*A rookie asks for advice on PG.*
69 percentilers with IIM badge:
IIM Vishakhapatnam
General WL48
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- Might convert
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Hello! Hope everyone is doing good! I'm looking to prepare for CAT 2020 and wanted to know the percentile required to get calls from BLACKI.
10/12/UG(BA Econ)- 95/93/77
I am a fresher starting at a equity research position this June.
Took CAT 2019 without prep and scored around 93 percentile.
I'm thinking of taking mocks from TIME/IMS and their sectionals. Is that sufficent?
Thanks a lot everyone!
Hey guys. I'm weak in QA. I'm currently practicing from Arun Sharma. Do you guys think LOD 3 level problems are necessary to solve to do well in CAT(by 'well' i mean anything above 95 percentile)? Because i'm facing a lot of issues with Percentage LOD 3.
P.S: I have already completed Number Systems (LOD 1 and 2)
Also, do you recommend Arun Sharma's DILR book?
Suggest me anime fans..
- Attack on Titans
- One piece
- Hunter X hunter
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Should colleges who cancelled the entire interview process return our money ?
- Yeh interview wagarah sab paise kamane ke tareeke hai
- Yes
- No
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In a motorcycle race, three motorcycles started
out. The first motorcycle was 15 km/h faster than the second, while the third was 3 km/h slower than the
second. The second motorcycle driven by Ayrton Senna arrived at the finish 12 min after the first
motorcycle and 3 minutes before the third one. There were no stops on route. Find the length of the race
Anyone from kochi, kerala intrested in selling cat materials?
AIWTSAC CAT 2019 - Long post alert!!
Never thought that I will be writing this post. But more than for anybody else, I want to do this for a certain set (definitely a large set) of people. It will be for that particular set of people, who perhaps in their heart already know that maybe 99.7+ is really really tough for them, but they know that they will put in all their heart into the preparation, and be consistent, till the very end. Unlike most people who had a 99+ in almost all mocks they wrote, I think I had that much in maximum 5 mocks in the entire season. If you relate to me, please read on.
1. Consistency is the key: There will be times when you'd score 99.5+, and there will be times when you might barely touch 90. The percentile in the mocks really do not matter if you cannot squish and absorb every ounce of detail they provide. Maybe I would break it down for you section wise:
VARC: Make your own strategy of the order you want to attempt this section in. No order is absolutely correct. You do not have to answer each question of an RC you have read, it is fine to leave that one difficult question. VA part is doable. Remember, you need those 6-7 questions out of 10 correct to get an awesome VARC total. Give VA its fair share of time, it WILL give you the returns. Don't expect to give it less than 10 minutes, and expect your TITA PJs to be correct.
DILR: You cannot make a mistake in choosing the sets. I repeat, you cannot. Even more if you are somebody who starts feeling that, now that I have invested 5 minutes in this, let me put 5 more and get the answers. One wrong set, and you're out of the game, specially in CAT, because it will pile up pressure on your head. Remember, you need to score maximum, and not solve complete 4 questions of the set. Again, make your own strategy, but ensure you choose the right sets. 3-4 sets WILL be doable. Nobody is going to put less than 3 doable sets in an exam and give you 60 minutes to attempt those. The doable questions are right there. PRACTICE PRACTICE and your eyes will find the doable questions.
Quant: As somebody who had the basics, I can only tell you to practice. There was a time when I started giving QA sectionals for fun. If you just know how to solve all the questions you'd see in a complete mock season, you should be good to go. Sounds easy right? It isn't.
To accomplish all this, you'd need to put in those efforts, and hence - consistency. You'd have bad days, and you will feel like the task is tough, but you will be fine if you keep going.
2. Prepare yourself mentally: Most underrated thing. Whatever strategy you have decided for each section, keep reminding yourself about it. It is super easy to deviate from the plan when you are in the moment, and the timer is running, and you feel things are slipping. (CAT 2019 derailed people right at the very start with a different from usual level difficult VARC section). No matter what happens (obviously leaving out if there's an absolute change in format), try sticking to the plan.
3. CAT is important, but it is only a step towards the goal. Everybody talks about scoring in CAT, and preparing for CAT and all that. Please know, that CAT is maybe just 50% of your work. The grind starts after CAT, when you are expected to know your past acads, current affairs, mathematics, ethics, career goals, politics, geography, mythology, and I dont think there's an exhaustive list. So prepare yourself for a long long long marathon that ends in April/May/June and not Nov/Dec.
That's all the gyaan I have for everyone. As for me, I will keep it short.
My past acads are 10/93.2/78.18.
78.18 in grad makes me a single digit dept rank holder out of ~200 in my college, but again it is too less, since colleges have relative scoring and there are people with 9.5+ CG which when converted to percentage, makes my 78% too low.
