Management aspirants from all over the country, who have enrolled for the PGDM 2016 - 18 at SCMS Cochin School of Business will commence their much-awaited Management journey on 19th of July. The institute welcomes students with dreams in their eyes and prepares them for the challenges of the industry. It creates the ideal platform for their future careers and entrepreneurial journeys. And it all begins with the orientation program, which will give them a fair idea of the academic rigor and exciting journey that is in store for them.

In this interview with IIM CAT Group spokesperson Ashish K Bhattacharyya tells us about the shortlists drawn by IIM-C and the details of GD/PI rounds.
Q: How many total seats are there in Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta for Post Graduate Programme in Management for batch to be admitted in Summer of 2008?
A: There are 300 seats available at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta for Post Graduate Programme in Management for 2008.

Q: What are the total numbers of students shorlisted by IIM-C for GD/PI round?

While responding to a query on MBAUniverse.com Live Expert Chat on January 07, Mr Naneria said, If I compare each section of XAT 08 with XAT 07, then Maths is tougher, DI is Moderate, DS is Tougher and Analytical Reasoning is Moderate. Overall if we compare with the last year, we are seeing XAT 08 to be tough. Read on for edited excerpts from the MBAUniverse.com Live Chat with PT Education.

Edited excerpts from the MBAUniverse.com Live Chat with PT education:
(January 7, 2008)

MBAUniverse.com Team was on test centres to gauge the sentiments. A look at XAT scene with pictures from a Delhi test center... (Click here)

The highlight of M Now is its 4-steps Roadmap that promises to guide a graduate from the campus to corporate boardroom. Triumph Mediatech also publishes Indias leading management portal MBAUniverse.com. Priced at Rs 195, M Now is a 200 page quarterly magazine which is available on newsstands and bookstores.

Rejecting the piecemeal thinking on professional education and careers, M Now is built around its well-researched 4-steps Roadmap.

4-Steps of M Now Roadmap are:
Step 1: Gain Employability;
Step 2: Get Work experience;

Great Lakes Institute of Management concluded International Research Conference in Chennai on December 23 under the Yale-Great Lakes Center for Management Research. Also, Great Lakes Institute of Management and the North American Society for Marketing Education in India (NASMEI) concluded an international marketing conference on the overall theme of Creating, Communicating, and Delivering Value in growing markets on December 21-22, 2007.

The official announcement on CAT website (www.catiim.in) says that results of CAT 2017 will be available on CAT website on January 8, 2018 (In the second week of January). CAT exam was held on November 26, 2017. The IIMs that have short listed the candidate for group discussion and interviews will also be displayed automatically, informs announcement on CAT website.

Day 2 saw plenty of action with management games on strategy, operations, marketing and more. MBAUniverse.com, theOfficial Management Portal of IIM C Intaglio,presents a run down on Day 2.
Olympus (Quest for the Best Leader) Final Round

Olympus, the flagship event of Intaglio, was the longest drawn out event of Intaglio, spanning across the 3 days of Intaglio 4-6 January 2008. It was an interesting battlefield of leadership where the six candidates (one from each IIM) battled it out for the highest honour, and handsome prize money of Rs. 150,000.

As part of this agreement, Dr. Arup Varma, Indo-U.S. Professor of Management Studies at Loyola, and an XLRI alumnus of the 1984 PM& IR batch, is spending a term at XLRI, teaching a course in International Human Resource Management.

The marking pattern put a premium on accuracy. Close to 89,000 management hopefuls took the exam across the country.
First, a bit about the overall construct of the paper. XAT 08 had 120 questions in total, split into three sections: Data Interpretation & Quantitative Ability (DI/ QA), Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning (VA/ LR) and Analytical Reasoning & Decision Making (AR/ DM). While DI/VA had 44 questions, other two sections had 38 questions each. In addition, there was an essay topic that aspirants had to attempt.