Let us start by asking the most fundamental question. Q: What is your objective?A: Your objective is to maximize your score. To maximize your score, you should, in the given time, score as much as possible. As much as possible essentially means that you have solved all the questions that you could have solved. For […]

The Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) course, publicized around the same time last year through extensive advertising and media PR was to inherit the syllabus as it is taught at XLRI Jamshedpur. While XLRI, Jamshedpur was to provide the intellectual capital, a Singapore-based agency named ‘Image International (Singapore) Private Limited’ was to manage […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Judge business school is one of the youngest business schools perceived to be in the top 20. How do you strive to keep the cut among top b-schools, given that some of them are nearly 100 years old? This is a big challenge, and one that we are eagerly anticipating. The one year MBA program […]

Speaking about his new role, Dean Rao said, “This is an excellent opportunity to bring global management practices to India. The ISB was one of the first B-schools in India to use GMAT® scores an admission criterion. It has helped us a great deal in establishing international standards of quality and in selecting bright students […]

How many applications have you received in last two years of PGPX how many of them made it to the interview stage? In the first year (batch of 2006-07) we received 730 applicants and we called 210 applicants for interview. The final batch size was 60 students. In the second year (batch of 2007-0, we […]

The scholarships are available exclusively to attendees of the QS World MBA Tour, which travels with a total of over 350 business schools to 43 countries and is the largest programme of b-school events worldwide. Awards include the QS scholarships for Leadership and Community Involvement as well as those from the major business schools. The […]