Mr Puneet Manot scored 98.99 percentile in CAT and accepted an admission offer from one of the new IIMs. Puneet who had a working experience of 19 months along with his high CAT percentile, received final admission offer from multiple B-schools including most of the new IIMs.

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

FMS Delhi orgainsed its annual leadership summit which witnessed distinguished speakers from various backgrounds expressing their views on the theme The Need to Restructure our Educational, Administrative and business systems.

The summit was organized by Team Fiesta of FMS Delhi in New Delhi recently.

With CAT exams just round the corner, the top B schools have also opened their Admission process for academic session 2014-16.

The CAT score accepting top B-schools which have opened their applications include MDI, SPJIMR, IMT Ghaziabad, IMI Delhi, XIMB, IRMA, LIBA Chennai, IFIM Bangalore etc.

With 10 days still left for buying CAT vouchers, Delhi-NCR and Bangalore lead the top cities with highest number of candidates registering for CAT 2013 even as some of the test cities came closer to their full capacity well before the last date of registration, CAT officials said.

According to the official mid-trends of CAT registration, the other cities among the top 10 places with highest number of registration include Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Lucknow, and Ahmedabad.

If you are reading this article, you surely have some interest in MBA education, and are evaluating your options. You are perhaps working, or graduating from your college this year. So have you applied to CAT 2013 yet? Do you know that last date to apply for CAT is now just a few days away Sep 26. And you can also apply to other key MBA exams like XAT, NMAT, SNAP now. But you may still be asking the question, why now, and why so many exams. This article will clarify your doubts.

Symbiosis International University has revamped admission process for its B-schools as it introduced single registration and single PI-WAT for admission to all its constituent B-schools for academic session 2014-16.

Mr Dushyant Agarwalscored 99.95 percentile in CAT and 98.83 percentile in XAT. Presently, an MDI Gurgaon student of PGP-IM(Post Graduate Programme in International Management), Dushyant was also offered admission at IMT Ghaziabad. The engineering graduate had a working experience of about two years before joining the programme at MDI.

In this toppers Mantra session, Dushyant shares his success strategies for CAT preparation and GD/PI. He also speaks on his question solving strategy on D-day and other tips for scoring high percentile in CAT.

With about 15 days yet to go for CAT registration, the number of sold CAT vouchers has already crossed 1.8 lakh even as IIMs expect the last week rush to push the CAT 2013 number to a record level beyond 2.5 lakh this year.

Talking to MBAUniverse.com, CAT 2013 Convenor Dr Rohit Kapoor said that there seems to be a greater level of interest in CAT this year and the response so far has been very encouraging. He expects the numbers to cross the figure of 2.5 lakh as CAT aspirants still have more than 10 days to buy the CAT vouchers.

The number game:

Mr Apurv Jain scored an overall percentile of 99.32 in CAT 2012 and secured final admission offers form many IIM and other top B-schools like FMS-Delhi, IMT Ghaziabad, MDI Gurgaon, SIBM Pune.

With just around 30 days remaining for CAT, which is scheduled to begin from October 16, its time you shape your last-month preparation strategy for this prestigious MBA exam.

So, where should be your focus in last one month of preparation? What factors are critical towards scoring high percentile in CAT? How should you make best out of last 30 days of your CAT preparation?