There is more clarity about the new Integrated Reasoning (IR) section that is slated to debut in the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) in its new format scheduled to launch in June 2012. Unlike the Quant and Verbal sections which are adaptive, IR will be a fixed-form test. Which means that candidates will be served […]

Photo: Alex E Proimos The notification issued by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) about the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT), a few days ago has caught MBA aspirants, b-schools and coaching institutes off-guard. While schools say that they have received no intimation about the new exam, likely candidates are clueless on whether […]

MBA students across geographies may be apprehensive about landing a sufficiently well-paying job after graduation, or even a job at all, but they are not the only ones worrying. Business schools across the world too are finding it challenging to pull international students in to their campuses this season. Stricter visa norms, worrying unemployment figures […]

The IITs’ (Indian Institutes of Technology) loss is GMAT’s (Graduate Management Aptitude Test) gain. With the canning of the Joint Management Entrance Exam (JMET), regulatory body All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has added the GMAT to the six acceptable entrance tests for admissions to the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) offered at […]

Interest in the Common Admissions Test (CAT), which had been enjoying a boom until 2009 has been on the wane since 2010. Both, the CAT 2010 and CAT 2011 have seen registrations in the vicinity of 2.05 lakhs, a steep 15% drop compared to 2009. This decrease has not come without its own share of […]

As the Common Admission Test (CAT) window draws to a close, PaGaLGuY drills down the number of seats available in different categories at the top ten b-schools according to the PaGaLGuY.com B-school Rankings 2011. The data excludes Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore as it has not yet finalised the total number of seats available […]

The chatter has dimmed and the mouse clicks turned silent. The hubbub outside the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 centres of the last month will make a comeback only after an entire year. As CAT applicants wait for the next big touchstone the results PaGaLGuY catches up with the person who made it happen — […]

The Toronto-based Schulich School of Business of the York University may not wait for the passage of the bill allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in higher education before it starts operations in India. The Canadian school, which has been working on setting up a campus in Hyderabad in collaboration with the GMR Group will instead […]

A Pearson VUE team from the USA was in Mumbai today. They are the guys that NMIMS University has contracted out the computer-based NMAT to. Their agenda was to create awareness about computer-based testing (CBT) and resolve perceived myths surrounding it. PaGaLGuY caught up with the team comprising Kathleen Gialluca – Senior Research Scientist, Fiona […]

The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 is underway (October 22 – November 1 and two testing days are over. According to Prometric, 6,703 candidates had appeared to register for the test today (October 24) across the country. CAT 2011 marks a change in test pattern, in that it contains two separately times sections of 70 […]