After introducing the cohort-based recruitment process, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad is trying out its second experiment with placements. The institute plans to develop a new ‘Placement Reporting Standard’. The stated objective of the Placement Reporting Standards will be to bring in greater objectivity and uniformity in the manner in which Indian b-schools […]

Prometric today released a practice CAT test on its website in order to familiarize candidates with the navigation and functionality of CAT 2010. The test includes a tutorial followed by 12 sample questions in an interface that is supposed to look just like the actual CAT 2010. “Candidates will have 15 minutes to try selecting, […]

IIM Shillong’s Director is mulling shifting the school’s placements to IIM Calcutta this academic year. The Director Prof Ashoke K Dutta says that he is currently making an assessment of the company responses to be able to take a final call. “If there are some companies not willing to come over or do the interviews […]

PaGaLGuY catches up with Prof Himanshu Rai, the man responsible for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2010 for a quick interview. Edited excerpts: CAT 2010 being a month away, how do you personally feel about the preparations by Prometric? I’m extremely happy. Nothing untoward has happened until now during the testing of the infrastructure and […]

Will executive or one-year MBA programs be more fruitful without the bling and stress of the placement process? We found this to be a question worth pondering over and asked a few academicians and students for their opinion. The debate is this: being one-year programs, a majority of the attention and energy of the participating […]

On a visit to the IIM Ranchi campus last week, I was allowed a peep into just one room in the students’ hostel building. Spick and span, the room looked welcoming and refreshing (to what one thought a management student’s hostel room is supposed to look like). The bedspreads were crisply laid, clothes neatly folded […]

Every year during the months of April and May when MBA students leave for their summer internship, it is time for the faculty to face blackboards and enter the learning mode. What was previously the strength of only the very premier b-schools, a growing number of private and upcoming b-schools too are investing in Faculty […]

(Photo credit: Joyjeet Maity, submitted as an entry to PaGaLGuY B-school Shutterbug Photography Contest 2010) PaGaLGuY’s Official CAT 2010 Helpline is now live, answered by none other than the Student community of IIM Kozhikode. Post all your questions and doubts about preparing for the CAT in the last month, how to cover your weak areas, […]

All but 70 kms stop IIM Rohtak from being called IIM Delhi. For advocates of building new IITs and IIMs near large industrialised metropolitan cities, the newest IIM at Rohtak would sound like a prayer answered in disguise, considering that it is just two-hours away from the country’s capital. And the travel time would be […]

The longer testing window seems to also have inspired a longer registration window for CAT 2010. The CAT Committee has decided to advance the final registration deadlines for CAT 2010 by one week. Vouchers will now be on sale at Axis Bank branches until October 4, while candidates can now register for the test till […]