With interest in fulltime MBA at an all-time low, the 2010-11 admission season might have been the easiest in recent times to make it to an MBA program internationally. According to a survey of application trends at GMAT-affiliated b-schools by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), an increasing number of MBA programs worldwide reported a […]

Admission criteria changes have been announced in many b-schools, including a few Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) — all to include more non-engineers and women students. While IIM Raipur will add 30 marks to a girl-non-engineer, IIM Rohtak will award 20 marks to female candidate and 20 to non-engineers, so a non-engineer female candidate will […]

We all know what factorials (n!) are. They look friendly and helpful but looks can be deceiving, as many quant problems have taught us. It is probably because Factorials are simple looking creatures, that most students prefer attempting questions based on them rather than on Permutation & Combination or Probability. I will cover P&C; and […]

(Photo credit: Abhishek Kamble) Arriving in Kashipur late evening last week, I asked the three-wheeler drivers outside the railway station if they would take me to the one and only good hotel in town. None of them acknowledged having even heard of the name. I then casually mentioned that it was barely a kilometer before […]

(Photo credit: mcfarlandmo) SMS and Twitter are often accused of creating a generation with small attention spans who are growing incapable of expressing complex ideas in long and eloquent prose. Columbia Business School doesn’t think so, and in this year’s MBA application form, asks applicants to state their post-MBA goals in no more than 200 […]

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 […]

(Photo credit: Michael Gallacher) I guess my first fascination with problems of Time, Speed and Distance began when I first watch a film called Henna. An important portion of the plot, if you can call it that, had Rishi Kapoor floating from India to Pakistan in a river without drowning. I remember arguing with my […]

Of the total testing slots planned for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011, two-thirds have already been filled as on September 7, Prometric India’s Managing Director Soumitra Roy told PaGaLGuY on Wednesday. He however declined to divulge what the total capacity number was. He did mention though that the capacity calculations were based on last […]

Picture from the FMS website Students and faculty of the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) took out a silent march to the Vice-Chancellor’s (Delhi University) office earlier today to protest against the cancellation of the FMS entrance exam. Many classes stood cancelled as, though, both students and faculty ‘attended’ classes, little work was done. May […]

First View Raipur, the capital of Chattisgarh, is more notorious for its proximity to the Maoist-dominated district of Dantewada than anything else. But last year when the HRD ministry decided to start an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in the area, b-school aspirants began looking at the city anew with hope and expectation. Along with […]