While the official website CATIIM.in is not accessible, owing to the huge surge in the traffic this morning, an IIM official and leading test prep companies have confirmed to MBAUniverse.com that the results have indeed been announced.
IIM Officials and representatives of leading test prep companies like TIME and PT Education confirmed the development with MBAUniverse.com around 10.30 am on Friday morning.

PT Education founder Sandeep Manudhane told MBAUniverse.com that this target will be achieved by offering programmes upto 50 centers in North India alone.

Founder Chairman of PT Education, Sandeep Manudhane said, It will be our target for this year to prepare 20,000 MBA aspirants to achieve their goals in the northern part of India and this we will do through our 50 centers in this part of country. He further added Roma Sannmukhani and Juhi Niba have topped in recent MBA exams and we hope more and more PTians would get success this year.

Inthis seriesexperts from Dalal Street will answer questions from students in the top B- Schools in India on investment sectors, stocks, and the future of Indian Stock Market through a series of interactive sessions. The series, to start from January 10, will be hosted by Mr. Ramesh Damani, a well-known name in the market.

The major push, says FICCI, will come from retail industry that is likely to grow by 30 per cent in the next five years and become Rs 110 billion industry by 2010.

According to FICCI, fruits and vegetables, dairy products, marine and fish, meat and poultry, edible oils, staples, alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages, breads and bakery, confectionary and packaged foods are the key industry segments which offer tremendous growth potential and investment opportunities.

In fact they should increase the focus and spends on customer services, so that when the economic upturn comes, their brands are the favorites of customers. Thats the message coming from one of the global leading marking gurus and an authority on Services marketing area -- Dr A Parasuraman. Dr Parasuraman was in Delhi to deliver a talk on strategies to create value in bad times and good on January 6, 2009.

The conference aims to bring together researchers and academicians from across the world and provides a unique opportunity to the marketing professors in India and abroad to share their ideas with some of the best in the world.

Sadly, India has slipped its last years ranking of 23 to the 41st position this year. The GII that has studied 130 countries has ranked Germany in the second position, followed by Sweden, the United Kingdom and Singapore.
The European economies including the Nordic ones continued to do well in 2008. Switzerland, Denmark and the Netherlands figured in the top 10 apart from Germany, Sweden and UK that figure in the top 5. However France was the biggest loser slipping from the 5th to 19th position.

IIMs have informed MBAUniverse.com that they have taken multiple steps to tackle the issue. Students are advised to access the scores using several other options.

Acknowledging the issue, IIMs said, CAT results have been announced today. With close to 250,000 candidates, their friends, relatives, and coaching classes trying to access the result on CAT website, we face a gargantuan peak-load problem on this day. And, as a result, we receive many requests from faculty, staff, and students with inquiries for CAT score of their kith and kin.

XAT 2009 had 104 questions as compared to 120 questions last year and 130 questions in 2007. The questions were divided into 3 sections - Verbal and Logical Ability (35 questions), Analytical Reasoning and Decision Making (31 questions) and Data Interpretation & Quantitative Ability (38 questions).

Here is a detailed analysis of XAT 09 exam by IMS Learning:

XAT 2009 Analysis

By IMS Learning

These are some of the many questions which will be addressed at the two-day IIM Ahmedabad Doctoral Colloquium that is being held on January 5-6, 2009 at IIM A campus.