From technical glitches to alleged unfair normalisation procedure, thousands of students hold the Directorate of Technical Education responsible for 'playing with their careers.'
Many top B-schools attach more value now to academic record, bachelor's degree marks, work experience, performance in the personal interview, as well as gender and academic diversity -- resulting in a decline of the weighting to the CAT score.
This roadmap will benefit nearly 13 lakh students who have registered for the medical entrance exam this year.
September 13 is the last date to apply for the Common Admission Test 2023. I always recommend to do the registration early on.
Go through the form carefully and be sure about all the data that you are intending to fill in, advises Aashish Sood.
And Patrick D'Souza managed to score a perfect 100 in 4 of his attempts!
The new changes in the Common Admission Test has encouraged aspirants from non-technical backgrounds to crack the exam.
The relaxation in the eligibility criterion pertaining to class 12 marks will be offered this year too, Nishank said.
Kolkata software engineer who scored a perfect 100 percentile in CAT 2011 says that he is looking forward to he wants to be an investment banker and will join IIM-Calcutta because it is the best management institute to study finance.
Srikanth Lanka, a student of Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai scored 99.99 percentile in CAT 2011. Here's how he did it.
Don't look for a volunteering job for money, but as an investment for life, advises management consultant Virender Kapoor.
Mystudyplaces.com has launched a new application whereby students can find out which B-schools they are eligible to apply to based on last year's cut-offs.
In his first attempt, Chirag Jha, a BTech student from the IIT-Bombay scored a perfect 100 in the CAT 2015 results declared earlier this year.
You have taken the CAT, now what? Can you expect a call from the IIMs? Should you apply to other B-schools? Is your percentile good enough to get you into the country's best institutes? Gejo Srinivasan discussed these and other queries with GA readers.
It's time to shift focus from how you performed on the CAT 2006 to B-school applications, GD-PI and other exams.
Dr Kamaljit Singh, executive director, IMS Noida tells you how to optimise your score.
In an online chat with readers on January 9, 2013, Rajesh Balasubramanian and Naveenan Ramachandran, mentors, 2IIM, addressed queries related to CAT 2012 and offered advice on how to choose the best b-school based on their scores.
Fitch reaffirmed India's rating at 'BBB-' with a Stable Outlook saying the rating balances a still strong medium-term growth outlook compared with similar category peers and relative external resilience stemming from solid foreign-reserve buffers against high public debt, a weak financial sector and some lagging structural factors, including governance indicators and GDP per capita.
With CAT 2011 results being announced today, Rajesh Balasubramanian of 2IIM who scored 100 percentile explores the odds for aspirants and advises the way forward.
All the eight candidates who scored 100 percentile are engineers. While two have a master's degree in engineering, the others have a bachelor's degree.
Sri Ram Prasad Pemmasani, who scored a supercool 100 percentile at CAT 2011, on how he achieved the unthinkable.
You have three months to crack the Common Admission Test.
Amit Grover, founder India's first institute for training entrepreneurs tells Divya Nair how life changed for him after CAT and IIM.
This 21-year-old mechanical engineering student from Pune credits his success to a modest upbringing and family support.
Ajinkya Jain who scored 99.99 percentile in MAHCET 2014 tells us how he cracked the exam.
The University of Petroleum & Energy Studies announces admissions to its two-year MBA (Port & Shipping Management) course.
Stating that a weak fiscal position continues to constrain India's sovereign ratings, Fitch said the next government's medium-term fiscal policy will be of particular importance from a rating perspective.
Aditi Jaitly who scored in the 99.73 percentile in CAT 2012 and secured admission at the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi shares her secret to success in the exam.
Fitch had last upgraded India's sovereign rating from BB+ to BBB- with a stable outlook on August 1, 2006.
Read on to find out just how you can bell the CAT with little time on hand.
Munira Lokhandwala completed her MBA from IIM-Calcutta in 1999. Here she shares her mantras to CAT success.
Experts from TestFunda.com hosted a CAT chat on October 23. For those of you who missed the chat. The unedited transcript.
Ajinkya Deshmukh is one of only nine people in the country who scored a 100 percentile in the CAT exam. How did he do it?
In an online chat hosted by Get Ahead on August 30, IIT Alumnus and head of Testfunda.com, Aziz Manva fielded reader queries and suggested tips to aspirants on how to prepare themselves for CAT 2011.
For all those who have started preparing for CAT 2009 here are a few points to remember.
Here's what you need to do if you want to crack the CAT 2011 and make it to the IIMs. Prepare well in advance.
GA reader Adarsh Sharma, an IIM Indore student who scored in the 99 percentile in CAT 2008, shares his advice...
We invited readers who have taken the CAT in previous years to share their experiences. Archit Shrivastava, an IIM Indore student, shares his advice.
He took the CAT three times. Third time lucky, he finally got a call from IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta and Lucknow.
If you really want to bell the CAT, you have to dispel the myths and the apprehensions that are gripping your mind.
