Tuesday, September 25, 2007
List of B-Schools which accept CAT Score
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Friday, September 21, 2007
Business Today Indian B-School Rankings 2007
Rank 2007 | Rank in 2006 | Business School | Our Remarks |
1 | 1 | IIM Ahmedabad | a |
2 | 2 | IIM Bangalore | a |
3 | 3 | IIM Calcutta | a |
4 | 4 | Symbiosis-Pune | Symbiosis at No.4?? Over IIM-L and XLRI? |
5 | 5 | IIM Lucknow | Should be at No.4 or at No.5, just after XLRI |
6 | 8 | IIM Indore | ? We suspend our decision on IIM-I |
6 | 7 | Bajaj(JBIMS), Mumbai | Could be anywhere between Ranks 7 and 12 |
8 | 6 | XLRI Jamshedpur | Should be at Rank 4 or 5 |
9 | 13 | ICFAI Hyderabad | This business school has no business to be in the top 15 |
10 | 17 | Narsee Monjee (NMIMS) Mumbai | Could be anywhere between Ranks 10 and 13 |
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Sunday, September 09, 2007
Is your target called "CAT 2008"?
Only one person should decide when you should begin preparations for things in your life: whether it's marriage, life-insurance plan, raising kids, or even the small matter of CAT 2008!! So if you think that you need to start early, congratulations on your decision. Now stop bothering yourself about the wisdom of that decision - don't seek any advice from anyone - not from those idiots at college, nor from the bigger ones at the coaching institutes! Just go get yourself a study plan for the 14 months ahead and BEGIN: we will look at the 'study-plan' bit in the next post, so do come back soon. Cheers!
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Sunday, September 02, 2007
XAT 2008 Notification: XAT & XLRI facts
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Friday, August 31, 2007
Forbes ranks top B-Schools(2007) on ROI criteria
In its 2007 rankings of the top Business Schools of the world, Forbes has gone in for the 'Return on Investment'* criteria to rank the best B-Schools across the globe. (though the sample used for this is not from the immediate past batches, which raises a question mark over the current validity of the results - however, the rankings can be a good indicator of the top B-Schools. Word of warning: Should you see some very surprising results, do take a second opinion. Do i see you running to the FT rankings already!!)
Here are the FORBES B-School Rankings for 2007.
Forbes Top 10 US B-schools 2007:
Rank 1. Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth 2. Stanford 3. Harvard 4. Virginia (Darden) 5. Pennsylvania (Wharton) 6. Columbia 7. Chicago 8. Yale 9. Northwestern (Kellogg) 10. Cornell (Johnson)
Forbes Top Non-US One-Year Business Schools 2007:
Rank 1. IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland 2. Insead, Fountainbleau, France 3. Judge Business School, University ofCambridge, UK 4. Instituto de Empresa, Madrid, Spain 5. Cranfield, Bedford, UK
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
IIM Shillong for CAT 2007
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
IIM Calcutta Campus: Virtual Tour
The IIM Calcutta site has added a new feature: "An Online Tour of the IIM-C campus". If that's where you are planning to go to do your MBA, it might be worthwhile to check it out. Click here.
This section explores your understanding of the English Language and also tests you on Reasoning Skills.
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Friday, August 24, 2007
Blog Advertising: A win-win situation
For bloggers like me, this provides with an option to monetize my efforts. A win-win situation for everyone, ain't it? Smorty.Com, acting as a bridge between advertisers and bloggers is a place to check out for - for both advertisers and for bloggers. It's a great opportunity for bloggers in that you can now actually make money off your blog. How much you end up making is entirely upto you - your earnings are a function of the opportunities you will get, which are proportional to the efforts you put into your blog.
I have been using Smorty for the past few months and what i liked about them was - 1. Service Quality and 2. Speed of Response. Besides they are amongst the fastest in terms of approval and payments. Highly Recommended from this blog.
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Favourite B-School: Opinion Poll Results
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Tackling the MOCK CAT 2007
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Thursday, May 03, 2007
Make money from your blog
The process is simple: You register at BloggerWave, then you can choose from the review options available at the site, do the reviews that you want on your site and get paid for it. In case you are confused, a review is like a 'product description' or your opinion of a new site/product/service. Advertisers want to market their product, and through your blog, they have a platform to get talking to your readers. Your blog is a media vehicle like any other website or televison channel or newspaper - and just like they get paid for doing an ad or talking about a product, you too. Isn't that nice, and good?
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Friday, April 13, 2007
IIM OBC list creates confusion galore
"We are ready to release the first list. In case the government recommends inclusion of the OBC quota, it can be done in the subsequent lists. We have to release the first list at the earliest to ensure that the academic session is not disturbed," IIM Bangalore Director Prakash Apte said.
