Two and a half years ago, I got hold of a pdf file from PaGaLGuY titled AIWTSAC-10.pdf, and read it all in a day. And I resolved that one day I’ll share my experience of cracking the CAT as well. It has taken me time to reach this stage, but I finally have. I fell […]

I graduated from a reputed National Institute of Technology and joined a major automobile firm in 2010. I realised in few months that tech was not for me and decided to do an MBA . CAT 2011 was my first attempt. I prepared well but answered a few questions I unsure about. I wrote XAT […]

A total of 83,662 candidates have registered for the September 2013 Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) of which 54,882 candidates are males while 28,780 are females. A total of 60,110 candidates fall in the general category. Corresponding registration figures for September 2012 CMAT were far lower with only 60,000 registrations. The registrations came to a […]

In a move that could be a paradigm shift for the Indian higher education, premier business schools have, innovative-ly (again!) through a resolution of their 69-member board, announced to profile their students based on animal personas. An announcement detailed that b-school students will no longer be marketed to corporates for jobs based on fictitious work […]

This triangle will help you remember the most basic formulae for TSD. Given below are a bunch of other concepts, formulae which come in handy while solving questions. Average and Relative Speed If a body is moving with speeds s(1), s(2), s(3), … s(n) and the time is constant for each part, then the average […]

It began in the third year. I myself wanted to do something more after engineering and had started weighing further options. Having done a lot of asking around, I decided that I would prefer staying in India and go for an MBA. 2010 I came across PaGalGuY.com through guess what? Orkut. I joined PaGaLGuY on […]

Engineering students generally stay in touch with their mathematics throughout their curriculum – not exactly with topics that are tested in the CAT but certainly with equations, basic arithmetic and advanced mathematics. This helps them get into the groove during their preparation much quicker as compared to others. However, they do find verbal ability quite […]

image courtesy: Bharat Goyal Photography The end of a journey is more important, because this end was the driver of your journey. You always set this end to get there at any costs. This end is the report card of your whole journey. If you agree with above statements, prepare to experience failure in that […]

For technical institutes in India, The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is the most feared thing in the world once a year – during the annual inspection when its inspectors make trips to institutes to certify them with a pass or fail grade. They work like secret-service officers and have little to do […]

The most important strategy in solving data interpretation questions in the IIFT entrance test is the Approximation technique. Let’s work with an example one is likely to come across: 1617/1760. Here you should think of approximation, what one will do is reduce the numerator to 1600 and increase the denominator to 1800. And hence the […]