Before the Spanish economic crisis, roughly a third of Barcelonas ESADE Business School MBA graduates fond jobs in Spain. That proportion has now reduced to one-sixth of the class. To make up for loss, the ESADE career services team has made efforts to tap into the job markets in Latin America and Asia, says the […]

Photo Credit: Inha Leex Hale If you think cracking CAT (Common Admission Test) or/and GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) is enough of a bother, there is news. GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council), the body that conducts GMAT is soon to launch Reflect, an exam that checks soft skills. To be launched on February 20, quite […]

XLRI Jamshedpur The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) has inducted the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM C) and XLRI Jamshedpur as members. Students will stand to benefit indirectly from this move as member b-schools get better exposure to global practices. Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad, IIM Ahmedabad, S P Jain Institute of Management […]

Manish Harodia The Xaviers Aptitude Test (XAT) 2013 wished the aspirants new year in a grand style. The centre where I took the test (Sinhgad Insttute of Management, Pune) must have had about two thousand aspirants taking the exam today. It somehow resembled the golden days of Common Aptitude Test (CAT) being a paper pencil […]

Have you ever wondered what would Gandhijis CAT/GMAT score have been? It is known that effective leadership requires emotional and creative intelligence more than reasoning and verbal abilities. Every individual has unique capabilities and strengths and possesses multiple intelligences. A leader should not only have good analytical capabilities but also have high Influencing Skills backed […]

Just when we were close to concluding that Prometric had perfected the on-ground delivery of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) after the lessons it had learned in 2009, entire testing labs at at least two test centers in New Delhi failed this Saturday, on day 8 of CAT 2012. But instead of providing the choice […]

The Institute of Rural Management, Anand, (IRMA) in Gujarat has filed a writ petition against the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in relation to the now famous court case concering the permitted MBA entrance exams. IRMA is fighting to retain its own entrance exam and not take any of the five exams as […]

The year 2011-12, during which the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) added a new section to its format, has turned out to be a record year for the test, with 286,529 GMAT exams being taken across the world. The highest ever number of tests in a single year were in part due to the rush […]

In the first part of this article I wrote about the sections of the application which required imagination and creativity – your essays, interview, and recommendations. This part is about those sections of the application which are more or less set in stone. Remember, everything is evaluated by application readers who read thousands of applications […]

For the first time, an Indian Institute of Management is launching an executive MBA programme which will not only confer a dual degree/diploma but also involve a joint-learning’ process across four different schools from around the world. IIM Udaipur is going to kick-start this different execuive MBA programme from January 2013. Hoping not to become […]