Prometric, the testing services provider that executes the computer-based Common Admissions Test (CAT) by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) on Thursday announced the opening of two new testing facilities. According to Prometric, “The new flagship centres meet the highest global standards for security, reliability, consistency of candidate experience, and convenience.” Both centers will dedicatedly […]

(Photo credit: Jimmie) Data Interpretation questions typically have large amounts of data given in the form of tables, pie-charts, line graphs or some non-conventional data representation format. The questions are calculation heavy and typically test your approximation abilities. A very large number of these questions check your ability to compare or calculate fractions and percentages. […]

(Photo credit: Kunjan Detroja) You don’t have to crack the Common Admissions Test (CAT) in order to experience the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad as a student anymore. The school is auctioning out ‘A Day at IIMA’ on Ebay, and 50 winners will be given a flavour of life at the b-school on October […]

(Photo: Cody and Maureen) As an astute man Mr Gump once said, Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. The Permutations & Combinations that life presents us daily is baffling and probably it is because of that inherent fear of choices and cases that we get intimidated by […]

The already longer-than-ever time window to register for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 has been further extended from September 28 to October 4, 2011. The CAT vouchers too would be on sale for four more days at Axis Bank branches until October 1. Everything else remains the same. The extension has been made to […]

While schools newly opting for the Common Admission Test (CAT) made headlines last few weeks, now it’s time for some ‘opposite’ news – schools that have decided to opt out of taking CAT 2011 scores. At least the list (of b-schools taking CAT) on the CAT website says so. This year about (excluding the Indian […]

First it was the business schools of the Indian Institutes of Technology that scrapped the Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) in favour of the Common Admission Test (CAT). Then came Delhi University’s Faculty of Management Studies. Are more expected to go the CAT way and is all this a plan to get into a single-test […]

With interest in fulltime MBA at an all-time low, the 2010-11 admission season might have been the easiest in recent times to make it to an MBA program internationally. According to a survey of application trends at GMAT-affiliated b-schools by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), an increasing number of MBA programs worldwide reported a […]

Admission criteria changes have been announced in many b-schools, including a few Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) — all to include more non-engineers and women students. While IIM Raipur will add 30 marks to a girl-non-engineer, IIM Rohtak will award 20 marks to female candidate and 20 to non-engineers, so a non-engineer female candidate will […]

We all know what factorials (n!) are. They look friendly and helpful but looks can be deceiving, as many quant problems have taught us. It is probably because Factorials are simple looking creatures, that most students prefer attempting questions based on them rather than on Permutation & Combination or Probability. I will cover P&C; and […]