This year, the Common Admissions Test (CAT) will begin in October, a month earlier than the usual November-end. How does an early CAT 2010 affect your preparation? Here are the top 5 repercussions and predictions. 1. Lesser prep time – Preparation time has been reduced by a whole month. Which means that you will have […]

It is official: CAT 2010 will be held on 20 days between October 27 and November 23, 2010. The IIMs will release the CAT advertisement in newspapers on the last Sunday of August and the registration and form sales process will begin three days after that. “There will be logical breaks in between the exam […]

For the fourth year in a row, ISB Hyderabad’s Admissions Director Mr VK Menon is hosting a question and answer thread on PaGaLGuY to answer applicant questions on ISB admissions, curriculum, faculty, placements, scholarships, etc. However unlike conventional online chats, this will continue 24×7 until the end of ISB’s admission season. Says Mr Menon, “The […]

A kingsize thank you to everyone who sent in their entries to the PaGaLGuY B-school Shutterbug Contest 2010 from dozens of b-schools. You were all great! We received over 110 entries, totaling to more than 350 photographs of the country’s best-known b-school campuses. We started looking at the submitted photographs in the morning, and it’s […]

(Credit: m.gifford) Virtually all top business schools with some notable exceptions ask applicants for a personal statement in which candidates discuss their goals and ambitions as they pertain to the MBA degree and often, to the target schools particular program. As you approach this essay, be sure that you place appropriate emphasis on the ‘personal’ […]

There will be little change in the base process used behind the creation and evaluation of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2010 compared to CAT 2009. Prometric, the testing vendor commissioned by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) for conducting the test will continue to use the psychometric process to ensure that the CAT is […]

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad is looking at setting up a campus at Hyderabad to offer executive education. In a press notification dated June 29, the institute spokesperson said, “At the instance of the Government of Andhra Pradesh, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad is engaged in discussions with the Government of Andhra […]

On a lighter note, if the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Maharashtra Government and the ‘mai-baap’ of the Maharashtra MBA-CET continues its chat room on its official website, it is sure to give dating and matrimonial sites a run for their money. One can not only ‘make frens’ on the website’s ‘Chat with the PRO’ […]

The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), used for MBA admissions by a vast majority of business schools across the world will add a new section that will test advanced reasoning skills, starting June 2012. The new section, known as ‘Integrated Reasoning’, will feature questions that will test skills of data analysis and interpretation, the ability […]

Credits: Big Bang Theory images from pincel3d and iNewscatcher. 12 Angry Men is a kickass movie later remade in India. The rest of the images snitched from the various email forwards that grace our Inboxes. The last image is from the All India PaGaLGuY Meet 2008 at Bangalore. More PG comics Concept, illustrations and graphics […]