(Photo: Cali4beach) Does one need a classroom coaching programme to prepare for the Common Admissions Test (CAT)? MBA applicants often ask this question on online forums, and even otherwise to their mentors and peers – whether classroom coaching improves CAT preparation better. Or should they instead self-study and maybe join an online test series at […]

(Photo: Apurv Pandit)   Before we discuss the technical nuances of parallel construction in sentences, let’s analyse the two sentences written below, A. Every friend of John is a friend of mine. B. Every friend of John is also my friend. Sentence A creates more impact on the reader/listener than sentence B does. What is […]

NMIMS officials at the press conference held at the institute In a major education-related racket bust, six persons have been identified for having impersonated 87 candidates in the Narsee Monjee Management Aptitude Test (NMAT) which was held from October 11 to December 19, 2012. A joint team of the cyber-crime police and Unit 8, Crime […]

(Photo: Sigfrid Lundberg) Thousands appear for their CAT exam in the final year of their undergraduate studies. Those who are not able to get through in their first attempt reappear the following year and add to the ever increasing pool of candidates with work experience. With the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other Indian […]

The new Common Admission Test (CAT) Convenor Prof Rohit Kapoor of the Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM-I) says that CAT 2013 will have no substantive changes and that no one should expect any major surprise either. Prof Kapoor who was earlier Assistant Vice-President, Operations, Angel Capital and Debt Markets Ltd., has been with IIM-I […]

Rakesh Vishwakarma, who teaches math at Genesis Mentors writes a primer on solving geometry problems in the CAT that involve calculating cleverly-etched triangles inside intricate figures. ——— A lot of questions in management entrance exams including CAT are from Geometry and that too from the topic involving the areas of shapes. Many questions are based […]

If you are wondering which Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 toppers are heading to, here’s the news: Toppers (100 percentilers) Converted Areesh Mittal IIM-C Anshul Garg IIM-C Ravi Teja Palla IIM-C, L (Waitlisted for B) Sumit Patil IIM-C, A, B, L Siddharth Sharma IIM-C, B Jaskaran Singh Sachdeva IIM-L […]

The Reading Comprehension (RC) section has been the bête noire of CAT candidates for long now. Simply because the length of the passage has varied every year, the type of questions asked has also varied and there is no tutorial/technique that one can use to prepare for the various types of passages. All one can […]

ISB Hyderabad (Photo: Anish Jain) Aiming right for the core of the repeat CAT takers’ market, the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad will now allow those with less than two years of work experience to apply for deferred admissions to their one-year Post Graduate Program (PGP). Called the ‘Early entry option’ and to be […]

In a stark reminder of recent cases in which Indians have been legally intimidated for what they wrote online on social networks, an MBA applicant from Kolkata has been threatened with legal proceedings by a CAT test preparation company after he expressed dissatisfaction with the institute’s pricing and product information through a post on an […]