Male. Engineer. Non-IITian. General category. That’s my profile. And I still ended up in an IIM. For all the pessimists out there, it is possible! Read on.. The first time I ever thought about giving CAT was in the third year of engineering. Before that, I was a regular student, enjoying student life, without a […]

Being underprepared, I had not applied for any other exam. After the CAT results, I was dejected and decided to get back to engineering studies, something that I was confident about. I was, however, pleasantly surprised when I got a call from IIM Shillong. At 86 percentile? I was not sure how this happened. But […]

Soon, it was time to start preparing for CAT2011. I was enjoying my work, and felt no pressure at office as I prepared at home. This time I was serious. I had started preparing around May and joined a test series. I also purchased some GMAT books to help me with the verbal section and […]

14 years of schooling, 3 years of college, 2 years of coaching, almost 10 entrance examinations (including CAT) and still it seems that English is an alien language. As soon as I start thinking I know it, it surprises me. Coming to CAT, I still had a confusion of the level that ‘listen’ and ‘hear’ […]

Before I start the story of my journey from 52.26 percentile to 96.29, I must state one thing very clearly; this is not a journey of a struggle which most of us love to read. Unfortunately, we grew up reading all ‘newspaper boys’ achieving extra ordinary things in their lives. Whenever I read such biographies/auto-biographies, […]

“Hey, I can’t think of getting admission in IIM A or B or C. They are way above my league.” said these words to my friend when asked about my plans for CAT. And today i sit in front of my laptop writing this article after straight forward rejections from top IIMs. While i was […]

So there I was, staring at my CAT result – 99.82 percentile with 99.63 and 98.72 in both sections. It was 5 am. I was still groggy. I thought it was a mistake. It had to be! So I logged out and logged back in. Still 99.82. It took a minute to sink in. I […]

Dear fellow aspirants (who think they screwed up CAT ’13), Things may not exactly be going hunky-dory for some of you. I share your agony. I understand that some of you are still worried why your CAT slot was so darn difficult. I understand your disappointment at screwing up that one section in IIFT. But […]

Goa Institute of Management (GIM) has announced admissions to the 2015-17 batch. GIM has been consistently in the ‘Top-20’ Business Schools category in India, and has a state-of-the-art, sprawling 50- acre campus in Sanquelim, Goa. “We are concentrating more on the academic profiles of the applicants and where they are coming from,” says Reverend Dr. […]

Q1. What is the importance of behavioral science in a world that is asking for more BIG Data? Pleasure of driving a BMW is when you drive your-self, not when you hire a driver. Big data is only an analytical tool & industry where you generate reports for decision makers. If you want to be […]