XAT 2013:Participating Institutions

Source: http://xatonline.net.in/instweblist.aspx

1.	Acharya School of Management	Bangalore	www.acharya.ac.in
2.	Andhra Loyola Institute of Management	Vijayawada	www.andhraloyolacollege.ac.in
3.	APG Shimla University	Shimla	www.apg.edu.in
4.	Aryans Business School	Punjab	www.aryans.edu.in
5.	Asia Pacific Institute of Management	New Delhi	www.asiapacific.edu
6.	Bengal Institute of Business Studies	Kolkata	www.bibs.co.in
7.	Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Usha & Lakshmi Mittal Institute of Management	New Delhi	www.bulmim.ac.in
8.	Bhavan's Centre for Communication and Management	Bhubaneswar	www.bvbbhubaneswar.org
9.	Birla Institute of Management Technology	Greater Noida	www.bimtech.ac.in
10.	BLS Institute of Management	Mohan Nagar	www.blsim.org
11.	Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Institute of Management and Higher Studies	Kanpur	www.dduinstitute.org
12.	Delhi School of Professional Studies and Research	Delhi	www.dspsr.in
13.	Desh Bhagat Institute of Management & Computer Sciences	Amloh	www.deshbhagatinstitutes.com
14.	Disha Institute of Management and Technology	Dist. Raipur	www.dimatindia.com
15.	Driems Business School	Cuttack	www.dbs.ac.in
16.	Entrepreneurship & Management Process International	New Delhi	www.empiindia.com
17.	Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI)	Gandhinagar	www.ediindia.org
18.	Faculty of Management Studies, Goa University	Goa	www.unigoa.ac.in
19.	Fortune Institute of International Business	Delhi	www.fiib.edu.in
20.	Gitam Institute of Management	Visakhapatnam	www.gitam.edu
21.	Gitam School of International Business	Visakhapatnam	www.gsib.org
22.	Globsyn Business School	Kolkata	www.globsyn.edu.in
23.	Goa Institute of Management	Goa	www.gim.ac.in
24.	IBMR - Business Schools	Bangalore	www.ibmrbschool.org
25.	IFIM Business School	Bangalore	www.ifimbschool.com
26.	IILM College of Management Studies	Greater Noida	www.iilmcms.ac.in
27.	IILM Graduate School of Management	Greater Noida	www.iilmgsm.ac.in
28.	IILM Institute for Higher Education	Gurgaon	www.iilm.edu
29.	Indian Institute of Finance	Noida	www.iif.edu
30.	Indus Business Academy	Bangalore	www.iba.ac.in
31.	Indus World School of Business	NCR	www.iwsb.in
32.	Institute for Financial Management and Research	Chennai	www.ifmr.ac.in
33.	Institute for Technology and Management	Navi Mumbai	www.itm.edu
34.	Institute of Business Studies and Research	Navi Mumbai	www.ibsar.ac.in
35.	Institute of Management & Information Science	Bhubaneswar	www.imis.ac.in
36.	Institute of Science & Management	Ranchi	www.iismr.org
37.	International Academy of Management & Entrepreneurship	Bangalore	www.iame.org.in
38.	International Institute of Business Studies	Bangalore	www.iibsonline.com
39.	International School of Business & Media	Pune	www.isbm.ac.in
40.	International School of Management Excellence	Bangalore	www.isme.in
41.	Invertis Institute of Management Studies	Bareilly	www.invertis.org
42.	ISBR Business School	Bangalore	www.isbr.in
43.	Jagran Institute of Communication and Management	Bhopal	www.jicm.edu.in
44.	Jaipuria Institute of Management	Indore	www.jimindore.ac.in
45.	Jaipuria Institute of Management	Lucknow	www.jaipuria.ac.in
46.	Jaipuria Institute of Management	Noida	www.jimnoida.ac.in
47.	Jaipuria Institute of Management	Jaipur	www.jimj.ac.in
48.	Jindal Global Business School	Sonipat	www.jgbs.edu.in
49.	JK Lakshmipat University	Jaipur	www.jklu.edu.in
50.	Kejriwal Institute of Management & Development Studies	Ranchi	www.kimds.in
