IIM Calcutta Director Dr Saibal Chattopadhyay, who has recently taken charge of the coveted IIM, believes that a positive and healthy competition among the top IIMs will only work in the interest of quality Management Education in the country.

In a free-wheeling chat with MBAUniverse.com recently on the sidelines of IIM summit in Goa, Dr Chattopadhyay said that the clear mandate for IIMs is to focus on quality and accordingly all the IIMs are striving to achieve academic excellence and do more research in the larger interest of Indian society.

As you begin with your CAT 2013 preparation strategy, how should you take on Verbal Ability questions which carry a total of 20 questions in VA section. With most of the CAT Aspirants coming from Commerce, Science or Engineering background, their focus on Verbal Ability (English) as a core subject during their graduation usually gets a back seat since they do not need to appear for any subjective or objective English Examination. Your CAT, however, will test your verbal and language skills in detail as the questions come from different segments of this particular section.

Aiming to guide CAT Aspirants on 5-month Prep-strategy for CAT 2013, MBAUniverse.com will host seasoned CAT trainer Mr S K Agarwal as Guest Expert on the third Live Chat of CAT 2013 season on Friday, June 7. The hour long Chat session will begin at 3.00 pm and continue till 4.00 pm.

Mr S K Agarwal is a seasoned CAT trainer with over 25 years of experience in guiding MBA Aspirants, & author of many CAT books. He also guides Verbal Ability Section to CAT Aspirants through MBAUniverse.com online coaching classes.

Aimed at helping students and their parents to understand career prospects in highly specialized areas like real estate, construction and infrastructure sectors, RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University is organising a day-long interaction programme at its Noida Campus on June 6.

According to the institute, the open day is scheduled on June 6 between 10 am 4 pm at Noida campus of Amity University. An information session on careers in built environment will also be held from 11am 12pm, followed by Q&A with the Dean and Director of the School.

It will be a moment of glory and pride for a selected set of B-schools as they will get an opportunity to showcase their championing efforts before the Indian MBA community at 4th Indian Management Conclave (IMC) 2013 to be held in the countrys capital on Aug 2-3.

As you chalk-out your Quant section strategy for CAT 2013, you must start your preparation with major building blocks like Number System under the section. A conceptual clarity in Number System of Quant section also helps your overall Quant preparation as it strengthens your fundamentals for other areas of Quant section.

Importance of Number System:

Union HRD Minister Dr M M Pallam Raju has said that the government is not worried on the closure of more than 200 PGDM institutes as this is only a part of market correction process.

The closure of B-schools is only a process of market correction and government is not worried about these closures. The recent closures indicate to the sustainability of quality MBA institutes only, the Union Minister said. He was responding to a question by MBAUniverse.com on the sidelines of 2-day IIM meet in Goa that ended on June 1.

How do I plan my CAT preparation beginning now? What is the average hours I need to put in for CAT preparation daily & weekly? How do I tackle my speed problem while solving quant questions?
These are some of the questions that MBA Aspirants ask to MBAUniverse.com as they seriously take plunge into their CAT journey which can lead them to dream IIMs and other top B-schools like FMS, JBIMS, SPJIMR, IMT etc.

Exhorting B-schools to focus on finding solutions of real issues like challenges of urbanization, governance and other national and global problems, Union HRD Minister Dr M.M Pallam Raju has asked IIMs and management institutes in India to take on larger challenges and not merely confine themselves to their academic interests.

Do you look for logic in everything that happens around you? If yes, you have all good chances to score high in the Logical Reasoning (LR) section of Common Admission Test (CAT).

With 150 days left for CAT 2013, your CAT preparation strategy must also include a comprehensive lay-out on the Logical Reasoning. Though the section carries 10-11 questions as part of the Verbal Ability section in CAT, Aspirants generally dont pay as much attention to it as they do for other sections like Quant and Verbal.