The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) Entrance Test 2011 turned out to be pleasant surprise to anyone who had worked hard. I am sure those taking it for the second time would be laughing while the first-time applicants would keep wondering why. It seems that b-schools are in the mood to change patterns and […]

On Sunday, November 27, 2011, several thousand aspirants will appear for the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi entrance test in nearly 20 cities. The entrance test is the first stepping stone for admissions to the MBA in International Business offered at IIFT in its Delhi and Kolkata campuses. The IIFT test typically […]

We are approaching the neck-deep phase of this year’s admission season, so we thought we’d devote a post linking to some of the more active forum threads on which students of some of India’s top b-schools are answering aspirant questions related to admissions, fees and life at the school. While at it, we are also […]

(Photo credit: IA Walsh) Chicago-Booth Graduate School of Business retained the top rank in Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2011 MBA Rankings, followed by Harvard Business School and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Along with UC Berkeley – Haas, Duke – Fuqua and Stanford, Wharton is one fo the four schools in the top 10 that have […]

The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi has applied to the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) for a 2-acre plot of land in the Ghitorni area on the outskirts of New Delhi. The purpose is threefold a residential structure for executives enrolling under the Management Development Program (MDP), residential quarters for faculty and a […]

In a bid to accommodate an increasing class size after implementing the 27% Other Backward Caste (OBC) quota, the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi has begun construction of a new hostel building. The hostel is expected to be operational for the incoming batch in 2012. The hostel will be a four-storey building […]

First it was the business schools of the Indian Institutes of Technology that scrapped the Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) in favour of the Common Admission Test (CAT). Then came Delhi University’s Faculty of Management Studies. Are more expected to go the CAT way and is all this a plan to get into a single-test […]

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 […]

Is the closure of Joint National Management Test (JMET), only the beginning of the end of the various other specialised b-school entrance exams? SS Mantha, chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education told media last week that from 2013 onwards, only one entrance exam (the CMAT) will come into force from 2013 onwards, […]

? Let’s face it, Quantitative Aptitude (QA) is the section that many absolutely dread. To top it, the importance of QA has only increased in the newly announced format of CAT 2011. As per a previous analysis on PaGaLGuY, this might increase the proportion of tough questions in the paper and smart selection of questions […]