From August 2015

MDI Gurgaon notification 2016-18

Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, one of the premier business schools in the country, has released the notification for 2016-18 admission process. You can read more about the Institute on the official website.

MDI Gurgaon

Applicants have to apply online by visiting MDI website. A brochure has been uploaded on the website and students should read it carefully before starting with the application process.  First time users will have to create a new account before they can proceed. Candidates have to make an online payment of INR 2200 using Credit card/Debit card/Net banking.

Note: Applicants have to fill a single application form. The preferences of PGPM/PGP-HRM/PGP-IM will be taken only from the shortlisted candidates in the month of January 2016.

Important dates for admission to the PGPM/PGP-HRM/PGP-IM Programme

MDI online application form availability: Tuesday, 25th August 2015 to Saturday, 28th November 2015
Last date for submission of Application form at MDI: Saturday, 28th November 2015, 5:00 PM

A Free Mock CAT series for CAT 2015!

Followers of our blog must have noticed an increase in the recent activity on the website. With the classroom course steaming along at full throttle, we have been trying to positively impact the performance of the aspirants in whatever capacity we can. While almost everybody jumped on to the new interface bandwagon instantly and was marred either in terms of content of the test or the interface or other technical glitches, we figured out that a thoroughly tested product is significantly better than simply ensuring promptness at the cost of quality. Having gone through the drill ourselves and having seen all kind of characters one might come across at this stage, we attempt to cut through the useless bit and deliver a quality product every single time (be it a sectional test, a 2 hour classroom session or an article).

This time though, we have taken on something that would allow us to impact a larger number of people especially in the current scenario wherein, aspirant-friendliness seems to have conveniently taken a backseat. Enough of the playing around though. Let us present to you the real deal: A Free Mock CAT series for CAT 2015!

Learningroots Mock test series for CAT 2015
Few reasons that might excite you:

• An interface that will give you a real time experience of what CAT 2015 would be like

• A window which is suited to your convenience (no 4 day windows, no booking slots, no losing out on time in case you cannot take it in a particular slot, no ‘free-for-first-x-takers’, no nonsense)

• The brains behind the mocks are not only previous year CAT toppers but also able mentors and habitual test-takers who, more than anything else, understand the student perspective and so, know a thing or two about developing individual performance through test-taking

• No heart-wrenching tests aimed at demotivating you under the pretext of ‘preparing you for a difficult paper’ while forgetting to focus on the basic concepts that are stressed upon heavily in CAT; pick up a previous year CAT paper and you would understand what we are talking about. We believe that the subtle traps make the biggest difference and our mocks will provide adequate exposure to that bit of your preparation

• It won’t cost you anything to try out a few mocks of a different style. But you might regret not solving that one question that could have probably changed the way your life pans out

We believe in the maxim of teaching one good thing to a 100 students that would impact their lives positively instead of teaching ten useless things to 10000 students that would have no impact on their prep whatsoever. This is one of the many good things that we have come up with. Hope you like it!

We are extremely receptive to feedback and so, if you have any suggestions regarding the free mock CAT series, that you would like to make that could impact you, we are all ears.

Division 1 | Euler’s function

There must have been a lot of times that you would have seen aspirants throwing across terms involving a certain Euler and a certain Fermat. Many fall into the trap of having a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to simple remainder questions and end up getting an incorrect answer when it matters the most. In this series, I will be covering all the basic concepts plus the different types of questions that can appear in CAT from this topic. Read more

IIM Ahmedabad 2016-18 revised criteria

For all those who were unhappy with the imposition of stream-wise cutoffs and were unhappy about not being able to even compete for that enviable IIM Ahmedabad seat, there is some good news. IIM Ahmedabad has, it seems, decided to roll back the controversial bit in the original shortlisting criteria and allow a larger pool of applicants to apply to the institute without any fear of being rejected. You can read the revised official document here on IIM Ahmedabad’s official website. Read more

How to count cases? QA-DI Basics

All of you might have encountered various scenarios wherein, you would be handling multiple cases be it in QA or DI-LR. It would be again, very common that you tend to forget the ‘counted’ cases or miss a few cases leading to the wrong answer and/or waste a significant amount of time re-doing the problem. So, it might sound extremely superficial or even irrelevant but, ‘how to count’ is one of the questions that goes unanswered in almost every aspirant’s preparation. With CAT 2015 giving you slightly less than 2 minutes on an average to solve a question plus some questions without answer options, you have to be extremely alert while dealing with these question types so that you crack them perfectly in the first go itself. Read more