The Bara Imambara, Lucknow (Photo: Derek Keats) In what is a stark indication of the supply inflation of MBA seats in the country, this year’s number of applicants to the state-level MBA entrance exam of Uttar Pradesh is just a little over half of the total number of MBA seats in the state. According to […]

The JBIMS Mumbai buildingDr Stephen D’silva, director, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai tells PaGaLGuY that the institute is contemplating constructing a new building on the campus. He also expresses concerns about how the admissions process will equate CMAT and Mah-CET scores. JBIMS has often been termed as the ‘CEO Factory’. What is […]

A screenshot of a blank CMAT scorecard Five days after All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) declared the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) results on their website, it released the individual scorecards for all CMAT aspirants today. While the earlier results declared on March 11, 2012 had published only the rank and the total […]

The IMT Nagpur campus (Photo: Siddhartha Garg) Last year, Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad had tried to pump in some technological innovation into its admissions process by allowing candidates to send video-recorded answers to interview questions. But considering the execution problems it experienced with the ‘Vmock’ software, it has decided to drop the ‘virtual […]

The Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (Mah-CET) 2012 held on March 11, 2012 surprised many who took it. After a difficult paper in 2011, candidates had hoped that the last of the CET would be easy, however that was not the case. According to candidates who appeared for the test, Logical Reasoning and Visual Reasoning questions […]

Candidates awaiting their Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) scores that were due to release on March 11, 2012, were in for a surprise when the results were declared fifteen minutes before the turn of the date, around 11:45 PM on March 10. The results contain the total marks as well as the all Indian rank […]

Clearing confusion about the acceptance of the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) for admissions at autonomous business schools, the Supreme Court today ordered that CMAT shall not be the singular management entrance test and PGDM institutes could admit anyone with CAT, MAT, XAT, ATMA and JMET (now replaced by the GMAT) scores. The Educational Promotional […]

A single entrance exam is a good idea but not if AICTE conducts it, says Fr PT Joseph, SJ, director of Xavier Institute of Management (XIM), Bhubhaneshwar in an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY.What changes in the b-school or the curriculum can the incoming batch at XIMB expect to look forward to? There has been some […]

CMAT aspirants outside a center in Belapur, Navi Mumbai (Photo: Ushnota Paul) Held amidst many apprehensions and uncertainties, the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) held by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) drew to an official close on February 28, 2012. While for most students the CMAT exam officially came to an end, […]

CMAT centre at YMT Kharghar, Navi Mumbai (Photo: Ushnota Paul) Already labelled the easiest management entrance exam three days into the test, the Common Management Aptitude Test (CMAT) is inviting mixed reactions from test-takers in Delhi and Mumbai, ranging from delight to distress. According to candidates both at Delhi and Mumbai, the exam content was […]