An IIM spokesperson said that the IIMS may be forced to release the list this year without the quota list if a decision was not made by the government or was not possible for the government to make a decision in time.
The government had asked all the centrally-governed elite institutes such as IIMs and IITs to implement the 27% OBC quota. The IIMs had decided to do so in a phased manner starting this academic session. However, last week the Supreme Court put a stay on the law implementing the quota on the ground that the government had no clear data on who comprise OBCs.
If the IIMs release the first list on the suggested date without the OBC quota candidates, about 1,350 candidates would get a call from the 6 IIMs, put together. A number of students will soon face another tricky question – the other b-schools they may have applied to will soon release their results and they may be forced to pay the fee there.
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Preparing for CAT 2007: Reading Comprehension section
If there is one area of the CAT, for which the faculty, students and other experts (not excluding the idiots at the various top coaching institutes) have devised the maximum number of tips and strategies, it’s this R.C. section. 30 CATs have gone by, and CAT 2007 is just a few months away. Another new CAT, yet the same old question still lingers in every student’s mind – What’s the best strategy for the Reading Comprehension section?
I think the answer to this conundrum lies in the fact that it’s still an unsolved mystery – if after so many years, there is still no well-defined answer to this question, then chances are there is no well-defined answer. Just because the experts are supposed to give you an answer, they do.
Then, what should a CAT writer do in the Reading Comprehension section? My suggestion is – don’t listen to anyone, or if you do, don’t agree to anyone. Hear them all out, if you must – but find your own answers through your own experiments.
If there are 5 passsages with 5 questions each, try all these RC strategies and see what works for you.
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- Do the passages as quickly as possible, and answer the questions which you are sure of /easies ones. Objective of RC Strategy No.2: Maximize passage and question scanning but filtered attempts.
- Scan passages and do the 2 or 3 that you like. Objective of RC Strategy No.3: Filtered attempts
So, while RC Strategy 1 will work towards attaining maximum attempts, it’s assumed that your accuracy levels will be lower. But since there are more marks for a correct answer than negative for an incorrect answer, if you can beat the odds sufficiently, this will work in your favour.
(Attempting 24 and getting 12 wrong leaves you with a net score of 44. on the contrary if you are choosy and do only 14 questions, and get 10 right you score 39)
Similar calculations can yield similarly better answers for each strategy. What will work best for you can be decided by only one person – you. But you will need to make an effort, after all getting it right means making it to the IIMs, so I guess it sense to put in that bit of work.
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Sunday, April 08, 2007
B-School Ranks: Top US Business Schools
United States B-School Rankings : Top Schools for your MBA
Rank 1: Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
( Rank 1 in Financial Times B-School Rankings and Rank 2 in Business Week Top MBA Schools 2007)
Wharton, founded in 1881, besides being the best place to do your MBA in the US is also the best in the world। This school places emphasis on solid grounding in the basis principles of management and as such the first years’s curriculum provides an intensive foundation in general management skills. Students can choose from a variety of dual and joint degree programmes.
Average GMAT Score = 713
GMAT score range = 660 - 760
No. of full-time MBA enrollments: 800
Percentage of female students = 36%
Percentage of Asian students = 22%
Average age of student = 28 years
Average work-experience = 5.8 years
Application Fee = 215 $ (Credit card only)
Rank 2: The Stanford Graduate School of Business
Stanford Graduate School of Business offers an MBA Program that is a two-year, full-time residential program, focusing on the academic facets of general business management, a Ph. D Program and the Stanford Sloan Program, a ten-month general management program for mid-career executives, leading to a master of science in management.
Average GMAT Score = 711
GMAT score range = 530-800
(GRE score may be accepted in lieu of GMAT score)
No. of full-time MBA enrollments: 749
Percentage of female students = 32%
Percentage of Asian students = 11%
Average age of student = 28 years
Average work-experience = 4 years
Application Fee = 245$ (Credit card preferable though you may pay through checks and money orders in US currency)
Rank 3. Harvard Business School
This home of the “case-study” method of teaching offers a two-year, full-time program that starts in the fall with the summer off between the first and second year. Harvard also offers a number of short-term courses for working executives.
