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So much for the unpredictability of CAT! The most-feared and revered exam Common Admission Test (CAT) for admission into MBA programs at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) followed exactly the same pattern and format as it did in 2006. 75 questions, 25 in each section, 4 marks for a correct answer and minus 1 […]
Structure of the Paper The structure of the paper was similar to last year’s. Considering that the CAT committee has decided, once again, to limit the number of questions, students had less choice in the selection of questions. There is no way a blind scurry would have helped you in a paper which had only […]
IWSB’s Academic Council, which is shaping the curricula for the Post Graduate Programme in Management, has quite a few big names in the field of management education, including Phil Anderson, Dean INSEAD Singapore, Ishwar Dayal, the founding Director of IIM Lucknow, Mirza Saiyadain, former faculty at IIM Ahmedabad, and many more. Benchmarked with some of […]
SATURDAY: 17 NOVEMBER · Don’t cram! Preparation for CAT is a long term process. Whatever efforts you have put in till now are sufficient, you cannot learn any new things anymore, so just relax. · Get your gear together! Gather everything you’ll need to carry with yourself to the test centre: Admission ticket, a ballpoint […]
“Going beyond a traditional summit, AIMS 2007 in association with Calicut IT Initiative (CITI, a professional citizens’ initiative) launches ConnectCalicut, a round table discussion where decision-makers from major IT companies, the Kerala Government and infrastructure developers including the Aditya Birla Group will converge. ConnectCalicut will set the stage for high-level discussions on developing Calicut as […]
“India has seen an explosion of its middle classes over the last few years with an emerging generation of highly educated young workers earning higher incomes than ever before,” says Arun Mehra, Head of Investment Strategy at Fidelity India. “This has driven massive growth in domestic consumption and if you combine this with the boom […]
Table 1 depicts the employment sectors in which MBA candidate respondents are currently employed. Table 1: Current Employment Sectors of MBA respondents – Worldwide (expressed as a percentage) Accounting 3.9 Banking 6.0 Consulting 9.3 Consumer Products 5.0 Education 5.5 Engineering 8.8 Financial Services 7.4 Industry 5.5 Information Technology 14.1 Media 2.6 Non-Profit 2.7 Pharmaceuticals 2.1 […]
Preferred Industry Sectors – India Academia 1.72 Consulting 25.08 Financial Services, Banking & Accounting 27.23 Industry & Engineering 9.8 IT & Telecommunications 18.62 Non-Profit & Public Sector 2.05 Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare 3.23 Retail, Consumer Products & Media 9.26 Other 3.98 Source: 2007 QS TopMBA.com Applicants Survey But many students, both in India and around the […]
The school reported an increase in internships into the finance sector with recruitments by Lehman Investment Banking, EightCapital Hedge Fund, Indea Capital, Lotus Asset Management, in addition to the traditional recruiters like JP Morgan Chase, The Carlyle Group, Edelweiss, Rabo Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Citi Bank, Standard Chartered, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and SBI Capital […]