The JBIMS Mumbai buildingDr Stephen D’silva, director, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai tells PaGaLGuY that the institute is contemplating constructing a new building on the campus. He also expresses concerns about how the admissions process will equate CMAT and Mah-CET scores. JBIMS has often been termed as the ‘CEO Factory’. What is […]

A screenshot of a blank CMAT scorecard Five days after All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) declared the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) results on their website, it released the individual scorecards for all CMAT aspirants today. While the earlier results declared on March 11, 2012 had published only the rank and the total […]

Clearing confusion about the acceptance of the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) for admissions at autonomous business schools, the Supreme Court today ordered that CMAT shall not be the singular management entrance test and PGDM institutes could admit anyone with CAT, MAT, XAT, ATMA and JMET (now replaced by the GMAT) scores. The Educational Promotional […]

A single entrance exam is a good idea but not if AICTE conducts it, says Fr PT Joseph, SJ, director of Xavier Institute of Management (XIM), Bhubhaneshwar in an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY.What changes in the b-school or the curriculum can the incoming batch at XIMB expect to look forward to? There has been some […]

Every year, among the long list of students getting admitted into the countrys top educational institutions are the about half-dozen names who make it through the Differently Abled category. While a lot is written about the perseverance it must have required on their part to overcome problems and clear the Common Admission Test (CAT) to […]

After much hoopla, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) conducted its first Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) today. Barring a few ‘wrong questions’ the exam was found to be fairly easy said aspirants, though the General Knowledge section was found to be a little more difficult than others. “The CMAT paper seemed like […]

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the makers of the Common Admission Test (CAT), are planning to put out a ‘CAT survey trends report’ over the next two years, providing detailed insights into the demographic profile of CAT takers over five years, a source in the CAT committee told PaGaLGuY. Inspired by the ‘Profile of […]

In an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY, Prof Shekhar Chaudhuri, director of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) speaks about the importance of diversity in class, development plans for IIM-C and the affect of foreign universities making an entry into India. The inclusion of X and XII marks during admissions has not received a very favourable […]

The Mumbai Business School has downed shutters When PaGaLGuY visited the Mumbai Business School (MBS) a year ago, it looked like place in a hurry. Situated on the third floor of a commercial building in a suburb in Mumbai, the school was filled with the sound of ongoing carpentry work. Be it in the classrooms […]

Photo: Kevin Bowan For most b-school aspirants, The Common Admission Test (CAT) means sleepless nights, endless revisions and stress. For CAT officials, it often means the same. The CAT 2011 came to an end with some dramatic scenes witnessed at different exam centres. While one centre reported the presence of a gun-wielding father trying to […]