Average GMAT Score = 707
GMAT score range = 600-800 ( TG Guessestimate)
No. of full-time MBA enrollments: 907
Percentage of female students = 35%
Percentage of Asian students = 10-14%
Average age of student = 27 years
Application Fee = 237 $ ( by credit card only)
Average Work Experience = 4 years 6 months
( No minimum work-experience criteria)
Rank 4. MIT Sloan School of Management
Sloan offers a Full Time MBA and Executive Programs. Sloan offers a Doctoral Program leading to PhD in management and an
Average GMAT Score = 702
GMAT score range (middle 80% range) : 640 - 760
No. of full-time MBA enrollments: 328
Percentage of female students = 31%
Percentage of Asian students = 23%
Average age of student = 27.9 years
Average Work-experience = 5 years
Application Fee = 230$ (payable by credit card only)
Rank 5. Kellogg School of Management
Kellogg School of Management offers full-time, part-time, executive and international executive MBA programs. Kellogg is organized into six academic departments and each area offers individual Doctoral Programs
Average GMAT Score = 703
GMAT score range (74% of students) = 650-740
No. of full-time 2 yr MBA enrollments: 506
Percentage of female students = 38%
Percentage of Asian students = 28%
Average age of student = 32%
Average Work experience = 5.2 years
Application Fee = $ 225
Other Top Business Schools in the United States:
- GSB, University of Chicago
(Rank 1 in Business Week Top MBA School Rating)
- University of Columbia
(Rank 2 in Financial Times Top B-Schools 2007)
- Dartmouth College, Tuck
- New York University – Stern
- Yale School of Management
(FT B-School Rank 2007: 10)
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Unless mentioned, the data given is for the full-time MBA program in each college. Wherever possible, we have tried to use the official websites and the prospectus as the source for the information, else we have employed other credible sources. However, we suggest that before taking a decision, you cross-check this information with at least one more source. Most of the data given above is dynamic and may change within a given range over a period of time.
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Saturday, April 07, 2007
The Tent People of INSEAD
A humorous documentary about two students at a top 10 business school who lived in tents with no electricity while pursuing their MBA, contrasted sharply with the housing situations of other students.
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Sunday, April 01, 2007
Oxford MBA Michaelmas Term 2006
Planning to do an MBA from Oxford? You may like watching this video then - it captures moments from a student's term at this prestigious college in the United Kingdom
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B-School Ranking: UK Top 5
Rank 1: Oxford - Said Business School
Rank 2: London School of Economics
Rank 3: Warwick Business School
Rank 4: University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
Rank 5: University of Bath - School of Management
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
A to-be MICAn's queries - answered.
Q 8 Lacs for the course. Is it worth it? I mean, will I be able to repay my loan or in other words what will be the salary range for 2009 batch?
Q. For lateral placements what docs are needed?
Q. Since I am in the bond period my company can demand the huge compensation so is it advisable to pay them and get the work ex certificate or salary slip and bank statement will be sufficient docs for lateral recruitment?
Q. I have work ex of 21 months till April. Will it count for lateral placements?
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Next MAT on 6th May 2007: Notification released
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
IIM Calcutta Placements - Better than ever before
In sheer percentage terms, domestic salaries have recorded an increase of 100% this year. Again, the highest offer is by an investment bank - Rs. 43 lakhs.
Besides fat pay checks, the IIM-C students this year have also been offered great positions - for the first time in history, Indian b-school students have been offered the post of associates. This brings the IIM students at par with graduates from Harvard, Stanford and Wharton.
Companies which visited the IIM-C campus for placement this year included:
Mc Kinsey, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), AT Kearney, Optiver, Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, UBS, CIC, Value Partners, JP Morgan Chase, BNP Paribas and the Sun Group.
(source: Hindustan Times)
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Sunday, March 04, 2007
Best Schools under MAT (Management Aptitude Test)
B-schools affiliated to the MAT are by no means comparable to the ones under the Common Admission Test (CAT) or the XAT conducted by XLRI, but there are a few good ones which can be considered by those who have for some reason or the other not been able to make it to the top b-schools.
The MAT is an 800 marks test, similar to the GMAT, though the level of difficulty is lower than either GMAT or CAT.
This is a list of the top institutes under MAT. Not in any particular order though Amity & Alliance are the most preferred ones.
Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore
( from the Alliance website: Alliance is the first B-School in India to be accredited by the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE), USA, one of the 3 premier accrediting bodies for management education.)
Outlook C-Fore survey in 2006 ranked it at no. 9 amongst India’s top private b-schools. In another survey carried out by AIMA, Alliance was ranked as an A+ institute.
Amity Busines School, Noida
(Though it has been ranked as the no.1 private b-school, I am not too sure about that. There are too many b-school surveys happening in India, and the results of most of them are pretty suspect. I won’t be surprised if some of the b-schools they include amongst their top ten are sometimes paid for)
Amity also has a campus each in Delhi, Lucknow, Manesar, Gurgaon and Jaipur.
Indian Institute of Modern Management, Pune (IIMM)
( Though it also conducts another test called BAT (Balaji Admission Test) for the institutes in the Balaji Society, IIMM being one of them. It also accepts CAT, XAT and SNAP scores.)
Christ College Institute of Management, Bangalore
Ranked as an A grade institute by AIMA b-school survey. Christ College accepts the February MAT scores. Minimum requirement: 600
Jagan Institute of Management Studies, Delhi (JIMS)
A comparatively new institute, JIMS has been able to create a name for itself, at least in Delhi and its neighbourhood. Its BBA programme is widely rated as the best under the IP University.
