Originally I was going to title this “The average student’s guide to cracking the CAT” .Then I realized I wasn’t average. This could hardly be called a guide. And I hadn’t even cracked the CAT. So I modified the title. I was going to rip-off Five Point Someone‘ s opening line and modify it to […]

What is a qualified doctor like you doing at an MBA institute? I did my bachelors degree in Homeopathic Medicine from Anand, Gujarat and have zero work ex. Honestly speaking, I wasn’t too keen on doing medicine in the first place. Having done so due to parental pressure, I wasn’t very pleased with the idea […]

Prateek Agarwal alias ManDevIan is in his second year at Management Development Institute-Gurgaon. In a conversation with our in-house PaGaL Interrogation Squad sleuth DJ Krish Kay, Prateek sheds more light on his life at MDI-Gurgaon and what goes into surviving the two year bootcamp that is an MBA. A little Bit on your background please. […]

Following litigation, the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have opened doors to students from educational institutions that are not recognized by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU). The IIMs until now allowed graduates only from educational institutions recognised by the Associaiton of Indian Universities (AIU). However, anyone who qualifies in the CAT exam will now […]

Govarthanaraj B alias G O V A R, is in his second year at IIM, Indore. In a conversation with our in-house PaGaL Interrogation Squad sleuth DJ Krish Kay, Govar reveals top-secret classified information about his life at IIM and provides an insight into the oft asked question, “Why MBA?” So Govar, engineering se tapka […]

Oh God, CAT or GMAT! Yippee, I am back again! Wading through the comments and mails I have received for Part#1, I thought I would spend sometime discussing some major differentiating factors in studying for an MBA in India Vis-à-vis abroad. I am sure a majority of aspirants are pretty unclear whether it is the […]

Street children across various cities of India, between ages seven to thirteen years are working as ‘bartenders’ at several liquor shops of the city, wasting away their childhood through this stepping stone to graver criminal activity. As the Child Labour Regulation and Juvenile Justice Acts have little teeth, social organizations and the administration find it […]

Here’s the guy who was primarily responsible for the involvement of PaGaLGuY.com with Confluence 2004, the cultural secretary @ IIMA, The guy who literally counted his way into IIMA @ the forums, Here’s Gaurav Dagaonkar a.k.a the_dawg on the forums. Under-Graduation: Mumbai University (B.E.- Info Tech.) Fresher CAT Percentile: 99.31 Final Calls: A & L […]

Here’s the d00d from Vizag, Chandoo’s study partner and yet another stud @ A from PaGalGuY.com. Sushanth a.k.a.Tadka (dorm name) a.k.a. psmith on our forums. Under-Graduation: Andhra University (B.Tech.- Computer Science) Fresher CAT Percentile: 99.95 (what did the poor 0.05 do ? ) Final Calls: BLACK + XLRI + IIFT CAT Gyaan: —-> Start with […]

Here’s yet another d00d who rejected an admit @ ISB to fight it out from a seat @ IIMA. Here’s Nikhil Vaswani aka nickspeedster aka Hooka. CAT Percentile: 99.8 Final Calls: LACKI + ISB(2003) GMAT: 710 Work ex: Two years with Wipro CAT Gyaan: —-> Use a lot of logic —-> read Economic Times daily- […]