About ASB Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has striven to develop and maintain a multi-disciplinary flavor in its academic offerings, which range from Management to Biotechnology, Engineering to Medicine to Journalism, from its inception. ASB which was started in 1996, is ranked 13th among the top private B-Schools in India (Open-Cfore Survey, Sep 2009). Amrita School of […]

So its a virus after all. ‘Vital Information Resource Under Siege’ is what, according to Prometric played truant with the online testing of CAT 2009. A press note released by Prometric and IIMs on November 29, 2009 says: “While almost 20,000 candidates completed their exams on Day One, computer viruses at a number of testing […]

There are reasons why Indian students are alarmed when an examination is converted from a tried and tested paper-pencil format to the ‘new’ online testing one. CAT 2009’s recent debacle made it even clearer that when it comes to an exam that pretty much determines the future of lakhs of candidates, there is no room […]

Prometric has updated their website with further information for the CAT Exam on the 29th of Nov. On their site, they mention the following – “The launch of the computerized CAT involved the delivery of exams by Prometric into more than 360 testing labs at 104 individual locations. While a significant majority of the candidates […]

Two of the PG HQ members and their experiences with the CBT CAT. We have put in the time-line and our experiences, feel free to comment with your own experiences at different centers. We have put in this specific format so that you can ‘live’ through the experience and be prepared for it tomorrow and […]

First day, flop show. Due to ‘overload’, a lot of centers have had to cancel the CAT exam. This is a huge blow to the Prometric driven CAT undertaking. This news has been carried across all prominent TV channels already. I am linking up some of the stories that have already gone online from the […]

Prometric has sent out the following email to all CAT registered users. We are putting it out, just in case you missed it. To assist you during your preparation and testing day, Prometric has created a CAT 2009 Practical Guide. Please go to www.prometric.com/IIM-CAT to download the CAT 2009 Practical Guide that contains valuable information […]

What you eat the night before decides who will win the battle, said Alexander the Great. Alright, he didn’t really say that but it is something he would surely have said had he lived a bit more. And that brings us to – how are you planning to unwind on the evening before your CAT […]

The online registration for CAT 2009 is again open for editing (except the name and username) until November 27, 2009 as a scrutiny by Prometric revealed that there were some who still hadn’t entered all the necessary information such as graduation marks, discipline, SSC, HSC marks in the registration form. Entering this information is necessary […]

Last month, we launched PaGaLGuY Prep in a rather basic sort of fashion to get a sense of how you all felt about our take on CAT prep online. Based on your feedback and suggestions, we took Prep back to the factory to add the next set of features and refinements are ready with PaGaLGuY […]