Nagpur city beat other contenders like Mumbai, Pune and Aurangabad to be the host of an Indian Institute of Management in Maharashtra. Higher and technical education minister Vinod Tawde and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis informed that the institute will likely start operations from the 2015-16 academic session. Currently, it will operate out of two buildings rented […]

Nagpur city beat other contenders like Mumbai, Pune and Aurangabad to be the host of an Indian Institute of Management in Maharashtra. Higher and technical education minister Vinod Tawde and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis informed that the institute will likely start operations from the 2015-16 academic session. Currently, it will operate out of two buildings rented […]

Getting the Tricky parts right You’ve slogged hard and belled-the-CAT; cracked-theXAT/MAT and what-have-we… and now its time to jump into the ‘Grey’. Unlike the written tests, GD’s and PI’s are not cut-and-dry ‘black-and-white’; they deal with the intangibles…. where your assessors are no longer looking for ‘the right answer’; but your ‘confidence’, ‘poise’, and ‘ability […]

I hail from a family business background and we are into the construction of roads. It has been about thirty years since my parents started the company, and today we have about a thousand employees. I have actively been involved in the business. According to me, the three years I have spent is sufficient time […]

The Common Admission Test (CAT) results are expected on December 27, 2014. According to sources at IIM Indore, which conducted the exam, the results will be available on the CAT website from evening of December 27. The exact time is not known yet. As soon as PaGaLGuY is made aware of the time, we will […]

Sitting in the shade of Chhota Canteen, it’s hard to believe that I have spent two terms at MICA. It feels like yesterday that I first set foot here for my interview, not knowing if I had any future here. And from that moment, these red brick walls, inspiring classrooms, the unconventional auditorium and the […]

Male. Engineer. Non-IITian. General category. That’s my profile. And I still ended up in an IIM. For all the pessimists out there, it is possible! Read on.. The first time I ever thought about giving CAT was in the third year of engineering. Before that, I was a regular student, enjoying student life, without a […]

Being underprepared, I had not applied for any other exam. After the CAT results, I was dejected and decided to get back to engineering studies, something that I was confident about. I was, however, pleasantly surprised when I got a call from IIM Shillong. At 86 percentile? I was not sure how this happened. But […]

Soon, it was time to start preparing for CAT2011. I was enjoying my work, and felt no pressure at office as I prepared at home. This time I was serious. I had started preparing around May and joined a test series. I also purchased some GMAT books to help me with the verbal section and […]

14 years of schooling, 3 years of college, 2 years of coaching, almost 10 entrance examinations (including CAT) and still it seems that English is an alien language. As soon as I start thinking I know it, it surprises me. Coming to CAT, I still had a confusion of the level that ‘listen’ and ‘hear’ […]