Dr Rohit Kapoor of Indian Institute of Management, Indore is Convenor for Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013.

MBAUniverse.com interviewed Dr Kapoor on his advance preparedness for CAT 2013 and how will it help the MBA Aspirant Community. He has already taken lead with the announcement of CAT 2013 dates over five-and-a-half months in advance to the actual testing dates.

Dr Vishwa Ballabh, admission chairperson, XLRI told MBAUniverse.com that the XAT 2014 will be conducted on the first Sunday of January 2014, i.e. January 5.

The XAT 2014 will be conducted on 5 January 2014 and the registration for the same will start on August 12, Dr Vishwa Ballabh said, adding the XAT 2014 will continue to be a one-day paper-pencil test.

The registration will begin on 12 August 2013, and close on 22nd November, he added.

The Indian Institute of Management Indore has announced the dates for Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013, declaring the test will be held in a 20 days window between October 16 and November 11, 2013. Registration for the same will begin on July 29.

The CAT for 2013 will be held in a 20 days window beginning October 16 at a total of 40 centres across India, said IIM-Indore Professor Rohit Kapoor who is the convenor for CAT 2013.

Four new test centres Surat, Udaipur, Trivendrum and Vijaywada, have been added for CAT this year.

Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) Delhi has completed placement for its Full-time MBA class of 2013 with top companies including E&Y, KPMG, TAS, M&M, RIL, Ranbaxy, Jindal Steel PepsiCo, RB, Coca Cola, Britannia, Airtel, Vodafone, Philips and Tata Motors recruiting talents from the institution. The annual median salary offered to the student was Rs 16 lakh, according to the FMS placement officials.

As you undergo your Common Admission Test (CAT) journey, your ability to capture and retain the important topics holds the key to scoring a high percentile for admission to your dream B-school.

Since you are going to take one of the toughest and trickiest written MBA exam CAT 2013, you will need a lot to remember, a lot to analyse and plenty of the material to practice- the solution of which will come from the stock of your rich memory.

Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli (IIM-T) has concluded final placements for its flagship two-year PGPM even as top companies including ICICI Bank, YES bank, Cognizant, KPMG, Wipro, Tata Power, BPCL, HPCL, Kellogg India, Ranbaxy recruited all the participating students of the very first passing-out batch of the new IIM.

While the average annual package offered to the students was Rs 10.92 lakh, the highest package stood as high Rs 18.25 lakh, the institute said.

While MBA Aspirants seeking admission to Top B-schools require paying undiluted attention for preparation to Common Admission Test (CAT), they also need to simultaneously develop a good reading habit that could ease their CAT journey, GD-PI process, and time at B-schools.

Besides your main preparation focused on section-wise preparation for Common Admission Test (CAT), you also need to take some time from your daily schedule to develop a reading habit.

As you undergo your Common Admission Test (CAT) journey, your ability to capture and retain the important topics holds the key to scoring a high percentile for admission to your dream B-school.
Since you are going to take one of the toughest and trickiest written MBA exam CAT 2013, you will need a lot to remember, a lot to analyse and plenty of the material to practice- the solution of which will come from the stock of your rich memory.

In a major blow to AICTE, Supreme Court has ruled that an AICTE approval is not required for private colleges running University-approved MBA programmes.