Above : The scene outside the Shivaji Park Axis Bank branch today, on the first day of CAT voucher sale Below : The scene outside the same Shivaji Park branch last year on the first day of CAT voucher sale The pictures say it all. Queues for The Common Admission Test (CAT) vouchers in many […]

Prof SSS Kumar At the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, Prof SSS Kumar, CAT Convenor for 2012 is known as Triple S. And the name suits him rather well because being perpetually dressed in a loose shirt and casual trousers, he can easily be mistaken for a student. With a face that breaks into a […]

The Supreme Court has extended its last year’s stay order on the AICTE notification that had sought to do away with major MBA entrance exams in favour of only the CAT and MAT. For the coming admission season of 2012-13 too, PGDM institutes can continue their admission processes on the basis of scores attained by […]

32,000 applicants to sit for MAT on May 6, 2012 The All Indian Management Association (AIMA) has decided to focus on University Grants Commission (UGC) approved private management institutions in order to continue with the Management Aptitude Test (MAT). It has no plans to scrap the exam as yet. Currently, AIMA is signed up with […]

The Bara Imambara, Lucknow (Photo: Derek Keats) In what is a stark indication of the supply inflation of MBA seats in the country, this year’s number of applicants to the state-level MBA entrance exam of Uttar Pradesh is just a little over half of the total number of MBA seats in the state. According to […]

The JBIMS Mumbai buildingDr Stephen D’silva, director, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai tells PaGaLGuY that the institute is contemplating constructing a new building on the campus. He also expresses concerns about how the admissions process will equate CMAT and Mah-CET scores. JBIMS has often been termed as the ‘CEO Factory’. What is […]

A screenshot of a blank CMAT scorecard Five days after All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) declared the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) results on their website, it released the individual scorecards for all CMAT aspirants today. While the earlier results declared on March 11, 2012 had published only the rank and the total […]

The IMT Nagpur campus (Photo: Siddhartha Garg) Last year, Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad had tried to pump in some technological innovation into its admissions process by allowing candidates to send video-recorded answers to interview questions. But considering the execution problems it experienced with the ‘Vmock’ software, it has decided to drop the ‘virtual […]

The Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (Mah-CET) 2012 held on March 11, 2012 surprised many who took it. After a difficult paper in 2011, candidates had hoped that the last of the CET would be easy, however that was not the case. According to candidates who appeared for the test, Logical Reasoning and Visual Reasoning questions […]

Candidates awaiting their Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) scores that were due to release on March 11, 2012, were in for a surprise when the results were declared fifteen minutes before the turn of the date, around 11:45 PM on March 10. The results contain the total marks as well as the all Indian rank […]