Just wanted to clarify a few doubts before enrolling for this AIMCAT season. 1. Are CAP calls eligible for the past IIM calls discount? If yes, is there anything I need to mail them apart from the call letter? 2.How much time do they take to refund the amount? 3. How do I get to know which AIMCATs are centre proctored and which are self proctored?(Inv & Non Inv) Please help.
Thodi si hassi bhi zaruri hai.. NM, thoda aur downscaling kar dena next attempt mein. Credits: @memelord_mdi
IIM Ahmedabad vs IIM Calcutta? I am about to make one of the most important decisions of my life. I have successfully converted IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Calcutta as well as IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Indore and FMS Delhi. And I have a tough choice to make now. The points I'm considering are based on my academic and professional profile. I have decent school acads scores (92%, 95% ICSE) and an average Grad score (7.6 CPI, NIT). I have 9 months of work-ex as a Market Analyst at a derivatives trading firm, followed by a gap of 4 months. Then some 5 months Graphic designing job at a start-up. Since then Covid kicked in, I didn't think of applying for a job for these 5-6 months. I have multiple achievements in the field of Arts, designing and photography at college level. I founded the Official Media club and was head of the Arts and Design clubs at college. I'm aware of the stellar batches comprising of toppers at IIM A which would make scoring so tough for an average profile such as mine. I need to score good in order to be eligible for Dual degree and StEP programs and good internships, given my average profile. I wish to get settled in Europe some years from now, so the Dual degree and exchanges seem lucrative to build my profile. Personally, I feel it's going to be really tough for me to survive in the academically rigourous and super competitive environment at IIM A. I never thought one day I'll have to choose between my two dream colleges. Can anybody elaborate what will I miss out on if I prefer IIM Calcutta over IIM Ahmedabad?
Can anyone here throw some light on placements at IMI Delhi (PGDM core)? That's my only convert now but i am still skeptical about joining. There was some excel sheet in circulation and the figures seemed to be quite low. Fixed component went to as low as 7LPA. Firstly, I don't know the authenticity of the report but it did startle me for sure. So i also tried to talk to alums via linkedin to get a better picture but most of them say "Look at the placement report/ Ask the adcom" and it is clearly not helping.
Also I want to pursue Marketing and from the report it looks like a few FMCG companies visit the college. Would it be advisable to go for the college keeping in mind the current situation? Looking forward to some helpful insights from you guys.
When someone switches the light off at the end of the tunnel,
aaj kon konsi list ayegi?
People who have experience of IMS test series, I need a little help. Wanted to know if they update their take home mocks every year?? I am sure they update the proctered mocks every year. What about the unproctered mocks??? Asking this as I have all 2019 mocks!!
Thanks in advance.
Why would a college like NITIE not bring a 3rd waitlsit when its quite evident that a lot of their seats will be empty by the end of this process?
Hi. I need some help from this community. I am in my third year and will be in my final year at the time of CAT exam. I am a CS student doing my BE from a tier 2 college. I am preparing for placements too but I am not sure if it will be worth it. My prep is using the free materials I have plus Arun Sharma. I am relying on unacademy for lectures. which is again the free course. I am decent at coding and I am not sure what I should do. My options here are
1. Give up CAT prep and prepare for placement whole heartedly. That means to code day in and day out
2. Prepare for CAT and actually buy the materials so that prep gets serious. I'll probably take IMS material and/or unacademy subscription for 3 months.
My mock scores are as follows: between 88-95 on unacademy (gave 3 mocks there)
72 percentile on IMS mock. (recent free one)
My profile is as under: 10th class 10 CGPA || 12th class 90% || 7.5 CG in graduation. I have a great deal of extracurriculars in college, hence the low cg. I will be a fresher (understandably). Also, I am a fresher, can someone genuinely guide me?
If someone can actually share honest advise, I'll be more than happy to share to my LinkedIn
Profile - 9/9/8 tier 2 engineering coll. No extracurricular or stand-out profile as such. Have no inclination towards finance (for the Calcutta enthusiasts).
- IIM Calcutta
- FMS
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#Random poll
After putting up a status on whats-app , do you check how many people have seen your status?
- Yes
- No
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AIMCATs 2019 Without Solutions and With solutions in the link given below
Unlike the last time wherein I ordered the section of LRDI and QA as per the level of difficulty, for the AIMCATs of 2019, I would like all of you to now solve the papers in chronological order and get used to the pattern of variation in difficulty level as that is what will test your actual performance.
All the best for the rest of the mock season
Link - https://www.bschooler.in/past-aimcat-links-combined/
IIT Madras, General WL 119. What are my chances?
- Reject
- Convert
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Know how much you need to score to get a shortlist from IIM Lucknow PGP and PGP ABM
Very clear cutoffs and shortlists
Idk if it helps but I talked to Master's Union School of Business and they said they'll be starting with offline classes.
