Rakesh Vishwakarma, who teaches math at Genesis Mentors writes a primer on solving geometry problems in the CAT that involve calculating cleverly-etched triangles inside intricate figures. ——— A lot of questions in management entrance exams including CAT are from Geometry and that too from the topic involving the areas of shapes. Many questions are based […]

If you are wondering which Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 toppers are heading to, here’s the news: Toppers (100 percentilers) Converted Areesh Mittal IIM-C Anshul Garg IIM-C Ravi Teja Palla IIM-C, L (Waitlisted for B) Sumit Patil IIM-C, A, B, L Siddharth Sharma IIM-C, B Jaskaran Singh Sachdeva IIM-L […]

The Reading Comprehension (RC) section has been the bête noire of CAT candidates for long now. Simply because the length of the passage has varied every year, the type of questions asked has also varied and there is no tutorial/technique that one can use to prepare for the various types of passages. All one can […]

ISB Hyderabad (Photo: Anish Jain) Aiming right for the core of the repeat CAT takers’ market, the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad will now allow those with less than two years of work experience to apply for deferred admissions to their one-year Post Graduate Program (PGP). Called the ‘Early entry option’ and to be […]

In a stark reminder of recent cases in which Indians have been legally intimidated for what they wrote online on social networks, an MBA applicant from Kolkata has been threatened with legal proceedings by a CAT test preparation company after he expressed dissatisfaction with the institute’s pricing and product information through a post on an […]

Problems based on grids/chessboards have been asked in the CAT and other MBA entrance exams over the years. They seem really difficult when you encounter them for the first time but once you get the hang of things they become really simple. The key lies in understanding the basic concepts involved. The most common grid […]

Photo Courtesy: Mikecogh (Flickr) The Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L) announced yesterday that it had reduced fees. Great news, the media lapped it up and so also the MBA fraternity. But it also added, to this feat, that it was the first IIM to do so. Kind of right but not quite. IIM Kozhikode […]

(Photo courtesy: neubie) MBA applicants have more reason to worry this year. If the increasing costs of application, exam fees and tuition of business schools were not enough to break you into a sweat, get prepared to pay atleast 10-15% more for test preparation this year, no matter what part of the country. At Career […]

Dr Surajit Mitra, Director, IIFT Delhi & Kolkata In an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY, Dr Surajit Mitra, Director at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi and Kolkata talks about sectional cut-offs becoming a permanent feature of the IIFT test, the possibility of shifting the IIFT test online and his views on a single National […]

Photo Credit: Unlisted Sightings (Flickr.com) You can go easy with the Quantitative Ability section if you are an engineer. To be honest, it would not matter whether you are an engineer or not. If you take the Common Admission Test (CAT) papers from say 5 years ago, the Quantitative Ability section used to be quite […]