In a first of sorts, The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) has acquired Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)’ entrance exam, the NMAT.   This means that henceforth, GMAC will own, determine and augment  the NMAT exam. The exam has been renamed ‘NMAT by GMAC.’ The exam process and format will remain more or […]

Finally I’m writing on this sacred thread. Firstly, I would like to thank everyone who shared his/her story here and inspired me .Please read at your own risk because this may not sound interesting. Coming to me…..I was always a good student in school. Though I was very active in class, I could never replicate […]

Finally I am making a post on this sacred thread… The thread which is always been source of inspiration for me ever since I came to know about this wonderful world of Pagalguy. Well to be honest I have neither cracked CAT nor got admission into top B-school like IIM A/B/C or XL . After […]

Well, not all endings are as happy as you daydream about them. It happened with me as well. But none the less, it is a success story. It started with the fifth semester of my engineering. Like most students, I joined coaching classes for preparation. Like most engineers, strong at quant. I was weak in verbal, perhaps from my schooldays. I had scored 67/100 […]

MBA College is termed as the journey of our life. A journey that will change us and our pay cheques forever (ah! one can hope you know). But before we embark on the journey there are major hurdles in the way, the much coveted CAT/XAT exams and the dreaded GD/ PI/ WAT and whatever they […]

“Your son will not get admission this year no matter how hard he’s going to try.” That’s what my dad got to hear upon consulting an astrologer. Yes he’s a stereotypical father who takes lesser rational decisions. This was during the time when I had decided to quit my job in order to pursue MBA. […]

In this election season when we are talking and debating on all kinds of vote banks, why aren’t our political parties looking at the CAT vote bank? Even at a conservative estimate of 1.8 lac candidates taking the CAT/other MBA exams, their parents, siblings, girl friends/boy friends (in laws hoping to have a IIM bahu/Jamai), […]

Disclaimer: This is a product of a sly sarcastic brain. The author is by no means responsible for aggravated feelings. However, you can voice your concerns or seek therapy at 1800-MBA-IDGAF. Hi ! A loud shout-out to everyone who has been toiling hard for getting into a B-school for the last couple of years. According […]

When CAT 2013 topper Karthik Kumar got 99.35 percentile in CAT 2012, he knew a better score was possible. The only roadblock was the Verbal Section where he managed only 85.5 percentile. To counter that, he started focusing only on the Verbal section as he was confident about Quant. He said, “I was not at […]

The results have started to come in. NMAT (raw scores) & IIFT are already out. (Soon the CAT and other exams’ results will be out.) Various forums, sites and Facebook groups are flooded with posts regarding results. While some have made it, many are disappointed and broken. The hard work which was put in seems […]