25 months workex at the time of form filling.
So anyway, I am not a pessimist, but a realist, and I kind of knew that IIM A and C were going to be really tough for me since they require me to score 99.7+. I do not mean that I don’t think that I can score that much, I can. But it isn’t something I would really break my heart for. IIM B and L – those were what I was aiming for. XLRI BM, FMS – right after B and L.
Prepped hard, took a 1.5 months leave from office, told them that I am writing CAT. Exam went well, results came out and I had scored 99.21 (Sectionals close to 97,98,99). Lucknow calls came in that same night, and I had it ! Great start, and I was already pumped up.
Next few days, A – Regret. C – Regret. Knew it. Took it well. I was waiting for B.
K – Regret. Thanks to the 10 marks of diversity (either academic or gender – you get 10). Still ok, waiting for B.
I – Regret. Wow. 93.2% in 12th too low. A 95% in 12th gets a call with 95 percentile. I don’t get it with 93.2% in 12th and 99.21 Percentile. Still took it, fine. I wanted B.
Same night, I see a message on one of the prep groups. B calls out. In the gym, on the treadmill. I rush to the locker room and open my laptop (went directly from office to the gym). I literally pray to God and make a wish before pressing Submit – and Boom! Regret.
Very depressing! Very very depressing. I thought I was gonna get it. If you think the percentile is too low, B has a unique criteria. They have quite high weightages to literally every parameter, and hence consistent profiles usually make the cut. Anyway, I am super depressed. Talking to people to know what went wrong, is there any glitch or what.
Days go by, it sinks in. There’s no IIMB call.
Eventually XLRI BM came in. FMS came in. MDI came in. SPJIMR came in. Didn’t fill any other forms.
Now is the exciting part, I spent the next 50 days reading every random shit I felt was important for the interview. And believe me, it is going to help me even beyond the interviews. Like I mentioned previously, nobody tells you about the post CAT prep, but trust me, it is definitely ENDLESS! You can go on and on, and the panelist can still ask you a very random geography question!
Results as on date:
SPJIMR IM – Convert
XLRI BM Jamshedpur – Reject
IIM Lucknow – In process
FMS – Haha!
MDI – Result awaited
One last thing. PagalGuy is a beautiful forum. I remember joining this for motivation, finding people who are genuinely in this journey with all their heart. One request to everyone, while it is okay to crack some occasional jokes on entities like RR or Xatman or anyone, please keep this free of memes and other crap. There used to be a time when every post here would be right on the point, helping someone with something. Sad to see the current state where there’s so much crap that finding all that good stuff isn’t easy. I think I have spent more time on PG than maybe FB, or Instagram in the last few months. This is a beautiful family. Grow by growing others, and you’d get the fruits!
Goodluck to everyone, DM’s open. Would love to help or talk.
Hello everyone,
Hope everyone is safe and there has not been more misery and agony to you folks than rest of us have faced. Last three months have been crazy. I was a regular visitor in this forum a year ago but due to study i have not been able to visit. You can check my comments.
I am posting here becasue i have one MBA consulting subscription package unused and if anyone is planning to apply abroad i am willing to lend it for free. The mentor is INSEAD pass out and have worked with BCG and Dalberg. I can personally connect with him. You can apply upto any five colleges out of top 100 MBA colleges in the world. I bought it in $1500 but if anyone of you have financial issues, I will loan the services at your own will (you can pay whatever the amount you like. I do not want this subscription to go for a waste).
Let me know if anyone is interested. DM me. I will keep on cheeping pagal guy for a week.
And all the best for your MBA preparation. If you have doubts regarding that you can connect with me as well. I am currently interning with one of the best brand in the country in strategy dept.
Stay safe!
IIM Raipur OBC WL - 235. Haven't resigned my job yet. Any suggestions please
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- Reject
- 50:50
- Convert
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For Hard core finance.
- IIM-Udaipur
- IIM-Kashipur
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TISS has given its update it will take online PI in mid June
Hi Everyone,
Need your insight. I have converted Raipur, Kashipur and Amritsar (along with baby iims like jammu sirmaur sambalpur). Waitlisted for Trichy, Ranchi, Nagpur and Udaipur. What should be my preferred option now? Go with one of the converted iim or wait for any of the 4 mentioned. I have an inclination towards HR specialization.
- Wait for Udaipur
- Wait for Trichy
- Wait for Ranchi
- Kashipur
- Raipur
- Wait for Nagpur
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Guys please help me with this : i) Did any of ABC increased academic diversity this year or we can assume number of GEM candidates this year are in same range as previous years.. ii) Is it confirmed that FMS will also discourage GEM candidates by diversity?
Hello everyone!
