There are various things one can do to beat exam stress, like the ones listed below. PaGaLGuY has put together a five-point agenda that can help make the road to CAT a little bit easier on the nerves. From praying to God, meditating, to eating the right food and what...
Read More(Credit: Pranav Yaddanapudi) Hyderabad is all set to add to its image of a city famous for pearls and biryani — by also becoming one known for sprawling education campuses and big business schools. A recent initiative by the Andhra Pradesh government to invite big names in management education has...
Read MoreThe Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow in its new Post Graduate Program (PGP) admission policy has made an explicit bid to admit a batch with diverse educational backgrounds. According to the policy, candidates from non-engineering graduation backgrounds will receive an additional 2.5 points at the time of making the...
Read MoreA total of 2,04,267 candidates have registered to appear for CAT 2010 against a total voucher sale of 2.06 lakhs, the Convenor of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2010 and IIM Lucknow Professor Himanshu Rai told PaGaLGuY today. According to the data shared by Prof Rai, there is a marginal...
Read MoreCorporations and temples have a lot in common, believes Keisuke Matsumoto, a student at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. A participant in the PGP batch of 2010-11, Keisuke spent the last seven years as a Buddhist priest at the Komyoji Temple in Tokyo. He plans to use his...
Read MoreThe education ministry in China is on an ambitious plan to attract 500,000 international students every year, of which 150,000 will be for higher education. To meet this number, the government has already set about improving the quality of faculty, designing more international education programs and increasing services for foreign...
Read MoreThe shift from paper-pencil to online last year has practically taken away the surprise element from the Common Admission Test (CAT). From the ambiguous CAT question paper that had the knack of surprising lakhs of students, all at one go, the new computer-based format of the exam has made things...
Read MoreDear all, We at PaGaLGuY are initiating the survey process for this admission season’s b-school rankings. As with every other initiative on PaGaLGuY, the B-school Rankings too will tap the power of the MBA aspirants’ and students’ community. Given below is a list of b-schools that we are considering to...
Read MoreConcept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.
Read MoreTheater and management studies might not have much in common on the face of it, but the students of Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad have developed a strong bond with both. What started out as one of show by the students in 1999 has now, become the institutes annual theatrical...
Read MoreIn its first attempt to go international and provide competition to the global GMAT exam, Common Admission Tests (CAT) will cross shores and conduct its first international exam in Sri Lanka next year. Apparently, other Asian countries like Nepal and some in the Middle East have also evinced a similar...
Read MoreWe are looking to expand our Editorial Team! Join us to carry on the PaGaLGuY legacy of reporting inside stories from India’s most followed b-school campuses and help lakhs of MBA aspirants to make smarter admission decisions. By joining the Editorial Team at PaGaLGuY, you will work with a highly...
Read MoreSOIL (School of Inspired Leadership, Gurgaon) is a business school that aims at educating the worlds next generation of leaders and professionals in meeting evolving global challenges while working towards sustainability. In a recent research study carried out at IIM Ahmedabad’s Ravi J Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation, SOIL was...
Read MoreThe Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi is still not a landmark in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The word IIM itself is a wringer to the ears of auto drivers and cyclewallas. But if you say Suchana Bhavan (the building that houses IIM Ranchi), they are more than willing to ferry you...
Read MoreLast week, we worked with Aditya Dipankar from the National Institute of Design (NID), Bangalore to review the test interface of the Common Admissions Test (CAT). This week, we get Aditya to analyse the test-interface for the other major computer-based test, the Narse Monjee Management Aptitude Test (NMAT) from a...
Read MoreThe countdown has begun and CAT aspirants are not the only ones preparing for the big CAT exams. The centres conducting the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2010 are also in the ready-mode. Some centres in the fray this year, that also conducted CAT 2009 and were witness to the numerous...
Read MoreThe Department of Technical Education (DTE) office in Mumbai is one place to be if you want information and entertainment together. And both, the information and the entertainment quite often does not come from officials sitting in the cabins, but from peons waiting at the doors of the ‘sahebs.’ These...
Read MoreAfter tea and a heavy breakfast, he leaves home to attend to his first appointment for the day. After putting in his first hour for the day, he bids his first client goodbye, secretly hoping that the client would hand him a cheque with the pending payment. But no such...
Read MoreThe Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad’s Two-Campus programme seems to be attracting more bad vibes than good. Students of IMT’s full-time Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) courses who spoke to PaGaLGuY on condition of anonymity, say that a revolt of sorts has been full-on at the campus since...
Read MorePearson VUE, the testing agency that will conduct Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai’s NMAT exam, today released a demo test and an orientation video on its website. “The demo test and video are designed to familiarise NMAT applicants with the test process including the test interface functionality,”...
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