With the vision of constantly engaging with young leaders, the School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL) has organized several interactive sessions this year for school and college students as well as young professionals. On January 22, 2011, young enthusiasts came together for a Career Workshop to achieve more clarity on the best possible career paths. The […]

As if the Income-Tax raids last December were not enough, LN Welingkar Institute of Management and Development, Matunga is mired in yet another controversy. A petition has been filed in the Bombay High Court urging for a probe into the appointment of Dr Uday Salunkhe as the director of the b-school. The complaint states that […]

A series of numbers or alphabets or both, seemingly unrelated in nature but having a certain underlying logic, gives us today’s topic. These type of questions are commonly seen in CET and are easy to moderate in nature. The number of questions can range from 10-20 and can be either found in a set of […]

A classic error that judicial courts are prone to is one where the paranoia over not allowing criminals to be let off the hook results in a lot of innocent people being put to trial. Statisticians call this unintentionally increasing ‘type 1’ errors (false positives) in the pursuit of reducing ‘type 2’ errors (false negatives). […]

Of the few topics unique to CET, Visual Reasoning accounts for 15% of the total marks in the paper. Perceived as difficult and the difference between getting admitted to a Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) and a Sydenham Institute of Management Studies and Research and Entrepreneurship Education) , this section has endless possibilities […]

Big brother AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) has been given just eight days by b-schools to modify the notification it issued on December 28, 2010 (pushing for sweeping changes in business education) or else face legal action. The Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) has decided to march up the steps of the […]

On February 2 around 9.30 am, around 280 candidates who had applied for the Business Management Programme and around 350 candidates who had applied to the Human Resources Management got their XLRI Jamshedpur interview shortlist statuses reversed and the ‘Regret’ message was replaced by a ‘Congratulations’. When XLRI declared its initial interview shortlist on January […]

Both these topics are frequently encountered in CET papers and are very confusing if not downright impossible to crack. These topics (including others such as Visual Reasoning, parajumbles, etc) are where candidates lose marks in CET. Last year, the subjective questions had options which weren’t close and so, were solvable by elimination. But things can […]

What is common between the following people and their Xavier’s Admission Test (XAT) 2011 scores? (Their XAT 2011 IDs are given inside the brackets.) CR Mahesh (XAT441916) VA – 99.07 QA – 99.97 RA – 97.2 Overall – 99.99 N Vijay Bhasker Reddy (XAT448096) QA – 88.99 VA – 99.97 RA – 97.64 Overall – […]

Being relatively new to market economy, we in India have for long centered quality measurement around accreditations with a rather low bar. Does your electrical appliance meet the minimum safety standards? Do factories have basic minimum safety conditions for workers? Do our business schools meet the minimum standards of infrastructure, faculty, number of books in […]