CAT 2013 candidates who have taken the legal route against alleged ‘wrong scores’ suffered a major setback yesterday when a court in Indore gave the respondents more time to get back with information. The respondents, in this case, the IIMs and Prometric asked the court for additional time to come back with the raw scores […]

An important part of taking the CAT exam (or for that matter most of the other Indian MBA exams) is to go through all the questions. If you do not time yourself well in the exam you might miss out on some sitters at the end – which might just make the difference between a […]

Do you know why some Ordinary Aspirants Achieve Breakthrough results in Record less time while some Extra-ordinary Aspirants seem to Struggle for years? The answer doesn’t lie in their mental agility, toughness, intelligence. It’s something totally different. Hear me out. Your final success is determined by your CONSTRAINTS.Those often hidden success-barriers that quietly undermine your […]

Dear Puys, Sorry for this long and irrelevant post on this sacred thread of achievers and winners. This is not a success story, as you might have guessed from the starting lines, but another rant from an underdog. I did not want to post this here, but I was sure that if there was a […]

I have never been an extraordinary achiever, someone who excels at everything he does. I have been very mediocre person, failing at each and every point I could have failed. Always followed the traditional path everyone followed around me, did HSC with Science, prepared for IIT, landed in a Deemed Engineering college(Where education means Business),Got […]

Management Aptitude Test (MAT) is an essential entrance exam for all B-school aspirants conducted by All India Management Association (AIMA). This exam covers 5 sections which can be classified as language comprehension, mathematical skills, data interpretation, logical reasoning and general knowledge. MAT scores are valid for most of the management institutes. It helps students to […]

The petitions filed by disgruntled CAT 2013 candidates in various courts across the country have made little progress. In most of the cases, the IIMs have either failed to respond or been absent for the hearings. This has only attracted fresh ‘hearing’ dates. The case at IIM Indore came up last week but not all […]

The NC-OBC reservation along with batch size increase in the IIMs has positively impacted the academic grades of both general merit students as well as reserved category students in the IIMs. In the pre-OBC period, we had closer competition at the top in the IIMs with fewer marks separating over two-third of the section in […]

I have always maintained in my advice to CAT (& GMAT) aspirants that the best way to score well in the exam on the D-day is to know yourself – your strengths and weaknesses, the time taken per question, which questions to attempt at the start and which ones towards the end, which questions to […]

“Your son will not get admission this year no matter how hard he’s going to try.” That’s what my dad got to hear upon consulting an astrologer. Yes he’s a stereotypical father who takes lesser rational decisions. This was during the time when I had decided to quit my job in order to pursue MBA. […]