Students keen on joining programmes offered by foreign universities and institutions operating in India, either directly or in collaboration with an Indian institution, need to be extra careful. For quite some time now, statutory bodies like the University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) have been asking students to check [...]
Archive for March 21st, 2008
How valid is your DEGREE?
March 21, 2008DESMOND TUTU ON LEADERSHIP
March 21, 2008Where do you stand in your CAT preparation?
March 21, 2008100 percentiler goddess Munira Lokhandwala throws light on your current CAT study status and suggests possible breakthrough clinchers.
Almost all of us are now at a juncture in our preparation where we have to decide between studying and taking tests. But where one ends up depends a lot on where one started from. Hence let’s look [...]
Decoding CAT 2006 Reading Comprehension
March 21, 2008Reading Comprehension (RC) passages in the Common Admissions Test (CAT) have always been the Achilles’ heel for most test takers and CAT 2006 was no different. To start with, this dread of RC among CAT aspirants can be attributed to the negligence shown towards working on improving English language by the students in the beginning. [...]
Get a SNAPshot of the SNAP exam + Question Bank
March 21, 2008Up next is the battle for the various Symbiosis MBA programs! To win it, you must first crack the SNAP exam open on December 16, 2007. Here is a short overview of the SNAP exam and some sample questions from previous years.The Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP) has come a long way in the past [...]
Why and how does SP Jain give interview calls before CAT?
March 21, 2008Mumbai’s SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) Joint Director Prof Sunil Rai answers this and more in a PaGaLGuY.com exclusive interview.
SP Jain is known to send GD-PI calls to candidates even before the CAT is held. Why and how is it done?
We do respect the CAT, which is an entry-level examination for the [...]
IIM-C ties up with Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
March 21, 2008The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta entered into collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), London to establish a Centre for Management Accounting at the IIM-C campus. The Centre will work to create and disseminate knowledge to change management accountancy practices in India and other countries.
A Memorandum-of-Understanding (MoU) between the two institutes was [...]
The Anatomy of B-School Placements
March 21, 2008Why is placement information kept confidential in B-schools? How are companies slotted during the placement days? How do companies compete in a cutthroat manner to get the best candidates? Reporting exclusively from leading school Goa Institute of Management’s campus during its placements, we capture the unseen machinery and drama behind a typical MBA placement process.
It’s [...]
Minimum cut-offs at IIM-C
March 21, 2008With the quota row not completely over, IIM Calcutta has quietly followed IIM Ahmedabad in 2007 in announcing their minimum acceptable cutoff scores in the CAT bulletin to maintain minimum standards. The cutoff applied even to reserved categories, says the bulletin.The IIM Calcutta notification in the CAT 2007 bulletin reads, “A candidate (including a reserved [...]
298 offers to 180 students at XLRI
March 21, 2008Key Highlights
+ 298 offers made to 180 students
+ Average domestic salary package Rs 14.75 lakhs
+ 31 pc offers in Finance domain.
According to XLRI’s press release, 298 offers were made for a batch of 180 students. The average domestic salary offered stood at INR 14.75 Lakhs per annum and the highest domestic offer being Rs. 28 [...]
