MBA vs PGDM Everything has an expiry date, probably true with MBA. MBA is an old version for those wanting to pursue management studies and now PGDM sounds better. Generally PGDM course is far more industry oriented and practical as far as job market is concerned. I have been professor at one the of major […]

One of the biggest challenges a student faces while applying to a Business School is the very decision “where to go”. So many schools and the wealth of information available sometimes can leave one overwhelmed at the same time confused. In order to understand and strategically decide which school could be a good fit for […]

Siva Surya Teja, from Samalkot, Andhra Pradesh, is one among the eight toppers this year. In fact, even before the results came out, there were talks that he might be one of the likely toppers. Speaking to PaGaLGuY, Siva said, “I was confident about the CAT this year. But I was scared when my name […]

When CAT 2013 topper Karthik Kumar got 99.35 percentile in CAT 2012, he knew a better score was possible. The only roadblock was the Verbal Section where he managed only 85.5 percentile. To counter that, he started focusing only on the Verbal section as he was confident about Quant. He said, “I was not at […]

The Common Admission Test 2013 results are out. The CAT website was playing truant and not totally accessible even after 9.00 am. As soon as the link is available you will see it here. In the beginning, candidates with long email ids could not check their results. The CAT site had put a validation of […]

CAT results are just few hours away from now and many of us would be going through different sets of emotions, which is understandable. Many of us would have put in a lot of effort and their high level of expectation is very much anticipated and obvious. On the the other hand this is also […]

It is only serendipitous that the day I “re-arrive” on PG is a day before the CAT results. It is nostalgic to see so many “nerves” – I am sure whoever has been posting on PG or silently reading others’ posts expects to be on the other side tomorrow. The truth however is known to […]

CAT 2013 has thrown up a total of 8 toppers. All are Engineers and males. Of these two have a masters degree in Engineering and six have a Bacherlors degree in the same field. Andhra Pradesh tops the list with 4 toppers (100 percentilers) – one each from Hyderabad, Samalkot, Secunderabad and Vijayawada. Mumbai has […]

I have had 3 attempts on CAT, and all the way through, I have been hearing that the format of CAT is “Engineer- friendly”. After trying to defend the argument of many occasions on behalf of non- Engineers, I wonder who minted this term. This is a crazy exam to clear, and a lot of […]

The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013 results will be out on January 14, 2014. For the first time, the IIMs (IIM-Indore specifically since it handling this year’s exam) have roped in the government agency National Informatics Centre (NIC) for help. This agency will host the results which will be sent out to the non-IIM institutes […]