Arshpreet Singh cracked CAT 2012 with an overall 99.97 percentile and secured admission to IIM Ahmedabad. Mr Arshpreet is a CBSE Merit scholar & scored 6th Rank in Punjab state in AIEEE. He has done his Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kanpur. Arshpreet is an Academic Excellence Awardee with CGPA of 9.1.

As you appear for different MBA exams like CAT, XAT, NMAT and apply to top B-schools depending on the value of their MBA programmes on different parameters, your evaluation for B-schools on their payback period can bring you yet another new perspective.

While established IIMs like IIM-A, IIM-B, IIM-C grab top positions on most of the parameters, the list of B-schools bringing you fastest ROI suggests otherwise. Before you enter into an IIM Vs Non-IIM conflict for applying to your desired MBA programmes, we bring here the list of top B-schools on their fastest ROI.

Are you a working executive and preparing for CAT also? If yes, you are most likely to get admission in a top B-schools provided you score a high percentile in CAT.

While an MBA degree equips you with industry relevant skills, enhances your capabilities and drives entrepreneur in you, the current economic environment, which is impeding your career growth, brings you yet another reason for pursuing this degree now.

Amidst the low economic sentiments and early signs of recession, employment opportunity is declining for freshers and growth index looms large for working executives at least for next 12-24 months. The slowing economy is

Mr Rohit Anand Garg cracked CAT 2012 with an overall 99.16 percentile and secured admission to an IIM. Mr Garg, who worked for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for 34 months after his Engineering degree, says that speed and accuracy matter the most in the CAT examination. He however feels that WAT/PI stage requires even more efforts than the CAT examination itself.

Former Vice- Chancellor NMIMS Dr N K Kondap has taken over as Director General of Kohinoor Business School, Mumbai. Dr Kondap associated with NMIMS for over 25 years and held several important roles and served the institution as its Vice-Chancellor also. MBAUniverse.com spoke to Dr Kondap on his plans for Kohinoor Business School which has two campuses - one in Mumbai and another at Khandala. The institute offers AICTE approved PGDM and MMS of Mumbai University and MBA of Pune University.

How much does it cost to get into top B-schools in India? This must have cropped up in your mind as you register for different MBA Entrance Exam like CAT, XAT to enter your dream B-schools.

While an MBA degree offers you enormous opportunities to grow and build career in corporate world across the globe, the MBA programmes are also among the costliest study options. Therefore, you need to make informed choice on your B-school options depending on your affordability also.

Mr Debjit Nag scored 99.97 %ile in CAT 2012 and also secured final admission offers from 10 top B-schools including 9 IIMs and FMS Delhi. Presently a student of 2013-15 PGP batch of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, Mr Nag shares his success mantras on cracking CAT. In this exclusive session with MBAUniverse.com, the computer engineer who worked with Cognizant for 22 months before joining 2-year full time PGP programme at IIM-A, talks on the challenges he faced while preparing for CAT.

XAT 2014 registration has already opened on August 12 and XLRI Jamshedpur has also announced admission to its different management programme including 2-year full time BM and HRM for academic session 2014-16.
MBAUniverse.com spoke to Dr Vishwa Ballabh, admission chairperson, XLRI to know the expected pattern of XAT 2014, B-schools accepting XAT 2014, expected numbers of candidates for XLRI admission shortlist, and other important issues related to XAT and XLRI admissions.

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The Logical Reasoning (LR) section in Common Admission Test (CAT) carries different types of questions including questions on your direction sense.

While you must have been taught in your school days that there are four directions namely East, West, North, South, the CAT questions also twist your sense on four more directions that lay in the middle of each pair of subsequent main directions. So instead of four, you are generally faced with eight directions in related LR questions.