BEGINNING this year Delhi University’s department of financial studies (DFS) and department of business economics (DBE) will conduct a joint entrance exams. Students appearing for the exam will be eligible to apply for a two-year master of finance and control (MFC) programme and two-year master of business economics (MBE) programme for the academic session commencing [...]

With about a fortnight left for CAT, tension is running high among the more than 2 lakh candidates who will take the test in the computer-based format. As doubts about the new format linger, Prometric — the US-based testing and assessment services company that has inked a $40 million deal with the Indian Institutes of [...]

GMAT just takes planning and regular mock tests: ……………………… Members of the current PGPX batch at IIMA. They have the distiction of having the highest average GMAT score A senior manager at an engineering firm in the US, Amlan Manna always had his hands full. What with pressing deadlines, meetings and frequent travel, he hardly [...]

If you sit for the Common Admission Test this year, you’ll have to use a PC, instead of pen and paper. …………………………… Till a few months ago Arunava Mukherjee, final-year student of electronics engineering at one of the oldest engineering institutes in the country, was sure he’d ace the Common Admission Test (CAT), the nationwide [...]

Running a coaching centre for civil service aspirants is not easy in Calcutta — far from it. If anything, it reflects the apparent “disinterest” of students in Bengal in joining the bureaucracy. …………………………. Ask Jyotirmoy Pal Chaudhuri, former vice-chancellor of Vidyasagar University who now runs the Institute for Civil Service Aspirants in Calcutta, and he’ll [...]

If persistence is your middle name and you’re ready to work hard, fret not — you’ll crack the CA exams, says Smitha Verma :- …….….. It is a tough nut to crack, by all accounts. If you think becoming a chartered accountant (CA) is all about earning big bucks in quick time, think again. On [...]

Image via Wikipedia Two IIM, Lucknow, students share their experience of taking the exam CAT is an exam that requires you to optimise and not maximise returns. I can’t be sure that after reading the above line you’ll treat the exam differently, but I can promise that unless you start thinking of it as a [...]

Management teachers are unanimous in their views that cracking the management aptitude test (MAT) depends on the amount of practice put in by examinees. “There is no alternative to solving the problems over and over again. If you practise solving the question papers of the last five years, you can be sure of cracking the [...]

The first ever Common Law Admission Test is scheduled to be held on May 11. Shabina Akhtar offers tips on how to crack it ……………………. Sunil Verma heaves a sigh of relief. So do countless others. They have good reason to. Students vying for admission to a National Law University will no longer have to [...]

In addition to the CAT and CET, there are a host of management entrance tests that students can consider. Jayanti Ghose walks you through the choices:- An MBA is among the most coveted professional qualifications today, in India and the world. It translates into varied employment opportunities, scope for advancement to the top positions in [...]