Debanjan scored 246 out of 356. As a result, he has received Group Discussion and Personal Interview (GD/PIs) calls from six Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) -- IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore, Lucknow and Kozhikode.

MBAUniverse.com spoke to Debanjan to know the success mantras behind this big achievement.

Q: How does it feel getting 100 percentile in CAT 08?
A: Yes. It is a good feeling! It is really a big achievement for me. I made it just because of my hard work.

Q: How did you prepare for CAT 09? What was your preparation strategy?

This information was shared by Wg Cdr VS Bejoy (Retd), Director, Centre for Management Services (CMS) with MBAUniverse.com soon after the exam. Over 350 MAT allied colleges participated in this round of MAT, which is held four times in a year.
The paper was scheduled for 150 minutes and had a total of 200 multiple choice answers questions. Overall level of difficulty of the paper was moderate to easy, although the difficulty level of GK questions was higher than the December 2008 MAT.

How do experts from leading test prep companies include Career Launcher and PT Education analyze the test paper? MBAUniverse.com presents MAT analysis by Career Launcher and Mr Sandeep Manudhane, Founder Chairman, PT Education.

MAT February 2009 AnalysisBy Career Launcher

The E Week India website, www.eweekindia.org, which has also been witness to this excitement, is flooded with stories and pictures from hundreds of events, and the number of people who have signed the pledge online, is a record-breaking 75,000! Launched on February ---, National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) E Week celebrations have spread all around the country. The scale and number of activities being organized by students on and off campuses is overwhelming. MBAUniverse.com is the official media partner of NEN E Week.

Crescendo (www.crescendo.sscbs.com) will host a series of corporate and cultural event and is being organized at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi on February 11-12, 2009.
There are hordes of exciting events like MRIDANGA (Inter-college Music Competition), RANGMANCH (Inter-college Dramatics Competition), SPANDAN (Inter-college Choreo Competition), and PRATIBIMB (Inter-college Street Play Competition), and formal events like DrishtiKone, Conservz, etc.

Students at IIMs and other leading B-school, and top Test-prep companies.

MBAUniverse.com now presents Q&A with MBA students who are studying at prestigious Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) and other premier B-schools. The institutes that shared their inputs with MBAUniverse.com include IIM Bangalore, IIM Indore, IIM Lucknow, SJMSOM of IIT B amongst others.

MBA Aspirant, this Q&A series will give you the idea of how IIMs and other premier B-schools conduct GD/PI rounds, what they tests in GD/PI rounds and students advice to MBA aspirants.

MBAUniverse.com, Indias leading management portal, is presenting a series of authoritative features and interviews on the upcoming GD PI round. For this series, we interviewed Fr. P T Joseph SJ, Director, Xaviers Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (XIM B), seeking his advice to MBA aspirants on the What, Why and How of GP PI round.

Excerpts from this must-read interview for MBA Aspirants:
Q: What does your institute call personal assessment rounds, and when and where are they going to be conducted?

This series will give you the idea of how IIMs and other premier B-schools conduct GD/PI rounds, what they tests in GD/PI rounds and advice from current MBA students themselves. MBAUniverse.com asked Gunjan Gulati, the student of Post Graduate Programme in Management of SJMSOM, Mumbai to share her experiences and advice to MBA Aspirants.

Q&A with Gunjan Gulati
Q: When and where were the GD and PI held in your case?

All the 59 students of PG Diploma in Rural Management have been placed in various organizations. The highest salary offered was Rs.8 lakh per annum while the average salary was Rs. 4.46 lakh per annum. More than 30 organizations participated in the process.

Companies like Delloite, Monsanto, Tata Teleservices, Shriram Group, Devgen, Mother Dairy, Amul, IMRB, Indian Immunologicals were the major corporations which came to campus for recruiting rural managers.

The meeting got underway on January 28 in Davos, Switzerland with addresses by world leaders like Russian Premier.
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