An interesting bit of information came to light during our conversation with the IIFT Registrar yesterday. The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), which has its campuses at New Delhi and Kolkata too would have made its entrance test computer-based had it not been for the collapse of the system during the controversial CAT 2009. […]

The official notification for applying to the Indian Institutes of Foreign Trade, Delhi and Kolkata is already out. The first step of the admission process is the written test which will be held on November 28, 2010. The shortlisted candidates from the test will appear for a group discussion and personal interview Here are some […]

Folks, nominations for the CAT Dream Teams and the Underdog Teams are now open. All those who missed it last year, this is your chance! You may now nominate yourself into the city dream teams of Pune, Bangalore, Kolkata, Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Mumbai or Chennai. Else, run for the Underdogs Team. And of course, […]

Registration is open for the IIFT Entrance Test 2010 which will be held on November 28, 2010. And while we are at it, the Symbiosis SNAP will be held on December 19, 2010. Both test days are Sundays. IIFT Entrance Test 2010 Now that the IIMs have frozen the October 27 to November 23 period […]

This year, the Common Admissions Test (CAT) will begin in October, a month earlier than the usual November-end. How does an early CAT 2010 affect your preparation? Here are the top 5 repercussions and predictions. 1. Lesser prep time – Preparation time has been reduced by a whole month. Which means that you will have […]

It is official: CAT 2010 will be held on 20 days between October 27 and November 23, 2010. The IIMs will release the CAT advertisement in newspapers on the last Sunday of August and the registration and form sales process will begin three days after that. “There will be logical breaks in between the exam […]

There will be little change in the base process used behind the creation and evaluation of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2010 compared to CAT 2009. Prometric, the testing vendor commissioned by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) for conducting the test will continue to use the psychometric process to ensure that the CAT is […]

On a lighter note, if the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Maharashtra Government and the ‘mai-baap’ of the Maharashtra MBA-CET continues its chat room on its official website, it is sure to give dating and matrimonial sites a run for their money. One can not only ‘make frens’ on the website’s ‘Chat with the PRO’ […]

Among the major modifications planned in the administration of the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2010, the exam will be held earlier than usual, over a longer period of time and over fewer testing centers. While the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have retained Prometric for delivering the test, NIIT — the ground technology partner of […]

The Karnataka High Court on June 11 disposed the public interest litigation seeking cancellation of the controversial computer-based Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2009 exam held in November and December 2009, while directing the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) at Bangalore and Ahmedabad to ensure that the errors were not repeated again. A Bangalore division bench […]