Mocks are the most important part of prep work for the Common Admission Test (CAT). Yet, not all students capitalise on them fully. Often, students do not take the CAT because “the syllabus is not yet complete.” The syllabus for the CAT is never complete. Right through preparation time, there will always be some areas […]

It took Mumbai police two and a half years to arrest the director and and two other officials of a b-school in Mumbai for offering fake degrees. The arrests were made on August 6, 2011 but the police complaint was filed way back on March 11, 2009. The reason it took so long according to […]

(Original photo credit: Superwebdeveloper) Students in Maharashtra who were eagerly waiting for their B-school classes to kickstart, finally got to pack their laptops and don their formal shirts – school started today, Mon August 8. The students have gone through two rounds of the central allotment process (CAP) conducted by the Directorate of Technical Education, […]

Taking the Common Admissions Test (CAT) this year will be dearer by Rs 200. The price of the voucher — which goes on sale at Axis Bank branches between August 17 and September 26, 2011 — has been increased from Rs 1,400 of last year to Rs 1,600 for this year for the general category. […]

The much-hyped annual sports meet, called CLassiXX between Xavier Labour Research Institute (XLRI) Jamshedpur, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, IIM Lucknow and Xavier Institute of Management Bhubhaneshwar (XIMB) packed more than a punch on its inaugural day at the XLRI campus today. An argument that apparently started with an alleged discrepancy in the score […]

(Photo credit: Hillie Kootstra) As many as 15 bills related to education are slated to be introduced in the monsoon session underway at the parliament. The two most critical among them is the act which will allow foreign universities to function in India and a set of laws that will make way for special courts […]

? Let’s face it, Quantitative Aptitude (QA) is the section that many absolutely dread. To top it, the importance of QA has only increased in the newly announced format of CAT 2011. As per a previous analysis on PaGaLGuY, this might increase the proportion of tough questions in the paper and smart selection of questions […]

Anupam, (left) taking a class at Escape Anupam Kumar is a first year student at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIMC), learning to become an adroit manager. But there is a lesson or two that he can easily teach his classmates and may be a willing professor too. One, on how to convert every […]

Paragraph Completion or Deleted Sentences are an important part of the English section of the Common Admission Test (CAT) exam. And given the new format of the CAT, Para Completion (PC) or Deleted Sentences (DS) may well become a part of the Logical Reasoning section of the CAT, thus increasing the weightage of ‘English’ in […]

(Photo credit: albertogp123) Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) will revert to accepting the Common Admission Test (CAT) score for shortlisting candidates for the MICA test (MICAT) for admissions to the 2012-14 batch. A minimum of 90 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) will be required to reach the MICAT stage, said GK Nair, […]