Parasharan Chari Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) generally symbolises the end of the new year celebrations with a paper that manages to surprise the aspirants with questions that are fresh yet standard, time consuming & tricky. And just in case the questions don’t look tricky, you will find an option that screams ‘none of the above’ […]

Manish Harodia The Xaviers Aptitude Test (XAT) 2013 wished the aspirants new year in a grand style. The centre where I took the test (Sinhgad Insttute of Management, Pune) must have had about two thousand aspirants taking the exam today. It somehow resembled the golden days of Common Aptitude Test (CAT) being a paper pencil […]

Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) MBA aspirants who applied to the Postgraduate Diploma in Rural Management (PGDM-RM) offered by Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) using their Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) test scores were in for a shock email on Wednesday. In this email, XIMB told the applicants that it will not […]

The perils of too much choice (Photo: BurgerAustin) You are done with the CAT, are probably lining yourself up for some of the other admission tests, and preparing yourself for the last mile – the Group Discussion, Essay Writing and Interview processes. This is a good time to focus some attention towards getting a fix […]

Suddenly this year, one couldnt take the Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP) 2012 question paper home after taking the exam anymore. No clear reason was given for this change by Symbiosis, even though the tests nature remained the same (paper-pencil over a limited time). Folks from test-preparation companies who also take the exam every year […]

What is new about the Xaviers Admission Test 2013? The XAT exam this year will have a General Awareness section, and the paper will have two parts with a total time of 3 hours. The first part would have to be solved in two hours and 20 minutes and will consist of Quantitative Aptitude (QA), […]

Prakash Prabhu’ day starts at 6.30AM, and by the time he is on his chair at the modern office of ANZ Bank, Bangalore, it will be 8.45. As a financial analyst, Prakash is now working on the pitch book of a major client and in the last 16 months has created several country reports and […]

Gautam Puri, co-founder, Career Launcher The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) Entrance test 2012, presented a few surprises to all those who attempted the paper today. Unlike the past two years, the test instructions clearly stated that sectional cut-offs would be levied this year. The paper also veered away from its traditionally difficult Data […]

(Photo credit: Stevie Gill, flickr.com) A day to go for the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), (New Delhi and Kolkata) entrance test 2012. On Sunday, November 25, 2012, the exam will be held at 51 centres in nearly 20 cities. Known as an unpredictable exam, the IIFT test typically contains four sections: quantitative ability, […]

In a first of its kind, for any management department of Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Department of Management Studies (DoMS), IIT Madras will open its doors to undergraduates from any stream for its MBA program from the academic year 2013-15. This was confirmed to us by G Srinivasan, head, DoMS, IIT Madras. Until last […]