A ballpark of 60,000 applicants has registered for the Common Management Aptitude Test (CMAT) of September 2012, SS Mantha Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) confirmed to PaGaLGuY today. In addition, almost 9,000 candidates have opted for CMAT test centres in Mumbai. The other most popular test centre cities include New Delhi, Pune […]

Pic: Flickr The Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIMI) has 65% freshers in its 2012-2014 batch. This figure is the highest among all the Indian Institutes of Management and other top schools this year. What becomes incidental is that the number of work-ex is about 35%. While IIMI decided to go with a bigger ‘fresher’ […]

Vignana Jyothi Institute of Management (VJIM) was set up by the “Vignana Jyothi” educational society in 1992. Vignana Jyothi is registered as a non-profit educational society under the Societies Act. Vignana Jyothi manages five educational institutions including VJIM. The society has eminent personalities like Padmasree Dr. Karkarla Subba Rao, Dr. Rama Naidu, film producer, Dr. […]

So its time we made the new version of PaGaLGuY a little more exciting by addressing the biggest obstacle of getting through a top Indian b-school: cracking MBA entrance tests. Preparing for a test like the Common Admissions Test (CAT) can be boring. Theres a lot of theory to read, based on which you try […]

In today’s complex global business environment and fast changing business needs, there is often only a narrow window of time to profit from today’s opportunities as they become tomorrow’s commodities. These high velocity business environment changes have also created high velocity obsolescence of today’s business skills. This creates an immense challenge for organizations to maintain […]

MBA applicants from India are four to five times more likely to be turned down for admission to US B-Schools than applicants from other countries. The current state of the US economy makes placing international students especially difficult and most Indian applicants have similar profiles (IT or Engineering) making it tough to differentiate! In this […]

Registration for the Common Management Test (CMAT) is now extended to September 7, 2012. Originally, registrations were to close on September 2, 2012. One would naturally think that AICTE has done it to net in more applicants but apparently the extension has come about because states are gradually announcing their individual decisions to switch over […]

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If you are an aspirant studying hard to gain entry to a top-ranking b-school through the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) forget it, at least for this year. Most of the good schools are not considering CMAT this year again. While most schools said an outright NO to us when we asked, some said they […]

The advertisement for the IIMB director in The Economist The search for a new director for both, The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) and The Indian Institute of Bangalore (IIMB) has gone international. Both the schools have placed recruitment advertisements in The Economist issue dated August 4-10, 2012. This clearly indicates that the schools […]