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Picture taken from the XLRI website If it can be called a change, the biggest

Do you back up, back away or back down? An introduction to Phrasal Verbs for CAT 2011

Do you back up or back away or back down? Break away / Break down

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Life begins after marriage and a spouse is the best thing to have on campus say married b-school students.

IIM Indore’s Narendra Agarwal, his wife Poonam and their son Arnav In the days gone

Weekend reading (Aug 21-27): Admission deferrals rise in US b-schools as Tuition skyrockets and economy shakes, Rediff CEO thinks India’s Higher Education headed for a train wreck, a VC exclusively for IITs and IIMs

(Photo credit: ideowl) Accepted applicants to top US b-schools have started behaving the same way

More segments of society that need grace marks at India’s top b-schools

PS: The intention of the comic is not at all to mock womenkind or non-engineers.

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XAT to be held on January 8, 2012. Paper to be re-packaged to attract more from humanities, fewer from engineering

The Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) conducted annually by Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur will

Divide & Conquer: 3 simple rules to find out divisibility of numbers

The concept of divide and conquer, derived from the Latin phrase Divide et impera, was

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Will the ‘one glove fits all’ strategy work for MBA entrance exams?

Is the closure of Joint National Management Test (JMET), only the beginning of the end

CAT replaces JMET: Move expected to ease pressure on aspirants, faculty

After months of speculation, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will adopt the Common Admission

Brokering agreements between Subject and Verb in Verbal Ability grammar questions for CAT

(Photo credit: Christopher Matson) One of the most dreaded portions of the English section of

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Tablet computers and simulations are the future of standardized testing: ETS COO

On August 1, Educational Testing Service (ETS) launched the revised version of the Graduate Record

I am a Team Man: Nominations open for CAT Dream Team, Underdogs Team, SB Team and Girls’ Dream Team

It’s the time of the year for the PaGaLGuY community’s CAT teams again. The teams

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(Weekend reading August 14-20): Anna Hazare and MBAs, Kerala ministers go back to school, Harvard’s new entrepreneurship course

Anna Hazare was the poster boy all of last week, hijacking almost every bit of

B-schools consider possibility of another recession-hit placement season, but waiting and watching for now

Three developments in the past few weeks are bringing back fears of the job market

Winning Silver: Figuring out the second last digit in Quantitative Aptitude

Nike caused controversy with its advertising campaign during the 1996 Olympics by using the slogan,

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Shorter queues for CAT 2011 vouchers, aspirants say normalisation not an issue

Is the interest for the Common Admission Test (CAT) waning? The queues outside Axis Bank

CAT 2011 registration begins, Interface contains clumsy UI errors

The six-week window to buy vouchers and register online for the Common Admissions Test (CAT)

Accept vs Except: De-obfuscating commonly confused words for CAT

Can you tell the difference between historic and historical? When do you use accept and

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Weekend reading (Aug 7-13): St Stephen’s, MBA lies, Startups and Debt Ceiling

(Photo credit: Alexandre Normand) Guess who’s the latest to jump onto the b-school bandwagon? None

Readn mks man prfct n gud mngr 2. IIMs, othrs intro writn esays n selctn proces so dat ‘English’ gts its du

“Cross the T’s and dot the I’s” the constant reprimand by the quintessential English school