Articles in CAT Entrance Exam 2024
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 […]
Pic from the FMS website Another MBA entrance exam is expected to bite the dust soon. Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) is in all probability going to shelve its 40-year old entrance exams in favour of the Common Admission Test (CAT). The vice-chancellor of the Delhi University will be signing the papers anytime soon. Incidentally, […]
Pic by Elvert Barne Lot’s of festivities last week. Starting with Idd on August 31, spilling over to Ganesh Chaturthi on September 1 and extending to the Pagalguy.com anniversary on September 2. Pagalguy completed nine years and the day was marked with general cheer and frolic at its headquarters in Mumbai. Other than that, there […]
The D-day for some MBA aspirants comes earlier than usual. If you are one of those who are taking the Management Aptitude Test (MAT) this Sunday (September 4, 2011), read on. You must be aware that the MAT is a 150 minute long test with 200 questions split across five sections. Here is a recommended […]
Do you back up or back away or back down? Break away / Break down / Break up? Call back / call off/ call on? Do you find it difficult to differentiate among them? Then, welcome to Phrasal Verbs ! To start with, let’s find out the difference between ordinary usage and phrasal verbs, (1) […]
IIM Indore’s Narendra Agarwal, his wife Poonam and their son Arnav In the days gone by, synonyms for ‘marriage’ could easily be settled, family, sacrifice, children, stop living your own life. Today, the synonyms read more like ‘fun, study, partner, parties, friends, freedom. Thanks to a large number of b-school students pursuing an MBA post […]
The concept of divide and conquer, derived from the Latin phrase Divide et impera, was put into use effectively by everyone from Caesar to Napoleon to the British in India. Even Muammar Gaddafi tried using it but as the latest news events show us — he wasnt very effective at gaining from it. Dividing — […]
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, […]
After months of speculation, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will adopt the Common Admission Test (CAT) from 2012 onwards. This means that the IITs will not run the national Joint National Management Test (JMET), which was in operation for over ten years. Mukut Baruah, a Senior Assistant with Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), […]
(Photo credit: Christopher Matson) One of the most dreaded portions of the English section of the CAT is the one relating to grammar. MBA applicants find themselves frequently at a loss while trying to negotiate a deadly landmine of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions articles and gerunds. Additionally this is something that is of practical […]