So, the best rule to follow is ‘throw all the rules out’ for none is holy enough to hold universally. Let me justify how all this makes sense. Consider the following: CAT in 2003 was what I would call a plain-vanilla CAT with English, DI (data interpretation) and Quantitative aptitude (QA), with 50 questions in […]

In fact, there is still a general notion in the world of MBA wannabes that there are two kinds of MBA aspirants. Those who are poor at quant and those who are very poor at quant. People who are good at quant and DI stay on Mars. However, I dare to make a tall claim […]

“The seats at IIM Shillong will be available through the common pool of CAT 2007 admissions,” he informed about the seventh IIM, which shall be called Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management (RGIIM), Shillong. “The special name was chosen on the collective wish of the governments of all north-eastern states,” he added. The institute will […]

How do you see Management Education and Business Schools emerging in Delhi and NCR in the next 10 years? There will be an IIM in Delhi/NCR Region. The focus will shift increasingly to executive PGDM and distance education with huge demand from emerging sectors. A few b-schools in Mumbai have been aggressively entering domain-based management […]

The IIM Calcutta notification in the CAT 2007 bulletin reads, “A candidate (including a reserved category candidate) to be shortlisted for GD and PI for admission to post-graduate programmes should obtain a minimum of 20%, 20% and 10% in ‘quantitative’, ‘logic and data interpretation’ and ‘verbal’ sections respectively.” IIM Calcutta’s Chairman of Admissions Prof Ashish […]

It seems that the absence of certain B-school names accepting the Common Admissions Test (CAT) scores in the online copy of the CAT bulletin released yesterday was assumed as a proof of their exit from the CAT system by a section of the media. Among others, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai and […]

The notifications of both these exams appeared in the newspapers today. Nearly 1.91 lakh students had appeared in CAT 2006 and the number is expected to cross 2 lakh this year. The CAT 2007 Examination Details are as below: Issue of CAT Bulletin by UTI/Vijaya Bank starts: July 16th 2007, MondayIssue of CAT Bulletin by […]

‘Shaping careers, building lives’, the organization’s vision, gives direction to every activity organized. Keeping the CAT aspirants as the primary focus, IMS, allows all the non-IMS students to take one of the SimCATs. The Open SimCAT is held across the country, at more than 100 venues, multiple venues for every test location. IMS picks up […]

In his inaugural address titled – “Challenges for Indian managers in the new globalized business scenario,” he shared his long standing experience in the field of management and urged the incumbent student managers at IMT-Nagpur to be ‘future-ready’. The ‘orientation program’, spanning over one week, is conducted by IMT-Nagpur every year to introduce the incumbent […]

IIM Ahmedabad has always been known as a general management school. But do you tailor your program to serve area-specific specialization? The starting point of students once they are in an IIM is more or less the same and first year of the program has courses, which allow them to evolve an overall perspective on […]