After experiencing the CAT 2010 practice demo test released by Prometric, all of you must have found features you liked or found disappointing. We got Aditya Dipankar, a student of M.Des. (Information & Interface Design) 2009-11 at the National Institute of Design (NID), Bangalore to look up the practice test and identify pain points and […]

MBA admission without an entrance test would sound like music to the ears of many. However, the Maharashtra government’s decision to fill 15,000 vacant MBA seats in the state’s b-schools without the Common Entrance Test (CET) has met with moderate success. Two weeks after the circular was issued to effect the change, about 10,000 seats […]

That Ayodha was just about 135 kms away and bursting with police security and underlying tension on September 30, was hardly visible at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow’s cultural festival — Varchasva held between October 1 and 3, 2010. The three-day show was a pot pourri of cultural, sports, fashion and musical events, […]

The ‘Two-campus programme’ launched by the Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad this year has received the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) approval. The first year of the PGDM programme will take place at IMT’s Dubai campus while the second year will be at IMT Ghaziabad. This is the first of its kind […]

The Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) established in 1981 under the aegis of Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal (SVKM) is one of the largest, most renowned educational complexes in Mumbai. It is now deemed-to-be university under section 3 of UGC Act, 1951. The flourishing NMIMS has over 6000 students and more than 300 […]

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 […]