I graduated from a reputed National Institute of Technology and joined a major automobile firm in 2010. I realised in few months that tech was not for me and decided to do an MBA . CAT 2011 was my first attempt. I prepared well but answered a few questions I unsure about. I wrote XAT […]

This triangle will help you remember the most basic formulae for TSD. Given below are a bunch of other concepts, formulae which come in handy while solving questions. Average and Relative Speed If a body is moving with speeds s(1), s(2), s(3), … s(n) and the time is constant for each part, then the average […]

It began in the third year. I myself wanted to do something more after engineering and had started weighing further options. Having done a lot of asking around, I decided that I would prefer staying in India and go for an MBA. 2010 I came across PaGalGuY.com through guess what? Orkut. I joined PaGaLGuY on […]

Engineering students generally stay in touch with their mathematics throughout their curriculum – not exactly with topics that are tested in the CAT but certainly with equations, basic arithmetic and advanced mathematics. This helps them get into the groove during their preparation much quicker as compared to others. However, they do find verbal ability quite […]

image courtesy: Bharat Goyal Photography The end of a journey is more important, because this end was the driver of your journey. You always set this end to get there at any costs. This end is the report card of your whole journey. If you agree with above statements, prepare to experience failure in that […]

A lot of students face problems in the General Awareness / Business Awareness / General Knowledge section of MBA entrance exams like XAT, IIFT and SNAP. That happens because they start “preparing” for it once they are done with their Quant, LR/DI and Verbal prep (sometimes even after CAT) – which is often too late. […]

(Continued from here) As students with arts and commerce backgrounds, you might be aware of a few of your limitations. You cannot solve all the questions. Ideally, non-engineering students should focus more on logical reasoning questions that don’t involve advanced level concepts from probability and permutations/combinations. The idea is to choose the right questions – […]

(Photo: mingusmutter) In this post, we are going to talk about two types of questions: Find out the area of the bounded region Find out the points with integer co-ordinates within the bounded region Let us first look at some graphs. |x| and -|x| These graphs will be mirror images of each other where the […]

IIM Ahmedabad (Photo: Kunjan Detroja) The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has altered its selection criteria for admissions to the PGP batch of 2014-16. From each of five academic disciplines covering the arts, commerce, medicine, science and engineering defined by IIM-A (more here, see Table 2) the top 50 or 1% (whichever is lower) […]

Sale of vouchers for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013 began today. About 12,000 vouchers were sold in all and about 10,000 candidates registered. Of this, 80 per cent had bought the vouchers online. According to CAT Convenor Prof Rohit Kapoor of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore, the availability of e-vouchers brought in […]