This week’s compilation of the best and most popular articles. Editors’ Picks The best of the lot, selected by our editors. 1. A Pagal Look at General Management by Deepak Gopalakrishnan 2. The Best Walking Tour by Swathi Mutalik 3. What They Don’t Teach at Any Indian B-school by Soumik Ganguly The Most Read Articles […]

Why? The importance of the essay in XAT 2016 went up a notch as XLRI has decided that institutes admitting through XAT can avail of any student’s essay. I think that one of the good ways to improve your essay writing is by practice and here are a few suggestions to put the plan into […]

Post a 50% plus drop in MBA applications this year, the Department of Technical Education (DTE), Maharashtra, in quick time, managed to do away with CMAT and bring back the MH-CET. Good move, said candidates. But there is a not-so-good part to it, rather a bizarre part – which is that MH-CET will be online! […]

Decision Making for XAT is often neglected by students while preparing for XAT and at their own peril. Some of the students don’t even realise that it is a whole section in XAT and its score will be used while giving out calls to students. Given below is a table which shows the number of […]

What is Decision Making? Decision making is a cognitive process of reaching a decision with the given information and constraints. Decision Making process is an integral part of modern management. It is required at every level of management to ensure organizational or business goals are achieved. Essentially, rational or sound decision making is taken as […]

A couple of exams being over, we all (correction: most of us) must be busy right now preparing a list of colleges to apply. And this is where a first-time applicant raises at least three questions about the system in practice: 1. Application fee: Rs. 2000? A: This much high application fee just to shortlist […]

Xavier School of Management (XLRI) has, this year, decided to hand over essays of XAT applicants to member institutes. This is in a bid to push candidates to fare better in essay writing. What this means is that any institute admitting candidates through XAT (Xavier Aptitude Test) can now request XLRI to hand over (in […]

tomorrow it all ends, my 4th and final cat. It began back in 2010 in my final yr of engineering when due to a spat with my friends I decided not be part of the college fest committee and prepare for the COMMON ADMISSION TEST. Main reason – redemption, may be I was not as […]

XAT, scheduled to be held on January 05, 2014 is the gateway to entry into premier B-schools like XLRI and XIMB. However, it is quite different when compared to CAT as it is a pen and paper test, and has sections on GK and Decision-Making (DM). Many aspirants are bewildered by the DM section. Well, […]

How to prepare for TISSNET 2014. TISSNET is the entrance exam to enter Tata Institute of Social Sciences. It is one of the oldest management programme and has been there since 1967 it was formerly known as PM&IR;(Personnel Management & Industrial Relation). Today, it is known as HRM&LR;(Human Resource Management & Labour Relations). This year […]