MBAUniverse.com, in its endeavour to provide last minute CAT tips, brings forth the fifth expert article in Verbal series, by Prof. SK Agarwal, author and expert in Verbal Ability. With an insight and focus on different type of questions in this section, this article will share important tips on how to arrive at a high percentile in CAT and be a winner.

Students of NITIE Mumbai would take to streets of Mumbai on October 12, 2013 for their event socio-educational event. This one day socio-educational event stands as a hallmark in NITIEs curriculum. MBAUniverse.com is the official Online Management Portal for MAHA MANDI 2013.

In a recent development, Prometric India, the agency which conducts CAT 2013 exams on behalf of IIMs has announced that it is trying to re-schedule the test for those aspirants who taking it in Vishakhapatnam and Vijayawada test centres due to political unrest in Andhra Pradesh. Candidates scheduled to test in Vishakhapatnam and Vijayawada and choose later dates in the same city or reschedule their CAT 2013 exam in other locations like Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chennai and Kokalta.

This expert article, fourth in the Verbal series, by Prof. SK Agarwal, author and seasoned CAT trainer in Verbal Area, provides important tips on the strategy to improve passage reading skill and how to solve the questions based on Reading Comprehension passages within the given time frame.

Highlighting the role of management education in addressing sustainable development challenges, a group of 25 higher education institutions from across the world joined United Nations Under-Secretary General Yukio Takasu in New York on 19 September 2013 for the launch of Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) Champions. New Delhi based IILM Institute for Higher Education has been inducted into the United Nations PRME initiative as a global champion for the PRME.

Total registrations for CAT 2013 have seen a decline of over 9%. When the registrations ended on September 26, the last day of online registrations, around 1, 96,000 vouchers were sold, while the total registrations for CAT 2013 closed at around 1, 94,000.

This drop in registrations means that a CAT 2013 aspirant will have less number of students to compete against, for a seat in one of the 13 IIMs. If you are appearing in CAT 2013, you would probably compete with 58 other prospective students for a single seat in IIMs. The seat- student ratio for Admission 2014 will be 1:58.

CAT 2013 registration process got over on September 26, 2013. Around 1, 96,000 vouchers were sold, while the total registrations for CAT 2013 closed at around 1, 94,000. In- depth analysis of CAT 2013 registration data shows significant trends. For instance, females applicants count to nearly 30% of total registrations while applicants with engineering and technology background continue to dominate CAT registrations with around 70% of total share.

With just a few days to go for CAT 2013 to commence, how can you make yourself stronger in Quant section? What are the strategies that you can follow so that this section saves your time on cumbersome calculations? In this special series, MBAUniverse.com will shares tips and tricks from various CAT Toppers and Experts on how to score high percentile in Quant Section of the CAT 2013 exam. MBAUniverse.com interviewed CAT Experts and more than 10 toppers from various IIMs, FMS Delhi, NITIE Mumbai and other top B-Schools.

Deans and Directors of B-schools and Universities from nearly 50 countries across the world discussed and analyzed the opportunities for higher education in Asia and India at the sixth edition of Eduniversal World Convention being held at IIMB on October 9-12, 2013.

Delhi School of Economics and students of Master of Human Resource and Organizational Development & Master of International Business (MHROD-MIB) jointly organized Erudition 2013 on Business Sustainability-Emerging Realities. MBAUniverse.com was one of the online sponsor to this two day event, held on September 27 and 28, 2013.