A career in Fashion not just a "fashionable" career but quite a lucrative one too!

world of design and fashion has expanded enormously owing to globalisation and technology. India has been making its mark in the fashion industry across the world and is now a name to reckon with. Celebrities across the world are often spotted wearing Indian designers’ creations, be it clothes or accessories. 

Fashion designers help create the billions of dresses, suits, shoes and other clothing and accessories purchased every year by consumers. In a fashion designing school, students learn the history of fashion, different fashion techniques like cutting, sewing, tailoring, draping and finally presenting design, which could be using computers as well. And then you learn about marketing yourself and your designs. Classes teach you fashion marketing, business practices, client relations, and agency procedures. Once you have the fashion knowledge, school credentials and the right contacts, you may be able to gain an entry-level position as a fashion merchandiser,assistant designer, stylist, illustrator, private label designer or technical designer.

Fashion Designing is extremely relevant in today’s scenario of rapid developments in the fashion industry, where many Indian brands are competing with international brands 

New age careers on a rise

Despite the current economic scenario, new age careers are picking up momentum resulting in a higher demand for specialised courses. Read on to find out more 

Management matters 

An MBA specialisation is pursued keeping ones personality , skill, interest and career plan in mind. While traditional specialisations in marketing and finance continue to be hot favourites,a number of interesting options are now available. Pursued by students with good communication and management skills, and a charismatic personality, an MBA in HR focuses on people management skills. From selecting and recruiting, to training and monitoring, an MBA in HR can help one make a career in human resource management , corporate and industrial relations, and company personnel management. Fresh graduates can start as corporate personnel executives or industry relations executives. With experience, one can freelance or start a recruitment agency.An MBA in IT and systems is emerging as one of the specialisations that are in demanded. Students who have IT as their subject of study (IT graduates or software engineers) usually pursue an MBA in IT. This specialisation opens various job profiles that include those of a system analyst, technical systems manager, business development manager, and software programmers. Experienced professionals are also hired as security and strategy consultants. 

Fashion styling 

The fashion industry is large and so are the career options it brings. One of the most recent and upcoming careers it offers is one in fashion styling. Simply put, a career in fashion styling focuses on giving the right look, improving a client's image, producing ideas and leading lifestyle events. Even though most fashion houses, event management companies and artist agencies employ fashion stylists, professionals usually prefer working as freelancers. A keen eye to detail, creativity and good networking skills is what it takes to make a successful career in fashion styling. Among the many profiles available is that of a personal stylist, corporate stylist, show stylist, product stylist, etc. 

Preparation for Banking PO exams – Cfindia Portal’s expert tips

The written test is a cakewalk for those who have been preparing for competitive exams like CAT, XAT etc since the areas tested remain the same. The difficulty level is less for the PO exam. The method of preparation too will be similar. CFIndiaportal has lot of good books on Data Analysis & Interpretation and Reasoning in the market which have numerous solved and unsolved questions for practice. Marketing & Computers is a relatively new area being tested in the PO exam; study material for the same are also easily available. For quantitative section, practice is the key. One must be thorough with the basics of mathematics especially till Xth Std. Prepare topics like algebra, profit loss, percentage etc.To score well in the general awareness section, one must keep themselves abreast with the current affairs. Make reading the newspaper a daily habit.



This preparation will surely make you confident and get through the exams smoothly. All the Best form Cfindiaportal.

SAT Verb Tenses by CF India Portal

Are you a native English speaker? If you are, then forget the SAT for a moment and just be grateful that you don’t have to learn our language, because it’s riddled with some really complicated verb patterns. Whereas some languages are happy enough to live simpler lives and only use a few patterns for past, present, and future, English has flashy tastes and likes to overindulge. Take for example, this sentence:

That stadium will have been being built for three years come May.

There are five words in that verb construction. Five. It’s like a gaudy necklace of helping verbs. And they’re mostly just there to show when the verb happens.

The good news is that you don’t need to know the names or explanations of English tenses for the SAT. And there’s no bad news! Instead, there’s actually some more good news.

You already know which tenses are right in SAT writing.

To be fair, that’s only really true if you are a native speaker. If you’re not, then I won’t lie: you do have an extra obstacle to overcome.

But the point is that for English speakers, the different times that different tenses signify are already hard-wired into your thought patterns. All you have to do on the SAT is make sure the times given in the sentence are consistent and logical. Any time you see a verb underlined in writing multiple choice, you should check that the tense given feels natural with the times that the rest of the sentence presents. Do you smell anything fishy in this example?

