I want to be a manager one day. But yes, I don’t want to write this stupid test. I simply get filtered out every time even though I strongly believe that I’m better than 99% of the people who apply, when it comes to skills that a manager requires (I still haven’t met a manager […]

With less than 3 weeks to go for CAT, time has come for aspirants to burn the midnight oil. To help you plan the last lap, we asked a few NITIE students to share what they did in their last 20 days before CAT. Darpan Thacker who scored 99.78 in CAT 2012 had to manage […]

Just read an article here in PaGaLGuY about why the food security bill doesn’t make sense . And its not just this one article ; the internet is getting filled up with many such arguments ever since the bill was passed. Lets look at these arguments one by one: 1)Rs 125000-150000 crores! – The alleged […]

CAT Convenor Prof Rohit Kapoor and his Common Admission Test (CAT) team from the Indian Institute of Management Indore have had their ears stuck to telephone instruments since a week. They have been on a calling spree, reminding everybody who has bought a CAT voucher to register. This seems like a concerted effort to up […]

To start with, I love writing but have never written an open-ended note. It has always been a one-on-one. To start with, I am a Computer Engineer, working at a reputed IT company and I am just not interested in this field. I read books, articles etc. at my job whenever I am able to. […]

Questions on books and authors are very popular with entrance examinations. I could find various lists on the web which talked about books by businessmen / biographers but I think if there existed a list with respect to famous companies, it would be really helpful. And also – I really like makings lists. So, here […]

The earlier article on batch demographics (b-schools ranked 1-10) highlighted the increase in the number of girls this year while showing that engineers constitute an overwhelming majority there. For b-schools ranked 11-25 though, the trend is upside down. On an average, engineers in these b-schools formed about 80% of the batches. As many as 6 […]

The wheels of the 2013-15 batches across b-schools in India are well in motion. Taking a look at the batch demographics and admission criteria bring to light some interesting points. In this article, we focus on the first 10 b-schools from the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2013. The most interesting point is the steady rise in […]

While writing this article, I am prepared for the backlash that I might receive from the readers. The article is about my understanding of ‘Normalization’ and what can one do to counter the unnecessary stress that results because of the same. In the time of paper-pencil test, when the same or a similar test paper […]

In the pursuit of that perfect VA score a lot of students tend to not focus on the big picture in the CAT. For example the average CAT aspirant will go hell for leather for Fill in the Blanks (FIB ), Word Usage (WU) , Commonly Confused Words ( CCW) and Sentence Correction (SC). The […]