SATURDAY: 17 NOVEMBER · Don’t cram! Preparation for CAT is a long term process. Whatever efforts you have put in till now are sufficient, you cannot learn any new things anymore, so just relax. · Get your gear together! Gather everything you’ll need to carry with yourself to the test centre: Admission ticket, a ballpoint […]

The Open SimCAT was designed to make the students CAT-ready. The CAT can be tamed by those who manage to remain composed under any given test scenario. While conceptual clarity and management aptitude are the requisites for taking the CAT; poise, confidence and presence of mind are instrumental for succeeding at the test. Open SimCAT […]

What top three factors set IMT Ghaziabad apart from other Indian b-schools in the same segment? Academic excellence, quality research and strong industry interface set us apart for other B-schools in the same segment. Also, our international links have enabled us to have MoUs with 23 b-schools worldwide for student exchange programs for which students […]

The changing stripe: It is being observed that the data interpretation (DI) section of CAT has remained one of the toughest sections for the last two to three years. One can observe a shift in the pattern of the questions. Traditionally, the DI section contained data in the form of graphs, tables, pie charts and […]

Here is a tutorial designed to help you get over the fear of FIJ questions. Click here to download the decoding FIJ tutorial (or right click and ‘Save as…’ before opening it in Adobe Reader) The tutorial is a shareware item. Which means that if you like it, you promise to share it with your […]

Every year, about 1,500 students make it to the IIMs. Each of them does different things in the last few days before the CAT. There isn’t any universal formula or strategy for the last mile. It is essential for you to pause a bit and take a look at your CAT readiness. Once that is […]

Let us start by asking the most fundamental question. Q: What is your objective?A: Your objective is to maximize your score. To maximize your score, you should, in the given time, score as much as possible. As much as possible essentially means that you have solved all the questions that you could have solved. For […]

Can you update us about the status of class sizes in your post-graduate courses? We had 180 seats in the Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM), 60 for PGP in Human Resources and currently 32 students from India and 15 foreign students for PGP in International Management. From the next academic year we would have […]

In CAT 2006 too, the message send by IIMs was very clear: We are looking for people who are ‘well read’. It proved to be a nightmare for those who were not good readers. Gone are those days when there used to be many passages with 5-7 questions each and it used to be a […]

Quantitatively, the good student MUST score better than the not so good ones to ensure that CAT does its job! Let us go one step further. This means that each question in the CAT should and must differentiate between the good and the not so good. This in turn would mean that in each question […]