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Can you tell the difference between historic and historical? When do you use accept and when do you use except? Further and Farther? Sensual and Sensuous? For the last four years the CAT has been testing aspirants on this particular type of vocabulary question. These types of questions can be labelled as Commonly Confused Words. […]
(Photo credit: Alexandre Normand) Guess who’s the latest to jump onto the b-school bandwagon? None else but St Stephen’s, that super-exclusive college in Delhi University known for its arts and science degrees and the canteen. The St Stephens Institute for Management Excellence (SSIME) is not starting an MBA degree yet, but what sounds like an […]
“Cross the T’s and dot the I’s” the constant reprimand by the quintessential English school teacher, one with spectacles resting on her nose, who enacted every piece of prose as if she were one of the characters – is but a distant memory. But her lesson strikes time and again. Even in b-schools. The waning […]
Following some of its older brethren, the new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) started since 2010 will replace the group discussion (GD) stage of their admissions with a written essay test. However, if you have already appeared for the written tests of some of the older IIMs, you will not need to take the written […]
Mocks are the most important part of prep work for the Common Admission Test (CAT). Yet, not all students capitalise on them fully. Often, students do not take the CAT because “the syllabus is not yet complete.” The syllabus for the CAT is never complete. Right through preparation time, there will always be some areas […]
It took Mumbai police two and a half years to arrest the director and and two other officials of a b-school in Mumbai for offering fake degrees. The arrests were made on August 6, 2011 but the police complaint was filed way back on March 11, 2009. The reason it took so long according to […]
(Original photo credit: Superwebdeveloper) Students in Maharashtra who were eagerly waiting for their B-school classes to kickstart, finally got to pack their laptops and don their formal shirts – school started today, Mon August 8. The students have gone through two rounds of the central allotment process (CAP) conducted by the Directorate of Technical Education, […]
Taking the Common Admissions Test (CAT) this year will be dearer by Rs 200. The price of the voucher — which goes on sale at Axis Bank branches between August 17 and September 26, 2011 — has been increased from Rs 1,400 of last year to Rs 1,600 for this year for the general category. […]
The much-hyped annual sports meet, called CLassiXX between Xavier Labour Research Institute (XLRI) Jamshedpur, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, IIM Lucknow and Xavier Institute of Management Bhubhaneshwar (XIMB) packed more than a punch on its inaugural day at the XLRI campus today. An argument that apparently started with an alleged discrepancy in the score […]
(Photo credit: Hillie Kootstra) As many as 15 bills related to education are slated to be introduced in the monsoon session underway at the parliament. The two most critical among them is the act which will allow foreign universities to function in India and a set of laws that will make way for special courts […]