About 100 odd old users on the PaGaLGuY.com forums are going to be lining up for this year’s CAT as part of OMPA (Old Men’s PaGaL Association) but they aren’t simply cooling their heels and waiting for the CAT notification to come out. Far from it! You can invite your favourite OMPA member in the […]

How does the test-taking strategy for Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation change for the computer-based CAT? Here’s a tutorial. Download the Quanti-DI tutorial for CAT 2009 Thank you to our friends at TCYonline for the tutorial. As always, the tutorial is Shareware, which means that if you like it, you promise to forward it to […]

Career Launcher (CL) recently sent across a press release declaring that all its centers across India will be offering a free online mock test from August 8 to August 21 and top performers in each city can get the test series package for free. CL decided to provide this offer because it was receiving a […]

Yes, you heard that right. We have excess stock of hot coffee but not enough people to spend sleepless nights consuming it. Are you passionate about the world of MBA education? Do you get excitedly lap up news and analysis on business schools in newspapers? Are you brimming with questions on why the gears in […]

You can get cracking on filling out your schedule for this December. The official Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP) test website still carries last year’s date while the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune website has all the details regarding this year’s test which will be held on December 20. Let’s not split hairs […]

Last week, we covered a fresh dot-diagram approach to tackling Reading Comprehension passes in the verbal section of the CAT exam. Many of you who studied the tutorial asked for more examples of the method for better clarity of the concept, so here it is! Download tutorial with more examples of dot-diagrams for reading comprehension […]

MBAUniverse.com reports that the Xavier’s Admission Test for 2010 admissions to bschools such as XLRI Jamshedpur, XIM Bhubaneswar and Goa Institute of Management will take place on January 3, 2010. According to the report, “XAT will be held on January 3, 2009,” said XLRI, in an official communication to MBAUniverse.com.Unlike CAT 2009, XAT entrance exam […]

A just-released FAQ by IIM Ahmedabad declares that the CAT 2009 vouchers will be sold in a small time window of 20 days between September 9 and end October 1. It however says little about the format of the computer-based test. CAT 2009: Frequently Asked Questions (6 August 2009) Q1: When is the advertisement for […]

Much before the CAT does, the Management Aptitude Test (MAT) of September 2009 will be the first exam to go computer-based. Here is a FAQ on the computer-based MAT as answered by AIMA’s Wg Cdr V S Bejoy (Retd), who is in charge of MAT. The MAT exam is taken in total by around 4 […]

It may sound unusual but like charity, management too begins at home. But in this case “home” refers to our mind. CAT preparation is like an iceberg floating along; the visible part of the iceberg is all the problem solving, late nights or early mornings spent in preparation and the books, newspapers and magazines that […]