The Common Admissions Test (CAT) starts less than a month from now. The good news is, that you can still start your preparation now and crack the exam to get a percentile you can use for the top b-schools. I spoke to six people who had sound advice to give on what to do in […]

The notification for the Xavier’s Aptitude Test (XAT) conducted by the Xavier’s Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur is out on their website. The XAT will be conducted on the January 2, 2011. Here is a ready reckoner with answers to Frequently Asked Questions and also, a few tips from people who had cracked the exam […]

Five 99-percentilers who are now studying at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) speak about what they did right when preparing for the CAT. Read through their experiences, you just might find a magic pill or two! What to read Shreyans Shrimali from IIM Ahmedabad with a CAT 2009 score of 99.99 percentile: “A lot […]

The official notification for applying to the Indian Institutes of Foreign Trade, Delhi and Kolkata is already out. The first step of the admission process is the written test which will be held on November 28, 2010. The shortlisted candidates from the test will appear for a group discussion and personal interview Here are some […]

Dressed in shorts and a crumpled white t-shirt and sitting coyly in his apartment in Dombivali, on the outskirts of Mumbai, Shashank Prabhu looks more like the teenager next door who you’d see rushing to his tuition classes. But once he begins to speak, the confidence and command of a topper are quite evident. Prabhu […]

(This article is based on the National Rankings list of the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings, 2010.) The years 2008 and 2009 made business schools extremely vulnerable to the same market forces that they had been training managers to deal with. In many ways, the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2010 mirror the performances of b-schools during the economic […]

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 […]

The next big entrance exam being the Xavier’s Admissions Test (XAT) on January 3, 2010, a few XAT 99 percentilers from Xavier’s Institute of Management, Bhubhaneswar (XIMB) have teamed up on PaGaLGuY to offer last-minute tips and advice on taming the exam. If you have questions about XAT or need help with figuring out a […]

Concerned with the events surrounding the conduct of CAT 2009, many business schools that accept the CAT score for their admissions are on alert and some are already contemplating alternative criteria for their 2010 admission season. We spoke to some of the directors of such b-schools and realised that an alternate action plan, although not […]

The Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) is where you come when you wish to have a great experience of learning management in an excellent environment. With a high quality infrastructure and support services, IFMRs faculty have a passion for innovation and cutting-edge research. IFMR was established in 1970, as a non-profit organization by […]