Looking back at the way many premier Indian b-schools have handled their admission processes this year, the MBA admission season of 2010-11 will not exactly be remembered as a season that people were fond of. From changing their admission criteria midway after selling application forms on a certain premise to using questionable methods of factoring […]

A classic error that judicial courts are prone to is one where the paranoia over not allowing criminals to be let off the hook results in a lot of innocent people being put to trial. Statisticians call this unintentionally increasing ‘type 1’ errors (false positives) in the pursuit of reducing ‘type 2’ errors (false negatives). […]

Big brother AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) has been given just eight days by b-schools to modify the notification it issued on December 28, 2010 (pushing for sweeping changes in business education) or else face legal action. The Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) has decided to march up the steps of the […]

The new Indian Institutes of Management, (IIMs) namely IIM Ranchi, IIM Rohtak and IIM Raipur, along with IIM Trichy have planned a joint admission process this year. An initiative by IIM Ranchi’s director MJ Xavier, the gesture will see through common group discussions and personal interviews of around 3,000 successful CAT candidates. Pagalguy spoke to […]

Led by Dr. Gurumurthy Kalyanaram (G.K. Kalyanaram), a graduate of MIT Sloan School of Management and a well-recognized scholar and consultant, Amrita School of Business combines rigor and relevance in research and teaching. As graduates of Indian Institutes of Management, and prestigious Indian and US Universities including MIT, University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University, […]

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode has sprung a huge surprise in its admissions process for the 2011-2013 Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) batch. Deviating from the past, this year the b-school has initiated a lengthier three-tier admission process. Of which the first stage has just concluded, in which the b-school has sent […]

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    With almost all the biggies done, one of the tests which attracts many of the test takers is the Maharashtra MBA/MMS CET which is to be conducted on the 27th of February 2011. The test is required for an admit into few of the prestigious b-schools in the country.   The Process:   […]

Click on the link to know how CAT authorities officially marked CAT papers. CAT authorities have recently added this link after issues like normalisation and psyhcometrics became hot topics of discussion after the results were declared on January 12, 2011. Let us know if you find the answers you are looking for. http://www.catiim.in/dev_scorind_equityprocess.html

While many partied all through yesterday after getting their CAT results, a few closed themselves to the world, trying to find an answer to just one question what did I do wrong? These were those who expected to do well and are generally among the brainy lot with regards to other MBA entrance exams. Abhishek […]