The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Rohtak completed its summer placements by by securing summer internships for all its 49 students across 28 companies. Being a new IIM, this was the first ever summer internship process for the Haryana-based school. Majority of the internships were offered in the sales and...
Read MoreImage courtesy: shutterhacks Below are a few topics which are unique to CET and account for 15-20 marks in the paper. With these, I would have covered almost all the major topics on CET prep. Parajumbles The paper might contain a solitary set wherein, you have to re-arrange a jumbled...
Read MoreInternational School of Management Excellence (ISME) is a b-school with campuses in Bangalore and Navi Mumbai that has emerged as a strong alternative for management aspirants. During the 25th Indo-Thai Entrepreneurs Summit, held at Bangkok, Thailand in August 2010, ISME bagged the prestigious International Achievers Award for Education Excellence. The...
Read MoreThe popular method of measuring the average salary against the fees to calculate the Return on Investment of an MBA program has no fundamental basis by any concept of Finance, says IMI Delhi’s Admission Chairperson Prof Himadri Das. He suggests a more sound method to calculate the RoI and demonstrates...
Read More(Image Courtesy: Ranaji Deb) One of the more sought after tests of the season, the MICAT conducted by the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) was held today across the country. A brief overview of the test by Anand Jhunjhunwala and Nishant Khanna, who took the test yesterday. Pattern of...
Read MoreThe entire batch of 44 students secured a fully paid summer internship in its first year of operations at IIM Ranchi. The 8th in the IIM pool, received a total of 51 offers which were made by 24 companies. Job profiles included financial consulting, strategy, hospitality management, IT consulting, statistics,...
Read MoreThe Orissa High Court has granted a stay on the recent All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) circular, which pressed for sweeping changes in the business education space. The AICTE notification dated December 28, 2010 had not only placed a cap on fees charged by AICTE-affiliated MBA colleges across...
Read MoreWelcome to the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2011, the guide to India’s Most Preferred B-schools in its 4th edition. As many of you tracking our rankings since 2008 might have noticed, each year we have been experimenting with the various possibilities our CommunityRank methodology could throw up — while ensuring that...
Read MoreIt’s interesting to observe how sections of the latest ranking results resemble those in the PaGaLGuY Rankings of 2008. The economic recession came and went, and in many ways the last year’s (2010) PaGaLGuY Rankings reflected the challenges b-schools faced in placing their batches during hard times. With MBA recruitments...
Read MoreXLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur completed placements for both its Business Management (BM) and Personnel Management and Industrial Relations (PMIR) batches of 2009-11 with 317 offers from 109 companies in under four days. This was the first placement exercise for XLRI after they double their PMIR batch...
Read MoreLooking back at the way many premier Indian b-schools have handled their admission processes this year, the MBA admission season of 2010-11 will not exactly be remembered as a season that people were fond of. From changing their admission criteria midway after selling application forms on a certain premise to...
Read More(Image courtesy: Luis Argerich) Quantitative ability and data interpretation questions make CET a speed game. Getting a good accuracy in this part of the paper is not that difficult a task, doing it quickly is. The time saved while solving these kind of questions can be utilised for solving other...
Read MoreIndia today is a service economy with the service sector contributing to almost 55% of the countrys gross domestic product. The service economy is characterized by the absence of a physical product as in the case of the banking industry or by a token product like a sim card in...
Read MoreWith the vision of constantly engaging with young leaders, the School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL) has organized several interactive sessions this year for school and college students as well as young professionals. On January 22, 2011, young enthusiasts came together for a Career Workshop to achieve more clarity on the...
Read MorePic: Some of the ICICI Fellows designate at their recent training programme The ICICI Fellows programme is a transformative leadership programme, launched in December 2009 by ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth, for high-achieving youth between the ages of 21 to 28 years . The programme aims to provide Indias next...
Read MoreAs if the Income-Tax raids last December were not enough, LN Welingkar Institute of Management and Development, Matunga is mired in yet another controversy. A petition has been filed in the Bombay High Court urging for a probe into the appointment of Dr Uday Salunkhe as the director of the...
Read MoreA series of numbers or alphabets or both, seemingly unrelated in nature but having a certain underlying logic, gives us today’s topic. These type of questions are commonly seen in CET and are easy to moderate in nature. The number of questions can range from 10-20 and can be either...
Read MoreA classic error that judicial courts are prone to is one where the paranoia over not allowing criminals to be let off the hook results in a lot of innocent people being put to trial. Statisticians call this unintentionally increasing ‘type 1’ errors (false positives) in the pursuit of reducing...
Read MoreOf the few topics unique to CET, Visual Reasoning accounts for 15% of the total marks in the paper. Perceived as difficult and the difference between getting admitted to a Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) and a Sydenham Institute of Management Studies and Research and Entrepreneurship Education) ,...
Read MoreBig brother AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) has been given just eight days by b-schools to modify the notification it issued on December 28, 2010 (pushing for sweeping changes in business education) or else face legal action. The Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) has decided to march...
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