Unlike the Common Admissions Test (CAT) which went fully computer-based in 2009 and floundered, the other Management Aptitude Test (MAT) with a 2.5 lakh strong test-taking population (though spread over four tests in a year) decided to go digital more gradually. Held four times every year, the MAT is delivered in both the paper-based and […]

An interesting bit of information came to light during our conversation with the IIFT Registrar yesterday. The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), which has its campuses at New Delhi and Kolkata too would have made its entrance test computer-based had it not been for the collapse of the system during the controversial CAT 2009. […]

Since its inception in 2003, Delhi Business School (DBS) has exemplified excellence in management education and is known for its academic excellence and industry exposure. From an emphasis on the public sector and information technology to focus on emerging economies, DBS has traversed many boundaries to develop its own expertise in management education and research. […]

The Regional Rankings for each city portray the preferences of candidates familiar with the colleges. In that sense, these are the most preferred regional-level b-schools for each of the featured cities – Mumbai, Jaipur, Chennai and Hyderabad. Most college included in the regional rankings accept the Management Aptitude Test (MAT). So if you have taken […]

MAH-CET, another important entrance examination for MBA aspirants MAH-CET test will be conducted on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 2:00 PM at Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Bhuvaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mysore and Raipur according to an announcement on the website of Directorate of Technical Education or DTE. The announcement says, “Applications are invited […]

Announcing the opening of the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2009-10 survey of What India thinks about Indian b-schools. Over the last two years, these Rankings of India’s Most Preferred b-schools have taken center-stage as the most credible and referenced Rankings among those looking to join an MBA program in India, or recruit from a business school. […]

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) today formally announced their joining the technology bandwagon by taking their admission test NMAT computer-based. Furthermore, the institute plans to take the test international by organizing it in Australia, UK and 12 Asian countries apart from in India. At the same time, NMIMS has steeply escalated the cost […]

When the CAT (and subsequently MAT and NMAT) went computer-based earlier this year, we at PaGaLGuY obviously got excited about the IIMs embracing technology and started working on our effort in helping you to be a better test taker. PaGaLGuY Prep is the first cut of our revolutionary new service designed to make you sharpen […]

Given a choice, Indian students would rather go for paper based tests than an computer-based one. The test-takers’ profile of the Management Aptitude Test (MAT) held on September 6th, 2009 say it all. MAT gave the candidates a choice between taking up the offline and computer-based examination; out of the 30,000 total candidates who registered […]

4000 out of a total of 30000 students who have registered for the Management Aptitude Test or MAT have chosen the online option; a number that amounts to a little more than 13 percent. MAT has been scheduled to be held in around 30 cities starting September 6th, 2009. The paper based test will be […]