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Monday, March 30, 2009

It’s Harvard v Hyderabad now

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There IT was, the e-mail he had long dreamt of: “You have been accepted into the Yale School of Business, class of 2011.” It was the culmination of a 10-year-old dream for Soumitra Sharma. “I’d wanted to study at an Ivy League university since I was in secondary school. I was elated,” says the 25-year-old, formerly an assistant manager with Deloitte.

But in April, Sharma will be packing his bags for Hyderabad, not New Haven, Connecticut state where the top business school is located.

“It was a hard decision, but I’m attending ISB (Indian School of Business) instead. Going to the US in this economy is a big risk, even with a top business school like Yale,” he says.

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Common Admission Test throws up a mixed bag

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As usual, this year's Common Admission Test (CAT) threw up its share of surprises.

Unlike the past two years, when the exam consisted of 75 questions for 300 marks, this year's paper was of 90 questions - an increase of 15 questions in the English section. However, experts believe this made the exam more balanced.

Surbhi Seghal, a final-year student of Philosophy (Hons) at Lady Shri Ram College, said the increase in questions in the verbal section did not make it tougher "Though the reading comprehension section had lengthy passages, the level of difficulty was lower. A lot of the vocabulary in the verbal ability section consisted of words of daily usage," she said.

Students found the logic and data interpretation sections difficult, especially those from non-mathematics backgrounds, as they focused more on "higher maths", like functions and series, and less on arithmetic. "The maths questions were quite difficult for me," said Preeti Talreja, a B.Ed student from Sonepat.

T.I.M.E. coaching institute director Ulhas Vairagkar, who has been analysing the exam for the past 20 years, took the test. "The logic and direct interpretation section was tricky, but quite similar to last year The quantitative ability section was tougher and the most difficult part.

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