(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 […]

Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) will not consider CAT scores for admissions to its flagship program, PGDM (C) 2010-2012. According to Deval Kartik, faculty and admissions co-ordinator, MICA, the admission process followed by the institute this year will be MICAT, Group Exercise and Personal Interview (GE-PI). MICAT is the internal test conducted by the […]

Concerned with the events surrounding the conduct of CAT 2009, many business schools that accept the CAT score for their admissions are on alert and some are already contemplating alternative criteria for their 2010 admission season. We spoke to some of the directors of such b-schools and realised that an alternate action plan, although not […]

The Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) is where you come when you wish to have a great experience of learning management in an excellent environment. With a high quality infrastructure and support services, IFMRs faculty have a passion for innovation and cutting-edge research. IFMR was established in 1970, as a non-profit organization by […]

Bangloreans comprise the single largest group of students at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad while the fairer sex adds up to over a quarter of the batch. 21% have GMAT scores above 750, 58% have had international work-experience and 29% are married. How do we know? ISB’s just-released data-sheet on admission demographics says […]

This MBA season, international MBA aspirants would be applying to a new b-school everyday wondering about the post recession scenario there. At PaGaLGuY, we talked to alumni, new aspirants, faculty members and Eric Morse, Associate Dean at the Richard Ivey School of Business and deciphered the MBA program there. Strengths of Richard Ivey Business School […]

The Graduate Record Examination’s (GRE) big shot at trying to wrest the business school admissions space from the currently prevalent Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) comes in an interesting period of time, when applications to b-schools in the US and Europe are dwindling. Last month, Wharton joined Harvard, Stanford, MIT-Sloan and 250 business schools worldwide […]