(Photo credit: Rakesh Thykandi) When 120 applicants to the much talked about 5-year Integrated Programme in Management (IPM) at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore received their offer letters by email on October 12, they were overjoyed. But along with the offer, the institute also sent them a separate document stating that they would […]

For those who didn’t get the references on the front page image and the header, that’s a nod of tribute to Frasier, one of the most successful American sitcoms ever. All the best for CAT 2011! Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets here.

(Photo credit: ensign_beedrill) Chalk it up to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) merging their MBA admissions into the Common Admissions Test (CAT) fold or to the gloomy employment outlook in the IT sector, but the proportion of engineers taking the test this year is 4 percentage points higher than that in 2010. Detailed statistics […]

In my previous post, we discussed two common types of games and tournament questions. So, if you are looking for questions on new types of data representation or questions based on seeding in a tennis tournament, do read that post. However, there is another frequently appearing class of questions in the games and tournaments category […]

Graduate Management Admission Council, the owner and administrator of the GMAT exam, on Tuesday announced the launch of an India-specific version of the official GMAT website – www.mba.com/India. “The website has been designed exclusively for Indian aspirants and exhibits a detailed classification of the top business schools in India, Indian b-schools accepting GMAT scores and […]

Link : Video :: “>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzlkBA21yag FORE School of Management, (FSM) New Delhi is a premier b-school situated in the heart of South Delhi, which caters to the needs of stake-holders who are interested in career-upgradation. It is in sync with the latest tenets of ‘management education.’ FSM has embarked upon a strategy INDUSTRY ENGAGAMENT PROGRAMME […]

It has been a week since the London branch of Pune-based Training and Advanced Studies in Management and Communication (TASMAC) group which has b-schools in Kolkata and Bangalore, shut its doors. But the 650 students who studied there are still unsure of what lies ahead in their future. Efforts are on to shift them to […]

(October leaves by Jim Crotty) Nothing beats an October sunrise flowers in full bloom and trees looking refreshed after the monsoon season. And the impending Diwali festive cheer to add to it. But Diwali is not going to be ‘cheerful’ for everyone this year. The Common Admission Test (CAT) dates are now clashing with a […]

(Photo credit: James Lee) Organisers of the Common Admission Test (CAT) have lately been urging the media to stress that this year the legal clause that prevents test-takers from disclosing CAT questions outside the walls of the test-center will be taken more seriously than ever. Anyone found violating the Non-Disclosure Agreement will be severely dealt […]

Applicants to top American b-schools might toil away their days and nights to rack up a gallant GMAT score and write plush essays and recommendation letters. But all that may amount to nothing if Googling their name up throws up unsavoury party pictures or distasteful language on their social networking profiles, painting a completely different […]