It’s the summer placements season at top Indian b-schools, just the time to relook why they are important at b-schools and what they indicate about the upcoming final placements season. If you were sizing up business schools right before you make your final decision, how important would you consider the placement record of the institute? […]

Jagan Institute of Management Studies (JIMS), Rohini (set up in 1993) imparts professional education at post graduate level in the fields of management and information technology. Our PGDM program is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education and accredited from National Board of Accreditation (NBA) for excellence in quality education. PGDM has also […]

Purnachandra Rao Duggirala, or the erstwhile ‘Mango Mod‘ Chandoo on PaGaLGuY has several illustrious achievements to his credit. Not only did the simple Vizag boy get into IIM Indore’s class of 2006, he wrote his story in a manner that it gained cult status over time. Four years after getting a campus placement at TCS, […]

Dear all, The media cell at the Xavier’s Institute of Management, Bhubhaneswar (XIMB) brought the school’s XAT 2010 99-percentilers together in a video where each speak about their experiences on cracking the XAT and what worked for them. For all those of you who have taken the CAT, here’s a video ready reckoner to get […]

The last time, I focused on few of the commonly faced dilemmas at the various B-School entrance tests. A management entrance test is designed so as to bring out the ability of an aspirant to perform under immense pressure. To subject the students to a bit of stress so as to observe how good they […]

Just when CAT 2010 was being written off as a ‘no-glitches’ exam, reports have begun to trickle in about wrong questions and no right options. According to candidates who have given the exam this season, a few questions have been tough to crack but the real reason for their tough character is possibly because they […]

May sound very Yash Raj Film-types, but amidst the misty winds blowing at IIM Shillong, one can often hear the soft strains of a guitar or the gentle taps of a piano. And this is no dream sequence as it would have been in the film, it is only Sourjyo Das strumming the guitar and […]

(Photo credit: Tarun Chawla) The entrance test for Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) will be held on Sunday, November 14. With less than a week to go, a quick-guide on preparing for it is in order. I had a talk with few current students of IRMA about advice they would like to give to […]

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow completed its summer internship placements for the PGP class of 2012 with 417 offers from 151 companies. A slot-based process spread over 6 days was followed, with 123 offers being made in Slot Zero, said an IIM Lucknow press release. The 2010-12 PGP batch has a student strength […]

Selling Pagalguy as an advertising/marketing medium to b-schools is not only an enriching experience but also an entertaining one. This is because before you actually get to meet the person in charge of buying advertising for a school, you have to battle an entire battery of people from receptionists and telephone oeprators to security guards […]