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 […]

In an interview with PaGaLGuY, Goa Institute of Management (GIM) Director Mr Peter FX D’Lima and Associate Professor of Marketing Prof Ajit Parulekar describe changes in admission policy and curriculum at the institute which has just moved to its new campus at Sanquelim, in the interiors of Goa. What new things can the incoming batch […]

Amidst chaos surrounding CAT 2009, the repeated passages in FMS, wrong questions here and there in other major entrance tests, XAT 2010 managed to hold its head high and lived up to the expectations of numerous MBA aspirants last season. Will it be the case this time around too? We will know come 2nd January […]

Professor Govindrajan, an IIM Ahmedabad alumni, with 21 years of experience of which 16 years has been in academics, is the founding Dean of Praxis Business School. He is a celebrated professor of marketing at Praxis and also at IIM Lucknow, XLRI and XIM B. Q: It is good to see a residential B-School of […]