A women-only IIM would ensure equitable management education to women, make for research opportunities on leadership issues faced by women and be a good proposition to recruiters who increasingly prefer women over men for competitive jobs, argues Prof Ganesh Prabhu, Professor of Strategy at IIM Bangalore. (Special column written for the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings, 2010) […]

Not quite in favor of advertising and miffed by the many b-school rankings present today, Professor Ganesh LS, Ex-HOD and Professor at Department of Management Studies-IIT Madras (DoMS-IIT Madras) wants students to make it a habit to research well before taking admission in any management institute. He also wants management education in India to develop […]

Essay writing will replace group discussions (GD) during admissions to IIM Bangalore this year. According to sources at IIM Bangalore, “Yes, scrapping GD in favor of essays has been approved.” Candidates will have to write an essay in 30 minutes on any topic related to the current political, economic and business scenario or on topics […]

One of the criterion to be eligible for taking the test in the second phase of CAT, according to the CAT-IIM website states: ‘Those who could not take the test due to planned or unplanned closure of their test lab and were not rescheduled later in the first phase. (This does not include voluntary no-shows.)’. […]

After a miserable first phase of CAT-2009 that went online for the first time, CAT is now in its second phase. Candidates who could not take the test due to various reasons during November 28, 2009 to December 7, 2009 have been allotted new slots for taking the test on January 30 and 31, 2010. […]

An important voice was lost in the din while the country went into an uproar against the mismanagement of the CAT 2009 – that of the Parents of CAT aspirants. As exam-takers flooded online and offline channels to express their anger about the CAT, their parents suffered the agony vicariously in the background. One such […]

We at PaGaLGuY have always observed how eager MBA aspirants are to know about life during and after MBA and what happens after one cracks the CAT or other big entrance examinations. Taking the cue, we have been working on a new feature at PaGaLGuY that will give you deep insights into B-school admissions and […]

MAH-CET, another important entrance examination for MBA aspirants MAH-CET test will be conducted on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 2:00 PM at Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Bhuvaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mysore and Raipur according to an announcement on the website of Directorate of Technical Education or DTE. The announcement says, “Applications are invited […]

The last day for Prometric to notify affected students about their retest slots on January 30 and 31, 2010 was six days back on January 10 and still, confusion prevails among many candidates about their schedule or about whether they even have to take the test at all. On January 1, the CAT authorities had […]

In a writ petition filed in the Karnataka High Court, a Bangalore-based IT professional sought the cancellation of the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009 computer-based test and a subsequent retest in paper-pencil format. The public interest petition filed on January 2, 2010 cites test delays, mismanaged invigilation and various hardware and software malfunctions as fit […]