XAT 2014 is only a day away. What should be the strategy on the day before the test and what are the useful last minute tips to help the aspirants in the examination are some of the questions which go on knocking all the time. Learn how to best utilise your day before XAT 2014 and the last minute tips to improve your score from Prof. S.K. Agarwal, expert on MBA entrance preparation.

It is being repeatedly stated by the XAT 2014 examination conducting committee that there may not be surprise elements in XAT. However, do surprises always mean something absolutely new and never appeared or it could be the questions on such forgotten topics which have not been marking their presence for the last few sessions?

Prof S K Agarwal, verbal ability expert shares some quick strategy and tips to anticipate such questions and proceed accordingly in the preparation strategy.

What appeared in XAT in last three years?

Error correction in XAT 2014 may place 2-3 questions on Subject verb agreement in Verbal Ability section. Spend a few minutes and learn the basic type of errors and how to rectify them from Prof. S.K. Agarwal, expert in Verbal Ability. This will not only bring home the clarity of concept but also the key tips to crack such questions.

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The online registration date for second test of AICTEs Common Management Admission Test 2014 has been extended till January 16, 2014.

As per AICTE, In the light of latest notification issued by some of the state governments and to facilitate the aspiring candidates, the online Registration for CMAT 2014-15 (second test) has been extended.

The current scene in the Indian MBA education, particularly the PGDM education, can best be described as chaotic, anarchic and sad. Chaotic because MHRD, together with its bodies AICTE & UGC, has ensured that there is no clarity on who will regulate a very important sector like Management education, and sad because the current chaos has got some of the best B-schools, who have produced globally reputed CEOs and entrepreneurs to ask do we deserve this anarchy and apathy!

The Indian Institute of Management Lucknow is to hold the 2014 Annual Conference of the Emerging Markets Conference Board at its Noida campus from 9-11 January 2014. The theme of the conference is Listening to Consumers of Emerging Markets.

There are three main objectives of the conference:
1. To provide a platform where marketing practitioners and academicians share and discuss the contemporary marketing issues and challenges in the changing consumer context in emerging economies.

Financial Management : A Step by Step Approach is a book on Financial Management written by Dr. N. R. Parasuraman, Director, SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore and a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and the Institute of Cost Accountants of India seeks to make the study of essential concepts of finance easy and interesting. The book takes a step-by-step approach towards describing the theory and taking the reader to specific applications.

Expected questions of this type in Verbal Ability section may be 4 to 6. Articles, prepositions, subject verb agreement and conditionals are a few core topics which need quick revision. Please remember there are sentences with four-five blanks in each question. You are supposed to have a good knowledge on usage of the same.

XAT 2014: 30 minutes on error corrections in conditionals

XAT 2014: 30 minutes Verbal Error correction on Articles

Jumbles sentences in a paragraph

Since its Independence on August 15, 1947, Indian democracy which is regarded as the largest democracy in the world has been proving itself to be the best democratic experiment anywhere in the world. The way democracy in India is grass rooted deeply is in itself a proof of how big a part, the people of this country can play in shaping its fortune.

With the continuous rise in the young Indian population, India is growing younger. There is a demographic dividend which needs to be exploited. As per the findings of the State of the Urban Youth, India 2012: Employment, Livelihoods, Skills, a report published by IRIS Knowledge Foundation in collaboration with UN-HABITAT, every third person in an Indian city today is a youth. In about seven years, the median individual age in India will be 29 years, very likely a city-dweller, making it the youngest country in the world.