Looking back at the last three years, one new ‘big idea’ has dominated Indias business school admissions every year. If 2009 was all about replacing paper-pencil assessments with computer-based entrance tests, then the flavour of 2010 was limiting the number of engineers in MBA classrooms and increasing diversity. 2011 is increasingly shaping to be the […]

Picture from the FMS website Students and faculty of the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) took out a silent march to the Vice-Chancellor’s (Delhi University) office earlier today to protest against the cancellation of the FMS entrance exam. Many classes stood cancelled as, though, both students and faculty ‘attended’ classes, little work was done. May […]

The D-day for some MBA aspirants comes earlier than usual. If you are one of those who are taking the Management Aptitude Test (MAT) this Sunday (September 4, 2011), read on. You must be aware that the MAT is a 150 minute long test with 200 questions split across five sections. Here is a recommended […]

Anna Hazare was the poster boy all of last week, hijacking almost every bit of newspaper space and television time. And many aam admi tried to, did, or at least appeared to be wanting to do something to feel akin to the movement. Some b-school drills in endorsing the cause also made news. While some […]

(Photo credit: albertogp123) Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) will revert to accepting the Common Admission Test (CAT) score for shortlisting candidates for the MICA test (MICAT) for admissions to the 2012-14 batch. A minimum of 90 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) will be required to reach the MICAT stage, said GK Nair, […]

Photo credit: roblisameehan PGDM institutions across the country are free to accept CAT, XAT, MAT, ATMA and JMET scores and even conduct their own GD PI, the Supreme Court ruled today. An interim order to the effect which was passed on March 17, 2011 has been extended till the next academic year 2012-2013. The bench […]

Despite several delays in application deadlines, only 663 applications have been received by COME (Consortium of Management Education) so far. COME, which is a consortium of 52 business schools in Maharashtra has got together and initiated a Centralised Admission Process (CAP) for all MBA aspirants who had not admission into any b-school so far. The […]

(Photo: Christina Rutz) You have probably wondered how a no-name private b-school caught hold of your mobile number each time you received a telemarketing call or an SMS from such a school asking whether you would like to consider appearing for its admission process. More often than not, the telecaller knows the roll number of […]

Pic by Max Wolfe Photostream In a bid to fill up 2,100 PGDM seats, about 52 b-schools in Maharashtra are, for the first time, conducting a centralized admission process for b-school aspirants. The service will hope to net students who have taken any of the entrance tests namely: CAT / MAT / XAT / ATMA […]

Image taken from skulpt.com With this year’s MBA entrance season done and the new season about to begin in full flow in the next couple of months, freshers as well as those enthusiastic about joining a coaching institute to help them out with their CAT prep would be confused with the plethora of options available. […]