Nagpur city beat other contenders like Mumbai, Pune and Aurangabad to be the host of an Indian Institute of Management in Maharashtra. Higher and technical education minister Vinod Tawde and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis informed that the institute will likely start operations from the 2015-16 academic session. Currently, it will operate...
Read MoreGetting the Tricky parts right You’ve slogged hard and belled-the-CAT; cracked-theXAT/MAT and what-have-we… and now its time to jump into the ‘Grey’. Unlike the written tests, GD’s and PI’s are not cut-and-dry ‘black-and-white’; they deal with the intangibles…. where your assessors are no longer looking for ‘the right answer’; but...
Read MoreI hail from a family business background and we are into the construction of roads. It has been about thirty years since my parents started the company, and today we have about a thousand employees. I have actively been involved in the business. According to me, the three years I...
Read MoreAs you may already know, IBPS (Institute of Banking Personnel Selection) is conducting the online CWE (online Common Written Examination) for recruitment of Specialist Officers, CWE-SPL-IV, in February, 2015. The structure of this exam is as follows: For the posts of Law Officer- Scale I & Rajbhasha Adhikari Scale I:...
Read MoreThe online Common Written Examination (CWE) for recruitment of Specialist Officers, CWE-SPL-IV, is going to be conducted in February, 2015. IBPS (Institute of Banking Personnel Selection) has already released the notification for this examination. This examination is being conducted for recruitment for the following posts: Now, let us understand the...
Read MoreThe Common Written Examination (CWE) Clerks – IV, conducted by the IBPS (Institute of Banking Personnel Selection), is almost over. We at PaGaLGuY have spoken to many students who appeared for this exam. With this, we have a very good idea of the nature of the tests across various slots....
Read MoreThe Common Admission Test (CAT) results are expected on December 27, 2014. According to sources at IIM Indore, which conducted the exam, the results will be available on the CAT website from evening of December 27. The exact time is not known yet. As soon as PaGaLGuY is made aware...
Read MoreSitting in the shade of Chhota Canteen, it’s hard to believe that I have spent two terms at MICA. It feels like yesterday that I first set foot here for my interview, not knowing if I had any future here. And from that moment, these red brick walls, inspiring classrooms,...
Read MoreMale. Engineer. Non-IITian. General category. That’s my profile. And I still ended up in an IIM. For all the pessimists out there, it is possible! Read on.. The first time I ever thought about giving CAT was in the third year of engineering. Before that, I was a regular student,...
Read MoreBeing underprepared, I had not applied for any other exam. After the CAT results, I was dejected and decided to get back to engineering studies, something that I was confident about. I was, however, pleasantly surprised when I got a call from IIM Shillong. At 86 percentile? I was not...
Read MoreSoon, it was time to start preparing for CAT2011. I was enjoying my work, and felt no pressure at office as I prepared at home. This time I was serious. I had started preparing around May and joined a test series. I also purchased some GMAT books to help me...
Read More14 years of schooling, 3 years of college, 2 years of coaching, almost 10 entrance examinations (including CAT) and still it seems that English is an alien language. As soon as I start thinking I know it, it surprises me. Coming to CAT, I still had a confusion of the...
Read MoreBefore I start the story of my journey from 52.26 percentile to 96.29, I must state one thing very clearly; this is not a journey of a struggle which most of us love to read. Unfortunately, we grew up reading all ‘newspaper boys’ achieving extra ordinary things in their lives....
Read More“Hey, I can’t think of getting admission in IIM A or B or C. They are way above my league.” said these words to my friend when asked about my plans for CAT. And today i sit in front of my laptop writing this article after straight forward rejections from...
Read MoreSo there I was, staring at my CAT result – 99.82 percentile with 99.63 and 98.72 in both sections. It was 5 am. I was still groggy. I thought it was a mistake. It had to be! So I logged out and logged back in. Still 99.82. It took a...
Read MoreDear fellow aspirants (who think they screwed up CAT ’13), Things may not exactly be going hunky-dory for some of you. I share your agony. I understand that some of you are still worried why your CAT slot was so darn difficult. I understand your disappointment at screwing up that...
Read MoreEstablished in 1991, MICA (formerly known as Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad) is India’s premier management school for Strategic Marketing and Communication. It is the alma mater of professionals serving in leadership positions in some of the best known companies in India and the world, in marketing, brand management, research...
Read MoreIndian Institute of Management Indore (IIM-I) has announced admissions open for 10th batch of Fellow Programme in Management (FPM2015), which is a PhD-equivalent programme designed by the IIM’s to create a talent pool of exceptional professorial and research talent essential to academia as well as industry and the FPM (Industry)...
Read MoreMy summer job was the short term experience that provided me a real insight into what it’s actually like working in a brand management firm for a career. I was interned at Future Brands, Delhi. Currently, I am a management student at MYRA School of Business, Mysore. My institution helped...
Read MoreWhen I joined the technology oriented Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for my PhD two decades back, I discovered this new technology called email using which I could contact all my friends in other schools for free. I was so excited by this discovery that I called home that night (at $1.60/minute)...
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