Three developments in the past few weeks are bringing back fears of the job market tanking again in the style of 2008-2009, making Indian b-schools consider the possibility of a rough placement season for the batch graduating in 2012. The first is the fear of another recession in the US...
Read MoreNike caused controversy with its advertising campaign during the 1996 Olympics by using the slogan, “You Don’t Win Silver You Lose Gold.” Nike’s use of this slogan drew harsh criticism from many former Olympic Silver medalists. In a way, it did undermine the importance of the second position but in...
Read MoreIs the interest for the Common Admission Test (CAT) waning? The queues outside Axis Bank branches for CAT vouchers seem to point so, though first day numbers are hardly indicative. The general overview from across the country was that while queues for buying CAT vouchers were shorter this year, it...
Read MoreThe six-week window to buy vouchers and register online for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 opened today. Compared to previous years, the queues at Axis Bank branches were considerably shorter and the atmosphere less anxious, at least here in Mumbai. Simply put, here’s what you need to do to...
Read MoreCan you tell the difference between historic and historical? When do you use accept and when do you use except? Further and Farther? Sensual and Sensuous? For the last four years the CAT has been testing aspirants on this particular type of vocabulary question. These types of questions can be...
Read More(Photo credit: Alexandre Normand) Guess who’s the latest to jump onto the b-school bandwagon? None else but St Stephen’s, that super-exclusive college in Delhi University known for its arts and science degrees and the canteen. The St Stephens Institute for Management Excellence (SSIME) is not starting an MBA degree yet,...
Read More“Cross the T’s and dot the I’s” the constant reprimand by the quintessential English school teacher, one with spectacles resting on her nose, who enacted every piece of prose as if she were one of the characters – is but a distant memory. But her lesson strikes time and again....
Read MoreFollowing some of its older brethren, the new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) started since 2010 will replace the group discussion (GD) stage of their admissions with a written essay test. However, if you have already appeared for the written tests of some of the older IIMs, you will not...
Read MoreMocks are the most important part of prep work for the Common Admission Test (CAT). Yet, not all students capitalise on them fully. Often, students do not take the CAT because “the syllabus is not yet complete.” The syllabus for the CAT is never complete. Right through preparation time, there...
Read MoreIt took Mumbai police two and a half years to arrest the director and and two other officials of a b-school in Mumbai for offering fake degrees. The arrests were made on August 6, 2011 but the police complaint was filed way back on March 11, 2009. The reason it...
Read More(Original photo credit: Superwebdeveloper) Students in Maharashtra who were eagerly waiting for their B-school classes to kickstart, finally got to pack their laptops and don their formal shirts – school started today, Mon August 8. The students have gone through two rounds of the central allotment process (CAP) conducted by...
Read MoreTaking the Common Admissions Test (CAT) this year will be dearer by Rs 200. The price of the voucher — which goes on sale at Axis Bank branches between August 17 and September 26, 2011 — has been increased from Rs 1,400 of last year to Rs 1,600 for this...
Read MoreThe much-hyped annual sports meet, called CLassiXX between Xavier Labour Research Institute (XLRI) Jamshedpur, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, IIM Lucknow and Xavier Institute of Management Bhubhaneshwar (XIMB) packed more than a punch on its inaugural day at the XLRI campus today. An argument that apparently started with an...
Read More(Photo credit: Hillie Kootstra) As many as 15 bills related to education are slated to be introduced in the monsoon session underway at the parliament. The two most critical among them is the act which will allow foreign universities to function in India and a set of laws that will...
Read More? Let’s face it, Quantitative Aptitude (QA) is the section that many absolutely dread. To top it, the importance of QA has only increased in the newly announced format of CAT 2011. As per a previous analysis on PaGaLGuY, this might increase the proportion of tough questions in the paper...
Read MoreAnupam, (left) taking a class at Escape Anupam Kumar is a first year student at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIMC), learning to become an adroit manager. But there is a lesson or two that he can easily teach his classmates and may be a willing professor too. One,...
Read MoreParagraph Completion or Deleted Sentences are an important part of the English section of the Common Admission Test (CAT) exam. And given the new format of the CAT, Para Completion (PC) or Deleted Sentences (DS) may well become a part of the Logical Reasoning section of the CAT, thus increasing...
Read More(Photo credit: albertogp123) Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) will revert to accepting the Common Admission Test (CAT) score for shortlisting candidates for the MICA test (MICAT) for admissions to the 2012-14 batch. A minimum of 90 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) will be required to reach the...
Read MoreEditor’s note: This ia an analysis of the CAT 2011 test pattern changes by Ankur Agarwal, a guest author and an IIM Lucknow alumnus who works in a senior position at an Ahmedabad-based coaching institute. The views expressed here are his own. — (Original photo credit: terren) The new Common...
Read MoreWelcome to the second edition of the B-school Shutterbug Photography contest! Clicked by Abhijeet Singh at the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad campus. One of the winners of last year’s (2010) contest. How to participate? Show off your photography skills by clicking original and creative photographs satisfying the following criteria,...
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