The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 had a little surprise for some students in the form of a question based on four sets. As far as I can remember, questions from set theory in CAT have always been based on two or three sets and CAT 2012 was the first time a question based on […]

Photo Credit: Victorrochajr (Flickr.com) I am quite sure that most of you, if not all of you would be aware of the basics of quadratic equation but just to provide a brief refresher: For a quadratic equation given represented by ax^2 + bx + c = 0 Roots are given by (-b + sqrt(b^2 – […]

Photo credit: pasukaru76 (www.flickr.com) Padaki Sagar Shrinivas, a 24-year old aspirant from Mumbai has secured the second rank in February 2013 Common Management Admission Test (CMAT). Extremely happy with his score, Sagar said that a single minded approach and a well-placed strategy keeping in mind the structure of the CMAT paper is what helped him […]

Photo Credit: Flickr A very common type of problem that we get in CAT is when we are asked to find out the number of integral solutions to a given equation. I have always found it hard to categorize such sort of problems in a particular category. A case can be made that such questions […]

After witnessing a phenomenal jump of 80% in the number of applications this year, IMI has kick started with its interview process for all its three campuses- New Delhi, Bhubaneswar and Kolkata. IMI has increased the overall CAT cut off to 92 percentile as compared to 90 percentile last year for PGDM Delhi. The sectional […]

Prof Gajendra Adil Prof Gajendra Adil recently took over as head, Shailesh J Mehta School of Management (SJMSoM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. An academician at heart, Prof Adil worked at Bilkent Universtity, Turkey and City University, Hong Kong before joining SJMSoM in 2000. Speaking exclusively to PaGaLGuY, he talks about his vision for […]

(Photo: psyberartist) Free of the censoring knife of their PR committees, students of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are having a ball anonymously posting what appears like an unbridled bitchfest about their b-schools on a Facebook page aptly titled IIM Confessions. Imagine this: you are an IIM student who by choice or otherwise, is […]

Photo Credit: Steve A johnson Probability has always been a fascinating topic to teach. The pleasure that I get out of correcting silly mistakes, which are plenty in questions based on probability can be considered sadistic by some or a truly noble thing to do by others. I hope the percentage of the latter would […]

Yudhir Agarwal The Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) 2013 is being conducted over a 5 day test window from February 21-25 across 2 time slots (9:30 am to 12:30 pm; 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm). Today’s paper was comparable in terms of difficulty, with the Quantitative Aptitude & Data Interpretation Section getting tougher compared to […]

Photo Credit: Oatsy 40 (flickr) Questions on clocks (or even calendars) are not really frequent in CAT these days. They used to be really popular few years ago. Having said that, it is always better to understand some of the basic principles and the types of problems that get asked. They might come in handy […]