What is new about the Xaviers Admission Test 2013? The XAT exam this year will have a General Awareness section, and the paper will have two parts with a total time of 3 hours. The first part would have to be solved in two hours and 20 minutes and will consist of Quantitative Aptitude (QA), […]

Prakash Prabhu’ day starts at 6.30AM, and by the time he is on his chair at the modern office of ANZ Bank, Bangalore, it will be 8.45. As a financial analyst, Prakash is now working on the pitch book of a major client and in the last 16 months has created several country reports and […]

Gautam Puri, co-founder, Career Launcher The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) Entrance test 2012, presented a few surprises to all those who attempted the paper today. Unlike the past two years, the test instructions clearly stated that sectional cut-offs would be levied this year. The paper also veered away from its traditionally difficult Data […]

(Photo credit: Stevie Gill, flickr.com) A day to go for the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), (New Delhi and Kolkata) entrance test 2012. On Sunday, November 25, 2012, the exam will be held at 51 centres in nearly 20 cities. Known as an unpredictable exam, the IIFT test typically contains four sections: quantitative ability, […]

In a first of its kind, for any management department of Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Department of Management Studies (DoMS), IIT Madras will open its doors to undergraduates from any stream for its MBA program from the academic year 2013-15. This was confirmed to us by G Srinivasan, head, DoMS, IIT Madras. Until last […]

SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai has tweaked its admission process slightly for the two-year full-time Post Graduate Diploma Programme (PGDM) for the academic year 2013-15. The institute will call aspirants separately for interviews based on profiles and scores. The institute also plans to call in more applicants this year. Until last […]

Dr Nagesh Rao, MICA director Dr Nagesh Rao took over as President and Director of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) earlier this year. Having earned a doctorate in Communications from Michigan State University in 1994, Dr Rao taught in various universities in the US for over two decades. He earned the ‘Teacher of the […]

The number of applicants for Common Admission Test (CAT) has increased this year, after a steady fall for past two years. There were 2, 14, 068 applicants this year. If one looks at the profiles of the CAT aspirants this year, it reveals an interesting trend. While candidates from engineering discipline continue to dominate (about […]

Thakur College, a CAT centre in Mumbai wears a deserted look this afternoon As PaGaLGuY writes this piece, the most powerful country in the world votes for its future. Apart from the significance of today due to the American presidential elections, this day also marks the end of the testing window for the Common Admission […]

The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 has drawn to a close. A season laced with ‘technological’ hiccups and some bizarre power issues, one in which the number of candidates sent back because of wrong or insufficient identification was one of the highest in recent years. PaGaLGuY decided to get some straight answers from CAT Convenor […]