Well, not all endings are as happy as you daydream about them. It happened with me as well. But none the less, it is a success story. It started with the fifth semester of my engineering. Like most students, I joined coaching classes for preparation. Like most engineers, strong at quant. I was weak in verbal, perhaps from my schooldays. I had scored 67/100 […]

MBA College is termed as the journey of our life. A journey that will change us and our pay cheques forever (ah! one can hope you know). But before we embark on the journey there are major hurdles in the way, the much coveted CAT/XAT exams and the dreaded GD/ PI/ WAT and whatever they […]

“Your son will not get admission this year no matter how hard he’s going to try.” That’s what my dad got to hear upon consulting an astrologer. Yes he’s a stereotypical father who takes lesser rational decisions. This was during the time when I had decided to quit my job in order to pursue MBA. […]

In this election season when we are talking and debating on all kinds of vote banks, why aren’t our political parties looking at the CAT vote bank? Even at a conservative estimate of 1.8 lac candidates taking the CAT/other MBA exams, their parents, siblings, girl friends/boy friends (in laws hoping to have a IIM bahu/Jamai), […]

Disclaimer: This is a product of a sly sarcastic brain. The author is by no means responsible for aggravated feelings. However, you can voice your concerns or seek therapy at 1800-MBA-IDGAF. Hi ! A loud shout-out to everyone who has been toiling hard for getting into a B-school for the last couple of years. According […]

When CAT 2013 topper Karthik Kumar got 99.35 percentile in CAT 2012, he knew a better score was possible. The only roadblock was the Verbal Section where he managed only 85.5 percentile. To counter that, he started focusing only on the Verbal section as he was confident about Quant. He said, “I was not at […]

The results have started to come in. NMAT (raw scores) & IIFT are already out. (Soon the CAT and other exams’ results will be out.) Various forums, sites and Facebook groups are flooded with posts regarding results. While some have made it, many are disappointed and broken. The hard work which was put in seems […]

Hello everyone.I am Aadarsh Krishna. CAT 2011 : 72 %tile, MAT : 98.73 %tile, MAH-Cet : 91.2 %tile, NMAT : 196, XAT : 82 %tile, SNAP : 87 %tile Successful Converts : BIMTECH, Christ B’lore and ITM Navi Mumbai. CAT 2012 : 75.2 %tile, MAT : 99.91 %tile, CMAT AIR : 2138, NMAT : 195, […]

Guys I wrote NMAT last week on 13th november. here I am giving some advise to you all, who are planning to give NMAT in upcoming days. 1. How to select the order of sections for attempt: at first attempt the section in which you score most in the mocks and you are confidant. A […]

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 […]