Dear all, The media cell at the Xavier’s Institute of Management, Bhubhaneswar (XIMB) brought the school’s XAT 2010 99-percentilers together in a video where each speak about their experiences on cracking the XAT and what worked for them. For all those of you who have taken the CAT, here’s a video ready reckoner to get […]

The last time, I focused on few of the commonly faced dilemmas at the various B-School entrance tests. A management entrance test is designed so as to bring out the ability of an aspirant to perform under immense pressure. To subject the students to a bit of stress so as to observe how good they […]

Just when CAT 2010 was being written off as a ‘no-glitches’ exam, reports have begun to trickle in about wrong questions and no right options. According to candidates who have given the exam this season, a few questions have been tough to crack but the real reason for their tough character is possibly because they […]

May sound very Yash Raj Film-types, but amidst the misty winds blowing at IIM Shillong, one can often hear the soft strains of a guitar or the gentle taps of a piano. And this is no dream sequence as it would have been in the film, it is only Sourjyo Das strumming the guitar and […]

(Photo credit: Tarun Chawla) The entrance test for Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) will be held on Sunday, November 14. With less than a week to go, a quick-guide on preparing for it is in order. I had a talk with few current students of IRMA about advice they would like to give to […]

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow completed its summer internship placements for the PGP class of 2012 with 417 offers from 151 companies. A slot-based process spread over 6 days was followed, with 123 offers being made in Slot Zero, said an IIM Lucknow press release. The 2010-12 PGP batch has a student strength […]

Selling Pagalguy as an advertising/marketing medium to b-schools is not only an enriching experience but also an entertaining one. This is because before you actually get to meet the person in charge of buying advertising for a school, you have to battle an entire battery of people from receptionists and telephone oeprators to security guards […]

Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets here.

It’s been one year and 4 months since we compiled arguably the best thread on PaGaLGuY into a book – ‘The Best of All I wanted to speak about CAT’. The ebook — which documented super-detailed stories of how successful CAT aspirants persevered against all odds and aced their way into an IIM or a […]

Imagine, you are in the midst of your MBA entrance exam (CAT, XAT, FMS, whatever) and one section has proved to be more taxing than you expected, or may be it has fewer sets than you were anticipating, or still is much longer than you would have liked it to be. what would you you […]