(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 […]

NMIMS officials at the press conference held at the institute In a major education-related racket bust, six persons have been identified for having impersonated 87 candidates in the Narsee Monjee Management Aptitude Test (NMAT) which was held from October 11 to December 19, 2012. A joint team of the cyber-crime police and Unit 8, Crime […]

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(Photo: Sigfrid Lundberg) Thousands appear for their CAT exam in the final year of their undergraduate studies. Those who are not able to get through in their first attempt reappear the following year and add to the ever increasing pool of candidates with work experience. With the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other Indian […]

Imagine the opportunity 500 million urban population by 2020 8.7 billion sq ft to be built every year! In other words, India needs to build a city like Chicago every year $253 billion built environment sector – growing at cumulative growth rate of 19% $1 trillion investment in infrastructure planned in next 5 years 9th […]

The new Common Admission Test (CAT) Convenor Prof Rohit Kapoor of the Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM-I) says that CAT 2013 will have no substantive changes and that no one should expect any major surprise either. Prof Kapoor who was earlier Assistant Vice-President, Operations, Angel Capital and Debt Markets Ltd., has been with IIM-I […]