New app to help prepare for MBA

It's not only the BBM, but also an app that helps students study while using their phones.

Management entrance training institute IMS in a tie up with BlackBerry has announced the launch of Study Buddy an exclusive app for BlackBerry smartphones - that helps students prepare for competitive exams.

The app offers mock tests for premier MBA entrance exams such as CAT and CMAT. It also includes placement tests used by leading IT and other organizations for campus recruitments.

It offers tests based on variable difficulty levels depending on the preparedness of the candidate. The Study Buddy backend engine has a wide variety of questions in its bank that are randomly selected based on the difficulty levels related to the various entrance exams practiced by a student.

Mr. Sunil Dutt, Managing Director, India, Research In Motion, remarked, Using your phone while studying was traditionally viewed as counter-productive, but today we see mobile technology empowering students. Study Buddy is a smarter way to prepare for some of the toughest exams in India and we are very pleased to support this launch together with IMS and Vodafone.

The new application is developed by Omni-Bridge Systems, and is available for download on BlackBerry App World.