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“my cat score is 97.7. i am a fresher, 4th year engineering. my acads were ok but i dont know any more. 88.2 in 10th cbse, 87.4 in 12th cbse. 75 % in grad till 6th sem. in 10th my index is 12.71/20, in 12th my hsc index is 13.59/20. total is 85.16.. there are […]
While the world is going gaga over those who scored 100 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011, those who missed the feat by just a few points went unnoticed. PaGaLGuY talks to some of the 99 percentilers, who fell short of the perfect score by a scratch. Srikanth Lanka, a final year student […]
Here is some surprising news for those tracking the demand for the Common Admission Test (CAT). Despite a marginally higher number of registrations in 2011 compared to CAT 2010, the actual turnout of test-takers in 2011 was lower than that in 2010. About 1.85 lakh candidates appeared for the CAT 2011 out of the 205,345 […]
(Photo credit: Ludovic Toinel) All of last week, our inbox at PaGaLGuY was packed with summer placement reports from b-schools. The annual drill of going through the reports is quite a bit of fun actually – since one has to mesh through all the marketing jargon to get to the relevant numbers. There were lofty […]
(Photo credit: Kai Schreiber) This is my second post on PaGaLGuY focusing on Geometry fundas. We discussed lines, triangles, parallelograms, trapeziums and polygons in my previous post. Now for some fundas and formulae in Geometry that happen to be frequently neglected by people but can fetch some crucial marks in the exam. Funda 1: Angle […]
Pic from World Economic Forum photostream Two big happenings were of concern to the b-school community last week. One of course The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 which was kick-started on October 22 (so technically last week) and the other, the arrest of former Indian School of Business’ Founder Chairman Rajat Gupta’s on charges of […]
(Photo credit: Bud Caddell) The concepts of Set Theory are applicable not only in Quant, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning but also in solving syllogism questions. Let us first understand the basics of the Venn Diagram before we move on to the concept of maximum and minimum. A large number of students get confused with […]
(Photo credit: ensign_beedrill) Chalk it up to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) merging their MBA admissions into the Common Admissions Test (CAT) fold or to the gloomy employment outlook in the IT sector, but the proportion of engineers taking the test this year is 4 percentage points higher than that in 2010. Detailed statistics […]
In my previous post, we discussed two common types of games and tournament questions. So, if you are looking for questions on new types of data representation or questions based on seeding in a tennis tournament, do read that post. However, there is another frequently appearing class of questions in the games and tournaments category […]
(Photo credit: US Army) In Logical Reasoning, very often we encounter problems based on games or tournaments. The first thing that as a CAT taker you need to realize is that the tournament-based format of questions offers the examiners a multitude of options to test you about. So, there cannot be a one-size-fits-all way of […]