The Supreme Court is today understood to have delivered interim relief to PDGM institutes from the controversial AICTE circular by allowing them the independence to conduct their own admissions and decide their own fees. The institutes can conduct their own group discussion and interview processes after shortlisting candidates using any one or more of the […]

The Orissa High Court has granted a stay on the recent All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) circular, which pressed for sweeping changes in the business education space. The AICTE notification dated December 28, 2010 had not only placed a cap on fees charged by AICTE-affiliated MBA colleges across the country, but also made […]

A classic error that judicial courts are prone to is one where the paranoia over not allowing criminals to be let off the hook results in a lot of innocent people being put to trial. Statisticians call this unintentionally increasing ‘type 1’ errors (false positives) in the pursuit of reducing ‘type 2’ errors (false negatives). […]

Big brother AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) has been given just eight days by b-schools to modify the notification it issued on December 28, 2010 (pushing for sweeping changes in business education) or else face legal action. The Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) has decided to march up the steps of the […]

On February 2 around 9.30 am, around 280 candidates who had applied for the Business Management Programme and around 350 candidates who had applied to the Human Resources Management got their XLRI Jamshedpur interview shortlist statuses reversed and the ‘Regret’ message was replaced by a ‘Congratulations’. When XLRI declared its initial interview shortlist on January […]

What is common between the following people and their Xavier’s Admission Test (XAT) 2011 scores? (Their XAT 2011 IDs are given inside the brackets.) CR Mahesh (XAT441916) VA – 99.07 QA – 99.97 RA – 97.2 Overall – 99.99 N Vijay Bhasker Reddy (XAT448096) QA – 88.99 VA – 99.97 RA – 97.64 Overall – […]

Results for the Xavier’s Admissions Test (XAT) are out. Check your results at the following URL, http://184.73.49.226/XATRESULTS/ Dissect the result on the discussion thread for XAT 2011 results. The shortlist for the GDPI process of XLRI can be accessed from here: http://111.93.2.3/results2011/index.html You need to enter your XAT id for the result without the ‘XAT’ […]

While many partied all through yesterday after getting their CAT results, a few closed themselves to the world, trying to find an answer to just one question what did I do wrong? These were those who expected to do well and are generally among the brainy lot with regards to other MBA entrance exams. Abhishek […]

The latest All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) rules for PGDM programs in AICTE-approved b-schools has sent shock waves across the higher education canvas. The circular not only instructs doing away with important MBA entrance exams such as the XAT, ATMA or MICAT but ascertains that only CAT, MAT or any state government-conducted exams […]

  Image courtesy Muthuraja   XAT 2011 managed to spring a surprise and how. Five minutes into the test and all prep work meant nothing. Read below for what the first comments were like For 20 mins I was trying to guess whether there is any option which says ‘Cannot be solved’. The most absurd […]