At 6 pm today (November 30, 2009), representatives from the Indian Institute of Management, Prometric and NIIT shall hold a press conference to address questions about snags at CAT centers throughout the nation. This is the perfect platform to let the IIMs know about cases where you feel the CAT...
Read MoreAbout ASB Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has striven to develop and maintain a multi-disciplinary flavor in its academic offerings, which range from Management to Biotechnology, Engineering to Medicine to Journalism, from its inception. ASB which was started in 1996, is ranked 13th among the top private B-Schools in India (Open-Cfore Survey,...
Read MoreSo its a virus after all. ‘Vital Information Resource Under Siege’ is what, according to Prometric played truant with the online testing of CAT 2009. A press note released by Prometric and IIMs on November 29, 2009 says: “While almost 20,000 candidates completed their exams on Day One, computer viruses...
Read MoreThere are reasons why Indian students are alarmed when an examination is converted from a tried and tested paper-pencil format to the ‘new’ online testing one. CAT 2009’s recent debacle made it even clearer that when it comes to an exam that pretty much determines the future of lakhs of...
Read MorePrometric has updated their website with further information for the CAT Exam on the 29th of Nov. On their site, they mention the following – “The launch of the computerized CAT involved the delivery of exams by Prometric into more than 360 testing labs at 104 individual locations. While a...
Read MoreTwo of the PG HQ members and their experiences with the CBT CAT. We have put in the time-line and our experiences, feel free to comment with your own experiences at different centers. We have put in this specific format so that you can ‘live’ through the experience and be...
Read MoreFirst day, flop show. Due to ‘overload’, a lot of centers have had to cancel the CAT exam. This is a huge blow to the Prometric driven CAT undertaking. This news has been carried across all prominent TV channels already. I am linking up some of the stories that have...
Read MorePrometric has sent out the following email to all CAT registered users. We are putting it out, just in case you missed it. To assist you during your preparation and testing day, Prometric has created a CAT 2009 Practical Guide. Please go to www.prometric.com/IIM-CAT to download the CAT 2009 Practical...
Read MoreWhat you eat the night before decides who will win the battle, said Alexander the Great. Alright, he didn’t really say that but it is something he would surely have said had he lived a bit more. And that brings us to – how are you planning to unwind on...
Read MoreBangloreans comprise the single largest group of students at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad while the fairer sex adds up to over a quarter of the batch. 21% have GMAT scores above 750, 58% have had international work-experience and 29% are married. How do we know? ISB’s just-released...
Read MoreThe online registration for CAT 2009 is again open for editing (except the name and username) until November 27, 2009 as a scrutiny by Prometric revealed that there were some who still hadn’t entered all the necessary information such as graduation marks, discipline, SSC, HSC marks in the registration form....
Read MoreThe Entrance exam for Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, IIFT, (Delhi and Kolkata) for the MBA program in International Business went smoothly, though it had its own share of surprises. Although, the paper not being sealed was not one of them. The examination was of two hour duration and had...
Read MoreTradewinds 2009: The National Manufacturing Symposium at IIFT Kolkata Xpressions’09 concludes on November 17 at XIMB Sundar Raman CEO, IPL visits MICA to teach’Sports Marketing’ JBIMS, Mumbai: Guest Lecture by Dr Bharat Singh and Samanvay’09, the annual corporate symposium organized Tradewinds 2009: The National Manufacturing Symposium at IIFT Kolkata The...
Read MoreSymbiosis Institute of Operations Management (SIOM) is Indias only B-School with a dedicated focus on Operations Management and has received the Dewang Mehta Best B-School Award for Academic Inputs (Syllabus). The potential for Operations Management Operations Management (OM) is a specialized and emerging body of knowledge that facilitates the process...
Read MoreIIM Ahmedabad: Students pledge to fight corruption Envisioning a Corruption free India – A Panel discussion at IIM Lucknow IIM Lucknow Noida Campus hosts industry leaders under its ‘Leaders Interaction Sessions’ program Derek O’Brien conducts quiz at IBS Gurgaon’s BLITZKRIEG 09 IIM Ahmedabad: Students pledge to fight corruption Manjunath Shanmugam...
Read MoreLast month, we launched PaGaLGuY Prep in a rather basic sort of fashion to get a sense of how you all felt about our take on CAT prep online. Based on your feedback and suggestions, we took Prep back to the factory to add the next set of features and...
Read MorePaGaLGuY extends its MBA gyan to all those who want to take it, through a medium that is hard to miss: the Television. ETV came to the PaGaLGuY headquarters in Mumbai and interviewed the guys that keep PG chugging along its zany path. Soumik, Apurv & Rohit amongst others spoke...
Read MoreISB, Hydearabad Admission Information Session in Mumbai on November 15 Prerana 2009: The annual management festival of NITIE, Mumbai Subash Palekar, launches the first of MDI Gurgaon-GAP Inc lecture series ISB Admission Information Session in Mumbai on November 15 Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad conducts information sessions at various...
Read More407 students, up from 300 students in 2008 took part in the summer placement process of IIM Calcutta for the batch of 2009-2011. The process, which lasted six days from November 4 to November 9, consisted of three slots, each of two days. 140 companies participated, 30 more than the...
Read MoreAICTE plans to allot unique Enrollment numbers to every Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM/PGPM/PGDBM, etc) student in every approved Indian business school and put them on its website in a bid to streamline MBA admissions. Think of it as a Unique Identification Number project for all MBA students in...
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