(Photo credit: Bansi Mehta, taken outside at a CAT centre in Mumbai) On the last day of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 on November 18, the scene outside the center gates was full of anxious faces. Not only of candidates, but also of their parents in whose eyes lay great expectations. And why not, […]

The chatter has dimmed and the mouse clicks turned silent. The hubbub outside the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 centres of the last month will make a comeback only after an entire year. As CAT applicants wait for the next big touchstone the results PaGaLGuY catches up with the person who made it happen — […]

The first version of the MBA entrance exam launched by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is scheduled to be held in February 2012. Called the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT), it is little more than two months away and there is already hectic work in progress at the AICTE headquarters in New […]

(IRMA by Satwick Thumu) Editors note: Guest author Parasharan Chari, Chief Operating Officer of Ahmedabad-based test-preparation institute Endeavor Careers, analyses the IRMA Admission Test paper held on November 13, 2011 and predicts cutoffs for prominent rural management b-schools that accept this score. — — — The Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) admission test on […]

With less than a week to go for the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) Admission Test 2011, here are a few last minute tips given by the current Rural Management Program students. This is just to give an overview about the paper and the various approaches one can follow in the exam. It also […]

B-schools teach youngsters how businesses ought to be run. Who questions the way business schools are run? Nina Jacob, a professor who has been with private b-schools such as Xavier Institute of Management, Goa Institute of Management and Institute of Management Technology writes a scathing critique of unregulated governance at India’s private business schools in […]

Even though there are no reported fatal technical failures in the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011, the test is not completely bereft of glitches. Monday, October 31, computers crashed and screen colours played truant in a data interpretation question at the Nirmala Devi College centre in Mumbai, where this correspondent was taking the CAT. Although […]

(Photo credit: Kai Schreiber) This is my second post on PaGaLGuY focusing on Geometry fundas. We discussed lines, triangles, parallelograms, trapeziums and polygons in my previous post. Now for some fundas and formulae in Geometry that happen to be frequently neglected by people but can fetch some crucial marks in the exam. Funda 1: Angle […]

Pic from World Economic Forum photostream Two big happenings were of concern to the b-school community last week. One of course The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 which was kick-started on October 22 (so technically last week) and the other, the arrest of former Indian School of Business’ Founder Chairman Rajat Gupta’s on charges of […]

(Photo credit: Alan Levine) There has been a lot of feedback in the comments on my previous posts here demanding an article on Geometry. I have been avoiding writing it for some time because, 1. It is not one of my strong areas. 2. It takes a lot of time to draw the diagrams required […]