51.	Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies	Harihar	www.kiams.ac.in
52.	Kohinoor Business School & CMR	Khandala	www.kohinoor.ac.in
53.	Krupajal Business School	Bhubaneswar	www.krupajalbschool.org
54.	Lovely Professional University	Phagwara	www.lpu.in
55.	Loyola Academy	Secunderabad	www.loyolaacademy.ac.in
56.	Loyola Institute of Business Administration	Chennai	www.liba.edu
57.	Management Education & Research Institute	New Delhi	www.meri.edu.in
58.	Mangalvedhekar Institute of Management (MIM)	Solapur	www.mangalvedhekar.org
59.	Mar Athanasios College for Advanced Studies (MACFAST)	Kerala	www.macfast.org
60.	Marian Institute of Health Care Management	Panaji	www.marianinstitute.in
61.	MATS Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship	Bangalore	www.mats.ac.in
62.	MIT School of Business	Pune	www.mitsob.com
63.	MIT School of Telecom Management	Pune	www.mitsot.com
64.	Mount Carmel Institute of Management	Bangalore	www.mountcarmelinstitute.org
65.	MVRR Institute of Business Management	Krishna	www.mvrribmgudlavalleru.ac.in
66.	National School of Business	Bangalore	www.nsbindia.org
67.	New Delhi Institute of Management	New Delhi	ndimdelhi.org
68.	Praxis Business School	Kolkata	www.praxis.ac.in
69.	Prin. L.N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research	Mumbai	www.welingkar.org
70.	Pune Institute of Business Management	Pune	www.pibm.in
71.	Ravenshaw Management Centre	Cuttack	www.ravenshawuniversity.ac.in
72.	Regional College of Management Autonomous	Bhubaneswar	www.rcm.ac.in
73.	S P Jain Institute of Management & Research	Mumbai	www.spjimr.org
74.	School of Management Sciences	Varanasi	www.smsvaranasi.com
75.	School of Management, KIIT University	Bhubaneswar	www.ksom.ac.in
76.	SDM Institute for Management Development	Mysore	www.sdmimd.ac.in
77.	Shiva Institute of Management Studies	Ghaziabad	www.shivaims.edu.in
78.	SIET Institute of Management	Bangalore	www.bsim.in
79.	Siva Sivani Institute of Management	Secunderabad	www.ssim.ac.in
80.	Sri Shrada Institute of Indian Management Research	New Delhi	wwww.srisiim.org
81.	Sri Sri University	Bhubaneshwar	www.srisriuniversity.edu.in
82.	St. Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology	Mangalore	www.staloysics.ac.in
83.	St. Berchmans College	Kerala	www.sbmba.org
84.	St. Francis Institute of Management and Research (SFIMAR)	Mumbai	www.sfimar.org
85.	St. Joseph's College of Business Administration	Bangalore	www.sjcba.edu.in
86.	St. Joseph's Iinstitute of Management	Trichy	www.jiim.ac.in
87.	Suryadatta Group of Institutes	Pune	www.suryadatta.org
88.	T A Pai Management Institute	Manipal	www.tapmi.edu.in
89.	Taxila Business School	Jaipur	www.taxila.in
90.	The National Management School	Chennai	www.nms.edu.in
91.	The School of Business, Alliance University	Bangalore	www.alliance.edu.in
92.	Training & Advanced Studies in Management and Communications Ltd (TASMAC)	Pune	www.tasmac.ac.in/wales
93.	United World School of Business	Kolkata	www.unitedworld.in
94.	Vanguard Business School	Bangalore	www.vanguardbschool.com
95.	VIT University	Vellore	www.vit.ac.in
96.	WLC College India	Noida	www.wlccollege.org
97.	Xavier Institute of Development Action and Studies	M.P	www.xidas.in
98.	Xavier Institute of Management	Bhubaneswar	www.ximb.ac.in
99.	Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship	Bangalore	www.xime.org
100.	Xavier Institute of Management & Research	Mumbai	www.ximr.ac.in
101.	Xavier Institute of Social Service	Ranchi	www.xiss.ac.in
102.	Xavier Labour and Relations Institute	Jamshedpur	www.xlri.ac.in

