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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 […]

Editors note: This article contains a lot of mathematical equations, which due to the limitations of HTML have been depicted as images. If you are able to view the equations, all is well. If not, please make sure your browser is not blocking image content. In previous posts, we have already discussed how to find […]

Editors note: This article contains a lot of mathematical equations, which due to the limitations of HTML have been depicted as images. If you are able to view the equations, all is well. If not, please make sure your browser is not blocking image content. Figuring out the last digit is the same as figuring […]