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XAT 2008 Bulletin can be obtained either from selected branches of SBI or from XAT Office XLRI.

XAT Bulletin from SBI - A candidate can obtain XAT Bulletin from select branches of State Bank of India on payment of Rs. 700/- (Rupees seven hundred only)

XAT Bulletin from XAT Office, XLRI Jamshedpur - An applicant has to make a demand draft drawn in favour of XAT, Jamshedpur for Rs 750/- (Seven Hundred and Fifty Only) payable at SBI, XLRI Branch (Branch Code No. 4660)

This information has been taken from the XAT official site. Visit http://www.xlri.edu for more details..

Registration for XAT 2008 Who obtained Bulletin from SBI

1. The applicant has to log on to the website www.xlri.edu and go to XAT registration. Here he/she has to fill in the XAT form on-line with personal details, XAT Bulletin No., date and SBI branch name and submit the form online. After submission the candidate will immediately get his/her XAT ID and password
   
2. Once the candidate provides the bank detail he/she can proceed to take printout of XAT Payment Advice cum Photo Form (XAT PP Form) .
   
3. The candidate has to paste his/her recent photograph and give full signature at the space indicated on the XAT PP Form. The candidate has to enclose the third copy of the bank/XAT pay-in-slip along with the completed XAT PP Form and use the special envelope provided in the XAT Bulletin and send it by registered post / speed post / courier within a week, after obtaining the XAT Bulletin. The last date for receiving the XAT PP Form at XAT Office, XLRI Jamshedpur is December 05, 2007.
   
4. The candidate has to keep a copy of the printout of XAT ID and password for any modifications to personal details and XAT ID for any correspondence with the XAT Office.
   
5. The candidate has to go online to www.xlri.edu anytime during December 20, 2007 and January 05, 2008 and take a print out of the XAT 2008 Admit Card where the Address of the Test Centre will be mentioned.

Registration for XAT 2008 Who obtained Bulletin XAT Office

1. The applicant has to log on to the website http://www.xlri.edu/ and go to XAT Registration. Here he/she has to fill in the XAT Form on-line with personal information and give the payment particulars of demand draft number and date. After submission the candidate will immediately get his/her XAT ID and password.
   
2. Once the candidate provides the demand draft details he/she can proceed to take the printout of XAT Payment Advice cum Photo Form (XAT PP Form).
   
3. The candidate has to paste his/her recent photograph and give full signature at the space indicated on the XAT PP Form. Please mention your XAT ID and your name on the reverse of the DD. The candidate has to enclose the demand draft along with the XAT PP Form and send it by registered post/speed post/courier so as to reach XAT Office, XLRI Jamshedpur on or before December 05, 2007.
   
4. XAT office XLRI Jamshedpur will send the XAT Bulletin after receiving the XAT PP Form.
   
5. The candidate has to keep a printout of XAT ID and password for any modifications to personal details, taking a print out of XAT 2008 Admit Card and for any correspondence with the XAT Office.
   
6. The candidate has to go online to http://www.xlri.edu/ anytime during December 20, 2007 and January 05, 2008 and can take a print out of the XAT 2008 Admit Card where the Address of the Test Centre will be mentioned.

This information has been taken from the XAT official site. Visit http://www.xlri.edu for more details..

CAT exams are conducted for admission to the six IIM's i.e IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Indore. However, there are also other Management Institutes that accepts your CAT score. Given below is the list of Institutes (in alphabetic order) that accepts CAT scores. (This list is particularly for CAT 2007)

