A total of 2,04,267 candidates have registered to appear for CAT 2010 against a total voucher sale of 2.06 lakhs, the Convenor of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2010 and IIM Lucknow Professor Himanshu Rai told PaGaLGuY today. According to the data shared by Prof Rai, there is a marginal increase of 1.65 percentage points […]

Corporations and temples have a lot in common, believes Keisuke Matsumoto, a student at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. A participant in the PGP batch of 2010-11, Keisuke spent the last seven years as a Buddhist priest at the Komyoji Temple in Tokyo. He plans to use his MBA education to upgrade the […]

The education ministry in China is on an ambitious plan to attract 500,000 international students every year, of which 150,000 will be for higher education. To meet this number, the government has already set about improving the quality of faculty, designing more international education programs and increasing services for foreign students. Little wonder then that […]

The shift from paper-pencil to online last year has practically taken away the surprise element from the Common Admission Test (CAT). From the ambiguous CAT question paper that had the knack of surprising lakhs of students, all at one go, the new computer-based format of the exam has made things a bit more predictable, especially […]

Dear all, We at PaGaLGuY are initiating the survey process for this admission season’s b-school rankings. As with every other initiative on PaGaLGuY, the B-school Rankings too will tap the power of the MBA aspirants’ and students’ community. Given below is a list of b-schools that we are considering to include in the rankings. Please […]

Theater and management studies might not have much in common on the face of it, but the students of Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad have developed a strong bond with both. What started out as one of show by the students in 1999 has now, become the institutes annual theatrical event happening annually for over […]

In its first attempt to go international and provide competition to the global GMAT exam, Common Admission Tests (CAT) will cross shores and conduct its first international exam in Sri Lanka next year. Apparently, other Asian countries like Nepal and some in the Middle East have also evinced a similar interest. Speaking to Pagalguy.com, Himanshu […]

SOIL (School of Inspired Leadership, Gurgaon) is a business school that aims at educating the worlds next generation of leaders and professionals in meeting evolving global challenges while working towards sustainability. In a recent research study carried out at IIM Ahmedabad’s Ravi J Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation, SOIL was named as one of four […]

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi is still not a landmark in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The word IIM itself is a wringer to the ears of auto drivers and cyclewallas. But if you say Suchana Bhavan (the building that houses IIM Ranchi), they are more than willing to ferry you there as it nets them […]

Last week, we worked with Aditya Dipankar from the National Institute of Design (NID), Bangalore to review the test interface of the Common Admissions Test (CAT). This week, we get Aditya to analyse the test-interface for the other major computer-based test, the Narse Monjee Management Aptitude Test (NMAT) from a design and ease-of-use point of […]