CAT (Common Aptitude Test) on its way !

So here comes another opportunity for all the MBA aspirants to grab the seat in their favourite business schools. CAT- the common entrance test is about to knock the doors of the students again. Students need to do great hard work to crack the entrance examination of CAT. It is the highest rated and most renowned test for MBA not only in India, but across the globe. Students from all over the world have this ambition of taking admission in one of the IIMs. This time, CAT is scheduled from October 27 and November 23. During this 20 day period, different batches of students will be taking the most preferred MBA entrance test. The students are given the privilege of choosing the date and the centre from this 20 day schedule, according to their convenience and the place, which suits them the best.

In fact this time, the students need to be more prepared and practised, as like the last year, this time also the tests are online based and the students are required to be more concentrated and efficient in their problem solving skills. According to experts, it really gets tough for the students to take their examination over net, because, the students are not used to taking exam on computer. The calculation part of the problems is really tough to be evaluated on the computer. Constant reading and analysing of the questions on computer system is not an easy thing to do. Therefore the students, other than practising sample tests on the paper, are also suggested to do a thorough practise of the sample papers on net. There are many e- papers, which can be downloaded from net and students can polish their analysing and problem solving skills by practising the papers online.

Knowledge, practise and confidence, are the key factors, which if the students have, then he can surely move ahead towards clearing the CAT and securing their seat in one of the most renowned MBA colleges of the country.

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Choosing IIMs For MBA

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IIM is the most desired college for MBA aspirants in today’s date. It happens to be one of the top most B school in India, and not only in India but also at global level IIM is highly reputed. It is the best A grade college in India for those who wish to pursue management courses. Even in the current situation when recession has hit hard and there is economic crises IIM is successfully giving its students placements in worlds finest MNCs and PSUs.

Ask any MBA aspirant what’s his aim or Dream College for his PGDM/MBA and the immediate reply will be – IIM India. In today’s date it has a total of 7 branches all over India the first being IIM Ahmadabad (IIM-A) which is the most highly reputed one and was established in the year 1962 by Dr. vikram sarabhai and few of the best industrialists of that period. The reason for the establishment of IIM-A was the study of the prominent factors that affected India and its people like – health, economy, agriculture, population, education, transportation etc. hence there were total of 7 IIM in India till date which are as follow -

IIM Ahmadabad (Gujarat) IIM Lukcnow (Uttar Pradesh IIM Kolkata (west Bengal) IIM shillong (Meghalaya) IIM Bangalore (Karnataka) IIM Kozhikode (Kerala) IIM Indore (Madhya Pradesh)

Though the point to be noticed here is that getting admission into IIM is not at all an easy job, there are various levels of tests, interviews and requirements which one needs to pass before securing a seat into any one of the following IIMs. The basic requirement is to be a minimum of three year graduate with 50% marks through out and 45% for SC/ST. after which one needs to score a good percentile in their CAT score to be eligible to be called for interview in IIM, once this is done the candidate is thoroughly examined and tested by the staff and administration i.e. the interview panel against various benchmarks where the candidate needs to go through different rounds of tests and interviews. Once this is cleared and a candidate passes them all the candidate is selected as a student in IIM.

It sure isn’t a easy process but if one has the determination and effort that it takes to get into IIM then one can surely grab a seat in it. In fact there is a large amount of information on IIM on online forums, education sites, magazines etc incase one needs further information on this subject.

 

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