Here’s a joke that was doing the rounds on the Internet sometime back: Two trucks loaded with thousands of copies of Roget’s Thesaurus collided as they left a New York publishing house last Thursday, according to the Associated Press. Witnesses were aghast, amazed, astonished, astounded, bemused, benumbed, bewildered, confounded, confused, dazed, dazzled, disconcerted, disoriented, dumbstruck, […]
How to increase the number of attempts in the CAT
The most important thing which determines the success or failure of a candidate in any exam is the score obtained. This holds good for the CAT as well; as you know, the CAT is the first step towards securing an admission in the esteemed Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). Two factors further determine the score […]
CAT Preparation: The Prep Roadmap
CAT is the entrance exam for more than 160 management institutes across India, including the 20 IIMs. The online CAT exam is conducted every year in the months of late November – early December. The CAT result is usually declared in January every year. The WAT/GD/PI rounds typically takes place from Feb to May. The […]
How to ace Group Discussions
The Group Discussion/Written Assessment/Personal Interview (GWPI) stages have today become a regular feature of the selection process of most business schools (as well as for many other professional courses and jobs). Students who are aspiring for a managerial career and aim to secure admission in a good business school must not only prepare for the […]
Final Placement Reports of XLRI, Jamshedpur
Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur concluded its final placement process for its batch of 2018 with an average salary of ₹ 20 lakh per annum, as against Rs. 19.21 lakhs per annum in 2017. A total of 358 students from the two-year Postgraduate Diploma in Management – HRM and Business Management (BM) received a […]
Final placements reports of S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai
The SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai, concluded its final placements for its class of 2018. This year, the highest number of offers came from Consulting–a whopping 35%! The average salary offered to students this year was ₹ 22.24 lakh per annum, while the median salary was ₹ 21.35 lakhs per annum. […]
Final placements reports of Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai
The Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai, completed its final placement process for 2016-18 batch. The highest salary a student was offered is ₹30 Lacs per annum (LPA). This year, the entire batch of 130 participating students got good placements at the placement drive in the shortest time period. The average salary was ₹18.91 […]
Final placements reports of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA)
The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, completed its final placement process for had completed the final placement process for the Post-Graduate Programme batch of 2016-18 in cluster-wise units. Of these, Accenture Strategy came romping home with the maximum number of job offers to students. It was followed by Boston Consulting Group and Amazon. The three […]
Final placements reports of Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM-L) recently closed its final placements for students of the Post-Graduate Programme of the 2016-18 batch. It received 454 offers from 143 recruiters, including 47 new recruiters for a batch of 445 students. The Pre-Placement Offers saw a 20% rise in the average number of offers received. Besides this, there […]