It is official: CAT 2010 will be held on 20 days between October 27 and November 23, 2010. The IIMs will release the CAT advertisement in newspapers on the last Sunday of August and the registration and form sales process will begin three days after that. “There will be logical breaks in between the exam […]

There will be little change in the base process used behind the creation and evaluation of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2010 compared to CAT 2009. Prometric, the testing vendor commissioned by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) for conducting the test will continue to use the psychometric process to ensure that the CAT is […]

On a lighter note, if the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Maharashtra Government and the ‘mai-baap’ of the Maharashtra MBA-CET continues its chat room on its official website, it is sure to give dating and matrimonial sites a run for their money. One can not only ‘make frens’ on the website’s ‘Chat with the PRO’ […]

Among the major modifications planned in the administration of the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2010, the exam will be held earlier than usual, over a longer period of time and over fewer testing centers. While the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have retained Prometric for delivering the test, NIIT — the ground technology partner of […]

The Karnataka High Court on June 11 disposed the public interest litigation seeking cancellation of the controversial computer-based Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2009 exam held in November and December 2009, while directing the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) at Bangalore and Ahmedabad to ensure that the errors were not repeated again. A Bangalore division bench […]

(Credit: timetrax23) Imagine this: there are over 2,400 b-schools in India of which 1,999 are approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and 400 function as unapproved private b-schools. Together, they have nearly 190,000 seats for a total pool of 3.5-4 lakh MBA aspirants who sit for the national and state-level MBA […]

In about a week’s time, most business schools in India would have welcomed the new batch of starry-eyed students, the first-year ‘freshers’. Carrying with them a lot of anxiety and much hope, they would be busy checking out the campus and the classrooms, wondering about roommates, making their first friends or scouting for paying-guest accommodation, […]

The country’s one of its kind meet for top b-schoolers, MBA aspirants and MBA alumni is back! Two days of fun, music, networking, theater, sports and more with the best posters of PaGaLGuY, next to a pretty beach on the outskirts of Mumbai. On May 22 and 23, 2010 at Arnala Beach, Mumbai. Entry by […]

Dressed in shorts and a crumpled white t-shirt and sitting coyly in his apartment in Dombivali, on the outskirts of Mumbai, Shashank Prabhu looks more like the teenager next door who you’d see rushing to his tuition classes. But once he begins to speak, the confidence and command of a topper are quite evident. Prabhu […]

Since its inception in 2003, Delhi Business School (DBS) has exemplified excellence in management education and is known for its academic excellence and industry exposure. From an emphasis on the public sector and information technology to focus on emerging economies, DBS has traversed many boundaries to develop its own expertise in management education and research. […]