Off the various experiences that I have had during my hostel life, this one in particular is worth sharing. Due to lack of better things to do at 4 in the monring, for good or bad – me and Saurabh – were discussing the biggest HR question – Where do you see yourself 15 years down the line ? “While I was thinking of an answer, Saurabh reacted almost insataneously – I would like to start off with a liberal arts school in India. continue

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As some of my batch mates went from IITs to MITs and other US Universities around the world, the number of publications in their resumes started to increase at an exponential speed. To me this phenomenon really did not make a lot of sense as how can a student or his research change within a couple of months to take their number of publications from non-existent (in IIT years) to innumerable (in US Universities). The simple answer I got from my friends was funding and resources available. Ofcourse IITs being one of the best institutes in the world in terms of students still lack the resources for producing world class research. continue

The recent decision by the education ministry to do away with the Class 10 exams [Related article by Atul] to ‘reduce trauma’ amongst students is an interesting step in the currently fashionable trend of simplifying our education system. However, a piecemeal approach to this noble aim will achieve little, if any, positives, while at the same time, undermining the strength of an education system which has stood us in good stead over the last few decades – the academic rigour which sets Indians apart at the global level. continue

(Note: This is the second post in my series on the Metagame. The first post can be found here, and is recommended reading in order to understand some of the terms etc that I will use. It is intended to be light in nature, but prove an interesting point) continue

Let’s have a poll to start off with. And let’s keep it simple – in life there cannot be 2 ways of looking at things. So just think of things objectively when you take this poll!

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Every year, magazines decide to confer upon a few business schools in India the honour of being the best in the country. But the recognition inevitably comes with the same caveat – we do not hold a candle to the top B-schools of the west. They gratingly harp about the lack of research done at Indian B-schools and the subsequent lack of generation of “intellectual capital”. The authors of such articles seem to miss the raison d’etre of B-schools, which is to create capable managers. continue

Being a web enthusiast, I never thought I would ever write a post saying why something shouldn’t go online.

For starters, CAT is NOT like GMAT. CAT is a relative scoring examination. People gain admission in colleges because they perform relatively better than others in the CAT exam. GMAT scores are always used on a very different plane – you only use them to make an approximate cut off for selection, more like a health score, but nothing more. You would rarely find someone missing out on admission of a college that considers GMAT scores because of having just missed the score. And that’s what CAT is all about. You can actually miss getting a call by as less as 0.01 percentile.
By spacing CAT over 10 days, the very beauty of CAT is being spoilt. It is supposed to be an exam that lakhs of people take at one go, and based on their relative performance, a set of people are selected for interviews. By spacing the exam over 10 days, and choosing different questions from a question bank of 3000, the complete concept of relative scoring is gone. continue