Last month, we launched PaGaLGuY Prep in a rather basic sort of fashion to get a sense of how you all felt about our take on CAT prep online. Based on your feedback and suggestions, we took Prep back to the factory to add the next set of features and refinements are ready with PaGaLGuY Prep 2.0. With an adaptive learning mode, bookmarks and ranks, it’s just what you might need in the last few days to CAT.

AICTE plans to allot unique Enrollment numbers to every Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM/PGPM/PGDBM, etc) student in every approved Indian business school and put them on its website in a bid to streamline admissions. Think of it as a Unique Identification Number project for all MBA students in AICTE-approved b-schools of India. The move would end up curtailing certain varieties of admission frauds rampant in Indian b-schools, until of course, new loopholes are uncovered.

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Sometimes, age-old advice expressed in a new and interesting manner makes implementing it easier. IIM Bangalore alumnus Abhishek Thakore, who we wrote about in August, has written a small ebook on what you should be doing and thinking in the final run to CAT 2009.

The just-over-an-year-old IIM Shillong is headed by a non-PhD Director who oversees an administration embroiled in random faculty appointments and irregular financial deals relating to the institute’s IT infrastructure, according to a detailed expose by Jam magazine editor Rashmi Bansal. If any of this is true, there is little reason to cheer about the seven new IIMs on the anvil.

The Summer Placements process for the 2009-11 batch of the Agri-Business Management (PGP-ABM) programme at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad ended on the fourth day with 17 firms recruiting 34 students.
Apart from regular recruiters like ITC, Britannia, Mahindra & Mahindra, Godrej Agrovet and TATA Rallis, the students were also offered internship roles by [...]

IIM Ahmedabad concluded the summer internship placement process for the class of 2009-11 by placing 310 participating students in a record 4 days. At 44%, Finance roles were the single largest preference of students, featuring the return of the big names in investment banking and private equity and an increase in the number of offers [...]

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