MBA Entrance Exam

The best coaching institutes for XAT are:
IMS
Established in 1977 in Mumbai, IMS is one of oldest higher education entrance exam training institutes of the country. The institute, which has over 75 centres in 44 cities, believes in acting as a mentor, motivator and guide to students. IMS learning resources offer coaching and training for MBA entrance tests. Students are mentored for entrance tests like CAT, GMAT, CMAT, NMAT by GMAC, etc.
TIME
Established in 1992, Triumphant Institute of Management Education Pvt. Ltd. (T.I.M.E.) is considered to be one of India's leading test-preparation institutes. Headquartered at Hyderabad, TIME is led by a team of more than 40 IIT/IIM graduates. It has an all India presence with 236 offices in 112 towns and cities. TIME has constantly produced various CAT and other MBA entrance exam toppers.

Schedule to crack IIFT in just 3 months is as follows :
Reading comprehension in 10 days.
Read the columns, editorials and articles from the newspapers and find out how many words are there which you do not know. Note down these words, know their meaning, frame good sentences upon them and start using them in your conversation to practice more on them.
Verbal Ability in 5 days
Practice and revise your stuff well.
Identify the type of questions that appeared in last year exams and practice them well.
Questions based on grammar come as a saviour when you are not lucky with the passage.
Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation in 10 days
Speed is the most important factor to solve this question. For this, you will have to work on your speed to attempt the maximum number of questions.
Vedic maths is very helpful to solve this section in time.
Quantitative Analysis in 10 days
GK in 10 days
Revision in 10 days
Solve at least one mock test paper every day. Try to reduce the involved time every day.
Identify your weak areas and work upon your mistakes.
Hope it helps.

There are so many colleges which accept MAT score even if your percentage is less than 50% in graduation, however you need to score good percentile in entrance exam including PI/GD.
1. MET Institute of Management Studies and Research- Mumbai.
2. Neville Wadia Institute of Management Studies and Research (NWIMSR)- Pune.
3. Balaji Institute of Modern Management- Pune.
4. Indira Institute of Management - Pune (IIMP).
5. Global Institute of Management Sciences (GIMS)- Mumbai.
Other colleges that accept less than 50% marks in graduation are:-
1. Alliance University.
2. IRM, Manasarover.
3. BIMTECH.
4. Welingkars.
5. Amity.
6. SCMS, Cochin.
7. Sri shiengri.
8. NILMIMS, Bangalore.
9. EMPI.
10. Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College - Bangalore, Karnataka.
11.Indian Retail School - New Delhi, Delhi.
12. Center for Management and Technology - Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
13. Holy Faith Post Graduate College - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
14. Annie Besant Post Graduate College - Khammam, Andhra Pradesh.
15. Mount Caramel Business School - New Delhi, Delhi.

Common Management Admission Test is more commonly known as the CMAT. You can go a long way to top B-School, so scoring good marks is really important. Here are few general mistake to be done by student during preparation or in exam which can be minimized to score good marks:
1. It is not only necessary to learn and know all the concepts and tricks, but it is also essential to be confident and quick in using them. This means doing quick calculations in the quant section.
2. A big mistake is to focus only on one weakness. Since, general knowledge can also be forgotten easily and quickly, keep revising it. A good method can be to set a certain base level of mock questions in each category to do on each day.
3. One of the major problems is that most candidates do not recognize, that they are falling behind until it's too late. It is hard to compensate wisely in this situation, meaning, that takers are forced to take rapid and wild guesses. A simple tool to avoid this scenario is to set and stick to certain milestones.
4. Never forget to practice mock test papers. The good thing about mocks is, it helps you too face all types of questions, & makes you familiarized which the surrounding & also with the stress you have with time management.
All the Best.

CAT is one of the entry level exams for Master of business administration. The Best B-schools like majority of Indian Institute of Management will look for students with high percentile in CAT. Majority fail in CAT. Only 10 percent, who write the exam will qualify for GD and PI. Here, I suggest you some strategies to avoid mistakes in CAT exam preparation.
Planning is very important to crack MAT in 6 months. So, my suggestions are:
MAT is easy as compared to CAT. I was also a student who prepared for CAT immediately after my graduation. The important things which you should look into while preparing for this exam are as follows:
1. Select one of the best coaching centers which offer quality education- TIME is one of the famous coaching centers for CAT and MAT.
2. Dedication- Be focused on the aim which you need to achieve.
3. Try to read Hindu newspaper editorial. Most of the passages which appear in CAT are from Hindu editorial.
4. Try to do a maximum number of online mock tests. You will definitely clear CAT by doing the above.
5. Try to read as much as you can and make note of points.
6. Revision of each week's topic is very important.
7. Mathematical ability questions will be little-twisted, try to do as fast as you can.
8. Be dedicated to it and be regular to the classes.
These are my tips for you to crack CAT.

Tamil Nadu common entrance test is for under graduate students, who are waiting to join on the post graduate courses in huge numbers. This entrance exam was conducted by the Anna University Chennai. For this, more number of concentrations and preparation is required to score more marks.
1. Arihant Publication MBA: - Good book and the best thing is, it cover all the parts.
2. R.S Agarwal: - There is nothing in India for reasoning better then R.S Agarwal
3. NCERT Books: - You will get to know many things for the paper, if you prepare from NCERT books.
4. Tata McGraw Hills: - Good books which give lot of information.
5. Magazine: - Go for Pratiyogita Darpan and India Today.
6. Journals: - Refer some good online Journals like Time etc. (Online)
7. TANCET MBA (Anna University)
8. The Pearson Guide to MBA Entrance Examinations by
Edgar Thorpe,Showick Thorpe.
These book really help to go through these boom for TANCET preparation and make sure you score better.
All the Best.

Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) will be conducted by XLRI. As an MBA aspirant, one needs to put in a lot of hard work to crack this prestigious management entrance exam. For this, preparation should be good with best books.
1. Target XAT Simplified by Disha Experts
2. Jabbing the XAT with solved papers by R.K. Jha
3. XAT XLRI MBA Entrance exam A/4 by Chandresh Agarwal
4. Concepts of number for XAT and other quantitative exams by Gajendra Kumar
5. Target new XAT Past papers and five mock papers
6. XAT entrance test for MBA examination by Gautam Puri
7. XAT Xavier Aptitude Test solved sample papers by Gautam Puri
8. Quantitative aptitude for XAT by Arun Sharma
9. ata Interpretation by Arun Sharma
10. Verbal ability for XAT by Ajay Singh
11. General Knowledge by Manohar Panday
12. The hand on guide to analytical reasoning and logical reasoning : A must have resource for the aspirants of XAT by Peeyush Bhardwaj
These book really help to crack this exam, if you study well.
All the Best.