CAT 2013 is just round the corner. If you have booked October 16, first day for your CAT exam, you are either termed as crazy or a book worm by your fellow CAT takers. This is perhaps the most discussed question during the CAT registration process. There are several myths attached to choosing CAT dates and slots especially the first day.

This year too, in CAT 2013 nearly 10000 brave hearts will sit for their CAT exams on October 16 in two slots. In this article, MBAUniverse.com busts few most common myths around CAT dates & Slots and Choosing 1st Dates.

CAT 2013 is now just 15 days away. How can you best utilize this short period for getting a better score in Verbal Ability section?The answer is one can do a lot, if one follows meticulously a few dos and donts during this period. MBAUniverse.com Verbal expert Prof SK Agarwal, who also coaches thousands of students for CAT test every year, offers you dos and donts, which, if adhered to, will enable the aspirants to systematically prepare and improve their CAT percentile Expert article by Prof SK Agarwal follows.

MBAUniverse.com will help you to best utilize your last few days to CAT. Next article in this series will be on Verbal Ability.

Expert article by ARKS Srinivas follows.
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Panic wastes precious time:

Beating the economic slowdown, an International Management Institute (IMI) student has bagged a whopping package of Rs. 29 Lacs from an International Retail giant in the sales and marketing profile. The average package for the PGDM batch, passing in summer of 2013, stood at Rs. 9.80 Lacs.

The highest salary offered for the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM-HR) at IMI stood at Rs. 11.75 lacs while the average package for this stream is Rs. 9 lacs. The average packages for 2013 are better than 2012 packages.

Even as the CAT 2013 numbers dipped to 1.96 lakh test takers, a drop of 10 % against last years registration of 2.14 lakhs, there is no dip in NMIMS NMAT 2014 registration figure. According to NMIMS, the NMAT registrations on October 1, 2013 were approximately 58,000, against last year number of 69,000. There are four days still remaining to register, as the NMAT registrations close on the midnight of October 4.

IIM Indore is celebrating its seventeenth foundation day on October 3, 2013 with a conference on the theme of Creating and sustaining institutions- the Indian Experience on October 2 & 3. Many distinguished speakers including Prof T V Rao of IIM Ahmedabad and Prof.

Devanath Tirupathi, the Officiating Director, IIM Bangalore will share their experiences on institution building and academic leadership. Shri Ashok Thakur, Secretary, MHRD is expected toinaugurate the conference.

Mr Kurian George, a graduate from St. Stephens College, New Delhi scored 97.7 percentile in CAT and received admission offers from 7 IIMs including IIM Ahmedabad but finally chose IRMA. Kurian who is a fresher, also scored high percentile in XAT, SNAP and IRMA.

In this Toppers Mantra session with MBAUniverse.com, Mr Kurian shares his CAT prep strategy and talks on the challenges he faced during his preparation. He also speaks on his GD/PI strategy and suggests MBA aspirants to prepare the same along with their preparation of CAT.

Interview:

Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management (LBSIM), New Delhi organized National HR Conference on HR Beyond Boundaries: Challenges and Opportunities on September 28, 2013 at their Dwarka Campus. The conference was conducted to convey the existing and the future young leaders about the world wide trends in Human Resource practices and their prospective in the year 2013. Mr. A.K. Balyan, MD and CEO of Petronet, inaugurated the conference, in the presence of Shri Anil Shastri, former Union Minister and Chairman of the Board of Governors at LBSIM and Prof. P.K. Biswas, Director, LBSIM.

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad the prestigious B-school appointed Prof. Ashish Nanda as new Director of the Institute in September, 2013. Prof. Nanda who has served Harvard Law School for seven years and is a Gold Medalist from IIT-Delhi and IIM-A, succeeds Dr. Samir Barua and is all set to move forward to give a new direction to the institute. To further strengthen the faculty resources, appointment of three new deans has been announced by Prof. Nanda. On his recommendation, Mr. A.M. Naik, Chairman, Board of Governors, IIM A has appointed Prof. Vasant P. Gandhi and Prof.

Indian School of Business launches their Business Analytics Programme for executives at their Hyderabad and Mohali Campuses, in the month of September 2013 with the financial support of Biocon Foundation. The first batch of Business Analytics commenced on September 14, 2013 with one hundred and four students. This one year part-time executive programme will help to generate the data management scientists. The nature of the course is divided into two parts i.e. 66% of the classroom learning and 34% technology based learning.