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Pradeep Kashyap, Founder and CEO, MART Widely regarded as a guru of Rural Marketing, Pradeep Kashyap founded and heads MART, a consulting practice on emerging markets specialising in understanding of ‘base of the pyramid’ markets. Since founding MART in 1993, Mr Kashyap has advised leading companies from the FMCG sector to those in telecom, pharma […]
The IITs’ (Indian Institutes of Technology) loss is GMAT’s (Graduate Management Aptitude Test) gain. With the canning of the Joint Management Entrance Exam (JMET), regulatory body All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has added the GMAT to the six acceptable entrance tests for admissions to the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) offered at […]
(Photo credit: Anusheel Shrivastava) The Xavier’s Admission Test (XAT) 2012 that paves the way for admissions to b-schools such as the XLRI School of Business and Human Resources – Jamshedpur, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research – Mumbai, Xavier’s Institute of Management – Bhubhaneswar and Goa Institute of Management is scheduled for January 8, […]
Here is some surprising news for those tracking the demand for the Common Admission Test (CAT). Despite a marginally higher number of registrations in 2011 compared to CAT 2010, the actual turnout of test-takers in 2011 was lower than that in 2010. About 1.85 lakh candidates appeared for the CAT 2011 out of the 205,345 […]
With Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) 2011 entrance exam coming to an end on Sunday, curiosity propelled us at PaGaLGuY to ask some basic questions to test takers in New Delhi and Mumbai about the education offered at IIFT. And to our surprise many had little clue about the nuances of the specialised MBA […]
Outside an IIFT 2011 test center in New Delhi. (Photo credit: Astha A) The General Knowledge and Data Interpretation sections emerged as the two sore points for candidates who appeared for the Indian Institute of Foreign trade (IIFT) admission test held today between 10 am and 12 pm across 20 cities of the country. The […]
The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) Entrance Test 2011 turned out to be pleasant surprise to anyone who had worked hard. I am sure those taking it for the second time would be laughing while the first-time applicants would keep wondering why. It seems that b-schools are in the mood to change patterns and […]
Pic: Mickeysucks photostream An article in the one of the pink papers yesterday created ripples it was intended to create – that 3 b-schools in India had received offers of over Rs 1 crore during pre-placements. A similar story had been published a while ago and when we cross-checked with some of the schools concerned, […]
The Management Aptitude Test (MAT) held four times every year by the All India Management Association (AIMA) might be discontinued in the next twelve months, sources at AIMA told PaGaLGuY today. The possible shutdown of the test is a response to the Human Resources Development Ministry’s indication that there would eventually be a common entrance […]
International students at XLRI, Jamshedpur Some of the finest b-schools in the world are in the United States and Europe, yet students from there choose to study in India. And its not only for the politicians hackneyed agenda of India being culturally rich and traditional but because the country has unadventurously aroused great global curiosity […]