Where: Class Room – 2, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad What time: 12.30 AM Who: 30 people with tired bodies and alert minds, sipping tea and engaged in a heated discussion. Thus went one conversation, Kartik: No dude! How does innovation as a theme make sense? Have a look at...
Read MoreWith 15 per cent lesser number of candidates taking the Common Admission Test (CAT) this year and the number of seats in all the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) put together increased, is there a better chance for a candidate to get in? The IIMs have started talking about handling...
Read MoreWith only a few days left for CAT to end and most of the junta done with it, the focus will now be on the other major entrance exams of the season. Now, each exam has its own identity and one should ideally have a specific strategy to counter this...
Read MoreTwelve days and four clusters later, the biggest batch of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM A) ended its Summer Placement process on Friday. There were 378 students pursuing their first year of Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) who were placed during this process. There were 102 recruiters...
Read MoreWith only about 1750 approved MBA colleges in the lists of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the list of non-approved almost double that figure, the challenges and scope of management education is immense. The chairman of the Board of Management Studies, an advisory body of experts at...
Read MorePagalguy spoke to Dr Jitendra K Das, who is director at FORE School of Management and more importantly a former CAT paper -setter. Below he has not only disclosed important information on the normalisation process and on how CAT papers are set but also discussed the overdependence of students on...
Read MoreAfter going through plenty of experiences, reviews, predictions and days filled with anxiety I had my tryst with the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2010 on Sunday, November 14. Here is my review of the test, and what happened before and after the test. Before the test I reached my center...
Read More(Photo credit: P Venkata Rajesh) Summer placements for the PGP class of 2010-12 at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode yielded 360 offers from a total of 125 companies. Following the trend at other campuses until now, the two largest chunks of internships were in the Finance and Sales/Marketing...
Read MoreConcept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets here.
Read MoreNine out of ten MBA alumni from the class of 2010 at b-schools across the world had a job at the time of graduating from their business school, finds a survey conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), owners of the GMAT exam. The Graduate Alumni Perspectives Survey conducted...
Read MoreIt’s the summer placements season at top Indian b-schools, just the time to relook why they are important at b-schools and what they indicate about the upcoming final placements season. If you were sizing up business schools right before you make your final decision, how important would you consider the...
Read MoreJagan Institute of Management Studies (JIMS), Rohini (set up in 1993) imparts professional education at post graduate level in the fields of management and information technology. Our PGDM program is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education and accredited from National Board of Accreditation (NBA) for excellence in...
Read MorePurnachandra Rao Duggirala, or the erstwhile ‘Mango Mod‘ Chandoo on PaGaLGuY has several illustrious achievements to his credit. Not only did the simple Vizag boy get into IIM Indore’s class of 2006, he wrote his story in a manner that it gained cult status over time. Four years after getting...
Read MoreDear all, The media cell at the Xavier’s Institute of Management, Bhubhaneswar (XIMB) brought the school’s XAT 2010 99-percentilers together in a video where each speak about their experiences on cracking the XAT and what worked for them. For all those of you who have taken the CAT, here’s a...
Read MoreThe last time, I focused on few of the commonly faced dilemmas at the various B-School entrance tests. A management entrance test is designed so as to bring out the ability of an aspirant to perform under immense pressure. To subject the students to a bit of stress so as...
Read MoreJust when CAT 2010 was being written off as a ‘no-glitches’ exam, reports have begun to trickle in about wrong questions and no right options. According to candidates who have given the exam this season, a few questions have been tough to crack but the real reason for their tough...
Read MoreMay sound very Yash Raj Film-types, but amidst the misty winds blowing at IIM Shillong, one can often hear the soft strains of a guitar or the gentle taps of a piano. And this is no dream sequence as it would have been in the film, it is only Sourjyo...
Read More(Photo credit: Tarun Chawla) The entrance test for Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) will be held on Sunday, November 14. With less than a week to go, a quick-guide on preparing for it is in order. I had a talk with few current students of IRMA about advice they...
Read MoreThe Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow completed its summer internship placements for the PGP class of 2012 with 417 offers from 151 companies. A slot-based process spread over 6 days was followed, with 123 offers being made in Slot Zero, said an IIM Lucknow press release. The 2010-12 PGP...
Read MoreSelling Pagalguy as an advertising/marketing medium to b-schools is not only an enriching experience but also an entertaining one. This is because before you actually get to meet the person in charge of buying advertising for a school, you have to battle an entire battery of people from receptionists and...
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