(Photo credit: Everjean) If Verbal Ability is the first half of the English section of management entrance tests, then Reading and Comprehension (RC) makes up the second half. As the name suggests, RC comprises two parts — Reading + Comprehension. A CAT aspirant should be able to read at a...
Read MoreThe Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET), used for admission to the two-year MBA programs offered by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) might be abolished starting this year. Instead, a candidate’s Common Admissions Test (CAT) score could be considered for the admission process, Professor MR Ravi, Vice Chairman, Graduate Aptitude...
Read MorePhoto credit: roblisameehan PGDM institutions across the country are free to accept CAT, XAT, MAT, ATMA and JMET scores and even conduct their own GD PI, the Supreme Court ruled today. An interim order to the effect which was passed on March 17, 2011 has been extended till the next...
Read MoreEditors note: This is one of the articles we selected from the PaGaLGuY Summer Internships Writing Contest entries. We are selecting only those which narrate very real and eye-opening accounts previously unheard in the ballyhoo surrounding the glamour of the MBA degree. The authors prize is on its way! —...
Read MoreIndian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta’s Prof Janakiraman Moorthy, who is the Convenor for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 speaks about this year’s exam. Will there be changes in the CAT this year? Yes, but few. The CAT 2011 will have only two sections instead of three. The first...
Read MoreAt about 7.30 pm this Friday, Nihit Sinha and some of his friends, all first year students from ICFAI Business School (IBS), Hyderabad were enjoying themselves at a dhaba, some half a kilometre from their college. Little did Nihit realise that it would be his last outing with his friends....
Read More(Photo credit: Tom Taylor) Five technology and design firms pipped finance and consulting companies to appear among the top 10 most coveted companies to work for in US business schools according to a survey reported in the Wall Street journal. When asked to pick up to five ideal employers out...
Read MoreEditor’s note: Here is an example of a summer internship experience gone wrong. The author of this article is a second-year MBA student of a well-known b-school but would like to keep his identity and the company he interned at confidential. We request those among you who know or discover...
Read MoreA right to information (RTI) query by an activist in Andhra Pradesh has revealed that both, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) and Prometric were supposed to ‘ensure inclusive transition to take care of low-skilled computer applicants.’ This was one of the crucial points discussed at a meeting between...
Read MoreEditor’s note: This is the first among the winning entries from the Summer Internships Writing Contest. We received dozens of entries of which we are selecting those which narrated very real and eye-opening accounts previously unheard in the ballyhoo surrounding the glamour of the MBA degree. The author’s prize is...
Read MoreGetting an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) call is the ultimate ‘Holy Grail’ for a CAT aspirant. But the quest itself is an arduous journey. And a good road map helps in making the journey easier. The hallmark of a good road map is to provide markers with the ups...
Read More(Photo credit: Preetam Rai) Ambitions of venturing into undergraduate education ran into rough weather at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore this week which was reprimanded by the Union Human Resource Development Ministry about the three-year exit option in its five-year Integrated PGP. Reports The Hindustan Times, A fortnight...
Read MoreA club for inclusion of 30% of women in company boards has recently made an entry at Cass Business School, London. The club’s big move is to open doors to get women higher, up the corporate ladder. The club, as such was initially started in November last year by Helena...
Read MoreThe cries of some 200 students for a separate Telangana statehood, outside the gates of Osmania University, Hyderabad, can be heard faintly at the College of Commerce and Business Management, located at the heart of the university. Oblivious to the shouts, students sitting on bikes at the parking lot of...
Read MoreWe are today at the cusp of the third wave of transformation to the conduct, operations and the management of businesses. The first two waves have been brought about by Information & Interconnections. In the last two and a half decades, businesses have heavily invested into and gained from Information...
Read Moreeng Very Often CAT aspirants wonder how they will manage, what seems like an Herculean task of mastering English vocabulary in the limited amount of time available for CAT preparation. They say that VA should be spelled as a “Walk – a – Bull – Awry” rather than Vocabulary!! One...
Read MoreAt any given point in time, there are at least 500 faculty members of MBA coaching institutes,who are also simultaneously preparing for CAT. These ‘aspirants’ who have already taken CAT once and decided to take a shot at it once again get hired as faculty members for the section (CAT)...
Read MoreSymbiosis Institute of Media and Communications, Pune (SIMC) – the media and communications institute has actually applied brakes on communications in the campus. No Internet access between 2.00-5.00 am and 8.00am-5.00 pm in the hostel and no checking social networking sites before 8.00pm. Shocked with this move, students are livid...
Read More(Photo credit: KC Toh) The Telengana row has hit the Hyderabad campus plans of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and Xavier’s Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur yet again. In a Business Standard story, both institutes divulged that they had not been allotted the land promised by the state...
Read MorePhoto Credit: Benson Kua IIM Bangalore’s recent decision to make student attendance in classrooms optional is raising a lot of questions. Are Indian students at the post graduate level mature enough to come to class without the whip of compulsory attendance? Will they use or misuse the freedom that they...
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