The Xavier Admission Tests (XAT) Quantitative Aptitude is always a bit on the tougher side. Sometimes, the difficulty level may take a dip, but that does not mean that it would suddenly drop to the standards of elementary mathematics. Unlike the Common Admission Test (CAT), XAT traditionally focuses more on...
Read MoreThe financial and banking sector was the top recruiter at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi’s summer placements, roping in 43 per cent of its students this year. Last year’s lead recruiter, sales and marketing was a close second, taking in 38 per cent of students. IIM Ranchi, the...
Read MoreThe All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will publish a list of b-schools accepting Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) scores only once the registration closes for the exam on January 9, 2012. Confirming this an AICTE official said: “We will present the list of colleges accepting CMAT scores on...
Read MorePhoto credit: tp_abr’s photostream Indore’s Rajwada Palace There has been an interesting trend brewing across several colleges in Indore offering graduate courses. Top companies such as Tata Consultancy Services, Accenture and L&T; (ECC) hire graduates as trainees and later help them pursue higher education from the best of institutions. And...
Read MoreOriginal photo: Ayush Shukla The Xaviers Admissions Test (XAT) is on January 8, 2012 and a few XAT 99-percentilers from the XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur have teamed up with PaGaLGuY to offer last-minute tips and advice on taming the exam. If you have questions about XAT...
Read MoreA sketch of the upcoming academic block in the NITIE campus The National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) will hike its fees by 15-20% for the 2012 batch, in order to offset the expenditure incurred because of the institute’s infrastructural expansion. According to Sadhana Ghosh, chairman-admissions committee, the current fee...
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CMAT 2012 advertisement by AICTE that appeared on December 3, 2011 While b-schools and MBA aspirants have a lot to complain over All India Council for Technical Education’s (AICTE) Common Management Admission Test (CMAT), a senior AICTE official told PaGaLGuY that the exam is not compulsory for its affiliated b-schools....
Read MoreThe water reservoir at IIFM, Bhopal The Indian institute of Forest Management (IIFM) Bhopal, offers much more to its students than just the privilege of studying in the country’s only college giving a forest management degree. The students here take management lessons ‘directly’ from nature – either by way of...
Read MoreNinad Karpe Ninad Karpe, CEO and MD of Aptech Ltd, tells PaGalGuY his plan of action for conducting the first Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) 2012. How does it feel to be chosen among prominent bidders such as Tata Consultancy Services and Prometric to conduct the first CMAT? CMAT is...
Read MoreSNAP 2011 was a very sensible paper and brought a welcome change. Though the test was a mixture of easy, moderate and tough sections, it was slightly different from expectations and general perceptions. This would have surprised a lot of aspirants. Let us try to evaluate each section on its...
Read MoreSome test takers outside a SNAP center in Mumbai The PaGaLGuY reporting team met up with some Symbiosis National Aptitude (SNAP) test 2011 takers on Sunday evening after the exam. Most of the candidates said that the Verbal and Quantitative Techniques (QT) were easy compared to the Logical Reasoning (LR)...
Read MoreProf Mouloud Madoun’s name is quite a tongue twister if one is not familiar with French names. People often end up addressing him as Mowlood Madown or Moloud Madnoun and after several attempts graduate to pronouncing it as Maolood Madu, which is how it should be. Not that Prof Madoun...
Read MorePic of IIT Delhi by Bryn Pinzgauer Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and IIT Delhi are revisiting their admission criteria for MBA from the next academic year. While IIT Kanpur is considering barring freshers, IIT Delhi is looking at revising its eligibility criteria from 10+2+4 to 10+2+3. We dig...
Read MoreIf questions on factor cost and marginal cost in the Common Management Admissions Test’s (CMAT) trial test on December 12 left you flummoxed, relax. The test was only to give MBA aspirants an idea as to how a CMAT paper would look like. Though CMAT’s website clearly said, “A trial...
Read MoreEditor’s note: The first part of the two-part series warns you about the common goof-ups at a GD. Basically, now you would know how to crack it in a crowd, and stand out. (Part two here). Photo credit: SHK You are done with the Common Admission Test (CAT) and are...
Read MoreReston, Virginia The results of the 2011 year-end poll of employers conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) indicate an improved job market for MBAs in 2012. The poll shows that nearly three-quarters (74%) of employers plan to hire MBAs in 2012, up from 58% in 2011. Not only...
Read MoreLawrence Rudner In contrast to the pariah status accorded to coaching companies in India by organisers of entrance tests, the Graduate Management Admissions council (GMAC) has been meeting coaching companies across the world to introduce to them the new version of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) with its Integrated...
Read MoreIn an effort to attract the maximum number of applicants, the Symbiosis Center for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), Pune has introduced a major change in its application process. It will now close application entries a day before the Symbiosis National Aptitude (SNAP) test scheduled on December 18, 2011...
Read MoreAIMS is a networking organisation of B-Schools in India, like ACBSP, EFMD, AACSB. AIMS was established in 1988 (on August 27) and was registered as a society and is a non-profit professional organisation. Individual B-Schools of national and international repute have become members of AIMS. ISB, IIMs, Xavier Institutes, Welingkar,...
Read MoreDr Janat Shah, director of IIMU Dr Janat Shah, director of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Udaipur already has a detailed strategy in place for the next ten years and aims to make IIM Udaipur better than IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore. A product of IIM Ahmedabad who spent...
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