Articles in CAT Entrance Exam 2025
(Photo credit: Kai Schreiber) This is my second post on PaGaLGuY focusing on Geometry fundas. We discussed lines, triangles, parallelograms, trapeziums and polygons in my previous post. Now for some fundas and formulae in Geometry that happen to be frequently neglected by people but can fetch some crucial marks in the exam. Funda 1: Angle […]
Pic from World Economic Forum photostream Two big happenings were of concern to the b-school community last week. One of course The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 which was kick-started on October 22 (so technically last week) and the other, the arrest of former Indian School of Business’ Founder Chairman Rajat Gupta’s on charges of […]
(Photo credit: Alan Levine) There has been a lot of feedback in the comments on my previous posts here demanding an article on Geometry. I have been avoiding writing it for some time because, 1. It is not one of my strong areas. 2. It takes a lot of time to draw the diagrams required […]
The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 is underway (October 22 – November 1 and two testing days are over. According to Prometric, 6,703 candidates had appeared to register for the test today (October 24) across the country. CAT 2011 marks a change in test pattern, in that it contains two separately times sections of 70 […]
Editor’s note: Guest author Parasharan Chari, Chief Operating Officer of Ahmedabad-based test-preparation institute Endeavor Careers, analyses the first-day-first-slot of CAT 2011 and identifies pointers that test-takers in the later slots could use. — — — First day, first slot an expression that sounds quite filmi, but then the Common Admissions Test (CAT) has never had […]
The effectiveness of a digitised testing infrastructure struck me like an a-ha moment today morning when I placed my index finger on the biometric fingerprinting device at the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 center and within seconds the executive checking me in smiled and remarked, “You’ve taken the test twice before.” By matching biometric data […]
Pesky calls and SMS are the flavor of the season, what with the government penalising the telecom industry by setting daily limits on SMS and unleashing heavy fines on telemarketers. That however does not cover email and snail-mail spam. All these years, MBA applicants have been complaining that the information provided while purchasing the Common […]
(Photo: Samantha Marx) You can now count the hours to the first day of the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011. It’s only a matter of time before the third edition of the computer-based version of the test makes its presence felt starting October 22 and going right up to November 18, in its new avatar […]
If you are b-school in India that encourages and facilitates peer-to-peer learning and group activity, then do your research well before joining a non-residential MBA, writes guest contributor Junaid Shah from a nasty personal experience. — — — Soon after the Common Admission Test (CAT) results are declared, the excitement builds up as one starts […]