The stage is set for 4thIndian Management Conclave 2013, Indias biggest MBA Educators conference. Minister of State for Human Resource Development Dr Shashi Tharoor will address 4thIndian Management Conclave (IMC) and give away 1stIMC Awards 2013 to winners onAugust 3in New Delhi.

Era Business School (EBS) has awarded Post-Graduate Diploma in Management to its 88 graduating students of 2011-13 batch at institutes second annual convocation ceremony held recently in New Delhi. Dr. P. Rameshan, Director, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Rohtak was the chief guest of the ceremony held at the institutes campus in Dwarka on July 20, 2013.

Questions based on different types of arrangements call for specific skill to form various geometrical shapes e.g. triangular, rectangular, straight line, square etc. An aspirant shall be required to arrange the material objects, people, animals or abstract ones in any of the above referred or other shape. The questions may be framed to test the ability of the aspirant in arranging alternate shapes in accordance with the given information/data.

Important Guidelines for CAT aspirants to solve LR questions based on Arrangements

ICFAI Business School will conduct IBS Aptitude Test (IBSAT) between December 16, 2013 and January 7, 2014 for admission to MBA and PGPM program at IBS Ahmedabad, IBS Bangalore, IBS Gurgaon, IBS Hyderabad, IBS Dehradun, IBS Jaipur, IBS Kolkata, IBS Mumbai and IBS Pune campuses and PhD program at IBS Hyderabad campus.

The candidates can apply for the test till December 10, 2013. The application fee is Rs 1500.

Important dates

IBSAT 2013 Application- July 15, 2013; To: Dec 10, 2013

IBSAT 2013 Test Dates- Dec 16, 2013; To: Jan 07, 2014

Canada which is home to some of the top globally ranked B-schools like Rotman Business School, Schulich School of Business, Sauder School of Business amongst many others, will host speakers and special invitees of 4th Indian Management Conclave (IMC) at its Indian Embassy in New Delhi on August 1.

As a country partner of Indian Management Conclave 2013 to be held on 2-3 August, Canadian High Commissioner Mr Stewart Beck will host a special dinner for the speakers and special invitees of the annual MBA Educators Conclave on August 1.

In most fields, the gap between the excellent and the merely good is not something profound, but is a collection of small details. CAT is no different. As far as CAT is concerned, systematic preparation should take one to 90-93rd percentile. It is the climb from here to the 98-99 range that is sometimes challenging. From my experience as a teacher, I have culled out a few things that the 99th percentilers do differently.

It is not at all necessary that CAT should keep you flummoxed all the time and ask you to solve the random type of jumbled paragraphs. It becomes a little benevolent also by providing you the opportunity to solve such questions where i) opening sentence is given before hand, ii) concluding sentence is given, and/or iii) both the opening and closing sentences are given.

The stage is set for Indian Management Conclave (IMC) Conference and Awards 2013 on August 2-3 in New Delhi with the much awaited biggest annual gathering of MBA Educators bringing top CXOs, global & Indian academic thought leaders, Policymakers, IMC Award finalist B-schools, and international accreditation agencies to share their insight on enhancing value to management education in India.

How do I balance out the time and accuracy factors in Quant section? How do I divide my time for different sub-sections of Quant section? What are the key scoring areas in Quant section? How to approach quant section during the CAT exam?

These are some of the questions that MBA Aspirants ask to MBAUniverse.com as they look for tips on their CAT strategy which can lead them to dream IIMs and other top B-schools like FMS, JBIMS, SPJIMR, IMT, MDI etc.

With 100 days left for CAT 2013, weekly Live Chat at MBAUniverse.com will host Mr Abhishek Gupta, National Product Head for MBA Test-Prep at Career Launcher India as guest expert on July 19 at 3.00 pm.
IIM Indore, which is conducting CAT 2013 on behalf of all 13 IIMs, has announced the CAT dates from 16 October to 11 November 2013.

Mr Gupta will guide CAT Aspirants on Quant Prep strategy for remaining 100 days to CAT 2013 during the hour long Chat session which will begin at 3.00 pm.