I thought of taking you all through the D-Day mindset, the importance of time management during preparation and during the test and some Dos & Don’ts (I know most of you are still in the preparation stage; however, you all will realize that the D-Day mindset is crucial and will eventually decide your final score). […]

“Thank you for all your help. I wish I had met you earlier. You know you are like an Agony Aunt…” Complements in my line of work are not rare but this one left me completely speechless. It made me wonder why do people get so desperate after things have gone wrong. Yes I was […]

What is the ROI from the MBA program I am planning? Now this a taboo question to ask since there is the illusion of ‘big bucks’ at the end of the rainbow and who questions the brand value of an IIM and ISB anyways. ‘How dare you?’ is the tone I get when I ask […]

Praveen Suthrum, MBA Class of 2004 at Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, is co founder & President of NextServices, a healthcare management and technology company. His work spreads on a wide canvas from running operations to marketing to technology. What are your most memorable moments at Ross? The entire experience was […]

You take a birth become a baby, move to kid, than those juvenile teenage, here comes virile manliness, boarding on to mature person state, maturate and turn out to be ripe, and once for the all superannuation comes and existence lead off for being obsolete to non-extant. Oh c’mon this is not an evolution and […]

We are now a part of a society that is technology driven. Prior to the internet revolution, it was believed that knowledge can only be acquired if one attends classroom classes. Do you think the same holds true today? Can we learn things online or the need to attend classroom classes still remains? Let us […]

Vocabulary is one of the most important cogs in the large wheel of English language. Lexicon in this age plays an imperative role in competitive examinations like CAT, GMAT, etc. Although a myth in the minds of the students has embedded that learning new words for CAT is a waste of time. But, as a […]

In Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning, it was a standard paper again with no major changes/surprises. Logical reasoning had much easier questions compared to most mocks. However, quick data analysis and data arrangement would be the key here. There were three caselets with three questions each. Most of the questions were on Sudoku style and […]

The online Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013 kicked off without any glitches. There were no surprises in the test. As declared earlier, the paper had two sections of 70 minutes each. Most of the questions in both sections were conventional CAT type problems from areas tested regularly over the years. There were no changes in […]

Okay, so the idea of this note emanated from a three hour long intense discussion (Bakchodi, as it is being called these days) that the three of us had in the car a few days back. Though the central idea primarily remains different from what we had discussed with great alacrity, it did give me […]