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 […]

The MBA in Business Analytics at Galgotias University’s School of Business is a full time Program designed, developed and delivered in association with IBM. The initiative brings together the latest software applications, real-world industry experiences, hands on lab course, best practices and case studies all into a single unique education program. This program initiated under […]

A lot of students face problems in the General Awareness / Business Awareness / General Knowledge section of MBA entrance exams like XAT, IIFT and SNAP. That happens because they start “preparing” for it once they are done with their Quant, LR/DI and Verbal prep (sometimes even after CAT) – which is often too late. […]

(Continued from here) As students with arts and commerce backgrounds, you might be aware of a few of your limitations. You cannot solve all the questions. Ideally, non-engineering students should focus more on logical reasoning questions that don’t involve advanced level concepts from probability and permutations/combinations. The idea is to choose the right questions – […]

Photo Credit: Marian Institute of Health Care Management In jest, Fr Romuald D’Souza is often referred to as the founder of founders. After serving as director of XLRI Institute of Management, Jamshedpur and starting both, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar and Goa Institute of Management, this 88 year old now wants to start a wellness […]

(Photo: mingusmutter) In this post, we are going to talk about two types of questions: Find out the area of the bounded region Find out the points with integer co-ordinates within the bounded region Let us first look at some graphs. |x| and -|x| These graphs will be mirror images of each other where the […]

Cows produce milk just like humans and precisely for the same reasons – to feed their new-born. But cows in cities like Mumbai are rarely given a chance to celebrate motherhood. Their calves, mostly males, are weaned away within a day of birth and killed or kept in precarious conditions to be sold as veal […]