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) […]

IIM Indore’s Narendra Agarwal, his wife Poonam and their son Arnav In the days gone by, synonyms for ‘marriage’ could easily be settled, family, sacrifice, children, stop living your own life. Today, the synonyms read more like ‘fun, study, partner, parties, friends, freedom. Thanks to a large number of b-school students pursuing an MBA post […]

(Photo credit: ideowl) Accepted applicants to top US b-schools have started behaving the same way in light of the current economic anxiousness as they did in the beginning of the 2008 economic crisis — they are deferring their admissions with all-too-familiar justification: “I’d rather be taking home a paycheck right now than shoulder a fat […]

PS: The intention of the comic is not at all to mock womenkind or non-engineers. In fact the intention is not to mock anything at all. Frankly, there is no intention either, of anything. The comic came out of nothing and is supposed to be completely apolitical. Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka […]

The Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) conducted annually by Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur will be held on January 8, 2012. Online registration for the same can be done from September 20, 2011 upto November 30, 2011. While the paper will remain a pen and paper format this year and conducted on a single day, […]

The concept of divide and conquer, derived from the Latin phrase Divide et impera, was put into use effectively by everyone from Caesar to Napoleon to the British in India. Even Muammar Gaddafi tried using it but as the latest news events show us — he wasnt very effective at gaining from it. Dividing — […]

Is the closure of Joint National Management Test (JMET), only the beginning of the end of the various other specialised b-school entrance exams? SS Mantha, chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education told media last week that from 2013 onwards, only one entrance exam (the CMAT) will come into force from 2013 onwards, […]