Ernest Hemingway’s short stories, including the favorite “Indian Camp,” continue to be highly influential pieces of fiction despite the fact that they have been written over fifty years ago.

If you do, then you might be onto something. It might be rotten.

The time “over fifty years ago” sounds pretty strange when put next to “have been written.” You don’t need to know why; you just need to know it’s wrong. When you see that verb underlined, think twice about the time it refers to.

If there’s a sequence of events, make sure their tenses put them in the right logical order. “Having just been swimming, Maria smelled like chlorine” makes much more sense than “Having just been swimming, Maria had smelled like chlorine.”

 Speaking of swimming, there’s something else you need to watch out for.

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New GRE Pattern:10 important things about the exam

GRE exam is generally taken by those students who want to take admission in any foreign university for graduate programmes. The Graduate Record Examination is generally known by GRE and the exam is conducted by the Education Testing Service (ETS) on behalf of the Graduate Record Examination Board and Council of Graduate Schools. The pattern of the exam is objective with multiple-choice questions. This exam score is necessary criteria for taking admission in one of the foreign universities.



ETS has brought some changes in the pattern of the GRE exam to make this exam student friendly and less complicated as compared to other exams. This new pattern will help the universities to evaluate the students well, make the right choice and enable them to enroll more deserving candidates. This new pattern will be active from August 2011.

CF India Portal: TOFEL Examination Pattern

TOEFL test is taken by aspirants across the globe. Students can take paper based TOEFL test or internet based TOEFL test. The test has different versions for different countries according to the preference and technology available in the country. But all versions are equally valid and reliable and students can take any test as per their convenience. All versions of TOEFL exam are equally reliable and at par with the ETS Standards for Quality and Fairness.

TOEFL test is available in two modes internet based test and paper based test. The PBTTOEFL test has three different sections plus a 30-minutes writing test (the Test of Written English).

Listening Comprehension evaluate the skills to understand English

Structure and Language tests the ability to recognize language that is appropriate for standard written English

Reading Comprehension judges the ability to understand non-technical reading matter in English

The content on the test is unique and language is consistent with that language which is used in day-to-day life and real academic settings.

The rough score for each section is converted by statistical means to number on what is called the TOEFL test scale. The TOEFL paper based test score is generally given on a scale that range from 310 to 677.

The test scores ranges different for different section. There is no minimum or maximumTOEFL test score. The test score depends entirely on what the institute requires for enrolling students. Each university asks for different test scores.

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Research and Teaching at CF India Portal

Research and teaching feed each other, something no one denies. Teaching in a research ambience would be a motivating factor for young students to develop a culture of inquisitiveness and research in their career (in their life). But for several reasons, undergraduate teaching in a research ambience has not been popular in India.

Need of the hour is (it may sound cliché),

    * Examination-oriented education system to learning-oriented education system

    * Excite students to learn basic sciences

    * Motivate them to ask fundamental questions; Encourage creative thinking

    * Inter-disciplinary approach

In this context, Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) have been set up with the primary goal to integrate high quality research with undergraduate teaching to improve science education in India and to enhance the number and quality of future researchers of the country. These institutes have been set up with generous funding.

Here, I list few important points that are critical for the successful integration of research and teaching, which needs to be discussed and the implementation of these ideas need careful planning. Most of these are being attempted at IISER Pune.

1. To ensure high-quality research and teaching, a healthy 80:20 ratio is to be maintained between research and teaching.

2. Key to good research and training is quality of the faculty selection. Faculty should be carefully chosen for their academicexcellence and teaching (and mentorship) proficiency. During faculty selection, great importance should be given to the originality of their research proposals. We need to ensure that research proposal of applicants is original rather than just a logical continuity of their PDF work. What we should look for is new and challenging idea. Past expertise and publications of faculty applicants should be used as an indication on their capability to handle such projects.

3. Curriculum-free learning process in undergraduate education. Teachers should explore with students “unknown” domains of knowledge rather than just imparting “facts” that are known and (anyway) available in all text-books and internet.

4. Emphasis in the classroom should be on concepts rather than on details. Students should be asked to read the details on their own to further strengthen their fundamentals.

5. Implementing research-based learning techniques in undergraduate education (for example, small open-ended experiments during lab hours, summer projects etc).

6. Involving PhD students and PDFs in undergraduate teaching programs.

We need to tighten our peer review system. We Indians often get into emotional bondage with our colleagues and “firing” or “performance-based incentive” is difficult to practice. At Pune, we have set up a International Academic Advisory Council that, we hope, would help us in maintaining academic performance our faculty