XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur completed placements for both its Business Management (BM) and Personnel Management and Industrial Relations (PMIR) batches of 2009-11 with 317 offers from 109 companies in under four days. This was the first placement exercise for XLRI after they double their PMIR batch strength from 60 to 120 […]

Looking back at the way many premier Indian b-schools have handled their admission processes this year, the MBA admission season of 2010-11 will not exactly be remembered as a season that people were fond of. From changing their admission criteria midway after selling application forms on a certain premise to using questionable methods of factoring […]

(Image courtesy: Luis Argerich) Quantitative ability and data interpretation questions make CET a speed game. Getting a good accuracy in this part of the paper is not that difficult a task, doing it quickly is. The time saved while solving these kind of questions can be utilised for solving other questions which require some thought […]

India today is a service economy with the service sector contributing to almost 55% of the countrys gross domestic product. The service economy is characterized by the absence of a physical product as in the case of the banking industry or by a token product like a sim card in the case of mobile telephony […]

With the vision of constantly engaging with young leaders, the School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL) has organized several interactive sessions this year for school and college students as well as young professionals. On January 22, 2011, young enthusiasts came together for a Career Workshop to achieve more clarity on the best possible career paths. The […]

Pic: Some of the ICICI Fellows designate at their recent training programme The ICICI Fellows programme is a transformative leadership programme, launched in December 2009 by ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth, for high-achieving youth between the ages of 21 to 28 years . The programme aims to provide Indias next generation of leaders with the […]

As if the Income-Tax raids last December were not enough, LN Welingkar Institute of Management and Development, Matunga is mired in yet another controversy. A petition has been filed in the Bombay High Court urging for a probe into the appointment of Dr Uday Salunkhe as the director of the b-school. The complaint states that […]

A series of numbers or alphabets or both, seemingly unrelated in nature but having a certain underlying logic, gives us today’s topic. These type of questions are commonly seen in CET and are easy to moderate in nature. The number of questions can range from 10-20 and can be either found in a set of […]

A classic error that judicial courts are prone to is one where the paranoia over not allowing criminals to be let off the hook results in a lot of innocent people being put to trial. Statisticians call this unintentionally increasing ‘type 1’ errors (false positives) in the pursuit of reducing ‘type 2’ errors (false negatives). […]

Of the few topics unique to CET, Visual Reasoning accounts for 15% of the total marks in the paper. Perceived as difficult and the difference between getting admitted to a Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) and a Sydenham Institute of Management Studies and Research and Entrepreneurship Education) , this section has endless possibilities […]