The major MBA entrance exams are underway and the results will be declared by end of January or in February 2013. The next series of events will be the selection round at B schools that would shortlist you. The selection round includes GD, PI and essay writing or the Written Ability Test (WAT). This article of MBAUniverse.com shares with you the significance of these rounds and the preparation strategy for each of these components.

Over a considerable period of time, agriculture has evolved into agribusiness and has become a vast and complex system that reaches beyond the farm to include all those who are involved in bringing food and fibre to consumers.An overview

Agribusiness includes not only those who cultivate the land but also the people and firms that provide inputs (seed, chemicals, credit, etc), process the output (milk, grain, meat, etc.), manufacture the food products, and transport and sell food products to consumers (restaurants, supermarkets).

Two teams from S P Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai, and Goa Institute of Management have bagged the first and third places, respectively, at the Fall 2012 Capstone Challenge, a global online competition, organized by Capsim Management Simulations, a global leader in developing and delivering business simulations, based in Chicago. Approximately, 1,800 students from more than 280 universities around the globe took part in the competition with 12 teams qualifying for the 48-hour, high-pressure business simulation play-offs.

Just two days are left for the IIFT 2012 exam to be held on November 25 across 20 cities in India from 10 am to 12 noon.

Without resorting to hardcore preparation, the best way to spend the last two days is to revise the General Awareness section along with the others. This article of MBAUniverse.com shares with you the last-minute tips for the General Awareness section.

In the run up to the final placement season when students gear up to put their best feet forward to grab a job offer and assume the profile of their choice, there are worries that the economic slowdown may keep certain regular and active sectors at bay. Concerned placement officials at major B-schools, however, feel that new and emerging sectors such as health, education, media and e-commerce will fill in the void which might have been created as fallout of the regular sectors going slow in hiring this year.

essay writing. Essay writing is also becoming more important for some other MBA entrance tests as well. In order to help aspirants, MBAUniverse has taken an initiative to give them an idea on basic features of essay writing. In this weekly series of MBAUniverse.com, verbal ability expert S K Agarwal writes a model essay to benefit aspirants.

Before writing as essay, keep some points in mind: Use simple words, Skills are key, Evaluation, How to go for it, Practise, Read a lot, Know your reader, Plan your piece, etc. 

Chicago Booth School of Business (the interview of its dean was published on MBAUniver.com on November 21 -- http://www.mbauniverse.com/article/id/6444/Booth-School-dean-speaks%20hi...) has emerged as the best US B-school as per the Bloomberg Businessweek 2012 Best Business Schools Ranking, while London Business School has bagged the top slot in the international schools category. The survey, conducted once in every two years, is considered one the most authentic global rankings.

XAT 2013 exam is 60 days away. Now that CAT 2012 is over, XAT is one of the important examinations on the testing calendar you should focus on so far as preparation is concerned. In this article, MBAUniverse.com shares some important information which will stand you in good stead.

In an exclusive interaction with MBAUniverse.com, Prof Vishwa Ballabh, admission chairperson, XLRI, shared some important aspects of the exam pattern.

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CAT 2012, the 21-day exam for the 13 IIMs and over 150 B-schools across India is over. This year, 2,14,068 candidates took the test. If you are among CAT takers, you must be thinking on the next action plans that can fulfill your MBA dreams.

Harvard Business School professor and one of the most influential management thinkers Dr Robert S Kaplan, who has won the second Global Management Guru Award (GMGA) 2012, will address Indian leaders from business, industry and the government at the GMGA 2012 award ceremony on November 9 in New Delhi.

The award has been instituted by Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), set up by the Birla group.