The CAT dates announcement hoopla currently underway sets up the next 3-4 months of preparation. Crank up the intensity and throw everything into the preparation routine over the next few weeks.  During your preparation, look to avoid these three pitfalls 1. Citing pressure from work (or in rare cases, college): The demands on your time from […]

Fewer people seem to be taking the CAT each subsequent year. The reasons for this was covered in the part-1. Here is an article talking about what next for Indian B-schools? & How is CAT preparation going to change? So, is an MBA not worth it? An MBA from a good college definitely has its […]

Around 2.7 lakh people took the CAT in 2008, less than 1.7 lakh people took it in 2014. That is a huge drop in numbers in just a 6-year period. (The numbers are probably not accurate to the decimal but the range is correct). Why has there been such a precipitous drop in such a […]

Academic admissions  criteria is something a lot of colleges and universities  in India don’t get too right.  Two streams that I have watched closely in the last couple of years,  MBA (mostly)  and engineering  (for a couple of months only) and they  seem to be constantly evolving  to suit changing times, technology and shifting student […]

Having a clear-cut strategy and a well-defined plan for the D-day is very crucial. In this article, we are going to focus on 3 specific questions – 1.How much time to spend on each question? 2.How to identify questions that I should skip? 3.Is there an advantage to be gained by solving tougher questions? These […]

What are the key things to keep in mind while forming a preparation plan for CAT? Should I quit my job and prepare for CAT One of the most common questions I get is about how to draft a preparation plan for CAT preparation. This is often followed by the lament that managing CAT prep […]

This story is different in the sense that it belongs to a perfectly average person. No IIT/NIT tag, no academic/gender diversity, general category, no super high academic scores to boast of, no ultimate extracurricular and no extra special talents either. He just had a lot of determination, nothing more than that. Calls: SIBM, NMIMS(did not […]

Not so great story of another run off the mill software engineer IIT JEE Results, June 2008 Life took a vicious turn for a boy of 18, his dreams shattered to smithereens. 2 years of working hard yields no result as he leaves the city of Jamshedpur; his hometown, head hung down in pain and […]

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Dear PaGaLGuY readers, As we all know, Logical Reasoning is an important component of a number of competitive examinations such as the UPSC Civil Services Examination, Banking Entrance Examinations, SSC CGL/CHSL Examination, MBA Entrance Examination, Combined Defence Services Examination, etc. In order to help you practise and improve your reasoning ability, we provide you this […]