Yes, you heard that right. We have excess stock of hot coffee but not enough people to spend sleepless nights consuming it. Are you passionate about the world of MBA education? Do you get excitedly lap up news and analysis on business schools in newspapers? Are you brimming with questions on why the gears in […]

You can get cracking on filling out your schedule for this December. The official Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP) test website still carries last year’s date while the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune website has all the details regarding this year’s test which will be held on December 20. Let’s not split hairs […]

Last week, we covered a fresh dot-diagram approach to tackling Reading Comprehension passes in the verbal section of the CAT exam. Many of you who studied the tutorial asked for more examples of the method for better clarity of the concept, so here it is! Download tutorial with more examples of dot-diagrams for reading comprehension […]

MBAUniverse.com reports that the Xavier’s Admission Test for 2010 admissions to bschools such as XLRI Jamshedpur, XIM Bhubaneswar and Goa Institute of Management will take place on January 3, 2010. According to the report, “XAT will be held on January 3, 2009,” said XLRI, in an official communication to MBAUniverse.com.Unlike CAT 2009, XAT entrance exam […]

A just-released FAQ by IIM Ahmedabad declares that the CAT 2009 vouchers will be sold in a small time window of 20 days between September 9 and end October 1. It however says little about the format of the computer-based test. CAT 2009: Frequently Asked Questions (6 August 2009) Q1: When is the advertisement for […]

Much before the CAT does, the Management Aptitude Test (MAT) of September 2009 will be the first exam to go computer-based. Here is a FAQ on the computer-based MAT as answered by AIMA’s Wg Cdr V S Bejoy (Retd), who is in charge of MAT. The MAT exam is taken in total by around 4 […]

It may sound unusual but like charity, management too begins at home. But in this case “home” refers to our mind. CAT preparation is like an iceberg floating along; the visible part of the iceberg is all the problem solving, late nights or early mornings spent in preparation and the books, newspapers and magazines that […]

Last Saturday, I attended a management event organized by Forum for Learning and Youth Leadership (FLY) at Bhaidas Auditorium in Ville Parle. The event schedule listed speakers from top Indian b-schools and heads of two prominent companies speaking about admissions, b-school life, CAT preparation and management. The issues covered by the speakers made the event […]

How do test strategies change when you have to read tough Reading Comprehension passages from a computer screen instead of paper? Here’s a small tutorial that proposes a interesting approach to making sense of complex passages in the new context of computer-based CAT and speed up your performance in this crucial section for CAT 2009. […]

We are taking nomination entries for this year’s PaGaLGuY Volunteer Program. Being a volunteer gets you access to the core of PaGaLGuY.com’s activities and new initiatives and some seriously good experience in marketing and event management. In order to be a volunteer, you need to be taking CAT 2009 and be an active poster on […]