Why? The importance of the essay in XAT 2016 went up a notch as XLRI has decided that institutes admitting through XAT can avail of any student’s essay. I think that one of the good ways to improve your essay writing is by practice and here are a few suggestions to put the plan into […]

I am a brand new entrant for the tournament for MBA aspirants called CAT, one of the most sophisticated exams of India. I am a B.Tech graduate from a decent enough college. Right from start of my academic life till 12th, I only revered superficial dreams. I got the idea of being the ‘Napster’ after […]

1. Don’t worry about GK: IIFT GK has always been moderate-difficult. Brushing up the current affairs, going through the past papers and identifying patterns would be helpful. 2. Solve past papers: Solving the past five IIFT papers would be extremely useful as you would get a feel of the type of questions asked. Also, in […]

Never had I thought in wildest of my dreams, when I was studying in nursery and K.G. that the ‘C’ for CAT will haunt like hell, change my life and make it crazy! Cat, for me, just followed a mouse, drank some milk and ran away. but CAT, for now, follows me Drinks my blood […]

Post a 50% plus drop in MBA applications this year, the Department of Technical Education (DTE), Maharashtra, in quick time, managed to do away with CMAT and bring back the MH-CET. Good move, said candidates. But there is a not-so-good part to it, rather a bizarre part – which is that MH-CET will be online! […]

Decision Making for XAT is often neglected by students while preparing for XAT and at their own peril. Some of the students don’t even realise that it is a whole section in XAT and its score will be used while giving out calls to students. Given below is a table which shows the number of […]

Next question that’s in the line after taking the exam is “My attempts in Quant are A with B% accuracy and in Verbal it is C with D% accuracy. How much %ile can I expect??” I am sure such questions could send even the Quant masters in a dizzy… Then again we have many aspirants […]

And the funniest part is the clichéd answers given by these “Gyaani babas” in defense to the questions raised over the authenticity or the success rate of those projections- “Actually the projections are not 100% correct but they are fairly indicative of your actual percentiles as they are based on the analysis and detailed study […]

So the time has come when the month-long marathon of CAT 2013 has shut all its windows and is now drawing its curtains. Ahhhh… But wait!!! I can see so many restless heads peeping through the window furtively, with a desperate bid to at least have a glance of their PERCENTILE; to which I feel […]

(Part 6 ) Also with the CAT on the rounds, it’s commonly observed among the aspirants that after writing their paper, they post their attempt rates n “probable accuracy rates” on every possible and available networking site, and then beg others to “predict” their %iles; however misleading the projected %ile might be. I sincerely wish […]