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Due to a sequence of not-necessarily-related events including a train robbery, a roadside inn gunfight, a distressing damsel and an alien abduction there has been a slight delay in moving the PaGaLGuY B-school Photography Contest 2011 forward. Now that the reasons behind the delay have been explained in exceptional detail and the blame suitably put […]

Not the most eventful of weeks but a few interesting stories did crop up in different publications across the globe. The Entrepreneur had an interesting story on threadUp. The article talks about the trio — James Reinhart, Chris Homer and Oliver Lubinhad who had a unique problem on hand — they all had too many […]

While schools newly opting for the Common Admission Test (CAT) made headlines last few weeks, now it’s time for some ‘opposite’ news – schools that have decided to opt out of taking CAT 2011 scores. At least the list (of b-schools taking CAT) on the CAT website says so. This year about (excluding the Indian […]

First it was the business schools of the Indian Institutes of Technology that scrapped the Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) in favour of the Common Admission Test (CAT). Then came Delhi University’s Faculty of Management Studies. Are more expected to go the CAT way and is all this a plan to get into a single-test […]

Here’s a story offering insights into how the seemingly inefficient practices of a regulatory body can affect the quality and price of education. The lament of business schools and engineering colleges in the middle of every year is usually directed at the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for not approving their courses, or […]

? The sound of gun shots may be a faint memory but the smell of gun of gun powder refuses to leave the senses. The uniform beckons but the mind is out to hunt different pastures. When the day in done, the memories of a battle field come rushing back, though the glimpses fade away […]

With interest in fulltime MBA at an all-time low, the 2010-11 admission season might have been the easiest in recent times to make it to an MBA program internationally. According to a survey of application trends at GMAT-affiliated b-schools by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), an increasing number of MBA programs worldwide reported a […]

Admission criteria changes have been announced in many b-schools, including a few Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) — all to include more non-engineers and women students. While IIM Raipur will add 30 marks to a girl-non-engineer, IIM Rohtak will award 20 marks to female candidate and 20 to non-engineers, so a non-engineer female candidate will […]

We all know what factorials (n!) are. They look friendly and helpful but looks can be deceiving, as many quant problems have taught us. It is probably because Factorials are simple looking creatures, that most students prefer attempting questions based on them rather than on Permutation & Combination or Probability. I will cover P&C; and […]

(Photo credit: Abhishek Kamble) Arriving in Kashipur late evening last week, I asked the three-wheeler drivers outside the railway station if they would take me to the one and only good hotel in town. None of them acknowledged having even heard of the name. I then casually mentioned that it was barely a kilometer before […]