Pagalguy spoke to Dr Jitendra K Das, who is director at FORE School of Management and more importantly a former CAT paper -setter. Below he has not only disclosed important information on the normalisation process and on how CAT papers are set but also discussed the overdependence of students on coaching classes to get them […]

Nine out of ten MBA alumni from the class of 2010 at b-schools across the world had a job at the time of graduating from their business school, finds a survey conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), owners of the GMAT exam. The Graduate Alumni Perspectives Survey conducted in September 2010 which polled […]

First-day first-show at the CAT is over, and no untoward incidents have been reported until now. Two of us from the PaGaLGuY HQ attended the 10 am slot test at two different centres in Mumbai and Pune. We have written down our experiences in the form of a timeline so that you can live’ through […]

In its first attempt to go international and provide competition to the global GMAT exam, Common Admission Tests (CAT) will cross shores and conduct its first international exam in Sri Lanka next year. Apparently, other Asian countries like Nepal and some in the Middle East have also evinced a similar interest. Speaking to Pagalguy.com, Himanshu […]

Last week, we worked with Aditya Dipankar from the National Institute of Design (NID), Bangalore to review the test interface of the Common Admissions Test (CAT). This week, we get Aditya to analyse the test-interface for the other major computer-based test, the Narse Monjee Management Aptitude Test (NMAT) from a design and ease-of-use point of […]

This looks like the beginnings of one-upmanship contest in computer-based exam awesomeness. While the CAT grapples with getting the basics write, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies’ (NMIMS) entrance exam NMAT is offering a choice of three attempts to aspiring candidates. The best score of the three attempts will be considered. Besides giving the candidates […]

(Photo credit: Kristian Bjornard) A lot of expectations rest on a smooth conduct of this year’s Common Admission Test (CAT), after it suffered a major credibility-hit in 2009. The major change in CAT 2010 over CAT 2009 is that of the duration of the test — from 10 days to 20 days and only in […]

The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), used for MBA admissions by a vast majority of business schools across the world will add a new section that will test advanced reasoning skills, starting June 2012. The new section, known as ‘Integrated Reasoning’, will feature questions that will test skills of data analysis and interpretation, the ability […]

(Image credit: W Marsh) MBA graduates of 2010 across the world feel more optimistic about the health of the economy than those in 2009 did, even though the number of MBAs having a job before graduation has dropped to a seven-year low, reports a GMAC survey. Only 33% of the management graduates of the world […]

Distressed by rampant plagiarism in admission essays, USA’s Smeal College of Business, Penn State University has decided to revoke the admission of one student and cancel six interviews. The common thread between them? They are all Indian save one. The school has also found at least 18 cases of mild and moderate plagiarism from the […]