(Photo: Liz West) Arts and commerce students – or those from non-engineering academic backgrounds are often in a fix about how to prepare for CAT. I talk of certain strategies that can be useful for such applicants. Non-engineering students often find that quantitative ability is their bête noire. This is because after high school they […]

(Photo: herval) Questions based on the modulus function or absolute value are common in the Common Admission Test (CAT) and other management entrance exams. In simple terms, modulus or the mod is just the non-negative value of the number inside the function. It is often represented as |x|. For example, |5| will be the same […]

(File photo) The voucher sale for Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013 will now begin from August 5, 2013 to September 24, 2013, Rohit Kapoor, CAT Convenor 2013 confirmed to PaGaLGuY. Previously the registration was scheduled to begin from July 29, 2013. Impending changes in the official CAT website is the reason behind this shift in […]

(Photo: Wikimedia CH) Continuing the eight-year-old tradition, we announce the nominations for PaGaLGuY Dream Team and PaGaLGuY UnderDogs Team as open for season 2013. These are teams built around CAT preparation that are known for their camaraderie, performance and passion to succeed through moments that would be cherished for life. Here’s a rundown on each […]

(Photo: Skylar Murphy) The sheer number of aspirants who appear for the Common Admission Test (CAT) pushes up the competition up. This combined with the societal stigma attached with failure, the hype around an MBA degree and the misinformation attached to the need for doing an MBA means that ‘fear of failure’ drives every CAT […]

(Photo: Brkur Sigurbjrnsson) A common question template in the Time, Speed and Distance topic of the quantitative ability section in the Common Admission Test (CAT) is based on two or three objects moving around a circular track. Let us assume that the objects have speeds ‘a’, ‘b’ and ‘c’ and are moving on a track […]

(Photo courtesy: Satwick Thumu) The Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Anand will use scores of the Common Admission Test (CAT) this year for admission to its Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management (PRM) and 2014 Fellow Programme in Rural Management (FPRM). The decision was taken because the judgement on the status of the IRMA admission […]

(Photo courtesy: Matt Reinbold) It’s not easy for applicants to talk to Indian b-schools to ask for admissions-related information, something we discovered during a little experiment we did this month. Between July 4 and July 15, 2013, we posed as applicants and asked simple admissions-related queries to top 20 Indian b-schools (as per the PaGaLGuY […]

(Photo: Florin Gorgan) A minimalistic approach towards any goal is dangerous – it signals pessimism and a defeatist attitude. And I have seen dozens of CAT aspirants falling prey to it without realising. Very often, candidates ask me about the minimum questions to attempt to secure a percentile over 95. In my opinion, people who […]

(Photo courtesy: Benson Kua) Management institutes in Maharashtra are just not able to attract candidates. Out of the 45,747 MBA seats in the state, only 12,321 seats have been filled till now, leaving 33,426 seats vacant. This number does not take into account seats allotted at the institute level or minority seats, the information of […]