In a stark reminder of recent cases in which Indians have been legally intimidated for what they wrote online on social networks, an MBA applicant from Kolkata has been threatened with legal proceedings by a CAT test preparation company after he expressed dissatisfaction with the institute’s pricing and product information through a post on an […]

Problems based on grids/chessboards have been asked in the CAT and other MBA entrance exams over the years. They seem really difficult when you encounter them for the first time but once you get the hang of things they become really simple. The key lies in understanding the basic concepts involved. The most common grid […]

Photo Courtesy: Mikecogh (Flickr) The Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L) announced yesterday that it had reduced fees. Great news, the media lapped it up and so also the MBA fraternity. But it also added, to this feat, that it was the first IIM to do so. Kind of right but not quite. IIM Kozhikode […]

(Photo courtesy: neubie) MBA applicants have more reason to worry this year. If the increasing costs of application, exam fees and tuition of business schools were not enough to break you into a sweat, get prepared to pay atleast 10-15% more for test preparation this year, no matter what part of the country. At Career […]

Dr Surajit Mitra, Director, IIFT Delhi & Kolkata In an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY, Dr Surajit Mitra, Director at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi and Kolkata talks about sectional cut-offs becoming a permanent feature of the IIFT test, the possibility of shifting the IIFT test online and his views on a single National […]

Photo Credit: Unlisted Sightings (Flickr.com) You can go easy with the Quantitative Ability section if you are an engineer. To be honest, it would not matter whether you are an engineer or not. If you take the Common Admission Test (CAT) papers from say 5 years ago, the Quantitative Ability section used to be quite […]

The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 had a little surprise for some students in the form of a question based on four sets. As far as I can remember, questions from set theory in CAT have always been based on two or three sets and CAT 2012 was the first time a question based on […]

Photo Credit: Victorrochajr (Flickr.com) I am quite sure that most of you, if not all of you would be aware of the basics of quadratic equation but just to provide a brief refresher: For a quadratic equation given represented by ax^2 + bx + c = 0 Roots are given by (-b + sqrt(b^2 – […]

Photo credit: pasukaru76 (www.flickr.com) Padaki Sagar Shrinivas, a 24-year old aspirant from Mumbai has secured the second rank in February 2013 Common Management Admission Test (CMAT). Extremely happy with his score, Sagar said that a single minded approach and a well-placed strategy keeping in mind the structure of the CMAT paper is what helped him […]

Photo Credit: Flickr A very common type of problem that we get in CAT is when we are asked to find out the number of integral solutions to a given equation. I have always found it hard to categorize such sort of problems in a particular category. A case can be made that such questions […]