Exams are supposed to be the measuring cylinder for your preparation.True,an exam should be viewed as a stepping stone towards the ultimate apotheosis of knowledge.It should not disappoint or depress a student in case one fails to succeed.Stories of Thomas Edison failing a thousand times before inventing the bulb greatly corroborate the fact that unless […]

“There was no sentence correction question in my paper. The passage was on ####.” – India’s so called “Aptitude Guru”. “5 questions were from Geometry & one of the LR set was based on arrangements.” – Spokesperson of a reputed Educational company. These are the statements made by two of the most respectable people from […]

The alarm rings and the frenzied activity begins! Cases to be revised and daily readings to be perused before classes begin, I realize drowsily, as the thought of getting a few more winks of sleep makes me forget everything for a few precious moments. No time for sleepy eyes though, as the high decibel discussions […]

My journey towards CAT started in a train 3years ago. I was a better student in x and xii as i was a home kid. but in engineering hostel life started.. it was too funny and have dreamed to join mnc even before my first classroom entrance in engineering. The first class was an introduction […]

What will I be like in the next 32 hrs? This is the only question which is presently running through my mind. Its 2 AM currently. With my C-day (better say C-hours) approaching in not more than 32 hours, i’m unable to figure out what to do in the next 24 hours. Off-course i’m not […]

Me: Oh Yeah ! There she is!The Angel of my life for the last few years! Devil : Really ? Is she the one ? Well, try your glasses on and just see if she is the one ! I quickly put my glasses and she seems to be running towards me and I am […]

The wait for the R1 Applicants at ISB is very stressful and I though of some stuff that may just lighten up the atmosphere and help cope with the stress of waiting… At the MBA Interview… Me: tell us about your strengths… Candidate: I always trust my instincts and if they don’t work I instinctively […]

Once CAT gets over, relief and lack of motivation follow. Hence you tend to overlook a few things during this crucial phase. From my experiences, I have a list of suggestions that might be useful to the candidates in the coming days: · You would have always thought about reading newspapers but might not have […]

Gazing at the presentations being held in my IT class, I pondered over the last one year I have spent in IIMK. Watching my past through the prism of retrospection, I see various spectrum of learning and experiences I have undergone to reach here. A year and a half before, I was just another aspirant […]

Today, I was standing outside my CAT centre, sweating like a pig. Not because it is too hot, but because I was about to sit for one of the most important exam of the MBA cycle. Every formula and every sum and passage that I had ever done or read was rushing through my head […]