Top B-schools Where You Can Still Apply Through CAT 2013 Exam

Top B-schools Where You Can Still Apply Through CAT 2013 Exam

CAT 2013 result has been announced and all the aspirants must have viewed their percentile. Now, everyone will be looking to get seat in a good B-school. Students need to register to B-schools to get call for GD/PI. So, the candidates can apply to various B-schools according to their percentile and expected cutoff of respective b-school.

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B-School	Last Date	Expected Cutoff (%ile)	Oficial website
IIT Bombay	January End	99	Click here
IIT Delhi	31st January	98	Click here
IIT Kharagpur(MBA)	31st January	96	Click here
IIT Madras	27th January	96	Click here
IIT Roorkee	January End	95	Click here
IIT Kanpur	Check details @ http://www.tcyonline.com/blog/top-b-schools-where-you-can-still-apply-through-cat-2013-exam/
IMI Delhi(PGDM)
IIM Ranchi
IMT Ghaziabad
K.J Somaiya
IRMA Anand
MICA
NIT Trichy
LIBA
BIM
TAPMI Manipal
IIT Kharagpur(MHRM)
IMI Delhi (PGDHRM)
Fore Delhi
LBSIM
UBS
Nirma

               

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Top 10 Institutes and Colleges Accepting XAT 2014 Scorecard

XAT 2014 exam was conducted on 5^th January, 2014 by XLRI for admission to various management programmes in their own institutes and also to PGDM in other business schools in India that accept XAT scorecard. Aspirants can check XAT Analysis, Answer keys and Cutoff marks @ http://www.tcyonline.com/exam-analysis/xat-2014-solutions Top colleges that accept XAT scorecard are

Sr No	Name of Institute	Expected Cutoff
1	Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB)	95
2	Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur	PGDBM - 92.25, PGDM HR - 88
3	Institute of Mangement Technology-(IMT), Delhi/NCR	90
4	Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Chennai	90
5	Great Lakes Institute of Mangement, Chennai	90
6	Goa Institute of Mangement (GIM), Goa	90
7	T.A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal (TAPMI), Manipal	86
8	S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Reasearch (SPJIMR), Mumbai	85
9	Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship (XIME), Bangalore	80
10	Mumbai Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA), Ahmedabad	N/A

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GRE Preparation with Quant, Verbal, Reasoning and online CBT Mock Tests

GRE Preparation with Quant, Verbal, Reasoning and online CBT Mock Tests

·         Graduate Record Examination or GRE is a standardized test that is an admission requirement for many graduate schools mainly in the United States and Canada.

·         ETS creates and administers this test worldwide.

·         It is usually computer-based test administered by top quality qualified testing centers. The paper-based GRE test is offered in those regions where computer-based testing is not available. In India, only computer-based test is offered.

·         The GRE test is only one of the several factors which graduate schools look at to decide the selection of a candidate. A high score alone does not convert to an admission offer. But the test can be looked upon as the first major hurdle to be cleared in the process of getting admission into a graduate school.

·         The Graduate Record Examination measures verbal, mathematical and analytical writing skills. There is more emphasis on your ability to understand what you've read and how you apply your reasoning and less reliance on vocabulary out of context.

The GRE revised General Test features question types that closely reflect the kind of thinking you'll do in graduate or business school.

• Verbal Reasoning — Measures your ability to analyze and evaluate written material and synthesize information obtained from it, analyze relationships among component parts of sentences and recognize relationships among words and concepts.
• Quantitative Reasoning — Measures problem-solving ability, focusing on basic concepts of arithmetic, algebra, geometry and data analysis.
• Analytical Writing — Measures critical thinking and analytical writing skills, specifically your ability to articulate and support complex ideas clearly and effectively.

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How to Fix Your Carelessness in Exams and Remain Honest with Yourself ?

Time and again I have seen students, relegating serious mistakes ad careless ones. This tendency could turn out to be fatal. Be it a grave or careless mistake, end of the day, the penalty levied would be the same. So if you know that it is just a careless mistake, then do not undermine its significance. Fixing your carelessness is easier than acquiring new concepts. Be honest with yourself and fix your carelessness. If you've ever attributed a math error to "carelessness"(and let's be honest—you have) then this post is for you. So often do I see students blame their mistakes on "carelessness," in fact, that the poor word has lost its meaning in the context of competitive exams? This post is an effort to restore its dignity. Carelessness, in my experience, can mean one (or more than one) of the following:

• Misreading the question
• Misbubbling the answer
• Arithmetic or simple algebra errors
• Self-delusion

To avoid misreading the question, always give the question one final read before you bubble your answer to make sure you found the answer the test is actually asking for. To avoid misbubbling, bubble sedulously, and then double check your bubbling. You should check once as you're bubbling, and then if you have time at the end of a section, go back through and make sure your answer sheet reflects the answers you've circled in your test booklet. This, by the way, is one great reason to actually use bubble sheets when you take practice tests. Because everyone misbubbles once in a great while, and if it happens to you during a practice test, you'll be that much more likely to be careful on the real thing. As anyone who’s ever taken a math test knows, it’s very difficult to avoid the occasional arithmetic or algebra error. Sometimes, the mind meanders. It’s also, unfortunately, very difficult to catch an error when you go back and look over your work. You can be staring right at 10 ÷ 5 = 5, but if you just wrote it 2 minutes earlier, you might not see what's wrong with it. So to avoid bungling your simple calculations, do the following:

• Check simple arithmetic on your calculator. I know you've done 6 × 7 in your head a million times correctly. Just make sure.
• Try to do as many problems as you can multiple ways. If you arrive at the same answer with algebra as you did by plugging in, you can be doubly sure you’re right. Of course, you'll need to find a healthy, comfortable balance here between caution and speed. Pro-tip: it's usually not a good idea to sacrifice accuracy for speed. Favor caution.

