Articles in MBA entrance exam
Deductive reasoning is the process of reasoning to reach a logically certain conclusion. Inductive reasoning is reasoning in which the premises seek to supply strong evidence for (not absolute proof of) the conclusion. In simpler terms, if you can prove something to be absolutely true, it is deductive reasoning whereas if the conclusion is probable, […]
Have you ever seen someone half as intelligent as you secure more than double calls compared to you ? Doesn’t it suck ? Sometimes a lot. It happened with me a lot of times. Even when I was studying, it was a drudgery to revise all the concepts again and again, still facing same challenges, […]
(Photo: Tim G. Photography) The integrity of the much-spirited Common Admission Test (CAT) exam has taken a beating with the tampering of scores of 80 students who took CAT 2012. All thanks to an anonymous caller. But what if this anonymous caller had not called? What if scores were meddled with last year but since […]
The Bara Imambara, Lucknow (Photo: Derek Keats) In what is a stark indication of the supply inflation of MBA seats in the country, this year’s number of applicants to the state-level MBA entrance exam of Uttar Pradesh is just a little over half of the total number of MBA seats in the state. According to […]
The first version of the MBA entrance exam launched by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is scheduled to be held in February 2012. Called the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT), it is little more than two months away and there is already hectic work in progress at the AICTE headquarters in New […]
Looking back at the last three years, one new ‘big idea’ has dominated Indias business school admissions every year. If 2009 was all about replacing paper-pencil assessments with computer-based entrance tests, then the flavour of 2010 was limiting the number of engineers in MBA classrooms and increasing diversity. 2011 is increasingly shaping to be the […]
Q1.What is Critical Reasoning? Critical Reasoning is an analytical way of thinking about issues for analysing and evaluating information gathered from observation and experience in order to come to certain conclusions. Critical Reasoning clarifies goals, examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence and assesses conclusions. ‘Critical’ as used in the expression ‘critical reasoning’ denotes the […]
Is the closure of Joint National Management Test (JMET), only the beginning of the end of the various other specialised b-school entrance exams? SS Mantha, chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education told media last week that from 2013 onwards, only one entrance exam (the CMAT) will come into force from 2013 onwards, […]
The last time, I focused on few of the commonly faced dilemmas at the various B-School entrance tests. A management entrance test is designed so as to bring out the ability of an aspirant to perform under immense pressure. To subject the students to a bit of stress so as to observe how good they […]