A note on the links given & added info for aspirants!

Disclaimer: Do not read/try to understand everything & every links here in 1 go, it would surely cause indigestion! Try eating slowly...patience is the key...! :)

...many of you might not know most of these links. I have included them because all of them serve a different purposes. For those who do not have the time to go thru the links to find out more, just a quick note on the same:

The 'A-list' is a must go-thru list. In that, PG - short for Pagalguy is a must. It is huge, with more than 1.8 lakh registered users & 2 lakh vistors/month (as on date), you have immense info on ur hand on almost everything relevant. Also you could sign up for their free question-a-day for Maths, DI etc- which would be extremely good & tough questions which gives u a very good grounding (note- a first user might not find it very useful, since it is too deep. Re-visit it, u will realise its use as you progress across the stages in preparation- especially when it comes to the GD & Interview stages-PG is the best place for you to meet up fellow aspirants).

MBA Universe & MBA paradise might be more useful for those who are undergoing the course or have passed out (though info useful for aspirants are also in these sites).
Jam Mag is pioneered by Rashmi Bansal who is the Editor and Publisher of this popular youth magazine (JAM - Just Another Magazine). She is very balanced in her views unlike most of her other IIM compatriates (offence meant!) and gives plenty of insightful articles useful for B-School aspirants. For example, the follo link gives a comparison among coaching institutes, which is relatively useful- only problem is that the article is slightly outdated & some of the info contained has changed, but still it is useful.

In Solidgyan, you can freely enroll for some parts of the course & can even do previous cat papers online for free as timed tests. Total Gadha has a downloadable collection of previous cat papers + lot of good articles. Urpercentile's free CAT Hurdles are a must for ppl who might be weak in some of those areas & needs some basics & easy to medium level of questions to handle under each topic http://urpercentile.com/Hurdle.htm . Subscribe to their free Yahoogroup to get access to all CAT Hurdles. Though Tenaday has ppt like Devashish Chakravarty who was a 100 percentile scorer in CAT 2004 and 2006 who has graduated from IIM A, it is a new entrant and would have to prove their usefulness to the aspirants by giving more content in the future like the old stalwarts. But given the background of the 4 behind the site, more should surely be coming our way in the future from them.

The 'B-List' gives you some of the older stalwarts. Though TCY online is also pretty old as well as some of the others in the C list, they have not been able to come up as much as the others in the B-list have over the years. Among the B-List, Ascent is not that much high in the radars of the coaching institutes roll-call, but their site has good free content & hence i have included the same. TIME & CL have been ruling the roost, though IMS is the oldie, which has been loosing ground steadily in the past. It is quite obvious that all the old-timers have understood that they need to scale up & hence have ventured into B-schools & Schools- IMS started with Praxis, the B-School, while CL started with Schools first & very recently launched a B-School. I guess TIME would also be launching schools of their own in pretty soon.

Coming back to the B-List, the oldies are proven & time tested. They give a lot of info for free & does lot of good & more systematic work especially just after CAT in bringing out the answer keys & solutions (though CAT English key is always a stumbling block for them). They do give a lot of info abt other B-School tests & analysis & previous papers as well as info abt B-schools. Career Forum also gives a comparitive list of previous B-School rankings .Some of these sites allow you to sign up for free for accessing few resources, so do check them out.

Now coming to the 'C-List'. This is a list which i have arranged in the aphabetical order, so that there is no controversy over who comes first or second. Some of these sites are better than the others, so it is upto the aspirants to go thru them in detail & decide on which one you would stick on to. Each of them has something unique, for example, catalyst4cat.com is a site run by Munira Lokhandwala, an IIMC Alumnus for personalized CAT coaching. She has worked in the past as CAT Product Head and Faculty at IMS & CL and scored 99.99%ile in CAT 2004, 100%ile in CAT 2005 & 99.99%ile in CAT 2006. Though the site does not have much content, those interested in personal coaching of the elitest order might find it useful. So the 'C-List' has to be your take.