As for self-delusion, this is the toughest one to fix, because it's denial of a problem. Many students brush off every question they miss: "Oh, that was easy. Careless mistake!" This is a natural reaction—a good solution can look really obvious once it’s laid out in front of you, especially by a good teacher. But if this sounds like you, know that you do yourself a disservice when you assume that, since a solution is obvious once someone else shows you how to do it, a similar solution will be obvious to you next time you see a similar question. By characterizing a mistake as "careless," you tell yourself you don't need to learn anything new about questions like the one you missed. And if that's not true, then that question type will keep forcing you to make "careless" errors until you address your underlying knowledge gap. It's OK not to know how to do something, and admitting that you need to learn is the first step towards doing so. To be safe, try never to characterize a mistake as "careless" unless you've got a demonstrable history of cutting through similar questions like butter. Don't even let the word "careless" enter your vocabulary until you've done 4 or 5 practice tests. Keep visiting TCYonline.com for more tips and tricks. Remember, we here at TCY are committed to your success.

UPSC National Defence Academy & Naval Academy Examination (I), 2014

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) issues notification of National Defence Academy (NDA) & Naval Academy (NA) (I) Examination 2014 for the admissions into Army, Navy and Air Force wings. The eligible candidates may apply through online mode and prepare for same @ TCYonline.com.

Important Dates:

Event	Date
Last date for online registration	20-01-2014
Date of examination	20-04-2014

No. of Vacancies: The approximate no of vacancies to be filled on the results of this examination will be as under:

Name of Wing	No of Posts
Army	208
Navy	42
Air Force	70
Indian Naval Academy	55
Total	375

Eligibility Criteria:

Educational Qualification: Candidates should be pass outs in 10+2 standard or any equivalent qualification from any recognized board.

Age Limit: Only unmarried male candidates born not earlier than 2nd july 1995 and not later than 1st July 1998 are eligible.

Application Fee:

Category	Amount
General/OBC	Rs 100 /-
For SC/ST/ Sons of JCOs/NCOs/ORs	Nil

Exam Pattern:

Subject	Code	Duration	Maximum Marks
Mathematics	02	2 hours and 30 minutes	300
General Ability Test	01	2 hours and 30 minutes	600
SSB Test/Interview			900

How to Apply:

Candidates are required to apply Online by using the website www.upsconline.nic.in. Detailed instructions for filling the form are mentioned on the website. For detailed official notification visit @ http://www.upsc.gov.in/exams/notifications/2014/nda1/eng.pdf

Exam Preparation:

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Quantitative Comparison Questions for GRE Preparation

Strategies when the numbers are huge Let us try a tricky quantitative comparison question. Let’s see if you can get it in less than one minutes!

Quantity-A	Quantity-B
10^7	7^10

One way of solving this problem is to do the tedious calculations. However, doing so is a time-consuming, error-prone process, and though it may work, the GRE is not testing your ability to do laborious mathematics. Rather, it is testing the way you think, your logical approach to a complex problem. One useful approach is to approximate. For instance if we take 7^² we get 49. Notice 49 is very close to 50. So let’s say 7^² is equal to 50. Therefore (7^²)^² is equal to 50^² or 2500. 2500 can also be represented as 2.5 x 10^³. So when we take 2500^² or 7^⁸ we can convert 2500 into 2.5 x 10^3 and we have (2.5 x 10^³)^². Again, because we are approximating let’s round 2.5 down to 2. Now we have (2 x 10^³)^² = 4 x 10^⁶ = 7^⁸ . This figure is almost as large as 10^7. Since we are comparing 7^¹⁰ to 10^⁷ you can see that 7^¹⁰ will be much larger. Granted, this method still involves a decent amount of calculation. Another technique we can apply is pattern recognition. For example, we can use smaller numbers that adhere to the pattern above. So let’s compare 2^⁵ to 5^². Notice that I’ve kept a similar pattern to the original question: x^^y vs. y^^x. , where y = x + 3. In this case we get 2^⁵ = 32 and 5^² = 25. Notice that the number with the greater exponent is greater. We should try one more set of numbers just to be sure, 3^{^6} vs. 6^³. Notice that this time the difference between 3^⁶ and 6^³ is even greater than that between 2^⁵ and 5^². That is, the difference between x^{^y} and y^^x where y = x + 3 increases the larger the numbers we plug in. Therefore 7^¹⁰ will be much greater than 10^⁷. The answer is (B).