NABARD announced applications for the post of Assistant Manager (Grade ‘A’) in the Rural Development Banking Service (RDBS), Rajbhasha Service, Legal Service, Protocol & Security Service and Manager (Grade ‘B’) (RDBS). Candidates can apply only online at http://ibps.sifyitest.com/nabardabdec14/ between 24 December 2014 and 15 January 2015. Full text of the advertisement is available here – http://bit.ly/1xlodRD You post your queries and follow […]

A very common question that bothers many CAT-takers is the scoring methodology used to assess their performance. Specifically, the mystery around normalization makes students wonder about its impact on their final scores. In this article, let us try to decipher the normalization process. First of all, CAT awards +3 marks for correct answers and -1 […]

I want to ask you a question. You don’t have to answer me, just yourself. But first, I must tell you a story before asking my question at the end. Three MBA students are studying together. We’ll call them Yudhisthira, Bhima, and Arjuna (and say upfront that any resemblance to people you may know is […]

In line with the trend of more and more exams going online, SSC exams may also go online soon. An expert group, constituted by the DoPT under the chairmanship of former Union Public Service Commission Member I.M.G. Khan in order to review the existing test system, had made a series of recommendations. Following this, three […]

This post goes for all those worrying about the compensation difference between SBI and associates.The differences are as following: 1.SBI offers 4 additional increments which is the best that is offered by any PSB at present so your basic rises to 16,900/- from 14,500/- in other associates,the only major one to exist. 2.The confirmation test […]

We are all more mobile than ever and more likely to traverse into cultures different from our own – for reasons of studying, marketing, selling, buying, serving customers, and production of goods: literally, in the old-fashioned way, as business travellers or as onsite assignees; virtually as ‘desk diplomats’ via email, chat, phone, or web-based video […]

Nagpur city beat other contenders like Mumbai, Pune and Aurangabad to be the host of an Indian Institute of Management in Maharashtra. Higher and technical education minister Vinod Tawde and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis informed that the institute will likely start operations from the 2015-16 academic session. Currently, it will operate out of two buildings rented […]

Nagpur city beat other contenders like Mumbai, Pune and Aurangabad to be the host of an Indian Institute of Management in Maharashtra. Higher and technical education minister Vinod Tawde and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis informed that the institute will likely start operations from the 2015-16 academic session. Currently, it will operate out of two buildings rented […]

Getting the Tricky parts right You’ve slogged hard and belled-the-CAT; cracked-theXAT/MAT and what-have-we… and now its time to jump into the ‘Grey’. Unlike the written tests, GD’s and PI’s are not cut-and-dry ‘black-and-white’; they deal with the intangibles…. where your assessors are no longer looking for ‘the right answer’; but your ‘confidence’, ‘poise’, and ‘ability […]

I hail from a family business background and we are into the construction of roads. It has been about thirty years since my parents started the company, and today we have about a thousand employees. I have actively been involved in the business. According to me, the three years I have spent is sufficient time […]