(Photo: GoDakshin) The Wikipedia article on Knights and Knaves says, Knights and Knaves is a type of logic puzzle. On a fictional island, all inhabitants are either knights, who always tell the truth, or knaves, who always lie. The puzzles involve a visitor to the island who meets small groups of inhabitants. Usually the aim […]

Here’s a talk with Josh Howatt who was recently accepted an offer to join the CMU Tepper class of 2015. Josh blogs at Taking on Tepper. Thank you Josh for sharing your story with us…and congrats on your acceptance! This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com blog series featuringinterviews with current MBA students, offering […]

Anna University, Chennai has declared the results of the Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test (TANCET) 2013. Candidates can view the results here. TANCET is a prerequisite for candidates who want to pursue post graduate courses through Anna university or affiliated colleges.

We are less than two weeks away from the mother of all PaGaLGuY Meets, the All India PaGaLGuY Meet 2013. Of the roughly 100 passionate puys who will be attend the meet at Corinthians Resort and Club near NIBM at Kondhwa in Pune on June 1 and 2, 2013, we asked a few how their […]

Renny Thomas, Partner, Mckinsey & Company In an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY, Renny Thomas, partner at global consulting biggie McKinsey & Co speaks about how the company thinks about hiring from business schools and undergraduate colleges and why it expects Indian b-schools to offer more diverse talent pools. An IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad product, […]

(Photo: Cali4beach) Does one need a classroom coaching programme to prepare for the Common Admissions Test (CAT)? MBA applicants often ask this question on online forums, and even otherwise to their mentors and peers – whether classroom coaching improves CAT preparation better. Or should they instead self-study and maybe join an online test series at […]

(Photo: Apurv Pandit)   Before we discuss the technical nuances of parallel construction in sentences, let’s analyse the two sentences written below, A. Every friend of John is a friend of mine. B. Every friend of John is also my friend. Sentence A creates more impact on the reader/listener than sentence B does. What is […]

This was the second year that the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, (IIM-B) persisted with its radical attendance and summer placements guidelines. Better known as ‘attend class whenever you want’ and ‘opt out of summer placements if you feel like’ to the world outside IIM-B, these have been at the receiving end of a fair […]

An IMPM class in session at the IIM-B campus There are a variety of business graduate programmes across the world but how many you know start by telling students that most business graduate programmes are destructive. Or, that to become a good manager, you need to have rain gear handy at all times. This one […]

A Supreme Court (SC) ruling on April 25, 2013 could have long term implications on the business education regulatory landscape of India. The court, hearing a petition filed by a group comprising the Association of Management of Private Colleges and some Tamil Nadu-based private institutes, has taken away MBA (not PGDM) and MCA courses in […]