On Sunday, January 6, 2013, the Xavier Entrance Test (XAT) 2013 raised the heart beat of more than 90,000 students with trickier and lengthier questions and different pattern of exam marking scheme. MBAUniverse.com, in this article, presents a detailed analysis of XAT 2013.

Let us first give you a birds eye view of the paper.

A number of interesting and innovative events marked the second foundation day celebration of IIM Trichy held on January 4 amid excitement and fanfare.

Selecting the right B School can be a herculean task if you lack the basic direction. If you aspire to pursue MBA from a top B School, you should not compromise on the quality of the institute. As they say, MBA is an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so you have to take the right decision. One of the best ways to research and know about which B School will suit you the best is the B School Rankings.

International Management Institute (IMI), the countrys first corporate sponsored business school, is organizing the International Conference on Banking and Finance (BFSCON) in association with ESCP Europe, which was founded in Paris in 1819. The three-day event was inaugurated on December 13.

The event offers an ideal medium for policy makers, academicians, researchers and practitioners from different countries to share their knowledge, views, concerns and research findings on a common platform. The theme of the conference is Changing paradigm for financial and banking sector.

There is just a day left for SNAP 2012 exam, to be held on December 16, 2012. In the remaining few hours, there is nothing extra which you can prepare. You should rather take last-minute preparation for hassles-free D-Day. This article of MBAUniverse.com shares with you the points which you should keep in mind for the exam day. The test will be held in test centers of 30 cities.

Harish Manwani is a business entrepreneur and Unilevers first global chief operating officer. He is Unilevers geographical president of Asia, Africa and Central and Eastern Europe. Being a devouring and devoted golfer, he also loves playing bridge occasionally. Harish Manwani is a go-getter and is known for his consistent performance. He is a man who believes in relentless execution. Visiting customers is one of the must-dos in Harish Manwanis list every time he visits a country.

Mr Nitin Paranjpe is the chief executive officer and managing director of Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL). His rise from a management trainee to the highest echelon of the organization is testimony to hard work, far sight, power of decision making and adaptability to the changing time. He is perhaps the only corporate honcho who has not seen a slowdown. The sheer audacity of that statement may surprise many, but Mr Paranjpe, 49, attributes his confidence to the bricks Leverites (workers of HUL) have laid out over the past few years to delight consumers.

AIMA conducted the last MAT of the year on December 2, 2012. This MAT was held in the paper-pencil format while the computer-based test will be held from December 8 onwards. The overall difficulty level of the exam was moderate to difficult. This article provides you a detailed analysis of the exam.

The pattern of the exam remained the same. The five sections of the exam are Language Comprehension, Data Analysis & Sufficiency, Mathematical Skills, Intelligence & Critical Reasoning and Indian and Global Environment.

Dr Prodyot Samanta, professor of risk management at UGSM-Monarch Business School, Switzerland, recently delivered a guest lecture on enterprise risk management (ERM) at S P Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai. Dr Samanta is considered to be a strategic thinker, thought leader and expert in the field of ERM.

Like other top IIMs, IIM Lucknow has also declared its admission criteria for the academic year 2013-15. In this article of the special series of MBA admissions, we share with you the admission policy of IIM Lucknow.