(Photo: Anurag Prabhakar) Based on the Common Admission Test (CAT) results, the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have started declaring their shortlists for the next round of admissions that will comprise interviews and written ability tests. IIM Ahmedabad: you can check whether you’ve been shortlisted here and join the forum...
Read More(Photo: Bansi Mehta) The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 results are out and yes, it might just have opened up a Pandora’s box of surprises for some. The change in the pattern of the exam has proven to be a boon for those with good skills in Logical Reasoning questions,...
Read MoreThe declaration of the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 results brings an end to Prof Janakiraman Moorthy’s tenure as CAT Convenor for 2011. In the hot seat for probably the last time, Prof Moorthy spoke to PaGaLGuY about the CAT results and more. The CAT website again gave problems, as...
Read MoreEstablished in the year 1993, IILM-GSM is one of top AICTE Approved Business schools in the country today. Operating for nearly 2 decades, it is essential for any MBA School serious about providing quality education is to upgrade itself each year and invest continuously in important areas of faculties, research,...
Read MorePaGaLGuY caught up with Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 topper Shashank Prabhu for an exclusive chat. Shashank, who is currently pursuing his MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi, had worked with PaGaLGuY in its editorial team for a year before joining FMS. Incidentally Shashank had...
Read MoreThe Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 results have been declared, as per schedule at midnight, January 11, 2012 at http://weaiimcalcat.catiim.in/. You will need your test registration number and email address to access yours. At midnight time when this reporter tried to open the results webpage to check a colleague’s CAT...
Read MoreSo, it’s time to kick off the biggest annual survey exercise on PaGaLGuY — the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2012. The survey taps the power of the PaGaLGuY community of MBA applicants, students, alumni and academicians to find out what India thinks about India’s b-schools. Like every year, it shall be...
Read MoreChecking your CAT results tonight could be like this. (Photo: Lingaraj GJ) In a few hours, when the clock strikes twelve for January 11, 2012, you should be able to access the results of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 on the catiim.in website. Candidates will be required to enter...
Read MoreThe Indian Institute of Management Udaipur (IIM-U), the newest addition to the IIM fraternity, recently completed the summer placements for its first batch. And some of the leading national and international companies offered a wide range of roles to the students, said the placement report. The five-month-old IIM though started...
Read MoreThe All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has postponed the final registration date for the Common Management Aptitude Test (CMAT) from January 9 to January 22, 2012. The decision to postpone the date was taken as some state universities including that of Maharashtra, Kerala and Rajasthan scrapped their own...
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Like in a Bollywood flick, the Xavier’s Admission Test (XAT) 2012 held today, January 8, 2012 closed this season with a happy ending. Living upto its standard of questions, the XAT 2012 turned out to be a very balanced paper. This year. the exam was easier but certainly not easy!...
Read MoreIn a letter sent to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the Department of Technical Education, Rajasthan Government has stated that it will consider only Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) scores from next year. The Rajasthan Management Aptitude Test (RMAT), the management test conducted by RTU will be...
Read MoreBeing physically present in a classroom would soon be a passe for students at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi. As from next year, they would attend virtual classrooms, sitting in their hostels. Lectures will be broadcast live and students would just have to log in through a laptop...
Read MoreEditors note: This is the first of the two-part series by guest author Charanpreet Singh that gives you a checklist about the important don’ts at a personal interview. The journey that started with writing tests, applying to and winning calls from business schools and competing in group discussions reaches its...
Read MorePhoto: Sanjay In what seems to be a fallout of the global economic meltdown, finance hiring for summer internships further dropped at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad for the third year in a row with only 28.38% of the offers coming from this sought-after vertical. Companies offering consulting...
Read MorePhoto: Dhairyasheel Gore Students of the five-year Integrated Management Programme (IPM) at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore would now get a distance learning Bachelor’s degree from the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) for the first three years of their course. Additionally, IIM Indore has applied for ‘deemed...
Read MoreTarique involved in fieldwork Tarique Mohammed Quereshi, a graduate of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai is passionate about beggars! Nothing moves him more than seeing a beggar child shivering in the cold and scrounging for alms at traffic signals. You or I might shoo away such a...
Read MoreThe ticket to MBA has been changing colours MBA admission procedures at Indian b-schools have traditionally followed the set routine of holding a mass admission test, calling the shortlisted candidates for group discussions in stressful environments and then grilling them one-on-one in personal interviews. A small crop of b-schools, however,...
Read MorePhoto: Niyam Bhushan Only last week, we had reported that the Maharashtra management Common Entrance Test (Mah-CET) 2012 had been postponed by two weeks to March 11, 2012 to make way for the dates booked by the All Indian Council of Technical Education (AICTE) for its Common Management Admission Test...
Read MoreAn artist’s impression of the proposed new NMIMS campus in Mumbai Dr Rajan Saxena, Vice-Chancellor, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai talks about the new campus, factors that will determine changes in the approach (curriculum) to an MBA programme, and the institute’s campuses at Hyderabad and Bangalore. Author...
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