With the date for the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) round the corner, most state universities are agreeing to accept CMAT scores. However, private institutes such as Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur and Symbiosis International University, who conduct their own MBA entrance tests, have been firm on not accepting CMAT scores for 2012. Universities […]

Soumyajit Sanyal, a software engineer working with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Kolkata, is one of the proud nine 100 percentilers cracking the Common Admission Test (CAT) this year. A graduate from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Soumyajit goes on a free-wheeling chat with PaGaLGuY about getting closer to realising his dream of soon becoming an Indian Institute […]

Like in a Bollywood flick, the Xavier’s Admission Test (XAT) 2012 held today, January 8, 2012 closed this season with a happy ending. Living upto its standard of questions, the XAT 2012 turned out to be a very balanced paper. This year. the exam was easier but certainly not easy! Questions were not direct; each […]

The Xavier Admission Tests (XAT) Quantitative Aptitude is always a bit on the tougher side. Sometimes, the difficulty level may take a dip, but that does not mean that it would suddenly drop to the standards of elementary mathematics. Unlike the Common Admission Test (CAT), XAT traditionally focuses more on topics like functions, probability, permutation […]

Original photo: Ayush Shukla The Xaviers Admissions Test (XAT) is on January 8, 2012 and a few XAT 99-percentilers from the XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur have teamed up with PaGaLGuY to offer last-minute tips and advice on taming the exam. If you have questions about XAT or need help with figuring […]

CMAT 2012 advertisement by AICTE that appeared on December 3, 2011 While b-schools and MBA aspirants have a lot to complain over All India Council for Technical Education’s (AICTE) Common Management Admission Test (CMAT), a senior AICTE official told PaGaLGuY that the exam is not compulsory for its affiliated b-schools. This comes as a breather, […]

Photo: Alex E Proimos The notification issued by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) about the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT), a few days ago has caught MBA aspirants, b-schools and coaching institutes off-guard. While schools say that they have received no intimation about the new exam, likely candidates are clueless on whether […]

The XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur (XLRI) has decided to reduce cut-offs from the 90s to the 80s to attract a good mix of students. XLRI’s Admissions Chairperson Soumendra Bagchi told PaGaLGuY that to ensure an efficient admission process, the XAT (XLRI Admission Test) scores are not shown to the panelists during […]

Pic from David Feltkamp’s photostream The Association of Indian Management Schools, which is the largest body of b-schools in India, has no plans of discontinuing ATMA its own management entrance exam. Unlike the Management Aptitude Test (MAT) which is contemplating closing down not too far in the future knowing that eventually there will be only […]

The IITs’ (Indian Institutes of Technology) loss is GMAT’s (Graduate Management Aptitude Test) gain. With the canning of the Joint Management Entrance Exam (JMET), regulatory body All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has added the GMAT to the six acceptable entrance tests for admissions to the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) offered at […]