Big brother AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) has been given just eight days by b-schools to modify the notification it issued on December 28, 2010 (pushing for sweeping changes in business education) or else face legal action. The Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) has decided to march up the steps of the […]

On February 2 around 9.30 am, around 280 candidates who had applied for the Business Management Programme and around 350 candidates who had applied to the Human Resources Management got their XLRI Jamshedpur interview shortlist statuses reversed and the ‘Regret’ message was replaced by a ‘Congratulations’. When XLRI declared its initial interview shortlist on January […]

Both these topics are frequently encountered in CET papers and are very confusing if not downright impossible to crack. These topics (including others such as Visual Reasoning, parajumbles, etc) are where candidates lose marks in CET. Last year, the subjective questions had options which weren’t close and so, were solvable by elimination. But things can […]

What is common between the following people and their Xavier’s Admission Test (XAT) 2011 scores? (Their XAT 2011 IDs are given inside the brackets.) CR Mahesh (XAT441916) VA – 99.07 QA – 99.97 RA – 97.2 Overall – 99.99 N Vijay Bhasker Reddy (XAT448096) QA – 88.99 VA – 99.97 RA – 97.64 Overall – […]

Being relatively new to market economy, we in India have for long centered quality measurement around accreditations with a rather low bar. Does your electrical appliance meet the minimum safety standards? Do factories have basic minimum safety conditions for workers? Do our business schools meet the minimum standards of infrastructure, faculty, number of books in […]

The new Indian Institutes of Management, (IIMs) namely IIM Ranchi, IIM Rohtak and IIM Raipur, along with IIM Trichy have planned a joint admission process this year. An initiative by IIM Ranchi’s director MJ Xavier, the gesture will see through common group discussions and personal interviews of around 3,000 successful CAT candidates. Pagalguy spoke to […]

The results of the written test which was conducted by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (TISS) on 12th December 2010 are out on their website. You can access the results from here: http://results.tiss.edu/ Candidates need to keep their registration numbers handy while accessing the result. The thread for the discussion of results has […]

Results for the Xavier’s Admissions Test (XAT) are out. Check your results at the following URL, http://184.73.49.226/XATRESULTS/ Dissect the result on the discussion thread for XAT 2011 results. The shortlist for the GDPI process of XLRI can be accessed from here: http://111.93.2.3/results2011/index.html You need to enter your XAT id for the result without the ‘XAT’ […]

Its the time of the year when b-schools are bursting with activity playing host to festivals, events, inter-college competitions. When students are seen drowned in paperwork, stuck to their laptops, mobiles perpetually against their ear, travelling all over the place, getting sponsors, connecting with media, sending invitations and the works. It’s the most maddening time […]

Starting with this feature, Pagalguy is starting a month-long series of articles on how to crack the Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (CET). These are being written by Shashank Prabhu, based on his experiences of topping it last year. In case you missed the update, the Maharashtra CET 2011 will be held on February 27, 2011. […]