CAT 2012: focus on your weak areas

With less than a month to go now for CAT 2012, most students would be wondering if they really have it in them to make it through the CAT exam. If you identify your weak areas and put in focussed effort to improve upon them, you will increase your chances to crack the CAT. Let us look at each of the areas in CAT and discuss how one can improve on them in the coming one month.
Verbal Ability:
Reading Comprehension: CAT has traditionally been an RC centric paper. The number of passages varies from 3 to 4 with three to four questions per passage.

If you identify your weak areas and put in focussed effort, you will increase your chances to bell the CAT.

A few critical factors in RC preparation:
Reading on diverse topics: Increasing familiarity with the kind of topics that appear in CAT will help the students save reading time and also get better on comprehension
Target all direct questions first followed by the inferential questions.
During the Test: Ideally not more than 10 minutes are to be spent per passage and it is to be ensured that all passages are looked at.
Verbal Ability: This includes grammar and word-based questions. For grammar, ensure you practice on the rules of Grammar using your study material or any book like Wren & Martin.
For word-based questions spend 30 minutes everyday on going through a list of most commonly misused words like homophones etc. The root-prefix-suffix method for word learning can help solve fill in the blanks questions in CAT.
Verbal Reasoning: This includes Para Jumbles and Para completion questions. Following are a few approaches to answer these questions:
Identify the introductory statement (this statement would tell us what the paragraph is all about)
Then identify links that would connect the two sentences. These are called connectives. These connectives can be conjunctions (but, and) or can be content connectives like cause–effect, generic to specific etc.
Remember that there are no short cuts to improving upon your VA skills. Practice is the key to success in this section. Spend at least an hour on regular reading every day and another 30 minutes reading CAT kind of passages from various online sources.
Quantitative Ability:
List out the areas/topics to focus on: As the time on hand is only one month, it is imperative that the students choose only those topics for preparation which would give them the maximum return for their time. A two pronged approach needs to be adopted for this
1. Mock-CAT Performance Analysis: Students should have a clear understanding of their comfort level in all Quant topics. Mock-CAT performances should be analyzed at a topic level. The areas where the students have been scoring below par consistently and the areas where the scores have been fluctuating should be the areas of focus.
2. Previous CAT paper analysis: The areas which have been consistently contributing to the CAT exam over the years should be identified and attention should be given to them.
Follow these simple steps while preparing
Understand the basics concepts of the selected topic thoroughly
Write down all the formulae and concepts related to the topic on a chart to use as a ready reckoner
Ensure that you know when a particular formula is to be used
Solve at least 30-40 questions (CAT level) from the concept
Logical Ability
The questions in logic can be broadly said to come from three areas viz. Puzzles, Venn Diagrams & Cubes, Deductions & Logical Connectives.
Of these, the questions on puzzles have been most common followed by Deductions and Venn Diagrams. Working out problems from the Study Material Booklets is often the best way to prepare for the different varieties of Questions that appear in CAT. Puzzle books like those by Shakuntala Devi, George Summers etc. provide exposure to high level logic puzzles and the approaches to tackle them.
The often-repeated word "Practice" is the key to crack the questions based on logic and reasoning. The students should put in as much time as possible in practising questions of different types, both online and on paper.
Data Interpretation:
The skills required to crack questions in DI are
1. Ability to analysis and understand difficult / complicated data
This is a skill which one can acquire through regular practice. The practice needs to involve questions of various difficulty levels and types. One approach would be to start solving all the DI sets from your study material. Once this is done, it is time to move online using 'Online Practice Tests'.
2. Ability to do calculations quickly
Speed of calculations is where the students should focus on, along with practising different sets. Acquiring this skill is often easier said than done as it is difficult to get over the old habits of scribbling numbers on a paper even for simple additions.
The point to be kept in mind when students practise sets as mentioned above is that, they should not only focus on the learning approach but should work out the answers themselves. This should be done in timed manner. The advantage of solving questions under time constraint would be that the students would be forced to increase their speed of calculations.
All the steps discussed above will help in increasing the level of preparation of the students. These, combined with the appropriate test taking strategy will go a long way in belling the CAT.
All the best
The writer is course director of CAT at Triumphant Institute of Management Education Pvt. Ltd (T.I.M.E.)

