There seems to be an increased focus on India from Tuck. Tuck has set up a full-time office in New Delhi and Admissions Officers from Tuck are visiting India a lot more than they used to. What are the reasons for this interest in India? One of the big changes is that we have seen […]

Thanks Sara for agreeing to participate in this interview. What is the unique value that the MBA at Darden School of Business offers to its participants? I would describe the value as High touch, High Tone and High Octane. High touch refers to high engagement. The learning environment at Darden is very active. We are […]

The CAT: The surprises and its repercussions 1. The change to five optionsThe most obvious change was in the negative marking. From the usual negative of 1/3 of the marks the five options led to a negative of 1/4. This means students are penalized less for a negative answer but the chance of getting an […]

One of the largest and longest established b-school information fairs, the QS World MBA Tour will be visiting New Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Mumbai from 28 November to 7 December 2006, giving aspiring MBAs from India the opportunity to meet admissions teams from many of the world’s top schools and gather information on topics […]

Hello EveryoneMunira Lokhandwala Hi Munira, what should be the order of sections to attempt in CAT?cat1248 Order of sections: I always put English in the middle. Reason: It is a break between the two similar sections Munira Lokhandwala Hi Munira… Q: For a very average person getting percentiles around 80 in mocks…what is most advisable […]

The challenge for any applicant is to stand out from their peer group, and demonstrate to the Admissions Office why he or she should be offered a precious place on the MBA program. For Indian students, who constitute one of the largest pools of international candidates, this is even more the case. The number of […]

What matters is how clearly Wharton applicants tell their story and to do that, they must be self-aware, says Mr Thomas Caleel, Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. In an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY.com, he talks about Wharton’s opening up to younger applicants without work experience, women […]

A very common flaw on the GMAT, and in life, is the confusion of absolute numbers and percentages. For example, which is larger, one-third of x or one-half of y? Without any information to compare x and y, we cannot answer this question. It is true that one-half is larger than one-third when applied to […]

As you probably know by now, the GMAT is a Computer Adaptive Test (“CAT”). This means that the questions that you see on the exam are selected by the computer based on your performance on earlier questions. For example, if you answer a question correctly, your next question will be harder. If you answer a […]

Your overall score out of 800 results from your performances in quant and verbal, each of which is first scored independently on a scale of 0-60. These subscores are then combined to yield your overall score according to formulae to which only ETS (the organization that administers the GMAT) is privy. Each subscore (verbal and […]