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IIM Ahmedabad today released the placements statistics for its one-year PGP Executive batch that graduated in 2010. “Of the 66 students seeking placements 64 have been successfully placed. The average salary for the batch was Rs. 26.1 lakhs an increase of 29.5% over the previous years average. Students who participated in the placement process received […]
Registration is open for the IIFT Entrance Test 2010 which will be held on November 28, 2010. And while we are at it, the Symbiosis SNAP will be held on December 19, 2010. Both test days are Sundays. IIFT Entrance Test 2010 Now that the IIMs have frozen the October 27 to November 23 period […]
(Credit: Patricia Drury) As is the case each year, Harvard Business School (HBS) has not overhauled its essays for the fall 2011 admission season either, but has tweaked them slightly. We would guess that this is likely about variety and change, rather than some shift in attributes sought by the admissions committee. The first two […]
(Courtesy: Knowledge@Wharton) Six months ago, Chunnilal Menaria’s wife grumbled about her husband spending US$45 on a mobile phone. They lived in a one-room stone house, with no toilets or running water, only eight hours of electricity a day and earned US$60 a month with which they fed their family of five. The monsoon seasons, from […]
This year, the Common Admissions Test (CAT) will begin in October, a month earlier than the usual November-end. How does an early CAT 2010 affect your preparation? Here are the top 5 repercussions and predictions. 1. Lesser prep time – Preparation time has been reduced by a whole month. Which means that you will have […]
It is official: CAT 2010 will be held on 20 days between October 27 and November 23, 2010. The IIMs will release the CAT advertisement in newspapers on the last Sunday of August and the registration and form sales process will begin three days after that. “There will be logical breaks in between the exam […]
For the fourth year in a row, ISB Hyderabad’s Admissions Director Mr VK Menon is hosting a question and answer thread on PaGaLGuY to answer applicant questions on ISB admissions, curriculum, faculty, placements, scholarships, etc. However unlike conventional online chats, this will continue 24×7 until the end of ISB’s admission season. Says Mr Menon, “The […]
A kingsize thank you to everyone who sent in their entries to the PaGaLGuY B-school Shutterbug Contest 2010 from dozens of b-schools. You were all great! We received over 110 entries, totaling to more than 350 photographs of the country’s best-known b-school campuses. We started looking at the submitted photographs in the morning, and it’s […]
(Credit: m.gifford) Virtually all top business schools with some notable exceptions ask applicants for a personal statement in which candidates discuss their goals and ambitions as they pertain to the MBA degree and often, to the target schools particular program. As you approach this essay, be sure that you place appropriate emphasis on the ‘personal’ […]
There will be little change in the base process used behind the creation and evaluation of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2010 compared to CAT 2009. Prometric, the testing vendor commissioned by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) for conducting the test will continue to use the psychometric process to ensure that the CAT is […]