Business Management Studies

Practice questions according to your strength. Look up for the old question papers. Keep yourself updated and try to find tricks to improve speed and knowledge. The best colleges for MBA are Iims, SP Jain, JBIMS, XLRI, TISS NMIMS, XIMB, SIBM, SCMHRD, IMT and IMI. CAT is an exam where your basics need to be strong. They will ask you questions anyhow by combining two topics together or putting up a single topic example in a unique and different way. The main topics that a student should prepare would be time distance, time speed, probability, ages, dice, ratio and proportions, etc. , from Quants. Verbal is considered to be the most difficult area in CAT exam as you need to have a strong hold on English language I. e you must be having a very good vocabulary, grammar should be perfect, etc. For Reasoning, your focus should be on matrix puzzles, coding-decoding, sequential output, etc. You need to be very strong in verbal and reasoning to crack CAT as these are the two main sections where you can score more than others if you practice well. So, start with basics as those are the most important ones.

Maharashtra Seats: These seats are further classified into three categories:
State Level Seats: Irrespective of candidates home university area, these are the seats that are available to Maharashtra State candidates for allotment through common admission process. Home University Seats: There is a certain percentage of reservation for home university candidates. These are available to only those Maharashtra candidates who have home University status as of that University. Other than Home University (OHU) Seats: Other than Home University (OHU) Seats are which are reserved for candidates from Universities other than the University under the jurisdiction of which that institute is located. Under the provision of OHU seats, candidate has an option to choose any other university excluding their home university. All India Seats: Treated as generally category seats, no provision for backward class categories is available for All India Seats. These are available for candidates from Maharashtra State and Outside Maharashtra State. Jammu & Kashmir Migrant Seats: Under CAP (Common Admission Process), one seat over and above the sanctioned intake capacity in each management institute is available. The Jammu & Kashmir candidates are classified into three categories:
J-1 Type: Due to terrorist activities, the children of citizens who are displaced from Jammu & Kashmir to any part of India or from unsafe border area of J & K to a relatively safer place in J & K from 1990 onwards. J-2 Type: The children of officers belonging to Indian Administrative services, Indian Police Services, Indian Forest Services and children of the staff belonging to military and paramilitary forces, transferred to Jammu & Kashmir to combat terrorist activities and joined the post on or before the last date for submission of application form and serving there during the Admission Process. J-3 Type: The children of staff and officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police engaged in combating terrorism. Foreign Nationals / Persons of Indian Origin /Children of Indian workers in the Gulf countries Seats: For Foreign Nationals / Persons of Indian Origin/Children of Indian workers in the Gulf countries, there is a reservation of 15% of total available seats. A 3rd of this 15% reserved seats is reserved for children of Indian workers in the Gulf countries and the rest 2/3rd shall be reserved for the PIOs/Foreign Nationals.

MIB - Master of International Business and MBA - International Business is same. The difference is only nomenclature. There is no actual difference. Some institutions to be out of the purview of AICTE offer the same programme a PG programme in Management with specialisation in International Business in the name of MIB. MBA may come with different specializations like Finance, Marketing, HRM, Operations, Systems, Banking & FS, etc. There are some MBA offered with very niche specializations also, like Healthcare Management, Hospitality Management, Business Analytics etc. For an MBA programme specialisation is very important, whereas MIB is a specialised programme.