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Cut off for different Boards for JEE based on Percentile

Board		Percentage Required
Andhra Pradesh		87.2
Assam		54.2
Bihar		64.6
CBSE		77.8
Chhattisgarh		56.8
Goa		56.25
Himachal Pradesh		63.2
Jharkhand		52.4
Jammu and Kashmir		67
Karnataka		67.5
Kerala		76.5
Meghalaya		49.4
Manipur		64.6
Madhya Pradesh		64
Maharashtra		61.17
Mizoram		56.2
Nagaland		49
Orissa		56.33
Punjab		70.8
Rajasthan		63.8
Tripura		50.8
Tamil Nadu		78.17
Uttarakhand		55.2
Uttar Pradesh		65
West Bengal		58
National Open School		60.6

For IIT K Sibal Shortlists CBI tainted Professor

IIT interview for ‘taint’ dean

OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT: The Telegraph

New Delhi, July 4: An IIT Kharagpur professor, indicted by the CBI for alleged involvement in a case of irregularity, has been shortlisted and interviewed by a Kapil Sibal-headed panel for the post of director of the premier tech school. P.P. Chakraborty, dean of an IIT department called Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy (SRIC), is among 11 persons shortlisted by the selection committee. Yesterday, the panel called him for an interview despite a CBI recommendation for departmental action against the professor. Chakraborty had been accused of being involved in outsourcing a software job to a private company in violation of the terms set by Coal India Ltd (CIL), which had placed orders worth over Rs 27 crore over two phases — in 2001 and 2004. The CBI, which investigated the projects on the basis of an anonymous complaint, recommended regular departmental action against Chakraborty and two others, A.K. Bhowmick, the then dean of the SRIC and the present director of IIT Patna, and R.N. Banerjee, a professor of industrial engineering and management. Coal India had placed the first order for Coalnet, an application software, on July 3, 2001, for Rs 8.9 crore. The IIT was not supposed to outsource any part of the job to any other organisation without the approval of Coal India. The IIT, however, outsourced the entire job to TCG Software Pvt Ltd nine days later. A similar allegation surfaced when Phase II of Coalnet, a project worth Rs 18.8 crore, came up. The IIT, which signed an agreement with Coal India on January 19, 2004, outsourced the entire job to the same firm two days later. In its report in 2007, the CBI said Bhowmick and Banerjee were primarily responsible for outsourcing the project, while Chakraborty “misrepresented to CIL that the work had not been outsourced to TCG”. The three faculty members also tried to defend their position by manipulating records, the CBI said. The human resource development ministry had then forwarded the CBI report to the institute for action. But the IIT’s board of governors, at a meeting in December 2011, rejected the recommendations of the CBI. In March this year, Sibal’s ministry asked the institute to seek advice from the Central Vigilance Commission since it had rejected the CBI report. The institute has to explain to the CVC the reasons for rejecting the CBI recommendations, but have the liberty to accept or reject the vigilance commission’s advice. Sources in the HRD ministry said selection panels shortlist persons for interviews based on their bio-data. However, a candidate’s vigilance record is checked before nominating his name for appointment. The 11 names shortlisted by the committee, which called Chakraborty and the others for interviews yesterday, are for the posts of directors in IIT Kharagpur and IIT Kanpur. The committee includes UGC acting chairman Ved Prakash, All India Council for Technical Education chairman S.S. Mantha, Infosys’s Krish Gopalakrishnan, IIT Kharagpur chairman Shiv Nadar and IIT Kanpur chairman M. Anandkrishnan.

