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 include IIM Bangalore, IIM Indore, IIM Lucknow, SJMSOM of IIT B and 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.

Read below the Q&A with Nishant, the first year student of Post Graduate Programme in Management of IIM Bangalore.

How to prepare for Personal Interview

By Career Launcher
The Interview Process

To help our readers, the MBA aspirants, to excel in this final frontier, MBAUniverse.com presents a special series of articles covering the What, Why and How of this personal assessment round. While the first part of this series focused on Group Discussion, this second part focuses on the What, Why and How of the Personal Interview.

We started by asking what is the What and Why of a personal interview.

The Purpose

Prasanna Joshi, Oza Rutvij Siddharth, Rohit Menon, Parth S Bhimani and Adarsh Nand Bahadur flew to Germany to take part in the final round that consisted of two highly realistic case studies, and were judged by a jury of highly placed experts. The teams competed for two days at the Post Tower in Bonn, Germany.

The CAT 08 was held on November 16 and the result was released on January 09, 2009. MBAUniverse.com spoke to these CAT toppers and asked how they prepared, practiced and finally reached on the top.
Read below the MBAUniverse.com Q&A with CAT 08 toppers:

CAT Topper shares success mantras on MBAUniverse.com: Q&A with Amey S. Mashilkar of VJTI Mumbai (Calls from IIM A,B,C,L,K,I)

During the three day festival Springspree will witness the confluence of numerous talents including music, art, dance and literature put together by the active students community of NIT Warangal.

This years event offers Cash prizes worth Rs 6 lakh apart from the Springspree college champions and individual champion trophy, The spotlight events like the rock competition, group dance, fashion show and all night events like Gamedome, midnight scrabble and general quiz which is expected to add more vibrant colors to the very colorful fest.

E-Cell of IIT Bombay, with MBAUniverse.com as an Online Partner, is organizing The Entrepreneurship Summit on February 7 at IIT Bombay campus. Several noted entrepreneurs, CEOs and VCs including Mr. Kanwal Rekhi, MD, Inventus capital; Mr. Ganesh K, Founder, TutorVista; Mr. Ashok Wadhwa, MD & CEO, Ambit PE, and Mr. Anand Lunia, Executive Director and CFO, Seedfund Competitive Intelligence will address the summit.

While the institute encourages candidates with valid scores in exams like CAT and UGC, candidates without any formal test can also apply. Further, it is encouraging faculty members of other B-schools to upgrade their skills.
Sharing the acute faculty shortage facing IIMs, Dr Kamal K Jain, Chairperson of the FPM programme at IIM Indore, told MBAUniverse.com, IIMs have been asked by the Government to increase their intake, six new IIMs are in the pipeline, private business schools are growing by leaps and bounds, faculty shortage in such a scenario is more than obvious.

MBAUniverse.com is presenting a series of authoritative features and interviews on the upcoming GD PI round. We interviewed Dr JK Mitra, Dean of Faculty of Management Studies Delhi (FMS), seeking his advice to MBA aspirants on the What, Why and How of GP PI round.

Excerpts from this exhaustive must-read interview for MBA Aspirants:

Q: When and where are the GD PI rounds conducted for the FMS MBA programmes? How are the Calls issued and what are dates for this years rounds?

MBAUniverse.com Aspirant Zone presents the highlights of these exams and a detailed analysis by Indias leading MBA test prep institutes. The exams included in our coverage include Common Admission Test (CAT), XLRI Admissions Test (XAT), FMS admission Test (FMS), IIFT entrance exam (IIFT), Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP), National Management Aptitude Test (NMAT) and Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET).
Click below to read Test highlights & Experts analysis of CAT, XAT, FMS, IIFT, SNAP, NMAT, JMET, MAT May09 and MAH - CET