(Photo credit: Michael Gallacher) I guess my first fascination with problems of Time, Speed and Distance began when I first watch a film called Henna. An important portion of the plot, if you can call it that, had Rishi Kapoor floating from India to Pakistan in a river without drowning. I remember arguing with my […]

Of the total testing slots planned for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011, two-thirds have already been filled as on September 7, Prometric India’s Managing Director Soumitra Roy told PaGaLGuY on Wednesday. He however declined to divulge what the total capacity number was. He did mention though that the capacity calculations were based on last […]

Picture from the FMS website Students and faculty of the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) took out a silent march to the Vice-Chancellor’s (Delhi University) office earlier today to protest against the cancellation of the FMS entrance exam. Many classes stood cancelled as, though, both students and faculty ‘attended’ classes, little work was done. May […]

First View Raipur, the capital of Chattisgarh, is more notorious for its proximity to the Maoist-dominated district of Dantewada than anything else. But last year when the HRD ministry decided to start an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in the area, b-school aspirants began looking at the city anew with hope and expectation. Along with […]

Q1.What is Critical Reasoning? Critical Reasoning is an analytical way of thinking about issues for analysing and evaluating information gathered from observation and experience in order to come to certain conclusions. Critical Reasoning clarifies goals, examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence and assesses conclusions. ‘Critical’ as used in the expression ‘critical reasoning’ denotes the […]

Pic from the FMS website Another MBA entrance exam is expected to bite the dust soon. Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) is in all probability going to shelve its 40-year old entrance exams in favour of the Common Admission Test (CAT). The vice-chancellor of the Delhi University will be signing the papers anytime soon. Incidentally, […]

Pic by Elvert Barne Lot’s of festivities last week. Starting with Idd on August 31, spilling over to Ganesh Chaturthi on September 1 and extending to the Pagalguy.com anniversary on September 2. Pagalguy completed nine years and the day was marked with general cheer and frolic at its headquarters in Mumbai. Other than that, there […]

The D-day for some MBA aspirants comes earlier than usual. If you are one of those who are taking the Management Aptitude Test (MAT) this Sunday (September 4, 2011), read on. You must be aware that the MAT is a 150 minute long test with 200 questions split across five sections. Here is a recommended […]

Do you back up or back away or back down? Break away / Break down / Break up? Call back / call off/ call on? Do you find it difficult to differentiate among them? Then, welcome to Phrasal Verbs ! To start with, let’s find out the difference between ordinary usage and phrasal verbs, (1) […]

IIM Indore’s Narendra Agarwal, his wife Poonam and their son Arnav In the days gone by, synonyms for ‘marriage’ could easily be settled, family, sacrifice, children, stop living your own life. Today, the synonyms read more like ‘fun, study, partner, parties, friends, freedom. Thanks to a large number of b-school students pursuing an MBA post […]