China reforms: One-child policy to be relaxed ● In a surprising move China is set to relax its policy of restricting most couples to have only a single child ● In future, families will be allowed two children if one parent is the only child. ● It should be noted that the one-child policy already […]

Decision Making for XAT is often neglected by students while preparing for XAT and at their own peril. Some of the students don’t even realise that it is a whole section in XAT and its score will be used while giving out calls to students. Given below is a table which shows the number of […]

“Thank you for all your help. I wish I had met you earlier. You know you are like an Agony Aunt…” Complements in my line of work are not rare but this one left me completely speechless. It made me wonder why do people get so desperate after things have gone wrong. Yes I was […]

“Stand up you three from the last row”, roared the lecturer. “What was so funny? Come on! tell us the joke”, he continued with the same pace he started with. The same hackneyed sentence, which our teacher had fired, almost killed the spirit of ludicrous comment on which we were actually laughing. We stood solid […]

What is Decision Making? Decision making is a cognitive process of reaching a decision with the given information and constraints. Decision Making process is an integral part of modern management. It is required at every level of management to ensure organizational or business goals are achieved. Essentially, rational or sound decision making is taken as […]

I know it is depressing but you need to put it behind and think about your future. Here is what I would recommend 1. Analyze why you wanted to go to ISB in the first place. do you want to try one more year 2. If not, are you open to a new way of […]

Next question that’s in the line after taking the exam is “My attempts in Quant are A with B% accuracy and in Verbal it is C with D% accuracy. How much %ile can I expect??” I am sure such questions could send even the Quant masters in a dizzy… Then again we have many aspirants […]

And the funniest part is the clichéd answers given by these “Gyaani babas” in defense to the questions raised over the authenticity or the success rate of those projections- “Actually the projections are not 100% correct but they are fairly indicative of your actual percentiles as they are based on the analysis and detailed study […]

So the time has come when the month-long marathon of CAT 2013 has shut all its windows and is now drawing its curtains. Ahhhh… But wait!!! I can see so many restless heads peeping through the window furtively, with a desperate bid to at least have a glance of their PERCENTILE; to which I feel […]

(Part 6 ) Also with the CAT on the rounds, it’s commonly observed among the aspirants that after writing their paper, they post their attempt rates n “probable accuracy rates” on every possible and available networking site, and then beg others to “predict” their %iles; however misleading the projected %ile might be. I sincerely wish […]