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[30 Jun 2008 | One Comment | ]
What to Expect : NMAT 2008 Part II

Carrying on from the first part of NMAT 2008 series, In this article I will highlight certain other aspects of the NMAT exam.
Number of candidates taking NMAT
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies is one of the respected B Schools in India. This makes NMAT very popular amongst exam takers. Approximately 35,000 to 40,000 candidates appear for this exam. There were 240 seats available for 2008~2010 session out of which 15% were for management quota. Roughly 2000 students are called for the GD and PI stage and during PI each of …

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[23 Jun 2008 | One Comment | ]
Maharashtra CET (MH-CET) - Provisional Merit List Out

The provisional merit list for admissions to colleges of the like of JamanaLal Bajaj, KJ Somaiya of the Maharashtra state was declared a while ago. The state rank is at the state level, while the university rank is the home university rank of the applicant.Apart from this, there are All India Ranks also, which is for candidates who have applied through OMS quote or Maharashtra candidates who had applied through 15% quota in all India seats.
All the students are being given score in following format,
Univ Rank: XXX
State Rank: …

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[20 Jun 2008 | No Comment | ]
PagalGuy.com Announces : Pagal rankings 2009

Pagalguy.com, for many aspirants in India, is the mecca of MBA preparation. PG has probably one of the most vibrant and active communities on the Indian online scene. So, it is no surprise that PG has decided to leverage this community base to come up with its own version of Indian B school Rankings. This would be the second the year of Pagal rankings, Last years rankings were highly succesful and saw close to 6000 participants rating Indian B schools on their own terms and understanding. Last year IIM-A topped …

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[17 Jun 2008 | No Comment | ]
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[16 Jun 2008 | No Comment | ]

Going by the trend, CAT 2008 notification is expected between 13th July 2008 (Notification is out) and 21st July 2008. 20th July appears to be the likely date when CAT 2008 notification will be out and 21st July will be the date when CAT2008 bulletins will go on sale.
How I arrived at these dates?Here you go,
CAT 2002 - Sunday, 14 July 2002
CAT 2003 - Sunday, 13 July 2003
CAT 2004 - Friday, 16 July 2004
CAT 2005 - Sunday, 17 July, 2008
CAT 2006 - Sunday, 16 July, 2008
CAT 2007 - Sunday, 15 …

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[16 Jun 2008 | No Comment | ]
New home

This weekend saw a spike in the trafiic visiting my blog at rahul.batra.co.in. The traffic was so heavy, that I got an account termination warning from my hosting provider. Scared, I started looking for an alternative, just in case my blog was pulled down. During the search I cam across an offer, I couldn’t resist and result is what you see right now. What used to be rahul.batra.co.in is now Road to MBA.
Road to MBA will continue to be the ‘MBA in India’ focussed site while rahul.batra.co.in will become my …

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[14 Jun 2008 | No Comment | ]

Finally!! One of the most loved extension for firefox, Greasemonkey is making its debut on Firefox 3 RC2. This is an amazing news for firefox lovers because Greasemonkey is one extension which can hold people from converting to firefox 3. This extension comes just in time for the Firefox world record attempt, I am sure this release will result in surge of participants for the world record event.

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[12 Jun 2008 | No Comment | ]

The post topic above is how I would like to describe ezeego1.com services. I have been planning my holidays for quite some time now and have never come across a service provider who is so reluctant to give services to his customer. Add to this attitude, host of similar service providers like cleartrip.com or makemytrip.com or yatra.com (endless!!) and you are actually talking about death recipe. But I guess nobody at ezeego1.com is bothered about surviving the competition, bowing out is afterall the easiest option. They have been spending money …

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[10 Jun 2008 | 14 Comments | ]

Provisional Merit List declared a while ago.
Maharashtra CET (MH-CET) 2008 admission process is coming to an end with release of final merit list for admissions 2008. The final list will include MH-CET 2008 scores or All India CET 2008 (CAT 2007 or XAT 2008 or SNAP 2007) score plus work-ex score plus the GD-PI score.
The result is available at DTE website.

Check your result before the site is pulled down by MBA aspirants.

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[1 Jun 2008 | 30 Comments | ]
What to expect : NMAT 2008 Part I

NMAT is entrance exam of Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS). The institute till last year had only one campus but starting this year i.e. 2008 they now have two campuses. NMIMS, mumbai the flagship campus, has had some major successes in recent years as far as placements are concerned but despite of the fact that the college boasts of a good faculty and good enough infrastructure, the college is largely seen as a commercialized B school. NMIMS is one of the older b schools in India and it …

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