Has CAT become a game of luck? Will IIMs no longer have the cream? For the first time CAT was conducted online where the IIMs had chosen the Prometric ETS to conduct the computer based exam. This change in the pattern, technically called as non adaptive test where the students have to be aware of the basic computer skills which by practice would make the students comfortable to reading, comprehending and answering the questions for 3 hours. CAT 2009 seems to be no tough deal for Hyderabad students. Officials of the city-based coaching classes claim... Read→
“My eyes were glued to the monitor and my hand clung to the mouse even as I strained the tissues in my nervous system to work towards arriving at a possible solution for the question that glared at me. In this process, I directed every cell in my body to gather that extra iota of energy required to crack the test. And why wouldn’t I? For god’s sake, I was taking the Common Admission Test (commonly known as CAT) conducted by the 7 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) for admission into their coveted post graduate programmes in the field of... Read→
The period of recession has taken its toll on many lives. The young minds seem to be trapped in a turmoil considering their future. Many of them, who aspired to work after their graduation, are now ambivalent in choosing the path to tread. “When there are hardly any jobs available, we need to have a choice, and the next best thing to do is a post graduation”, opines Sneha, an Engineering final year student. The available options for a post graduation are MS, M.Tech or an MBA. Depending on ones’ interest, the related tests would be taken up.
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