And that good news came. Out of 42 months, we can do industrial training in last 9 months. I opted for that opportunity. Had a hang of the financial markets in the free time. Sounded interesting. So wanted to do something in that area. The resume was good. So didnt find it difficult to get […]

XLRI’s decision to make the OMR sheets public is a turning step for MBA in India. For a while now, MBA entrance exams have attracted  a fair share of heart burn among candidates. Be it ‘time-worn’ issues like the never-to-be understood normalisation process or just the always unanswered questions about wrong ‘questions.’   In some […]

(Never thought in my wildest dreams that I’ll get a chance to update this.) CAT-08 season continued – So here I was sitting with all rejects. No job. I went completely blank about my future. Further that was the recession year. I still remember taking my resume and going pillar to post…one room companies…standing outside […]

The XLRI aspirants versus the XAT 2015 wrangle has taken an interesting turn with XAT officials deciding to publish scanned  images of the OMR sheet on Wednesday. This was confirmed by Prof Munish Thakur, head of Admissions at XLRI.  Prof Thakur added that it was very unfortunate that despite being transparent with the answer keys, […]

As promised in the earlier article, here is XLRI’s response, sent by a member of  External Linkages at the school. Please note that PaGaLGuY had sent  an email  to XLRI before the article went online. However, since XLRI has always been one of the few b-schools to always respond to queries, below is the response […]

XLRI(HR)Batch of 2013-2015: How I went about the interview preparation. 7 April 2013 At the outset,I am going to warn you that this post is going to be long and tedious.I am writing this piece not for my personal satisfaction,but for thousands of aspirants who are mediocre like me;who ruined their high school/graduation academics,and did not […]

The XAT  2015 results may have been declared a few days earlier than schedule but they have not brought glad tidings to all. This is the first year that XLRI disclosed the official answer key and  ironically, that seems to be the bone of contention. According to candidates who spoke to PaGaLGuY, some of the […]

I’m a General, non-engineer, female. I’m skeptical whether my story can inspire anyone, but it surely has been one hell of a ride (that ended up in helL ) for me, so thought of penning it down just for records. ? —————————————————————– I did not score a great percentile in CAT, getting into an IIM […]

XAT 2015 results declared. Check xatonline.net.in for your result. XAT which was held on January 4, 2015 is one of the few pen and paper exams held in the MBA space. The score card link is : http://xatonline.net.in/loginscard.aspx The answer key is at: http://xatonline.net.in/answerkey.aspx XAT 2015 results were expected on January 31, 2015  but like in the earlier years, […]

This post is continuation of the previous post and shall focus on 2 things…. How I attempted CAT and my strategy… how I prepared for GD PI How to prepare for CAT … you have Arun Sharma, coaching class material… shortcuts etc.. But below is a short write up on prep for written One thing […]