Battle Of Wits on Logarithms is on !

Preparing for CAT 2009 ? How good are you in Quants ?

Take the BOW (Battle Of Wits) and test your knowledge in various areas of Quants.

Current BOW topic : Logarithms

StartDate: 23/Mar/2009

End Date: 29/Mar/2009

Related items:

1. Problem of the day

2. Verbal Shot a day

3. How to Crack Quants for CAT 2009.

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Economic growth without environmental damage - a mirage or a reality.

Economic growth without environmental damage: seems to be a mirage but can definitely be a reality. Today's world is the era of new developments, inventions and outstanding technologies. All this results in economic growth and hence environmental damage!

Read the full post here

320 Visits to the article in 15 days !

We posted an article : How to prepare for CAT 2009 ? on 4th Feb 2009. And since then we got 320 visits to this article. Amazing, considering that we have very few means of advertisement (read mini-gorilla) and a very limited (though steadily growing) user base.

Reasons are many, first because of recession, we have seen an increased number of people visiting MBA and related sites for information related to part-time/full time MBA courses and more information about preparations.

There are other factors as well, will leave that for a future post.

BOW on Sequence, Series and Progressions starts 16 March !

Battle Of Wits on "Sequence, Series and Progressions" Starts 16/Mar/2009 and will run till 22/Mar/2009

The trend of the current BOW is shown here.



So jump in and join the battle.

Another IIM-ite unravels his preparation strategy.

Read what Vickram Sharma, IIMB 2007-09 batch has to say about preparations for CAT, and life at IIMB ...



" ... I would like to emphasize that it is very important for everyone to formulate his/her own strategy for the exam based on their capabilities and comfort zones."

"Joining a coaching institute is not a must for CAT preparation. However, the mock tests conducted by various institutions are very helpful in developing confidence and for identifying one's strong and weak sections. ..."

"I had joined a classroom course for GD/PI and had given few mock GDs and a couple of mock interviews. ..."

"Every IIM assigns different weights to work-experience. For IIM Bangalore, the weigtage is 5%. Though, work-experience might not help ..."

Read the whole interview here.

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Launch of All New Battle Of Wits

We have launched the all new Battle of Wits.
. This will be a weekly contest and will cover one area per week. Here are a few highlights of the new Battle of Wits (BoW).

1. New UI
















2. Topic Strength Meter: Measure your performance and find out where you lie.












3. Realtime clock and progress bar: Now you will know how many questions you have attempted and how much time is left.












4. More informative Score analysis, details and Score Comparision.







So what are you waiting for ? Go ahead and join the battle now.

MBA in times of recession. Is it a wise decision ?

In times like these (read slowdown, recession), people are going in herds to MBA institutes. Globally the number of applications for B-Schools has increased significantly.

But is this a really good time to persue an MBA ? Or for that matter why should one do a MBA ? MindGuru analyses these factors and answers a few questions in this new article.

Well, everyone might have his own line of thought for doing or not doing an MBA. If you have one share wit us. Do post your comments here or in our forum .

Take a Verbal Shot a day for CAT 2009

On our way of helping candidates prepare for CAT 2009, we have come up with verbal shot. Its like going to a doctor, just take a shot a day and you will be up to the mark for CAT 2009.

http://www.mindinsight.com/verbalshot.action
Stay tuned for more in this section.

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