FMS 2009 is scheduled on 25th of this month. With another 18 days to go, Its high time that we chart what has been happening in FMS in past few years. Here, we will try to figure out what might happen on the afternoon of 25th January.

Yet another exam and yet another exam Sunday. That’s what a Sunday means in life of an MBA aspirant. With this slowdown thing it becomes all the more imperative that you put all your energies to get into a good B school. Maharashtra CET is conducted every year for admissions into B schools in Maharashtra. These B schools range from local Pan Waala Institute of Management to legendry Jamna Lal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies or JBIMS. What to expect : Mah-CET 2009 is my attempt to give you a …

Earlier I posted the list of all essay topics that were given in XAT exams in last 9 years, from XAT 2000 to XAT 2008. The list has myriad of topics, ranging from politics to the abstract ones. Following list is my attempt to come up with some topics you may see in XAT 2009. These will at least give you an idea about what to expect.

Here is a list of XAT essay topics for last 8 years,

XAT essay 2000

“Television really is, another eye so you can see anywhere, another part of our heart so you can feel and care about things you never felt and cared about before, another ear to hear strange music…. The first and only international language.”

XAT essay 2001

Ships are safer in the harbour. But they are not meant for the same.

XAT essay 2002

“Economic Growth without distributive justice can only lead to violence”

XAT essay 2003

“Indian Economy in the …

Essays are increasingly becoming an integral part of MBA entrance procedure. IBSAT from this year will be adding essays to its testing procedure. Essay topics can be anything from current issues to abstract ones like the XAT 2008 essay topic, “Gender imbalance will lead to third world war”.You can write an impressive essay on such ridiculously abstract topics only if you have been reading a lot in your run up to these exams.
While predicting abstract topics would be tough, you can expect or prepare yourself on following topics for upcoming …

IBSAT or ICFAI Business School Aptitude Test is conducted for admission to 22 of ICFAI MBA colleges. ICFAI which is a big name in field of CFA and correspondence MBA programmes in India, established ICFAI Business schools for regular MBA programmes. Later, in order to establish the B school brand and to do away with all the negative publicity that ICFAI received after CFA fiasco, ICFAI Business school was rechristened as IBS, though we are still waiting to see effectiveness of brand building campaign as most of the popular ICFAI …

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 …

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 …

In first part of What to expect : IRMA, I highlighted the sectionwise breakup of a typical IRMA, Anand entrance exam. In this part, I will cover number of applicants for IRMA 2008 (based on trends), Who should take this exam, sectional cutoffs of IRMA 2007, IRMA 2006 etc and some prep resources for IRMA 2008.
Number of applicants

Who should take this exam
Unlike many other niche MBA options available these days, IRMA Anand’s PRM stands apart. It is a niche programme within niche programmes. Simply because, the curriculum of IRMA, Anand’s …

Institute of Rural Management was established in 1979 with a vision to provide managerial education to the rural co-operatives. Owing to the uniquenes of the programme IRMA has been conducting its own entrance exam for admissions to its PRM courses. By and large IRMA exam is divided into four sections,
Section I : 50 questions on Quant and Data Interpretation
Section II : 50 Questions to test Logical Reasoning
Section III : 40 Questions on English usage includes RC
Section IV : 60 Questions focusing on Issues of Social Concern ( GK)
The overall difficulty …