Gone are the days when coaching centres threw a party just a day or two before the D-day to de-stress CAT takers. Or, when they handed over free tickets of a latest Bollywood flick or had a movie screening inside the coaching centre to lessen the anxiety associated with CAT. With the CAT testing window, […]

PaGaLGuY will be following regular updates on CAT 2010 for the entire CAT period starting October 27 to November 24, 2010. Those taking CAT, please call in and share your experiences, what you liked about the CAT, what disappointed you, etc with us. We’d love to hear from you. You can call us anytime between […]

‘Exams’ is not like the most beautiful word in the dictionary. Be it the elementary exams in school or CAT exams taken by lakhs of IIM aspirants every year. Worse is when applicants actually opt to take the CAT exam, the first day, first slot, knowing very well that the bulk of applicants will take […]

Just about a day to go before CAT 2010 begins, aspirants are still abuzz with discussions about the expected question-patterns and probable questions. Occupying a large part of the discussions are question from sub-topics that haven’t been seen in the CAT papers of the previous 7-8 years, and yet have appeared in some of this […]

There are various things one can do to beat exam stress, like the ones listed below. PaGaLGuY has put together a five-point agenda that can help make the road to CAT a little bit easier on the nerves. From praying to God, meditating, to eating the right food and what to expect on the big […]

A total of 2,04,267 candidates have registered to appear for CAT 2010 against a total voucher sale of 2.06 lakhs, the Convenor of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2010 and IIM Lucknow Professor Himanshu Rai told PaGaLGuY today. According to the data shared by Prof Rai, there is a marginal increase of 1.65 percentage points […]

The shift from paper-pencil to online last year has practically taken away the surprise element from the Common Admission Test (CAT). From the ambiguous CAT question paper that had the knack of surprising lakhs of students, all at one go, the new computer-based format of the exam has made things a bit more predictable, especially […]

In its first attempt to go international and provide competition to the global GMAT exam, Common Admission Tests (CAT) will cross shores and conduct its first international exam in Sri Lanka next year. Apparently, other Asian countries like Nepal and some in the Middle East have also evinced a similar interest. Speaking to Pagalguy.com, Himanshu […]

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi is still not a landmark in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The word IIM itself is a wringer to the ears of auto drivers and cyclewallas. But if you say Suchana Bhavan (the building that houses IIM Ranchi), they are more than willing to ferry you there as it nets them […]

Last week, we worked with Aditya Dipankar from the National Institute of Design (NID), Bangalore to review the test interface of the Common Admissions Test (CAT). This week, we get Aditya to analyse the test-interface for the other major computer-based test, the Narse Monjee Management Aptitude Test (NMAT) from a design and ease-of-use point of […]