Can you update us about the status of class sizes in your post-graduate courses? We had 180 seats in the Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM), 60 for PGP in Human Resources and currently 32 students from India and 15 foreign students for PGP in International Management. From the next academic year we would have […]

In CAT 2006 too, the message send by IIMs was very clear: We are looking for people who are ‘well read’. It proved to be a nightmare for those who were not good readers. Gone are those days when there used to be many passages with 5-7 questions each and it used to be a […]

Quantitatively, the good student MUST score better than the not so good ones to ensure that CAT does its job! Let us go one step further. This means that each question in the CAT should and must differentiate between the good and the not so good. This in turn would mean that in each question […]

“Although we had gone ahead with announcing 185 seats for the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) for the 2008 admissions, we just received the AICTE approval for upgrading the course to 240 seats,” he said. “We already have 85 fulltime faculty on campus but we are recruiting more faculty to handle the additional load […]

One sees several examples where Mentors at CAT coaching institutes, who are assigned to students for delivering personalised guidance, in fact end up misguiding them for one of several reasons. Be it the large institutes like TIME, Career Forum, IMS or Professional Tutorials, aspirants have large number of complaints about Mentors playing truant in their […]

What makes TAPMI different from other Indian B-schools? TAPMI’s management programme is known for its academic credentials, rigor and high student involvement. The delivery of the programme is considered to be regular and systematic. One can see this through the good number of full time faculty members (25) TAPMI has, of whom 70 percent are […]

Christened Rajiv Gandhi IIM – Shillong, the institute published its notification announcing admission to the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management in the national media on Sunday. Click here for the notification ‘Candidates appearing for CAT 2007 will be automatically considered for admission to RGIIM Shillong’, reads the notification.

Growing disgruntlement with IT jobs could be one of the greatest factors for people to use MBA as a bridge towards more interesting job profiles, given that the IT industry contributes a large quantum to the Common Admission Test (CAT) every year. We asked our users in the PaGaLGuY Online Poll-of-the-Month what they expected most […]

So, the best rule to follow is ‘throw all the rules out’ for none is holy enough to hold universally. Let me justify how all this makes sense. Consider the following: CAT in 2003 was what I would call a plain-vanilla CAT with English, DI (data interpretation) and Quantitative aptitude (QA), with 50 questions in […]

In fact, there is still a general notion in the world of MBA wannabes that there are two kinds of MBA aspirants. Those who are poor at quant and those who are very poor at quant. People who are good at quant and DI stay on Mars. However, I dare to make a tall claim […]