(Photo: Samantha Marx) You can now count the hours to the first day of the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011. It’s only a matter of time before the third edition of the computer-based version of the test makes its presence felt starting October 22 and going right up to November 18, in its new avatar […]

Graduate Management Admission Council, the owner and administrator of the GMAT exam, on Tuesday announced the launch of an India-specific version of the official GMAT website – www.mba.com/India. “The website has been designed exclusively for Indian aspirants and exhibits a detailed classification of the top business schools in India, Indian b-schools accepting GMAT scores and […]

Applicants to top American b-schools might toil away their days and nights to rack up a gallant GMAT score and write plush essays and recommendation letters. But all that may amount to nothing if Googling their name up throws up unsavoury party pictures or distasteful language on their social networking profiles, painting a completely different […]

(Photo credit: Michael Surran) Bucking the trend of marginal increases in other MBA entrance tests, 27% more candidates will take Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) University’s NMIMS Aptitude Test (NMAT 2012) this year compared to last year’s NMAT 2011. The registrations for NMAT 2012, which closed on October 10, 2011, clocked 50,800 candidates […]

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the association of top business schools around the world and owner of the GMAT exam, on Tuesday announced the appointment of three new members to its board of directors — among them Ajit Rangnekar, the Dean of the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. Mr Rangnekar is the only […]

While schools newly opting for the Common Admission Test (CAT) made headlines last few weeks, now it’s time for some ‘opposite’ news – schools that have decided to opt out of taking CAT 2011 scores. At least the list (of b-schools taking CAT) on the CAT website says so. This year about (excluding the Indian […]

With interest in fulltime MBA at an all-time low, the 2010-11 admission season might have been the easiest in recent times to make it to an MBA program internationally. According to a survey of application trends at GMAT-affiliated b-schools by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), an increasing number of MBA programs worldwide reported a […]

Looking back at the last three years, one new ‘big idea’ has dominated Indias business school admissions every year. If 2009 was all about replacing paper-pencil assessments with computer-based entrance tests, then the flavour of 2010 was limiting the number of engineers in MBA classrooms and increasing diversity. 2011 is increasingly shaping to be the […]

Picture from the FMS website Students and faculty of the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) took out a silent march to the Vice-Chancellor’s (Delhi University) office earlier today to protest against the cancellation of the FMS entrance exam. Many classes stood cancelled as, though, both students and faculty ‘attended’ classes, little work was done. May […]

Q1.What is Critical Reasoning? Critical Reasoning is an analytical way of thinking about issues for analysing and evaluating information gathered from observation and experience in order to come to certain conclusions. Critical Reasoning clarifies goals, examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence and assesses conclusions. ‘Critical’ as used in the expression ‘critical reasoning’ denotes the […]