I have 2 years of work ex. Right now I'm really worried about my next move. Whether to continue with my job or quit and join any new IIMs like IIM raipur, Ranchi, Udaipur, Trichy and Kashipur. I kindly request you to give your honest opinion and help take right decision considering the current ongoing scenario.
Thanks a lot.
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- Try next year.
- Join any new IIM.
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I know a lot of people here don't apply to TISS, due to the college having a course in HR only, but they really ought to be in the Hall of Infamy along with FMS, IIMK and the likes.
For 65 days, there was no communication. Then, they decided to form a committee to plan the new admission calendar 5 days ago.
TISSNET which was clearly stated as a 'qualifying exam' with 0 weightage has retroactively been given 60% weightage. The actual TISSMAT paper for HR aspirants has its weightage reduced from 30 to 0
The interviews are only scheduled to happen in mid June, as opposed to conducting it conline during April-May like most colleges did and the results are being released by July 20th, by which one's fee amounts would be locked up in other colleges
Hello Everyone,
My first post here (a little lengthy too).
I am a little nervous about posting my CAT'19 journey, I am not quite sure how you are going to respond to it. But at least, if you could relate to some parts of my journey, then I'd feel I have done enough.
So, it all began with CAT'18. At the time I was working at Bosch Ltd, as a graduate apprentice and was staying in Bangalore with my college mates. One of them was preparing for cat, and because he was taking it, I decided to the take the test myself (along with two others). The preparation was next to nil, and when the results came out I had, surprisingly, scored 82%ile (one of us had 16%ile, enough said!!). The percentile, I know, wasn't that great but it showed me that I could do much better had I put in more effort.
Fast forward to Jun'19, the auto sector started doing poorly. My confirmation in the company was subject to its performance and our GA batch was told that we won’t be hired on permanent basis. This broke me (in many ways!!), although there were hints of the same, this was truly the final nail in the coffin. My room mates and a few colleagues were really helpful during this time. It was then that I decided to prepare for CAT'19 full time, and had 4 months ahead of me.
My target was to get into NITIE, mainly because my mentor studied there (about whom I've written later on). So, judging by the past trends, 98%ile was their cut-off and it equated to a score of 150. My mocks (TIME) started off bad, scored 60s in the first few and I started questioning my decision. But persistence paid off, and soon enough the scores started improving (~90s), then it plateaued for some time (~100s), then started increasing again slowly. In the last few mocks, I was scoring in the 92-97%ile region (by this time I started giving IMS mocks as well).
For prep I don't think I am the right person to give you any suggestions (although, I'd request you to think twice before joining any coaching institute, there was very little to show for the 40k I had spent). @Arsene96's blog would be a great place to start (you can find it in my favourites).
D-day next (Slot-2), I was more relaxed than I thought I would be. The test was all in all good. QA, I thought, could have gone better. I started off slow, which meant I had to hurry through the rest of the section. In the end my accuracy was quite poor. My score was 147 as per the response sheet. I was very happy that I hit my target (almost!). I gave IIFT, SNAP & NMAT as well. NMAT score was 198 in the first attempt and I didn't give a second one because I was satisfied with my CAT score (also notoriously expensive, was running low on savings).
My final percentile was 98.5OA (98/99/90, scaled score 149). My acads were 9.8/93/82 (82 in grad(BE, Mech) was due to the college being autonomous and I hacked my way through, one of the reasons why my interviews were subpar) and 14 months workex. I thought I was decently placed for any one of NITIE, IITB, SIBM (SNAP, ~99%ile), IIFT (~97%ile).
Now, here is where I become the villain. I have the NC-OBC quota, so ended up getting calls from BLACKI. This was really overwhelming. I was not prepared for this and thought I'll likely end up embarrassing myself in the interviews (which I did do, in most places). My first decent interview was for IITB which was my 7th/8th one. I wanted to do well in my NITIE interview, but fortunately/unfortunately they decided to go online and I don’t know how much weightage was really given to it (surprise question didn't go that well).
As of May 24, I had only one convert that was NITIE (429-OMR, 92-CR) and my mind was set on going there. I was happy, though the rejections did hurt. I thought to myself, the me 1/2yrs back would have been proud of where I am today. IIML results came in yesterday and I converted it (1075-OMR, 163-CR). It’s a bitter-sweet feeling, I'll mostly end up choosing L over NITIE. My other results were (all in NC-OBC category) A - reject, B - 55WL, C - 193WL, K - reject, I-didn't give the interview, SP - reject.
So, this brings my journey to a close. My mentor (had GATE rank 8 in PI!!) was, and still is, an inspiration for me. Even after I left my job and decided to take time off for cat (I wouldn't recommend this, too much pressure on you to do well), he kept in touch with me. It was his advise that took my score to 149. I am very introverted, so a mistake that I did was not reaching out to anyone for help. A request from me would be to not hesitate the way I did. I've come to learn that, its natural for people to want to help others, and they don't think otherwise.
