(Photo credit: David Shankbone) Ever wondered how much rebellion costs? Apart from possibly losing your job and your house to be a part of it, it takes money to keep the revolution alive. This Bloomberg feature shows the other side of the revolution that is gaining momentum at Wall Street,...
Read MoreEditor’s note: Guest author Parasharan Chari, Chief Operating Officer of Ahmedabad-based test-preparation institute Endeavor Careers, analyses the first-day-first-slot of CAT 2011 and identifies pointers that test-takers in the later slots could use. — — — First day, first slot an expression that sounds quite filmi, but then the Common Admissions...
Read MoreThe effectiveness of a digitised testing infrastructure struck me like an a-ha moment today morning when I placed my index finger on the biometric fingerprinting device at the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 center and within seconds the executive checking me in smiled and remarked, “You’ve taken the test twice...
Read MorePesky calls and SMS are the flavor of the season, what with the government penalising the telecom industry by setting daily limits on SMS and unleashing heavy fines on telemarketers. That however does not cover email and snail-mail spam. All these years, MBA applicants have been complaining that the information...
Read More(Photo: Samantha Marx) You can now count the hours to the first day of the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011. It’s only a matter of time before the third edition of the computer-based version of the test makes its presence felt starting October 22 and going right up to November...
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Read MoreIf you are b-school in India that encourages and facilitates peer-to-peer learning and group activity, then do your research well before joining a non-residential MBA, writes guest contributor Junaid Shah from a nasty personal experience. — — — Soon after the Common Admission Test (CAT) results are declared, the excitement...
Read More(Photo credit: Bud Caddell) The concepts of Set Theory are applicable not only in Quant, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning but also in solving syllogism questions. Let us first understand the basics of the Venn Diagram before we move on to the concept of maximum and minimum. A large number...
Read More(Photo credit: Rakesh Thykandi) When 120 applicants to the much talked about 5-year Integrated Programme in Management (IPM) at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore received their offer letters by email on October 12, they were overjoyed. But along with the offer, the institute also sent them a separate...
Read MoreFor those who didn’t get the references on the front page image and the header, that’s a nod of tribute to Frasier, one of the most successful American sitcoms ever. All the best for CAT 2011! Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs...
Read More(Photo credit: ensign_beedrill) Chalk it up to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) merging their MBA admissions into the Common Admissions Test (CAT) fold or to the gloomy employment outlook in the IT sector, but the proportion of engineers taking the test this year is 4 percentage points higher than...
Read MoreIn my previous post, we discussed two common types of games and tournament questions. So, if you are looking for questions on new types of data representation or questions based on seeding in a tennis tournament, do read that post. However, there is another frequently appearing class of questions in...
Read MoreGraduate Management Admission Council, the owner and administrator of the GMAT exam, on Tuesday announced the launch of an India-specific version of the official GMAT website – www.mba.com/India. “The website has been designed exclusively for Indian aspirants and exhibits a detailed classification of the top business schools in India, Indian...
Read MoreLink : Video :: “>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzlkBA21yag FORE School of Management, (FSM) New Delhi is a premier b-school situated in the heart of South Delhi, which caters to the needs of stake-holders who are interested in career-upgradation. It is in sync with the latest tenets of ‘management education.’ FSM has embarked upon...
Read MoreIt has been a week since the London branch of Pune-based Training and Advanced Studies in Management and Communication (TASMAC) group which has b-schools in Kolkata and Bangalore, shut its doors. But the 650 students who studied there are still unsure of what lies ahead in their future. Efforts are...
Read More(October leaves by Jim Crotty) Nothing beats an October sunrise flowers in full bloom and trees looking refreshed after the monsoon season. And the impending Diwali festive cheer to add to it. But Diwali is not going to be ‘cheerful’ for everyone this year. The Common Admission Test (CAT) dates...
Read More(Photo credit: James Lee) Organisers of the Common Admission Test (CAT) have lately been urging the media to stress that this year the legal clause that prevents test-takers from disclosing CAT questions outside the walls of the test-center will be taken more seriously than ever. Anyone found violating the Non-Disclosure...
Read MoreApplicants to top American b-schools might toil away their days and nights to rack up a gallant GMAT score and write plush essays and recommendation letters. But all that may amount to nothing if Googling their name up throws up unsavoury party pictures or distasteful language on their social networking...
Read More(Photo credit: US Army) In Logical Reasoning, very often we encounter problems based on games or tournaments. The first thing that as a CAT taker you need to realize is that the tournament-based format of questions offers the examiners a multitude of options to test you about. So, there cannot...
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(Photo credit: Michael Surran) Bucking the trend of marginal increases in other MBA entrance tests, 27% more candidates will take Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) University’s NMIMS Aptitude Test (NMAT 2012) this year compared to last year’s NMAT 2011. The registrations for NMAT 2012, which closed on October...
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