While schools newly opting for the Common Admission Test (CAT) made headlines last few weeks, now it’s time for some ‘opposite’ news – schools that have decided to opt out of taking CAT 2011 scores. At least the list (of b-schools taking CAT) on the CAT website says so. This year about (excluding the Indian […]

Picture from the FMS website Students and faculty of the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) took out a silent march to the Vice-Chancellor’s (Delhi University) office earlier today to protest against the cancellation of the FMS entrance exam. Many classes stood cancelled as, though, both students and faculty ‘attended’ classes, little work was done. May […]

Pic by Elvert Barne Lot’s of festivities last week. Starting with Idd on August 31, spilling over to Ganesh Chaturthi on September 1 and extending to the Pagalguy.com anniversary on September 2. Pagalguy completed nine years and the day was marked with general cheer and frolic at its headquarters in Mumbai. Other than that, there […]

Picture taken from the XLRI website If it can be called a change, the biggest change in this years Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) paper will that it will be a do-able paper and the level of difficulty will see a dip. Disclosing this, Xavier’s Labour Research Institute (XLRI) Admissions Chairperson Soumendra Bagchi told PaGaLGuY that […]

The Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) conducted annually by Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur will be held on January 8, 2012. Online registration for the same can be done from September 20, 2011 upto November 30, 2011. While the paper will remain a pen and paper format this year and conducted on a single day, […]

(Photo credit: albertogp123) Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) will revert to accepting the Common Admission Test (CAT) score for shortlisting candidates for the MICA test (MICAT) for admissions to the 2012-14 batch. A minimum of 90 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) will be required to reach the MICAT stage, said GK Nair, […]

Photo credit: roblisameehan PGDM institutions across the country are free to accept CAT, XAT, MAT, ATMA and JMET scores and even conduct their own GD PI, the Supreme Court ruled today. An interim order to the effect which was passed on March 17, 2011 has been extended till the next academic year 2012-2013. The bench […]

Despite several delays in application deadlines, only 663 applications have been received by COME (Consortium of Management Education) so far. COME, which is a consortium of 52 business schools in Maharashtra has got together and initiated a Centralised Admission Process (CAP) for all MBA aspirants who had not admission into any b-school so far. The […]

Pic by Max Wolfe Photostream In a bid to fill up 2,100 PGDM seats, about 52 b-schools in Maharashtra are, for the first time, conducting a centralized admission process for b-school aspirants. The service will hope to net students who have taken any of the entrance tests namely: CAT / MAT / XAT / ATMA […]

Image taken from skulpt.com With this year’s MBA entrance season done and the new season about to begin in full flow in the next couple of months, freshers as well as those enthusiastic about joining a coaching institute to help them out with their CAT prep would be confused with the plethora of options available. […]