(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 […]

(Photo credit: Abhishek Kamble) Arriving in Kashipur late evening last week, I asked the three-wheeler drivers outside the railway station if they would take me to the one and only good hotel in town. None of them acknowledged having even heard of the name. I then casually mentioned that it was barely a kilometer before […]

(Photo credit: mcfarlandmo) SMS and Twitter are often accused of creating a generation with small attention spans who are growing incapable of expressing complex ideas in long and eloquent prose. Columbia Business School doesn’t think so, and in this year’s MBA application form, asks applicants to state their post-MBA goals in no more than 200 […]

Looking back at the last three years, one new ‘big idea’ has dominated Indias business school admissions every year. If 2009 was all about replacing paper-pencil assessments with computer-based entrance tests, then the flavour of 2010 was limiting the number of engineers in MBA classrooms and increasing diversity. 2011 is increasingly shaping to be the […]