The 2010-11 admission season to Indian b-schools received a formal flag-off with the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) publishing the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2010 notification in national dailies on August 22. The exam will be held in a computer-based format at 32 cities on 20 calendar days between October 27 and November 24, 2010. […]

Five 99-percentilers who are now studying at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) speak about what they did right when preparing for the CAT. Read through their experiences, you just might find a magic pill or two! What to read Shreyans Shrimali from IIM Ahmedabad with a CAT 2009 score of 99.99 percentile: “A lot […]

The third of the four newly sanctioned Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) at Raipur released its admission notification today, inviting CAT 2009 applicants with minimum 90 percentile for the general category. IIM Raipur, which is being mentored by IIM Indore, will have 70 seats for the two-year Post-Graduate Program (PGP) in Management to begin with. […]

(Photo credit: James Whatley) Last week, the Chennai-headquartered Brilliant Tutorials’ branch in New Delhi was asked to cough up a refund of Rs 36,250 to a student who left the study course mid-way due to ill health. The New Delhi Consumer Forum, which passed the order, also asked the coaching institute to pay Rs 5,000 […]

Prometric, the testing agency entrusted with conducting the Common Admissions Test (CAT) today announced two companies — MeritTrac Services Pvt Ltd and Everonn Education Ltd — as its on-ground partners for CAT 2010. Both companies replace NIIT which participated in CAT 2009. “Everonn is an existing test delivery partner of Prometrics IT certification business and […]

An interesting bit of information came to light during our conversation with the IIFT Registrar yesterday. The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), which has its campuses at New Delhi and Kolkata too would have made its entrance test computer-based had it not been for the collapse of the system during the controversial CAT 2009. […]

The official notification for applying to the Indian Institutes of Foreign Trade, Delhi and Kolkata is already out. The first step of the admission process is the written test which will be held on November 28, 2010. The shortlisted candidates from the test will appear for a group discussion and personal interview Here are some […]

Folks, nominations for the CAT Dream Teams and the Underdog Teams are now open. All those who missed it last year, this is your chance! You may now nominate yourself into the city dream teams of Pune, Bangalore, Kolkata, Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Mumbai or Chennai. Else, run for the Underdogs Team. And of course, […]

Registration is open for the IIFT Entrance Test 2010 which will be held on November 28, 2010. And while we are at it, the Symbiosis SNAP will be held on December 19, 2010. Both test days are Sundays. IIFT Entrance Test 2010 Now that the IIMs have frozen the October 27 to November 23 period […]

This year, the Common Admissions Test (CAT) will begin in October, a month earlier than the usual November-end. How does an early CAT 2010 affect your preparation? Here are the top 5 repercussions and predictions. 1. Lesser prep time – Preparation time has been reduced by a whole month. Which means that you will have […]