Also accepts CAT scores. Ranked at B+ in the AIMA survey
Institute of Rural Management, Jaipur
Needs a MAT score of 600. You can also apply through ATMA. Ranked as an A grade institute in the AIMA survey.
School of Communication & Management Studies, Cochin (SCMS)
Ranked at A grade by the AIMA survey. Also ranked as A+ by Business India. CAT scores also accpeted
Caution: This is only an indicative list, and by no means an exhaustive one. Please corroborate this information with atleast one more source before taking any decision.
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Saturday, March 03, 2007
Earn an Online Degree
2. Convenience - You decide when and where to take your classes
3. Fast - Earn a degree online in as little as ten months
4. Financial Assistance - Flexible financial aid options
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Friday, March 02, 2007
MICA (Mudra) Interview Questions
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Thursday, March 01, 2007
Common MBA Entrance Interview Questions..Contd.
q. what are your strengths?
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
Preparing for the MBA Entrance Interview - part 2: Common Interview questions
No interviewer worth his professional/academic experience will accept you as a likely candidate if you go wrong with this one. So you must get this right, without fail.
To understand the question completely and give a suitable reply, you need to understand what becoming a manager entails. What are the roles of a manager? What skill sets does he need? You must know for your own sake the definition of a manager - do you think you have the required skills? Do u think the ones that you don't can be acquired? Can some of your existing managerial skills be refined? As you hunt for this answers, all the while asking yourself as well, the answer to the "Why MBA" will become clear to you.
I don't plan to give you an answer - that will defeat the whole purpose. But think of it like this - people do an MBBS to become doctors, not to become the Medical Superintendent of AIIMS. But will AIIMS ever give the post to a non-MBBS? Why not? Does every MBBS stand a chance of going to the very top? Think about it..and the answers will come flooding in.
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Preparing for the MBA Entrance Interviews
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
Indian B-School Cut-offs & Percentile requirements
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For the sectional and overall cut-off for the IIM CAT 2008, click here.
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
MICAT: Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad's (MICA) Selection Test
Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad (MICA) is South Asia's leading Communications School today. The Post Graduate Programme in Communications Management (PGPCM) is MICA's flagship programme, the elimination for which happens through either of CAT, XAT or GMAT - the choice being yours. However, post this stage MICA uses an additional written test, besides the regular GD & PI as a part of the selection process. It's called the MICA Admission Test or in short MICAT.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
East Delhi: Addresses of MBA Entrance Coaching Institutes
List of CAT Prep Institutes in East Delhi. Though East Delhi is a huge geographical area, all these coaching instiutes seem to be clustered on the Vikas Marg stretch. Here's a list of the branch offices of some of these coaching institutes in this part of town.
1. PT Education
First Floor, Above Sony World, 3, Park End,
Vikas Marg, New Delhi
Phone: 011-22443402 / 08
2. Career Launcher
1st floor, Sikka complex , Commercial Complex,
Preet Vihar
New Delhi - 110092, Delhi
Phone: 011-22443352, 22443382
Email: pv@careerlauncher.com
3. TIME (has 2 centres in East Delhi)
C-4/18, Ankur Complex, Acharya Niketan,
Mayur Vihar Phase I, New Delhi - 110091
F203, IInd Floor, Ashish Complex,
New Rajdhani Enclave, Vikas Marg,Opp. Jhankar Banquet
Phone No. : 42440139/22017044
IMS, surprisingly seems to not have a centre in East Delhi.
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Addresses of Coaching Institutes for CAT / Other MBA Entrances: West Delhi
1. IMS Learning Centre,
J-2/21, Najafgarh Road, Rajouri Garden Pin 110027
Phone: 41447295-97
E-mail: rajouri@imsindia.com
2. Career Forum
EFS Institute, 116-117 Suneja Towers II,
Janakpuri District Centre, NEW DELHI - 110058
Phone Numbers: 011-25555494, 9818550475
3. T.I.M.E ( Triumphant Institute of Management Education)
J-2/6A 1st Floor, B.K. Dutt,
Rajouri Garden, New Delhi-110027
Phone Numbers : 25441026/41447973
4. PT Education
J-1/164, Nandi Apartments, Rajouri Garden ,
New Delhi Ph: 011-25412263, 25419384
5. Career Launcher
Building No. 22, Ist floor , Central Market, Punjabi Bagh(W)
New Delhi - 110008, Delhi
Phone: 45408237, 45408238
E-mail: punjabibagh@careerlauncher.com
Remark: Career Launcher doesn't have a centre for CAT prep in West Delhi proper. Punjabi Bagh is in North-West Delhi
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