Decision of NIT council

Press Release

The Council of National Institutes of Technology (NITs) met today forenoon to discuss the modalities of admission through Common Entrance Test proposed to be conducted for the year 2013. The Council took note of the fact that the IIT Council in its meeting held on 27th June, 2012, has decided, inter-alia, that the JEE Advanced would be administered on a separate date to 1.5 lakh students of all category, based on merit assessed through performance in the JEE Main, and the merit list for admissions to IITs will be drawn on the basis of All India Rank in the JEE Advanced, provided such candidates are in the top 20 percentile of successful candidates in their Boards in applicable categories.

2. After detailed deliberations, the NIT Council decided that the NIT system would consider 40% weightage for performance in class XII Board marks normalized on percentile basis and the remainder 60% weightage would be given for performance in JEE Main and a combined merit list would be decided accordingly. This system would be implemented from 2013. The members of the Council resolved to facilitate implementation of the new admission policy in close coordination with the CBSE.

3. The Council authorized its Chairman to constitute a Committee consisting of a few Directors, Chairman COBSE and other experts to look into the issues relating to normalization of class XII Board marks on percentile basis.

IIT spot gets tougher for CBSE, ISCE students?

Hindustan Times: 4th july, 2012

A cap that will allow only the top 20% students from each board to be eligible for IIT admission tests would hurt aspirants from tougher boards, experts have argued.Students from the CBSE, Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE), and state boards of West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh may be worst hit.

Many of them - who don't make it to the top 20% - would be as qualified as some of the top 20% students from easier boards but will not be eligible for admission to the IITs.

The IIT Council - the highest decision-making body of the IITs - last week decided on new admission criteria from 2013, including the eligibility cap, arguing that students across all states are equally meritorious.
Though there is no evidence suggesting any difference in innate merit between students based on their board or background, students from some boards perform better than others in common tests, two independent studies have shown.

This makes it harder for a student to squeeze into the top 20% in a tougher board, IIT-Kanpur dean Dheeraj Sanghi said. "You simply cannot compare different boards. Their performance levels vary widely," he said.
In 2009, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore scientists PS Anil Kumar and Dibakar Chatterjee compared the performance of students from India's 29 boards over 10 years in a common examination.
The selection test for the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) is conducted by the department of science and technology each year to select the brightest high school science students, who are awarded a fellowship to pursue studies in the sciences.

Their results showed that the average score of students from the CBSE, CISCE, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh in the KVPY test - a common examination unlike the class 12 boards - in physics, chemistry and mathematics far exceeded those of aspirants from other boards.

The results were published in November 2009 in Current Science, India's top science journal.
"Our work clearly showed that students from different boards have different performance standards," Chatterjee said.
An independent study by Wipro and Educational Initiatives, a non-profit group started by alumni of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, published in December 2011 also concluded that CBSE and CISCE students have higher performance levels.

  

NIT Council Meets today: Very crucial

Prof Sanjeev Sanghi, IIT Delhi opines

An even more crucial meeting today: the NIT council. Why is this crucial?

1. This decides how the 30K odd students will be chosen, roughly 6 times the numbers in IITs.

2. IITs have tried to unentangle themselves with the NITs. Will tomorrow's decision re-entangle the two? If so what will be the overall implications? Will it start a new round of protests?

3. NITs have so far not protested. So may be they will be subjected to manipulation and usage of illogical and unscietific formulae like addtion of percentile and percentages.

4. The real sufferers, however, will be the children who plan to appear for 2013 exams, especially those who appeared in AIEEE in 2011 and 2012 and want to take 2nd and 3rd attempts.

5. In my opinion, NITs should continue with the current filter of passing Class XII instead of using percentile class XII scores, as implentability in 2013 will be a very major issue if percentiles are used, especially as an additive component.

6. I pray to God to give 'sadbudhi' and not 'ka-buddhi' to all the decision makers.

4. The real sufferers, however, will be the children who plan to appear for 2013 exams, especially those who appeared in AIEEE in 2011 and 2012 and want to take 2nd and 3rd attempts.

5. In my opinion, NITs should continue with the current filter of passing Class XII instead of using percentile class XII scores, as implentability in 2013 will be a very major issue if percentiles are used, especially as an additive component.

6. I pray to God to give 'sadbudhi' and not 'ka-buddhi' to all the decision makers.