAT 2011, the CAT aspirants are getting geared up for higher level of preparation and planning for the exam.
To guide the CAT 2011 aspirants at this critical juncture MBAUniverse.com held the Live Expert Chat on August 24, 2011 with CAT guru Arun Sharma on the topic 60 days strategy for CAT 2011. The chat witnessed questions ranging from preparation to planning and strategizing for taking the test.

NMAT 2012, the computer based MBA entrance exam for admissions to the various campuses of Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), a deemed university, will be held in a two month test window from October 31, 2011 to January 6, 2012.

The first stage of registration process for the entrance exam is currently underway, and will end on Monday, 10 October 2011. The Late Registration window will open from Tuesday, October 11, 2011 to Thursday, October 20, 2011.

MBAUniverse.com has launched the Cracking CAT 2011 special video series in association with Tata McGraw-Hill and MindWorkzz for MBA aspirants who are seeking to crack CAT 2011 and working towards making it to their dream B schools.

In this special video series, CAT guru, Author and IIM Bangalore alumnus Arun Sharma shares with you the mantras for preparing for the 30 days to CAT 2011 for each of the sectional areas, as well as special tips on test taking strategy.