Articles in XLRI Jamshedpur

As promised in the earlier article, here is XLRI’s response, sent by a member of  External Linkages at the school. Please note that PaGaLGuY had sent  an email  to XLRI before the article went online. However, since XLRI has always been one of the few b-schools to always respond to queries, below is the response […]

XLRI(HR)Batch of 2013-2015: How I went about the interview preparation. 7 April 2013 At the outset,I am going to warn you that this post is going to be long and tedious.I am writing this piece not for my personal satisfaction,but for thousands of aspirants who are mediocre like me;who ruined their high school/graduation academics,and did not […]

Finally, penning down my thoughts on this sacred thread. This post shall be big in terms of length, so tread with caution and read it when you have enough time and of course, a coffee is a must! This post is dedicated to all those who dream and every fellow puy on PG I have […]

Part – B Left for Bangalore with a heavy heart after a fun filled final phase of the final year and a 2 month merry making stay at home. However, was excited as a new beginning beckoned and on top of that Bangalore was the mecca for CAT aspirants too as there were many other […]

Hello Puys. Hope all of you are doing well. Been quite some time that I posted anything of note on PG. ? The trigger for this post? I recently came across one of the latest posts on “All I wanted to speak about CAT” by @sid2222000 and wanted to share the same from my side […]

Getting the Tricky parts right You’ve slogged hard and belled-the-CAT; cracked-theXAT/MAT and what-have-we… and now its time to jump into the ‘Grey’. Unlike the written tests, GD’s and PI’s are not cut-and-dry ‘black-and-white’; they deal with the intangibles…. where your assessors are no longer looking for ‘the right answer’; but your ‘confidence’, ‘poise’, and ‘ability […]

Pre-preparation 1. Be absolutely sure why you want to do an MBA and does doing an MBA fit-in with your career plan. 2. Don’t confuse yourself with asking too many people; talk to few people then make your own judgement 3. Choose an institute for coaching (if required) where you get individual care. Remember everyone […]

B-Schools in India have always been very reluctant in disclosing information about admission process. After the enactment of RTI in 2005, MBA aspirants got the right to access the information from government B-Schools about admission criteria & marks in GD/PI/WAT components but still there is very little awareness about it. Meanwhile some colleges came forward […]

Do you know why some Ordinary Aspirants Achieve Breakthrough results in Record less time while some Extra-ordinary Aspirants seem to Struggle for years? The answer doesn’t lie in their mental agility, toughness, intelligence. It’s something totally different. Hear me out. Your final success is determined by your CONSTRAINTS.Those often hidden success-barriers that quietly undermine your […]

From International Exchange for a select few, to International Immersion for entire batches – “Global” is the new “Local” for elite B-schools Back in the mid-nineties, India was sprouting B-schools and Engineering colleges like nobody’s business. By the turn of the millennium, the charlatans and fly-by-night operators began going out of business. There were, and […]