Photo Credit: thethreesisters When you are competing against thousands or rather lakhs of people for a few seats, every minute matters. These days, probably what you did in your class 10th, 12th and graduation matters more than most things – but hey, you cannot do anything about that until someone invents a time machine. Although […]

Photo courtesy: QuinnDombrowski The Common Admission Test admission rules are very clear. On the website, it clearly states that the percentages for both X and XII have to be calculated taking into account all subjects mentioned on the candidate’s marksheet. Yet, every year, many candidates do just the opposite, especially those from the Indian Certificate […]

Photo Credit: Sean McEntee Data Sufficiency questions often involve very simple calculations. This does not mean that the questions are simple. It just means that the chances to make conceptual mistakes and / or silly mistakes are a little higher than usual. You will need to pay attention to detail in such questions. In Data […]

Well, it is that time of the year again! CAT results are out, the frantic search for the right b-school is on and the confusion seems never ending. Having gone through the mill myself two years back and being a little wiser after that, I would like to share with you all what are the […]

Photo Credit: Urban Hafner There are some topics in Quantitative Aptitude, like permutation & combination, where you can easily find out the answer, (it is in the options) but it turns out to be wrong. And then there are some topics in which you read the question, understand it but cannot even begin solving it. […]

Quadratic Equations are first taught to us in 6th or 7th class and most of us are able to score good marks in it because we are able to solve 90% of the questions by just using that formula. And that formula is: The above formula gives us the roots of the quadratic equation ax^2 […]

The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 topper Ravi Teja Palla is getting better and recuperating fast in a private hospital in Andhra Pradesh. Ravi had met with a dangerous accident on Tuesday night. PaGaLGuY.com managed to track down Ravi in the ICU of Seven Hills Hospital in Vishakhapatnam. Just as we called, Ravi was being […]

In our endeavour to help you start prep afresh for Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013, here is the experience of yet another CAT 2012 topper. The second in the PaGaLguY video series is Anshul Garg, CAT 2012 topper from Panchkula, Chandigarh. Anshul is currently a final year engineering student at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), […]

As promised earlier, heres another video for all the future Common Admission Test (CAT) aspirants. In this video, CAT 2012 topper Jaskaran Singh Sachdeva provides practical tips on approaching the sections and some question types in CAT. For many of the Common Admission Test (CAT) aspirants, perhaps the hardest thing to manage is balancing their […]

After all the frenzy associated with the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 results, calmness seems to have found its place again. For the aspirants who did not perform as well as expected, this would be an ideal time for intrsopection and starting afresh for CAT 2013. Helping you in this endeavour, would be a series […]