6 years – 5 CATs, 4 XATs, 2 FMS, 3 IIFTs, 3 GMATs, 2 JMETs and over 500 Mocks, 1 failed start up and  Finally got 760 in GMAT and joining Tepper school of Business – Carnegie Mellon University. I loved the journey, in fact I loved it too much for my liking. Met remarkable person […]

CAT 2015 notification is out. First up, let us get the facts 1. Exam on one day, on Nov 29th. 2. Time-limit now 180 mins ( from 170 minutes previously). Time limit in 3 tight compartments, one hour each for three sections, QA, DI-LR and Verbal. 34 questions each in Quant and Verbal, 32 in […]

The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2015  notification is out. Check here The biggest change – that the exam will be held on one day only – November 29, 2015 – in two sessions. The last time the exam was held on a single day was in 2008 when it was conducted in a pen and paper format.  […]

The CAT dates announcement hoopla currently underway sets up the next 3-4 months of preparation. Crank up the intensity and throw everything into the preparation routine over the next few weeks.  During your preparation, look to avoid these three pitfalls 1. Citing pressure from work (or in rare cases, college): The demands on your time from […]

Fewer people seem to be taking the CAT each subsequent year. The reasons for this was covered in the part-1. Here is an article talking about what next for Indian B-schools? & How is CAT preparation going to change? So, is an MBA not worth it? An MBA from a good college definitely has its […]

Around 2.7 lakh people took the CAT in 2008, less than 1.7 lakh people took it in 2014. That is a huge drop in numbers in just a 6-year period. (The numbers are probably not accurate to the decimal but the range is correct). Why has there been such a precipitous drop in such a […]

Academic admissions  criteria is something a lot of colleges and universities  in India don’t get too right.  Two streams that I have watched closely in the last couple of years,  MBA (mostly)  and engineering  (for a couple of months only) and they  seem to be constantly evolving  to suit changing times, technology and shifting student […]

Having a clear-cut strategy and a well-defined plan for the D-day is very crucial. In this article, we are going to focus on 3 specific questions – 1.How much time to spend on each question? 2.How to identify questions that I should skip? 3.Is there an advantage to be gained by solving tougher questions? These […]

What are the key things to keep in mind while forming a preparation plan for CAT? Should I quit my job and prepare for CAT One of the most common questions I get is about how to draft a preparation plan for CAT preparation. This is often followed by the lament that managing CAT prep […]

This story is different in the sense that it belongs to a perfectly average person. No IIT/NIT tag, no academic/gender diversity, general category, no super high academic scores to boast of, no ultimate extracurricular and no extra special talents either. He just had a lot of determination, nothing more than that. Calls: SIBM, NMIMS(did not […]