The pagalguy community has made me feel less alone, especially, the last few months. Big fan of the memes @actionkamen, @dozer001, @musabhai. @harry12345214 and Arsene's (fellow gooner here) advice is always well worded, @IIM_Groot 's poems are a treat and @AbidKhan, @SmileyKRK's (that excel compilation is truly god's work!) posts helped me calm my nerves.
Thanking you all,
Rahul
Having passed out from a New IIM just this year and having friends in other new IIMs as well, here is my honest debunking of the facts and myths which are out there on pagalguy and aspirants minds since so many years. Having just passed out from one of the New IIMs, I will try to shed some light on them.
P.S THESE ARE JUST FOR NEW IIM's AND NOT THE BABY IIMs
Myth#1: IIM XYZ is best in finance, IIM ABC is best in marketing.
Fact: Every new IIM offers more or less the same kind of placements to all the students be it in any domain. I don't know who started this myth that a particular college is the best in finance and another is good in marketing. The entire placement process depends on the whether the placement committee is able to convince and bring the recruiter to the college. In almost every company, barring a few, all the new IIMs are placed in the same cluster, having the same kind of package and job profiles on offer. If a particular college is not on a list for a recruiter, it's probably because of some shady stuff and grudge from the past or something else. Once you make it to any of the New IIMs, you will realize how much stupid stuff you have to do just to woo a company, which has no correlation whatsoever with the MBA you are pursuing.
Most of the profiles, and I mean around 60 percent are sales and marketing profiles in all the new IIMs. 80 percent of the companies are common across the new IIMs, the difference is how the profile of students is perceived by the corporate, because the profiles of all the students are sent to the corporates by the placement committee way before to call them to campus. If a company does not find it suitable enough, it won't visit the campus. Simple.
There is no single college which is better in any particular domain. Once you get in, go through the placement season, talk to your friends in the other colleges, you will realise all of you are equally successful or doomed. Coz there are the same companies all around.
Myth#2 Location advantage of New IIMs over other peers
Fact: Almost all new IIMs are in cities where the airport is nearby, so location advantage between new IIMs is more or less same. In the end it comes down to the connectivity of the airport to the big cities.
Myth#3 I will get a job at the average package of the college which is around 15.
Fact: Trust me when I say this, and I have seen this firsthand, all the new IIMs have gloriously inflated their reports, except the audited ones, and the fact is, the average package among all the new IIMs hovers around 13-13.5 lpa. Those who are telling otherwise is a lie. And this is true for all the colleges, be it Ranchi, Trichy or Raipur who have mentioned average packages above 15 lpa.
Coming to the lowest packages, unless you are a complete fool and dont know how to perform in an interview, you will end up with a nice average package. Lowest CTC in my batch went to around 6.5 lpa per annum in which around 5 was fixed. And there were many companies below 10 lpa CTC as well. But if you make it to an new IIM and manage to play your cards right, you will probably get a decent job. A decent job in a new IIM is around 11 lpa fixed salary.
And does this hold for all the new IIMs, hell yeah!
And don't believe the summer placement reports of any of the new IIMs, the real average package is half or even 1/3rd of what is mentioned.
Placement is totally driven by luck. A person with 4 years worth of experience will be overlooked by a company for a fresher with b.com or average scars whose profile is super trash. Midway into the placement season, you will realize the company's release their shortlist high on weed and stuff.
Myth#4 Ranchi and Trichy are the best!!! Udaipur is next, then Raipur, Kashipur and Rohtak are trash.
Fact: All the new IIMs are equally good and trash depending on how you perceive them. The teachers, pedagogy, placement is same in every new IIM currently. Those 1 or 2 people in a batch who manage to get a job in a very good company out of the 200 odd people of the batch, they are the ones who manage to bring up or bring down the package by a few points between the colleges. So it doesn't matter what college you choose or what location, you will get more or less same opportunities everywhere.
Infrastructure wise, all the colleges the completely different though, and I guess in the end it should be one of the deciding factors.
These were more or less some of the chief myths among the new IIMs. Trust me the polls being held on Pagalguy are not worth anything because you are comparing apples only and most of the people voting are students of the current college who have been asked to vote for their college. If you want to have some real clarity about any other topic and want a honest review about any of the other aspects of these colleges, please DM.
I was hoping for IIFT convert but inke to nautanki hi is not ending. Please help me out amongst these choices. I have interest in sales and marketing. Thankyou in advance ps: please state the reasons
- IIM udaipur
- IIM trichy
- IIM ranchi
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