• Academy of Management Studies Bhubaneshwar
• ACCMAN Institute of Management Greater Noida
• Alliance Business Academy Bangalore
• Amrita School of Business Coimbatore
• Apeejay School of Management New Delhi
• Aravali Institute of Management Jodhpur
• Army Institute of Management and Technology Greater Noida
• Army Institute of Management Kolkata
• Asia Pacific Institute of Management New Delhi
• Asian School of Business Management Bhubaneshwar
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior
• Bangalore Management Academy Bangalore
• Bharathidasan Institute of Management Bangalore
• Birla Institute of Management Technology Greater Noida
• Centre for Management Training and Research Kharar Punjab
• College of Agri-Business Management Pantnagar
• Department of Business Administration, University of Lucknow Lucknow
• Department of Business Management, University of Calcutta Kolkata
• Department of Business Management,Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana
• Department of Commerce,University of Calcutta Kolkata
• Department of Management Studies, Indian School of Mines Dhanbad
• Department of Management, Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra
• Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management Kolkata
• Eastern Institute of Management Kolkata
• EMPI Business School New Delhi
• EMPI Institute of Advertising, Communication and Management New Delhi
• Faculty of Management Studies, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi
• Fore School of Management New Delhi
• Fortune Institute of International Business New Delhi
• Gitam Institute of Foreign Trade Visakhapatnam
• Globsyn Business School Kolkata
• Graduate School of Business and Administration Greater Noida
• Heritage Institute of Technology Kolkata
• IILM Institute for Higher Education, Gurgaon
• Indian Business Academy Bangalore
• Indian Institute of e-Business Management Pune
• Indian Institute of Forest Management Bhopal
• Indian Institute of Management Training Pune
• Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management Kolkata
• Indian Institute of Tourism & Travel Management Gwalior
• Institute for Financial Management & Research Chennai
• Institute for Integrated Learning in Management Greater Noida
• Institute of AgriBusiness Management Rajasthan Agricultural University Bikaner
• Institute of Business Management and Research Bangalore
• Institute of Engineering and Management Kolkata
• Institute of Finance and International Management Bangalore
• Institute of Management Development and Research Pune
• Institute of Management Education Ghaziabad
• Institute of Management Studies Dehradun
• Institute of Management Studies Ghaziabad
• Institute of Management Studies Ghaziabad
• Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad
• Institute of Management Technology Nagpur
• Institute of Marketing and Management New Delhi
• Institute of Petroleum Management Gandhinagar
• Institute of Productivity and Management Meerut
• Institute of Public Enterprise Hyderabad
• Integrated Academy of Management and Technology Ghaziabad
• International Institute for Special Education Lucknow
• International Management Institute New Delhi
• International School of Management Excellence Bangalore
• Invertis Institute of Management Studies Bareilly
• Ishan Institute of Management and Technology, Greater Noida
• ITM Business School Navi Mumbai
• Jagan Institute of Management Studies New Dehi
• Jaganath International Management, New Delhi
• Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur
• Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow
• Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida
• JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani
• JK Institute of Management New Delhi
• K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research Mumbai
• Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies Harihar
• Kohinoor Business School Pune
• Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management and Technology Bareilly
• Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management New Delhi
• Management Development Institute Gurgaon
• Motilal Nehru Institute of Technology Allahabad
• Mudra Institute of Communication Ahmedabad Ahmedabad
• Narula Institute of Technology,Kolkata
• National Institute of Bank Management Pune
• National Institute of Technology Tiruchirapalli
• National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana
• National Insurance Academy Pune
• National Power Training Institute MBA (Power Management) Faridabad
• New Delhi Institute of Management New Delhi
• NIILM Centre for Management Studies New Delhi
• Nirma Institute of Management Ahmedabad
• Pailan College of Management and Technology Kolkata
• Pearl School of Business Gurgaon
• PES Institute of Technology Bangalore
• Prince L N Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research Mumbai
• Rakshpal Bahadur Management Institute Bareilly
• School of Management Sciences Varanasi
• School of Management Studies, University of Hyderabad , Hyderabad
• School of Management, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry
• SDM Institute for Management Development Mysore
• Shri Ramswaroop Memorial College of Engineering and Management Lucknow
• Sri Sringeri Sharada Institute of Management New Delhi
• SRM University Kancheepuram
• SSN School of Management & Computer Applications Chennai
• Suryadatta Group of Institutes, Pune
• T A Pai Management Institute Manipal
• University Business School Chandigarh
• Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Co-operative Management Pune
• Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore

Examination Date
November 18, 2007 (Sunday).

Examination Timings
10 A.M. to 1 P.M.

Test Centers (Cities where CAT will be Conducted)
Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore,Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Noida, Patna, Pune and Varanasi.

The top level IT companies and consultancy firms like TCS, Wipro, IBM, Oracle etc offers great job opportunities to a candidate with an MCA degree. In this era of computers the candidates find various opportunities in large corporations having an in-house systems department. They can even approach any IT company as a system developer and for various other roles.

MCA student can even specialize in various fields in the final semester or the last year of their course. The following courses can be summed up below:

• Systems Management
• Systems Development
• Systems Engineering
• Application Software
• Internet
• Management Information Systems (MIS)
• Software Development
• Troubleshooting
• Hardware Technology
• Networking

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