The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has postponed the final registration date for the Common Management Aptitude Test (CMAT) from January 9 to January 22, 2012. The decision to postpone the date was taken as some state universities including that of Maharashtra, Kerala and Rajasthan scrapped their own management admission tests and agreed […]

Like in a Bollywood flick, the Xavier’s Admission Test (XAT) 2012 held today, January 8, 2012 closed this season with a happy ending. Living upto its standard of questions, the XAT 2012 turned out to be a very balanced paper. This year. the exam was easier but certainly not easy! Questions were not direct; each […]

In a letter sent to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the Department of Technical Education, Rajasthan Government has stated that it will consider only Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) scores from next year. The Rajasthan Management Aptitude Test (RMAT), the management test conducted by RTU will be scrapped with immediate effect. The […]

Being physically present in a classroom would soon be a passe for students at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi. As from next year, they would attend virtual classrooms, sitting in their hostels. Lectures will be broadcast live and students would just have to log in through a laptop or PC to attend classes. […]

Editors note: This is the first of the two-part series by guest author Charanpreet Singh that gives you a checklist about the important don’ts at a personal interview. The journey that started with writing tests, applying to and winning calls from business schools and competing in group discussions reaches its final milepost — a face-to-face […]

Photo: Sanjay In what seems to be a fallout of the global economic meltdown, finance hiring for summer internships further dropped at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad for the third year in a row with only 28.38% of the offers coming from this sought-after vertical. Companies offering consulting and marketing or sales training, […]

Photo: Dhairyasheel Gore Students of the five-year Integrated Management Programme (IPM) at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore would now get a distance learning Bachelor’s degree from the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) for the first three years of their course. Additionally, IIM Indore has applied for ‘deemed university’ status to the Human […]

Tarique involved in fieldwork Tarique Mohammed Quereshi, a graduate of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai is passionate about beggars! Nothing moves him more than seeing a beggar child shivering in the cold and scrounging for alms at traffic signals. You or I might shoo away such a child but Tarique would go […]

The ticket to MBA has been changing colours MBA admission procedures at Indian b-schools have traditionally followed the set routine of holding a mass admission test, calling the shortlisted candidates for group discussions in stressful environments and then grilling them one-on-one in personal interviews. A small crop of b-schools, however, are breaking away from the […]

Photo: Niyam Bhushan Only last week, we had reported that the Maharashtra management Common Entrance Test (Mah-CET) 2012 had been postponed by two weeks to March 11, 2012 to make way for the dates booked by the All Indian Council of Technical Education (AICTE) for its Common Management Admission Test (CMAT). Not only has Mah-CET […]