Here we have a talk with Benny Joseph, a recent graduate of Chicago Booth and SoFi entrepreneur who heads the startup GoodApril, an awesome site that will help you save money while filing your taxes. In this post Benny talks about his experience at Booth and offers fantastic advice for...
Read MoreIIM Ahmedabad (Photo: Kunjan Detroja) The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has altered its selection criteria for admissions to the PGP batch of 2014-16. From each of five academic disciplines covering the arts, commerce, medicine, science and engineering defined by IIM-A (more here, see Table 2) the top 50...
Read MoreCome September, and Bandra, traditionally the Queen of Mumbai’s suburbs, takes on a different hue. The 300-year old Bandra Fair descends on this suburb, once known for its pretty bungalows. The fair simply means, 8-15 days of lots of merry-making, streets filled with eateries, shopping and giant wheels. It also...
Read MoreThose days, dance was a form to be appreciated in films, television or theatre perhaps. These days it is just a next-door thing with so many dance classes mushrooming everywhere. Today anybody can dance and dance teachers love it – for Rs 3-6,000 a month, they are a lucrative business...
Read More(Photo: Ben Husmann) An increasing number of cases of management institutes refusing refunds are coming to light this year. This time, seven students who withdrew admission to T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal, say that the institute has refunded only 11% of the total fees paid up and is...
Read MoreI am not surprised that image-searching ‘mumbai logo’ on Google fetches more of the Mumbai Indians cricket team logo and hardly any of the official Mumbai logo that the city’s municipality released three months ago. This logo was originally intended to brand Mumbai in the same way ‘I The Mumbai...
Read MoreBeing a ghaas-phoos person in India is one thing but going bina-doodh is quite another. With no vegan restaurant anywhere, cooking without ghee or butter at home can get bothersome for families. It is hilarious visiting a specialised maas-machi restaurant and ordering vegan food. At one such famous fish do...
Read MoreIndia is very keen about building modern metro rapid transit systems for its cities (three already have one, twelve more are planning to), but very few of those cities are thinking about planning convenient pedestrian access to their stations. As sound as the intent is to make urban commuters shun...
Read MoreSale of vouchers for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013 began today. About 12,000 vouchers were sold in all and about 10,000 candidates registered. Of this, 80 per cent had bought the vouchers online. According to CAT Convenor Prof Rohit Kapoor of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore, the...
Read More(Photo: Francisco Diez) Next Saturday, three successful alumni from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA shall be in Mumbai to talk about their experiences of studying at the legendary American school and how the education has helped them in their careers. Our friends at ReachIvy, an MBA admissions...
Read More(Photo: Liz West) Arts and commerce students – or those from non-engineering academic backgrounds are often in a fix about how to prepare for CAT. I talk of certain strategies that can be useful for such applicants. Non-engineering students often find that quantitative ability is their bête noire. This is...
Read MoreThe four at the Red Ants Pants festival A thought struck four first-year students of Harvard Business School last November, as they discussed summer internship possibilities: Why not leave the beaten path of working with a high-profile company and actually set out on a learning adventure? They gave it a...
Read More(Photo: herval) Questions based on the modulus function or absolute value are common in the Common Admission Test (CAT) and other management entrance exams. In simple terms, modulus or the mod is just the non-negative value of the number inside the function. It is often represented as |x|. For example,...
Read MoreDr. Nachiket Mor is one of the few people who followed his heart and has successfully moved from a corporate career to the social sector. He is currently on the Board of Care India and Sughavazhvu Healthcare and is former director of India’s largest private lender ICICI Bank Ltd. He...
Read More(File photo) The voucher sale for Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013 will now begin from August 5, 2013 to September 24, 2013, Rohit Kapoor, CAT Convenor 2013 confirmed to PaGaLGuY. Previously the registration was scheduled to begin from July 29, 2013. Impending changes in the official CAT website is the...
Read MoreResearch has shown that you only have about 17 seconds to capture the attention of the hiring manager. If you have trained to the engineering field, it is important to create a resume that will increase your chances of obtaining the job you really want. Putting together a compelling resume...
Read More(Photo: Wikimedia CH) Continuing the eight-year-old tradition, we announce the nominations for PaGaLGuY Dream Team and PaGaLGuY UnderDogs Team as open for season 2013. These are teams built around CAT preparation that are known for their camaraderie, performance and passion to succeed through moments that would be cherished for life....
Read MoreWho would have thought that a typical day in May, in sunny Bombay, could have rain in it? Frankly I didn’t believe the weather forecast until I felt the raindrops. As much as I’ve been basking in the warm summer days (the few weeks back when it was warm), my...
Read More(Photo: Skylar Murphy) The sheer number of aspirants who appear for the Common Admission Test (CAT) pushes up the competition up. This combined with the societal stigma attached with failure, the hype around an MBA degree and the misinformation attached to the need for doing an MBA means that ‘fear...
Read More(Photo: hans thijs) For an MBA applicant, nothing is more pleasing than asking admission-related queries to their dream b-schools and getting quickly responded to. As we found out during an experiment, American schools edge out the British ones on this one. As part of a continuing experiment, we posed as...
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