It began in the third year. I myself wanted to do something more after engineering and had started weighing further options. Having done a lot of asking around, I decided that I would prefer staying in India and go for an MBA. 2010 I came across PaGalGuY.com through guess what? Orkut. I joined PaGaLGuY on […]

A lot of students face problems in the General Awareness / Business Awareness / General Knowledge section of MBA entrance exams like XAT, IIFT and SNAP. That happens because they start “preparing” for it once they are done with their Quant, LR/DI and Verbal prep (sometimes even after CAT) – which is often too late. […]

(Photo: Sixtybolts ) Problems based on weighing machines and pan balances are little more common in exams like CMAT and SNAP compared to the CAT because the nature of these questions is such that once you understand the basic concepts and formulae, there isn’t much thinking required to solve the problems. Having said that, many […]

(Photo courtesy: neubie) MBA applicants have more reason to worry this year. If the increasing costs of application, exam fees and tuition of business schools were not enough to break you into a sweat, get prepared to pay atleast 10-15% more for test preparation this year, no matter what part of the country. At Career […]

Photo credit: pasukaru76 (www.flickr.com) Padaki Sagar Shrinivas, a 24-year old aspirant from Mumbai has secured the second rank in February 2013 Common Management Admission Test (CMAT). Extremely happy with his score, Sagar said that a single minded approach and a well-placed strategy keeping in mind the structure of the CMAT paper is what helped him […]

Photo Credit: Oatsy 40 (flickr) Questions on clocks (or even calendars) are not really frequent in CAT these days. They used to be really popular few years ago. Having said that, it is always better to understand some of the basic principles and the types of problems that get asked. They might come in handy […]

The Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP) 2012 results have been declared today. The exam was conducted by the Symbiosis International University on December 16, 2012, across 30 centres in India. PaGaLGuY had reported on the day of the exam that unlike earlier years, this year none of the tests takers were allowed to take SNAP […]

Jaskaran Singh Sachdeva Below are the account sof three toppers, Ravi Teja Palla, who we have mentioned about before, Jaskaran Singh Sachdeva from Bangalore and Sumit Patil from Pune. For Jaskaran, this was the final time he was sitting for a management entrance test. Having taken the exam three times before, Jaskaran made sure that […]

Outside Army Public School, the XAT test centre in Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi (Photo credit: Astha A) A changed paper pattern with the introduction of a General Knowledge section and an additional forty minutes of testing time was top of mind for many appearing for the Xaviers Admission Test (XAT) 2013 today. However, the fears […]

Suddenly this year, one couldnt take the Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP) 2012 question paper home after taking the exam anymore. No clear reason was given for this change by Symbiosis, even though the tests nature remained the same (paper-pencil over a limited time). Folks from test-preparation companies who also take the exam every year […]