(Photo credit: IA Walsh) Chicago-Booth Graduate School of Business retained the top rank in Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2011 MBA Rankings, followed by Harvard Business School and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Along with UC Berkeley – Haas, Duke – Fuqua and Stanford, Wharton is one fo the four schools in the top 10 that have […]

The Common Admission Test (CAT) in its new 20-day computer-based avatar has been coinciding with the Hindu festive season of Diwali in both 2010 and 2011. However, that does not seem to deter candidates competing for coveted seats at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other top CAT-affiliated b-schools to successfully distract themselves from […]

About 2.05 lakh candidates took the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 during 20 days between October 22 and November 18, 2011 at 68 test centers across 36 cities in India. Incidentally, the last day saw the lowest registrations throughout the 20 days of the CAT. Only 4,658 candidates were registered to take the test on […]

(Photo credit: Bansi Mehta, taken outside at a CAT centre in Mumbai) On the last day of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 on November 18, the scene outside the center gates was full of anxious faces. Not only of candidates, but also of their parents in whose eyes lay great expectations. And why not, […]

The chatter has dimmed and the mouse clicks turned silent. The hubbub outside the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 centres of the last month will make a comeback only after an entire year. As CAT applicants wait for the next big touchstone the results PaGaLGuY catches up with the person who made it happen — […]

The first version of the MBA entrance exam launched by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is scheduled to be held in February 2012. Called the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT), it is little more than two months away and there is already hectic work in progress at the AICTE headquarters in New […]

(IRMA by Satwick Thumu) Editors note: Guest author Parasharan Chari, Chief Operating Officer of Ahmedabad-based test-preparation institute Endeavor Careers, analyses the IRMA Admission Test paper held on November 13, 2011 and predicts cutoffs for prominent rural management b-schools that accept this score. — — — The Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) admission test on […]

With less than a week to go for the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) Admission Test 2011, here are a few last minute tips given by the current Rural Management Program students. This is just to give an overview about the paper and the various approaches one can follow in the exam. It also […]

B-schools teach youngsters how businesses ought to be run. Who questions the way business schools are run? Nina Jacob, a professor who has been with private b-schools such as Xavier Institute of Management, Goa Institute of Management and Institute of Management Technology writes a scathing critique of unregulated governance at India’s private business schools in […]

Even though there are no reported fatal technical failures in the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011, the test is not completely bereft of glitches. Monday, October 31, computers crashed and screen colours played truant in a data interpretation question at the Nirmala Devi College centre in Mumbai, where this correspondent was taking the CAT. Although […]