Responding to MBAUniverse.com reader query, Gejo Srinivasan, MBA product head at IMS Mumbai, said, On a scale of 1 to 10 where 10 is the toughest, I will rate quantitative section as 8/10. Verbal section was 7/10 while Data interpretation was 6/10.

Gejo Srinivasan added, The Quant section was tougher than last year, as some of the questions not only demanded a higher level of reasoning but also were based on tougher concepts. Conceptual clarity and a strong reasoning ability were a must to clear the cut-offs in this section.|

top-notch firms from all over the world flocked to the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad for the summer recruitment process for the batch of 2007-09. The recruitment, scheduled to be divided among three slots from November 13 to 18, saw all 263 students in the batch getting successfully placed in their choice of sectors.

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Career Forum believes that cut-off for Quant section will be 31, for Logic and DI will be 35 and for Verbal ability it will be 42. Overall cutoff will be 123+.
When asked details about this cutoff projections, Ms Khanna responded, This cutoff is for getting a call from at least 1 IIM, considering aprox. 70% accuracy. For more IIM calls, accuracy will be higher and for the lower institutes, it will be lesser.

Thats the general feeling MBAUniverse.com got from students and experts across the country.

With a total of 75 questions, the exam pattern was same as last year. There were 25 questions each in three sections: Quantitative Ability, Verbal Ability and Data Interpretation. The number of questions, which was 90 in 2005, was reduced to 75 in 2006. In 2004, it was 123, while in 2003 there were 150 questions.

Each question had five options to choose from with four marks assigned to each correct answer, and 1 mark deleted for incorrect answer.

Whats more, over hundred IIM-B students will go overseas for their summer internships.

Informs IIM-B, The entire batch of 249 students was placed within a span of just 4 days with 132 students (more than 50% of the batch) being placed in Slot 0. Slot 0 witnessed firms offering profiles in investment banking, management consulting, private equity and general management. Major recruiters on Slot 0 included investment banking giants like Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Consulting majors like Bain & Co, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Co, AT Kearney, etc.

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Thats what student teams from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM-I) have shown at global competition Innovation Challenge. Two teams from ISB and one from IIM-I have made it to the finals of Innovation Challenge, thus becoming part of 10 most innovative teams in the world. The finals will be held this weekend in US.

An MBA student of Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore, Vignesh Viswanathan, Class of 2017, won the second place under Best Presentation-Manufacturing category, for his presentation Process Design for Reducing Customer Returns of Castings at a workshop organized by Indian Statistical Institute, Coimbatore. Titled Smart Solutions to Wicked Problems, the workshop focused on statistical techniques for business process improvements and was held at Codissia Trade Fair Complex, Coimbatore.

Bruges, a picturesque town with buildings dating back centuries, is a tourist destination now, but during the Middle Ages it was the most important trading center in northwest Europe. As a New Yorker, I had always believed that my city -- and the United States as a whole -- was going to remain at the center of the financial world forever. But after seeing Bruges, and other cities, such as Amsterdam, which were once the financial heart of the world, I realize that economic leadership is never permanent.