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For all those who are thinking of pursuing a Masters degree or an equivalent in the same discipline as their Bachelors in Anna University or colleges affiliated to it, TANCET is your gateway. TANCET stands for Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test. This test is normally taken by students who are interested in pursuing their Masters degree in Anna University or any of its affiliated colleges. Questions asked in TANCET feature all the topics that one covers in their Bachelors program; so, all a person has to do is to remember everything he learns right from the first semester. If that's a little too much to ask, then remember the rudimentary/ significant concepts that you've learnt and combine this with your analytical ability. Viola! You have the perfect ingredients for TANCET.

The million dollar question that plagues many brilliant minds when they slog through their college courses is whether the effort will culminate in good placements. How do you define 'good' placements anyway? Here's a peek-a-boo at the current placement scenario in the best engineering colleges of India.

On 24th January, 2012, the CFA institute announced the results of the December 2011 CFA level 1 examination. Students were emailed their result by the institute. The result made a lot of aspirants happy as the pass percentage was 2 to 3% higher than the norm in the December attempt.

GyanCentral spoke to the All India Rank 2 of the Chartered Accountants exam, Pawan Sarda. Pawan a habitual first ranker through his school (98.20% Class X) and college (93.60% Class XII), shares his success story, on how CA was a different challenge and the manner in which he converted his weakness to his greatest strength. As a student he has been a member of the Indian delegation of CA Students in the SAFA Countries CA Students' Conference and was also Honoured by the Ministry of Human Resource Development,by inviting to witness the Republic Day Parade, 2007 from the Prime Minister's Box at Rajpath, New Delhi.

70,000 MBA aspirants across the country have registered for the first edition of the national level Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) 2012 as confirmed by SS Mantha, chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). However AICTE has not declared the list of institutes which will be accepting the CMAT score. The list was expected by 24^th January 2012 however after our correspondent contacted the AICTE CMAT helpline “It will be out shortly” was the only answer.

It has been a while since a nationwide competitive exam has been conducted without some students protesting at the end of it. Granted the number of aspirants has scaled up tremendously over the last decade but then managing change to match scalability is an integral function of management, something that has been in tatters since the introduction of the online version of the CAT. This year the CAT went without any noteworthy technical failures but the normalization process and balancing the sex ratio and the number of non-engineering students on campus, made up for the missing controversial thrill that gets media attention each year.

The CAT result left many students in despair and the IIM shortlisting criteria added to the misery of many. In a free-flowing letter to the director of IIM's, Chirayu Batra gives a fictional account of the real dilemma of many students.

In my previous article I had articulated the functions of Human Resource Management in the industry. Contiuing the series of articles on Human Resource Management, in this artiicle I will focus on the Major management courses in the country with a special focus on HR. Even though a management student can take up HR as a specialization, in most of the MBA institutes, it is highly recommended that a person gets into an institute offering specialize/dedicated HR course. It helps in terms of Intellectual capital available, choice of electives, alumni network and most importantly Placements. It should also be noted that like many other professions, a general graduate or a professional from any other field can also enter HR and make his way up, however a Post-graduate program from a reputed institute gives you an opportunity to land up higher in the managerial hierarchy and also access to some roles not available to general candidates. Let's look at the scenario for HR education in the country: