Today was the fourth day of CAT 2013 exam. The first session for Day 4, on Sunday, October 20, 2013 got over this afternoon at 1.00 PM. MBAUniverse.com editorial team was present on many centers in New Delhi, Noida, Greater Noida and spoke to students for their first reaction and feedback. According to the students, the difficulty level of Quant section was on a higher side while Verbal section was fairly easy.

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Today was the third day of CAT 2013 exam. The first session for Day 3, on October 19 got over this afternoon at 1.00 PM. MBAUniverse.com editorial team was present on many centers in New Delhi, Noida and Greater Noida and spoke to students for their first reaction and feedback. According to the students, the Reading Comprehension was lengthy as all the three passages were around 850-900 words.

Verbal section on the second day of CAT 2013 brought a little different shape before the aspirants. Although it had same number of 20 questions on Verbal Ability, the section suddenly shifted its stand from moderate to difficult. However, aspirants could expect a lower cut-off percentile in todays Verbal section.

No fresh surprise element was reported on the second day although last years surprise in parajumbles and Reading Comprehension passages was repeated again.

Reading Comprehension

Today was the second day of CAT 2013 exam. The first session for Day 2, on October 18, got over this afternoon at 1.00 PM. MBAUniverse.com editorial team was present on many centers in New Delhi, Noida and spoke to students for their first reaction. According to the students, the Verbal section was difficult with long passage. Logical Reasoning was also tricky and calculation intensive. Students also said that Quantitative section was however Moderate in difficulty level in comparison to Verbal section.

Now that you have taken the CAT exam, apart from preparing for XAT, and other upcoming exams, your next step should be to know more about Indias best B-schools. By staying informed you will chose the best-fit B-schools to apply. MBAUniverse.com is starting a new series to make you familiar with leading B-schools and the first B-school in this series is Indian Institute of Management Ranchi, which in a short span of just three years has managed to get attention of the students, and top recruiters.

CAT is finally out of bag! Based on the CAT 2013 Day 1 analysis (October 16), MBAUniverse.com presents to you a guide for Day 2 CAT (October 18). This guidance series is based on inputs by CAT experts and past toppers who actually took the exam on Day 1.

Analysis of DAY 1 Test Before we talk about the guidance & tips for Day 2, lets start with the analysis of Day 1 paper pattern.

To help you get ready for your D-Day, MBAUniverse.com presents a first-person account of a candidate who took the CAT 2013 exam on Day 1, October 16. Candidates account of his CAT 2013 experience follows:
My date with CAT was on the cool morning of the Wednesday, October 16, the first session of CAT 2013. As I walked closer to the test centre at Jaipuria Institute of Management in Noida, my test centre, the first thing I saw were the displayed banners CAT 2013 Test Centre to enable the candidates to locate their designated examination centre.

Leading business publication, The Economist has published its 11th MBA Rankings. Chicago Universitys Booth School of Business has retained its first place inthis annual ranking of full-time MBA programmes. IIM Ahmedabad, the only Indian B-school in the ranking, is ranked at 39th position, moving up from 56th last year.

CAT 2013 is off to a good start. According to IIMs and Prometric, there was no glitch reported in any centre across the country. MBAUniverse.com was the first media to give you in-depth coverage of exam pattern and difficulty level. Our story headlined CAT 2013 Day 1: Quant tricky and Tough, Verbal easy was published at 2.30PM on October 16. Now we present an in-depth analysis of the Verbal Ability section of CAT 2013, as per questions that appeared on Day 1, Slot 1. Reading this will prepare you better for your CAT 2013 paper.