XAT, scheduled to be held on January 05, 2014 is the gateway to entry into premier B-schools like XLRI and XIMB. However, it is quite different when compared to CAT as it is a pen and paper test, and has sections on GK and Decision-Making (DM). Many aspirants are bewildered by the DM section. Well, […]

How to prepare for TISSNET 2014. TISSNET is the entrance exam to enter Tata Institute of Social Sciences. It is one of the oldest management programme and has been there since 1967 it was formerly known as PM&IR;(Personnel Management & Industrial Relation). Today, it is known as HRM&LR;(Human Resource Management & Labour Relations). This year […]

Once CAT gets over, relief and lack of motivation follow. Hence you tend to overlook a few things during this crucial phase. From my experiences, I have a list of suggestions that might be useful to the candidates in the coming days: · You would have always thought about reading newspapers but might not have […]

The GK section of various entrance tests like IIFT, SNAP and XAT have enough number of questions on Static GK. As a start, Let me try to summarize some important facts regarding the UNO. Prior to the UNO, there was an organization called as The League of Nations. This was formed as a result of […]

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A;) and corporate restructuring are an important part of business. More often than not they make big headlines across the globe and are often featured in General and Business Awareness section of exams like IIFT, SNAP and XAT. More often than not, the questions are based on big deals that took place […]

While gliding through pages of PaGaLGuY one recent news on the fate of CMAT got my eye balls and the reason can be easily guessed. Being a CAT, XAT, SNAP, NMAT, TISS, MICAT, MH-CET, CMAT etc etc. aspirant, these kinds of news are of greater interest for me than those of Rahul-Modi melodrama. Let’s get […]

The Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) is in trouble again. And this could be the final straw. The Delhi High Court has ruled that CMAT cannot be given the ‘exclusive exam’ status that it has been so desperately trying to achieve ever since it came into existence last year. The court said that AICTE did […]

All exams have different myths surrounding them. In the case of the XAT exam there is a very popular one that it is a tougher exam than CAT.! Let us analyse some of these myths! 1. XAT is tougher than CAT: Like CAT , XAT also matches the performance of a student against the performance […]

There are plenty of reasons for it but for this post I would just concentrate on one aspect of it which is discussed over beer (or chai) among people working in the sector but not in the public domain. The coaching companies at the national level charge anywhere from Rs 25000 to 45000. Depending upon […]

Krishna Deshmukh is a satisfied man. After narrowly missing out on a Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai seat last year (he scored 306 marks in last year’s Common Management Admission Test), this BITS Pilani Goa student finally upped his performance and topped the CMAT September 2013. PaGaLGuY spoke to him. What went […]