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The article focuses on What to do and What not to do on D-day and how to keep cool your mind with lots of last minute confusions.
What to do in the last 4 days to CAT?

By Career Launcher

To help the test takers, IIMs have issued an advisory asking students to come to test centers before time and also carry no cell phones and calculators.

The advisory was issued by IIM Bangalore which is conducting the CAT this year. The test will be held in 23 cities across the country. According to IIMs, this year, about 2,76,000 candidates are expected to appear for this test.

The structure of the exam will undergo changes this year, according to IIT Kanpur. This year this written management entrance exam will be conducted by IIT Kanpur.

According to IIT Kanpur, JMET 2009 will be of 3 hours duration. The test will consist of 120 questions including objective & multiple choice type in Verbal Communication, Logical Reasoning, Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation areas.
Earlier the test was two hours long with 150 questions where the sections were same.

Thats the question on the minds of lakhs of CAT 09 hopefuls. MBAUniverse.com spoke to Dr Pankaj Chandra, Director, IIM Bangalore on this issue. Dr Chandra said the CAT group at IIMs is busy in the evaluation process of taking IIMs CAT Online, and the outcome will be known in a few months time. IIM Bangalore was the nodal center for the CAT 08, this year.

The event will be organized in association with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Young Indians (Yi). The theme of Paragana this year is Metamorphosis Building Companies to Building Nations.

This three day seminar will be launched with distinguished speakers like Mr. C.B. Bhave, Chairman, SEBI, Shri. Jayant Patil, Minister of Finance & Planning, Government of Maharshtra and Mr. Jignesh Shah, Founder & CEO, Financial Technologies India Limited addressing the gathering. Over the next 3 days, participants shall be tested in a series of events.

This year, keeping in mind the growing preference of the B-school community for online events, Xpressions had 6 online events.

In a path breaking move, ISB, Government of Punjab, and four Indian Business Leaders have signed a tripartite agreement to set up a second ISB campus at Knowledge City, Mohali. The campus will be spread across 70 acres, and is expected to be operational by 2012. The Mohali campus will be built will a total investment of over Rs 300 crores.

AIMA Center for Management Services (AIMA-CMS) informed MBAUniverse.com that as many as 124 management institutes from Northern Region will be accepting the MAT scores. Here is a list for ready reference by MBA-aspirants.
AIMA MAT December 2008 Participating Institutes from Northern Region

NAME OF THE INSTITUTE
CITY
WEBSITE

Academy of Management Studies
Dehradun
www.amsdoon.com

Accurate Institute of Management & Technology
Greater Noida
www.accurate.in

AIMA-Centre for Management Education (PGDM)
Multi-location

But which are the non-IIMs B-schools that are high on academic excellence and perceptions of MBA community and Recruiters. Here is a report on the non-IIMs B-schools that stand for excellence in management education in India.
Xaviers Labour Relations Institute, Jampshedpur (XLRI); Management Development Institute, Gurgaon (MDI); Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi (FMS); and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad (ISB) dominate the non-IIMs B-school rankings.