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B-schools class of 10 upbeat on placement eve

 
B-school placement
The country’s premier business schools are gearing up for the placement season next month amid much anticipation that the class of 2010 will fetch higher salaries than its predecessor in 2009, whose members were placed at a time when the downturn was at its worst. According to a survey by market research firm The Nielsen Company, the average salary expectation this year in the country’s major business schools is about Rs 14.6 lakh per annum.

This is 13 per cent higher than average salary of Rs 13 lakh per annum for a domestic offer made to the batch of 2009 in the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management (IIM). “The average salaries this year will be significantly higher than 2009,” Hariharan Sriram, secretary, external relations at IIM Calcutta, told HT.

A slew of recent data have raised prospects that the worst might be over for the Indian economy. Industrial output grew by 11.7 per cent in November, the highest in two years. This has triggered companies to resume expansion plans.

Top companies such as BNP Paribas, Barclays Bank, TCS, Citibank, Infosys, and Procter and Gamble have confirmed participation in this year’s campus placement programmes of the leading business schools.

“This time we are planning to hire in large numbers from B-schools,” a Citibank spokes-person said. “We plan to make 15,000 campus hirings in 2010-11,” Infosys CEO S. Gopalakrishnan told HT. A note of caution: this year’s average salaries may still be below the levels of Rs 16 lakh per annum clocked in 2008.

 
All About MAT Exam 2010

 
MAT Entrance
MAT Important dates
Exam Date: Sunday, February 7, 2010 for the paper pencil based test. The computer based test will be held from Saturday, February 13, 2010 onwards. Sale of MAT forms: The sale of MAT forms is open now and will end on Friday, January 22, 2010. The last day to register for the exam is Wednesday, January 27, 2010. Last date for online application is Sunday, January 24, 2010.


Application Process

The application can be done both online and offline. For online application, candidates have to visit the AIMA website. After the registration, a print out of the online registration form has to be submitted in AIMA, New Delhi. For offline application, candidates have to buy the MAT Bulletin from listed branches of Bank of Baroda and listed Study Centers of AIMA.

Eligibility

Candidates must be a Graduate in any discipline from a recognized University. Final year students of Graduation can also apply.

Institute

A total number of 488 MBA institutes all over India will accept MAT February 2010 scores. Some of the prominent institutes are Amity Business School, Noida; Global School of Business, New Delhi; AIMA Centre for Management Education; Christ College, Bangalore, Alliance Business School, Bangalore to name a few.

Test Pattern

MAT basically tests areas like Quantitative Aptitude, Logical and Critical Reasoning, Verbal Ability, Data Interpretation/ Data Sufficiency and General Awareness. There are 200 questions in total, 40 in each section. The questions contain multiple choices from which the candidate has to choose the correct option. The acceptance of the scores of the General Awareness section depends upon the MBA institutes.

Paper analysis

TAccording to T.I.M.E., the difficulty level of the paper was Moderate. The Verbal Ability section consisted of 20 questions on Reading Comprehension and 20 questions on Verbal. Some of the questions tested the Vocabulary while some tested the finer difference between the formal and informal language.

The Quantitative Ability section consisted of questions on basic Arithmetic. The difficulty level of this test area was rated as Easy to Moderate.

The Logical and Critical Reasoning section consisted of Analytical Reasoning and Critical Reasoning questions. The questions on Analytical Reasoning were of moderate difficulty level. The questions on Critical Reasoning were difficult in nature. Overall, the difficulty level of this area was of Moderate to Difficult level.

The Data Interpretation and Data Sufficiency section can be rated as Moderate. The questions from the General Awareness section were on current affairs, business, sports, famous personalities and their associated fields. This section can be rated as Moderately Difficult.

Test Centers

The test will be held in 74 test centers across the country. There are two international test centers in Dubai and Singapore.

 
Tata AIG Life Shortlist 9 MBA Students of Aryans

 
Tata AIG
Tata AIG Life shortlisted 9 students of Aryans Group of Colleges (AGC) during the campus placement drive organized at the college campus at Vill. Nepra, Chandigarh-Patiala highway, near Chandigarh.  Jitender Hotchandani, cluster head & Mr. Amit Singh, location head, interviewed the candidates for placements.

A pre-placement talk was held in which the team of experts addressed the students and answered their queries. The talk was followed by Group Discussion (GD) and the Personal interview. Around 110 MBA students of Aryans Business School (ABS) & Aryans School of Management (ASM) participated in the placement drive.

Dr. Anshu Kataria, Chairman, Aryans Group of Colleges (AGC) while congratulating the students said that Training activities are organized throughout the year in an effort towards preparing the prospective students for the campus selection programmes. Training & Placement cell keeps on invites various industries and reputed firms for campus recruitment. The cell is sensitized to function all through the year towards generating placement and training opportunities for the students. Around 100 companies are expected to visit this year for the placements of 2nd batch of MBA students.

 
An MBA course in media

 
MBA Media
A unique MBA programme in media and entertainment was launched at the GEMS B School, located in Bangalore Palace. The function was inaugurated by veteran journalist and renowned anchorperson Ishwar Daitota. Speaking on the occasion, Daitota stressed on the need for hard work and continuous learning by the students concerned. After sharing some of the more interesting experiences in his life with the students, he complimented them for choosing a career that offered many challenges and opportunities.

Stating that the media and entertainment industry is growing at a phenomenal pace, Daitota said that media – in particular – has been invented, evolved and supported by the public to sustain democracy. “It’s because of sheer good fortune that the media industry has played an excellent role in strengthening freedom movements and bolstering the culture of democracy across the world,” he said.

Elaborating on the importance of the media industry’s growth, Daitota said, “On September 15, 1950, India had only 56 television sets – and they were black-and-white. Today, as many as 12 crore television sets cater to the needs of the public. As a result, 95% of the country is covered by television and other modes of the media. In 1927,there were only 2,000 radio sets in the country. That number has gone up to 20 crore now, and every nook and corner of our land enjoys radio coverage.”

“Today, the media industry has an annual turnover of Rs63,000 crore, which comes up to two times the Karnataka budget. The country’s media industry also sees a 23% annual growth. Taking all this into account, the world seems have recognised India as the new international investment centre for media-based enterprises,” Daitota said.

In his presidential address, Prof. Chambi Puranik, academic advisor of Gems B School, asked the students to work with dedication and excel in the field of media and entertainment.
Through this programme, students will be provided with internships and employment opportunities at leading media houses.
 
BEd will also go CET way next year
No longer is the Bachelor’s degree in Education as attractive as it used to be. The government is set on changing the image of the course. One way to do that, it believes, would be to ensure that the test for admission to BEd courses in the state is conducted by the Karnataka Education Authority (KEA), the body that conducts examinations for admission to medical and engineering colleges in the state.

From the next academic year, admission to BEd courses will be conducted by the KEA, and the examination will be modeled on the Combined Entrance Test (CET)
 


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