(Photo credit: Kristian Bjornard) A lot of expectations rest on a smooth conduct of this year’s Common Admission Test (CAT), after it suffered a major credibility-hit in 2009. The major change in CAT 2010 over CAT 2009 is that of the duration of the test — from 10 days to 20 days and only in […]

The 2010-11 admission season to Indian b-schools received a formal flag-off with the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) publishing the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2010 notification in national dailies on August 22. The exam will be held in a computer-based format at 32 cities on 20 calendar days between October 27 and November 24, 2010. […]

Five 99-percentilers who are now studying at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) speak about what they did right when preparing for the CAT. Read through their experiences, you just might find a magic pill or two! What to read Shreyans Shrimali from IIM Ahmedabad with a CAT 2009 score of 99.99 percentile: “A lot […]

The third of the four newly sanctioned Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) at Raipur released its admission notification today, inviting CAT 2009 applicants with minimum 90 percentile for the general category. IIM Raipur, which is being mentored by IIM Indore, will have 70 seats for the two-year Post-Graduate Program (PGP) in Management to begin with. […]

Netaji Subhash Institute of Management Sciences, the 38th ranked among private b-schools in India, has launched some specialized and futuristic courses in Management. This will help management aspirants get a strong foothold in corporate India right from the beginning. NIMS has arranged special tie-ups not only with the corporate sectors but also with noted personalities […]

(Photo credit: Archit Srivastava, as an entry to the B-school Shutterbug Photo Contest 2010) After years of being meted out step-fatherly treatment by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), b-schools that offer one-year MBA courses now have reason to cheer. The AICTE has just about approved the one-year Post Graduate Program in Management […]

(Photo credit: James Whatley) Last week, the Chennai-headquartered Brilliant Tutorials’ branch in New Delhi was asked to cough up a refund of Rs 36,250 to a student who left the study course mid-way due to ill health. The New Delhi Consumer Forum, which passed the order, also asked the coaching institute to pay Rs 5,000 […]

In a bid to harness strength in numbers, four well-known Asian b-schools joined hands formally this month to showcase the best of Asia to the global academic world. Calling themselves the ‘ivy-league of Asia’, the four schools aim to use the coalition to attract more number of applicants from the Western world to study in […]

Prometric, the testing agency entrusted with conducting the Common Admissions Test (CAT) today announced two companies — MeritTrac Services Pvt Ltd and Everonn Education Ltd — as its on-ground partners for CAT 2010. Both companies replace NIIT which participated in CAT 2009. “Everonn is an existing test delivery partner of Prometrics IT certification business and […]

Based on its experience with the 2010 final placements, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad will secure summer internships for the 2010-12 batch using what it calls the ‘cohort-based process’. The first of the interviews will take place on November 12, 2010, informed an IIM Ahmedabad press statement. “Based on the positive recruiter feedback […]