Fucked! Nightmare! Screwed! Two hours of mind fuck! What am I going to do next? XAT goes down the drain! etc. etc. are some of the phrases that best sum up the two and a half hour agony, that was XAT 2010. Paper they say was well managed and if anything, IIM’s can try to learn something from XLRI and display a better show when they conduct CAT 2009 retest on 30th of January this year.
The paper took almost everyone by surprise, If tweets are anything to go by …

I was just playing around in photoshop and ended up making this wallpaper to mark a new year. The year I will pass out and year most of you will get in to a B School. I hope this year brings you the best of everything and may all your dreams come true. You can download the wallpaper for widescreens here and 1280X1024 here. Have a great year. Cheers!!

In next one month, I plan to cover institutes that take XAT scores for short listing purposes. I will be focussing on placement scene as well as selection procedure for these institutes. As of now, I will be writing about XLRI, XIMB, Goa institute of management and LIBA. Placement 2009 posts will focus on placement scenario in last few years, but they will start flowing in late January. This is the first in series of XAT 2010 short listing criteria posts starting with XLRI. As of now, post is macro …

XAT 2010 will be conducted on 3rd of January, 2010. Timing of this post might look a bit odd given that only 4 days left before the exam. However, in my view, this can be the most opportune time to do a post on how two exams are different. With four days to go you can still fine tune your strategy and you can use previous year XAT papers as Mock papers for your XAT 2010 preparation.

January is going to be a big month for all MBA aspirants aspiring to get into some B-school in 2010. XAT 2010, FMS 2010, NMAT  2010 and CAT 2009 retest are all lined up in month of January.

Having been involved with placements this year, I know how dear day zero slots are to corporate. It was all because of IIM’s that day zero got such importance and such hype. With media reporting every second of day zero, the concept gained more traction and acceptability. But it seems, day zero is going to be history. There were reports in Business Standard and Economic Times claiming that IIM A will be doing away with day zero concept.

Instead of day zero, they will form clusters of companies and those …

One expected that they will scrap the CAT 2009 and go for a retest amidst reports of technical glitches as well as glitches in setting the questions for the exam. But they had something else in mind and yesterday they declared that the test was mostly OK except for 4% of the students who suffered because of technical glitches.
In.com, Network 18’s media portal, is now reporting that prometric’s CAT agreement is under the scanner. The report quotes IIM-A director’s statement which clearly indicates that prometric is all set to experience …

How awesome is this. We have a news which is like music to most of you and noise to some of you. CAT 2009 committee which met earlier today ruled that CAT 2009 exam will not be scrapped. Instead, they will be conducting fresh exam for those students who do not fall under the category ‘most’ or as they put it
“Students who were genuinely affected by the technical glitches”. Now how on God’s good green earth are they going to establish genuinity of suffering is a billion euro …

CAT 2009 was supposed to be the eureka moment for those who believe future of education is online and its high time that we join the bandwagon. Instead it turns out that CAT 2009 was designed for those believe that offline is the best line. From claims that the servers were hit by viruses to the hapless students who were left in wilderness, everything about this years CAT was so goddamn weird. A press release on CAT 2009 website (edited version pasted here) best sums up the plight of test …

Though the notification for CAT 2009 is still some time away, yet another layer was removed from the CAT 2009 computer based test. IIMA published a FAQ on its website which answers most of the queries that one may have for CAT 2009 computer based test. Among other things that are clarified in the document, following are some of the key points,