In their latest statement released today, the India Institutes of Management claim to have unearthed patterns of problems faced by candidates during the ten-day period of CAT 2009 between November 28 and Dec 8. Asserting that a retest was not needed since only 4% of the test-takers had been affected...
Read MoreGreat Lakes Institute of Management is amongst top 20 B Schools in India (Business India, November 1, 2009) built on a 20 acre facility near historic Mamallapuram on the scenic East Coast Road. Learning here is ensconced under every book in the library under every pillow of each Great Laker....
Read MoreThe IIMs and the HRD ministry have decided to not go down the retest route. CAT 2009 has been the most mismanaged mess of an exam in recent history and yet the IIMs have decided that it would be better to harm a few thousand students than to do the...
Read MoreThe HRD ministry has convened a meeting tomorrow and all the IIM directors are expected to attend. Tomorrow might be the day for some potentially concrete news, but then no much point to keep the hopes too high because if the IIMs had to do the ‘right thing’, they could...
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Read MoreThey are out! The first-stage shortlist of 1,029 candidates for MBA (International business) at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi has been declared on the institute’s website. You can download the shortlist to see if your name features there and then access the IIFT results discussion thread to...
Read MoreConcerned with the events surrounding the conduct of CAT 2009, many business schools that accept the CAT score for their admissions are on alert and some are already contemplating alternative criteria for their 2010 admission season. We spoke to some of the directors of such b-schools and realised that an...
Read MoreTill last year you probably wouldn’t dream of partying a night before the CAT. However, this year, all you had to do if you were unable to take the CAT because of a hangover, is hit the ‘resend’ button. One such candidate, Rohit Awasthi who works in the marketing department...
Read MoreSo it seems like December 8 will not be the concluding day of the CAT 2009 after all. According to an IIM Ahmedabad press statement, “There are still some candidates who could not take the test due to genuine reasons and test has not been rescheduled for them. A new...
Read MoreDay 8 of the CAT online test also did not go without cancellations, rescheduling and all the dreaded phenomenon that have been keeping the students on their toes ever since the start of CAT 2009. As per our reports, two labs in the morning slot and one in the evening...
Read MoreExtended by a day. As of now, this is the catharsis for the students who went through a harrowing time because of the CAT and all the glitches that it entailed. A press note released by Prometric today says: “On 8 December (Day 11), CAT 2009 will be held over...
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Read MoreAnnouncing the opening of the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2009-10 survey of What India thinks about Indian b-schools. Over the last two years, these Rankings of India’s Most Preferred b-schools have taken center-stage as the most credible and referenced Rankings among those looking to join an MBA program in India, or...
Read MoreNow this has been due for days! Prometric has finally put up updated FAQs for students. The FAQ primarily deals with rescheduling and also touches upon aspects like DA students, change in locations etc. The entire FAQ can be found at http://www.catiim.in However, I am also copy-pasting the same below....
Read MoreAccording to a report in The Telegraph, Calcutta, the Directors of IIMs are considering scrapping this year’s online CAT and save face with a paper-based retest. The story built on an anonymous IIM Director’s version reports that all IIM Directors except one are okay in principle with the proposal. As...
Read MoreXLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur has successfully concluded its Summer Internship Recruitments with 100 percent of its students being offered internship offers across geographies and sectors. The batch size this year had undergone an increase to 240 from 180 students in BM and PMIR programs from the...
Read MoreR K Pachauri draws attention to business opportunities in going green at MDI Gurgaon Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi organized its flagship 34th Annual Convention on ‘Knowledge and Innovation’ Jaipuria Institute of Management organized 4th National Conference IIC 2009 focused on Insurance business Annual Human Resource Summit 2009...
Read MoreSP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, Wins Cognizants Board Room: Smart Business Plan Contest, 2009 IMT-Dubai, Institute of Management Technology Dubai hosted its first inter-college annual festival, VAUDEVILLE 09 C3EO Summit for EPGP IIM Indore JBIMS, Mumbai hosts Ravi Narain, MD and CEO, NSE SP Jain Institute of...
Read MoreThe Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) is where you come when you wish to have a great experience of learning management in an excellent environment. With a high quality infrastructure and support services, IFMRs faculty have a passion for innovation and cutting-edge research. IFMR was established in 1970,...
Read MoreApproximately 7,000-8,000 candidates have not been able to take the computer-based CAT 2009 test due to snags in the Prometric-managed exam between Saturday and Monday, said Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad Director Dr Samir Barua at a press conference in Ahmedabad on Monday evening. A total of 47 testing...
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