(Continued from here) As students with arts and commerce backgrounds, you might be aware of a few of your limitations. You cannot solve all the questions. Ideally, non-engineering students should focus more on logical reasoning questions that don’t involve advanced level concepts from probability and permutations/combinations. The idea is to choose the right questions – […]

Photo Credit: Marian Institute of Health Care Management In jest, Fr Romuald D’Souza is often referred to as the founder of founders. After serving as director of XLRI Institute of Management, Jamshedpur and starting both, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar and Goa Institute of Management, this 88 year old now wants to start a wellness […]

(Photo: mingusmutter) In this post, we are going to talk about two types of questions: Find out the area of the bounded region Find out the points with integer co-ordinates within the bounded region Let us first look at some graphs. |x| and -|x| These graphs will be mirror images of each other where the […]

Cows produce milk just like humans and precisely for the same reasons – to feed their new-born. But cows in cities like Mumbai are rarely given a chance to celebrate motherhood. Their calves, mostly males, are weaned away within a day of birth and killed or kept in precarious conditions to be sold as veal […]

The Xavier Aptitude Test (2014) paper will have a few minor changes. To begin with, GK will be made part of the main test and not a separate paper like last year, when it was introduced. This also means that the main test which was of a 2 hours and 20 minutes duration last year […]

Here we have a talk with Benny Joseph, a recent graduate of Chicago Booth and SoFi entrepreneur who heads the startup GoodApril, an awesome site that will help you save money while filing your taxes. In this post Benny talks about his experience at Booth and offers fantastic advice for incoming Booth students or those […]

IIM Ahmedabad (Photo: Kunjan Detroja) The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has altered its selection criteria for admissions to the PGP batch of 2014-16. From each of five academic disciplines covering the arts, commerce, medicine, science and engineering defined by IIM-A (more here, see Table 2) the top 50 or 1% (whichever is lower) […]

(Photo: Ben Husmann) An increasing number of cases of management institutes refusing refunds are coming to light this year. This time, seven students who withdrew admission to T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal, say that the institute has refunded only 11% of the total fees paid up and is refusing to part with more. […]

Sale of vouchers for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013 began today. About 12,000 vouchers were sold in all and about 10,000 candidates registered. Of this, 80 per cent had bought the vouchers online. According to CAT Convenor Prof Rohit Kapoor of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore, the availability of e-vouchers brought in […]

(Photo: Liz West) Arts and commerce students – or those from non-engineering academic backgrounds are often in a fix about how to prepare for CAT. I talk of certain strategies that can be useful for such applicants. Non-engineering students often find that quantitative ability is their bête noire. This is because after high school they […]