It’s finally here, the audited and mind-bogglingly detailed placement reports of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad’s PGP, PGP Agri-business and PGPX batches graduating in 2011. The report is based on the Placement Reporting Standards proposed and finalized at IIM Ahmedabad in June 2011 and has been audited by credit-rating firm CRISIL. Quick overview […]

Picture from the FMS website Students and faculty of the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) took out a silent march to the Vice-Chancellor’s (Delhi University) office earlier today to protest against the cancellation of the FMS entrance exam. Many classes stood cancelled as, though, both students and faculty ‘attended’ classes, little work was done. May […]

First View Raipur, the capital of Chattisgarh, is more notorious for its proximity to the Maoist-dominated district of Dantewada than anything else. But last year when the HRD ministry decided to start an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in the area, b-school aspirants began looking at the city anew with hope and expectation. Along with […]

Q1.What is Critical Reasoning? Critical Reasoning is an analytical way of thinking about issues for analysing and evaluating information gathered from observation and experience in order to come to certain conclusions. Critical Reasoning clarifies goals, examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence and assesses conclusions. ‘Critical’ as used in the expression ‘critical reasoning’ denotes the […]

Pic from the FMS website Another MBA entrance exam is expected to bite the dust soon. Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) is in all probability going to shelve its 40-year old entrance exams in favour of the Common Admission Test (CAT). The vice-chancellor of the Delhi University will be signing the papers anytime soon. Incidentally, […]

When the news first flashed a couple of weeks ago, that The Indian Institute of Management, (IIM) Ranchi wants to ‘map’ India cricket captain MS Dhoni’s brain, it seemed too bizarre to be true. But now that Dhoni has reportedly agreed to the mapping, it makes sense to know what is exactly brewing in the […]

Pic by Elvert Barne Lot’s of festivities last week. Starting with Idd on August 31, spilling over to Ganesh Chaturthi on September 1 and extending to the Pagalguy.com anniversary on September 2. Pagalguy completed nine years and the day was marked with general cheer and frolic at its headquarters in Mumbai. Other than that, there […]

The D-day for some MBA aspirants comes earlier than usual. If you are one of those who are taking the Management Aptitude Test (MAT) this Sunday (September 4, 2011), read on. You must be aware that the MAT is a 150 minute long test with 200 questions split across five sections. Here is a recommended […]

Picture taken from the XLRI website If it can be called a change, the biggest change in this years Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) paper will that it will be a do-able paper and the level of difficulty will see a dip. Disclosing this, Xavier’s Labour Research Institute (XLRI) Admissions Chairperson Soumendra Bagchi told PaGaLGuY that […]

Do you back up or back away or back down? Break away / Break down / Break up? Call back / call off/ call on? Do you find it difficult to differentiate among them? Then, welcome to Phrasal Verbs ! To start with, let’s find out the difference between ordinary usage and phrasal verbs, (1) […]