The quality of education among India’s business schools has not been able to keep up with their growth in recent years. But if each ‘good’ b-school mentors the faculty of five lower-rung b-schools in its local region with IIMs taking the lead, vast improvements can be made in the general quality of Indian b-schools, says […]

(Photo credit: Vishal Gosike) SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai completed placements for the 2-year PGDM Class of 2011 with 242 offers from 76 companies for the placement process. Of the 242 offers, 107 were lateral offers and 77 were pre-placement offers from autumn internships. According to the institute, 39% of the […]

The Maharashtra MBA CET 2011 held today surprised quite a few test takers. After an easy paper in 2010 which saw records being shattered and soaring cut-offs, CET 2011 struck back with one of the more difficult papers in recent years. The questions werent straightforward, there were plenty of Analytical Reasoning caselets and short Reading […]

Big Brother All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)s controversial circular pressing for vast changes in the sphere of business education received a further setback yesterday with the Bombay High court squashing most parts of the circular. This comes after Orissa High Court stayed the same circular last week, when a group of b-schools from […]

(Image courtesy: Jilligan86) In this article, which is the last on CET prep, I have answered some of the questions posted to me in the last few weeks. I have found DI very difficult to crack during mocks. Sometimes, I need more than three operations to crack a set. How should I go about it? […]

India’s latent entrepreneurship potential lies untapped because of life skills that aren’t taught and social expectations that aren’t set right. By addressing these problems in India’s bright youngsters through their curriculums, b-schools could lay the seed for innovative businesses that scale to become billion dollar companies, says Vijay Anand, Head of IIT Madras’s Incubation Center […]

(Image Courtesy: alicejack2002) The Maharashtra MBA CET, is an out and out speed test. The one who persists with nailing the questions one after another, as opposed to spending time just reading them all, will survive the test. The attitude to solving the test should be that of a charging bull who knows nothing more […]

Computer-based testing will soon be ubiquitous in India and more management entrance tests will employ technologically evolved methods of assessment. As a consumer of these tests, how do you identify quality in a test? Lawrence M Rudner, VP of R&D; and Chief Psychometrician of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) writes a guide to differentiating […]

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Rohtak completed its summer placements by by securing summer internships for all its 49 students across 28 companies. Being a new IIM, this was the first ever summer internship process for the Haryana-based school. Majority of the internships were offered in the sales and marketing or finance profiles. Two […]

Image courtesy: shutterhacks Below are a few topics which are unique to CET and account for 15-20 marks in the paper. With these, I would have covered almost all the major topics on CET prep. Parajumbles The paper might contain a solitary set wherein, you have to re-arrange a jumbled paragraph. The first sentence of […]