Getting an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) call is the ultimate ‘Holy Grail’ for a CAT aspirant. But the quest itself is an arduous journey. And a good road map helps in making the journey easier. The hallmark of a good road map is to provide markers with the ups and downs of the journey. […]

eng Very Often CAT aspirants wonder how they will manage, what seems like an Herculean task of mastering English vocabulary in the limited amount of time available for CAT preparation. They say that VA should be spelled as a “Walk – a – Bull – Awry” rather than Vocabulary!! One of the simplest methods of […]

At any given point in time, there are at least 500 faculty members of MBA coaching institutes,who are also simultaneously preparing for CAT. These ‘aspirants’ who have already taken CAT once and decided to take a shot at it once again get hired as faculty members for the section (CAT) which they have scored well […]

Despite several delays in application deadlines, only 663 applications have been received by COME (Consortium of Management Education) so far. COME, which is a consortium of 52 business schools in Maharashtra has got together and initiated a Centralised Admission Process (CAP) for all MBA aspirants who had not admission into any b-school so far. The […]

(Original photo credit: Rafael Kage) An often asked question is, “What is the difference between the average CAT student in Verbal Ability and a 99 percentiler in Verbal Ability?” (You will notice that I do not yet say ‘an IIM convert’ because for every six ’99 percentilers’ who are interviewed, only one makes it. But […]

(Photo credit: Liza) For this you need to find the links between the sentences. The goal in these types of sentences is to rearrange the sentences in the original sequence. It consists of a group of sentences that have been jumbled up. All the Best for CAT 2011! Let us look at Para Jumble (PJ) […]

The day was rife with news about the Common Admission Test (CAT) becoming a two-tier exam this year onwards. According to a report published in the Hyderabad edition of a leading daily, the IIMs are thinking of launching an initial screening process before the actual examination. However, Prof Himanshu Rai, CAT 2010 Convenor went on […]

Candidates preparing for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) and other b-school entrance exams often struggle with vocabulary. While the CAT does not test candidates on their knowledge of difficult words directly, other exams, especially the entrance test for FMS certainly do. In addition, even for the CAT, a good vocabulary is important. This is because […]

Rashmi Bansal, a graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM A), batch of 1993, is out with her new book ‘I Have A Dream’ which brings forth stories of 20 idealists who think and act like entrepreneurs. Being a product of the Indian b-school system, PaGaLGuY interviewed Rashmi Bansal about her new book, […]

The Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (CET) 2011 results have been declared. PaGalGuY met up with some of the toppers to know their plans for the future. The boys, who obviously studied hard to reach the top, have a series of ‘want-to-do-things’ now — some of these include buying new mobile phones and laptops to taking […]