I am preparing for cat , i want to enroll for a test series to help me with preparation, can someone please help me get a waiver? thanks.
Hi guys! Preparing for CAT2020 and would require a waiver so that I can enroll for a test series. Can somebody help? Thank you.
I am working on an Instagram creator account, and am curious to see the traffic outflow from here. I have screencapped the insights page to compare before and after. Aaj koi list nahi aane waala.
https://www.instagram.com/merge_clancy/
https://www.instagram.com/litnightblues/
Gaaliyan in the comments sections please lol.
Puys, what is the difference between CFA and FRM and what are the career prospects after both the certifications?
RC Practice - 16th June 2020 | Ecology | Moderate
When the same habitat types (forests, oceans, grasslands etc.) in regions of different latitudes are compared, it becomes apparent that the overall number of species increases from pole to equator. This latitudinal gradient is probably even more pronounced than current records indicate, since researchers believe that most undiscovered species live in the tropics.
One hypothesis to explain this phenomenon, the “time theory” holds that diverse species adapted to today’s climatic conditions have had more time to emerge in the tropical regions, which, unlike the temperate and arctic zones, have been unaffected by a succession of ice ages. However, ice ages have caused less disruption in some temperate regions than in others and have not interrupted arctic conditions.
Alternatively, the species-energy hypothesis proposes the following positive correlations: incoming energy from the Sun correlated with rates of growth and reproduction; rates of growth and reproduction with the amount of living matter (biomass) at a given moment; and the amount of biomass with number of species. However, since organisms may die rapidly, high production rates can exist with low biomass. And high biomass can exist with few species. Moreover, the mechanism proposed—greater energy influx leading to bigger populations, thereby lowering the probability of local extinction—remains untested.
A third hypothesis centers on the tropics’ climatic stability, which provides a more reliable supply of resources. Species can thus survive even with few types of food, and competing species can tolerate greater overlap between their respective niches. Both capabilities enable more species to exist on the same resources. However, the ecology of local communities cannot account for the origin of the latitudinal gradient. Localized ecological processes such as competition do not generate regional pools of species, and it is the total number of species available regionally for colonizing any particular area that makes the difference between, for example, a forest at the equator and one at higher latitude.
A fourth and most plausible hypothesis focuses on regional speciation, and in particular on rates of speciation and extinction. According to this hypothesis, if speciation rates become higher toward the tropics, and are not negated by extinction rates, then the latitudinal gradient would result—and become increasingly steep.
The mechanism for this rate-of-speciation hypothesis is that most new animal species, and perhaps plant species, arise because a population subgroup becomes isolated. This subgroup evolves differently and eventually cannot interbreed with members of the original population. The uneven spread of a species over a large geographic area promotes this mechanism: at the edges, small populations spread out and form isolated groups. Since subgroups in an arctic environment are more likely to face extinction than those in the tropics, the latter are more likely to survive long enough to adapt to local conditions and ultimately become new species.
1. Which one of the following most accurately expressed the main idea of the passage?
(A) At present, no single hypothesis explaining the latitudinal gradient in numbers of species is more widely accepted than any other.
(B) The tropical climate is more conductive to promoting species diversity than are arctic or temperate climates.
(C) Several explanations have been suggested for global patterns in species distribution, but a hypothesis involving rates of speciation seems most promising.
(D) Despite their differences, the various hypotheses regarding a latitudinal gradient in species diversity concur in prediction that the gradient can be expected to increase
2. Which one of the following situations is most consistent with the species-energy hypothesis as described in the passage?
(A) The many plants in a large agricultural tract represent a limited range of species.
(B) An animal species experiences a death rate almost as rapid as its rate of growth and reproduction.
(C) Within the small number of living organisms in a desert habitat, many different species are represented.
(D) In an arctic tundra, the plants and animals exhibit a slow rate of growth and reproduction.
3. As presented in the passage, the principles of the time theory most strongly support which one of the following predictions?
(A) In the absence of additional ice ages, the number of species at high latitudes could eventually increase significantly.
(B) No future ice ages are likely to change the climatic conditions that currently characterize temperate regions.
(C) If no further ice ages occur, climatic conditions at high latitudes might eventually resemble those at today’s tropical latitudes.
(D) Researchers will continue to find many more new species in the tropics than in the arctic and temperate zones.
4. Which one of the following, if true, most clearly weakens the rate-of-speciation hypothesis as it is described in the passage?
(A) A remote subgroup of a tropical species is reunited with the original population and proves unable to interbreed with members of this original population.
(B) Investigation of a small area of a tropical rain forest reveals that many competing species are able to coexist on the same range of resources.
(C) A correlation between higher energy influx, larger populations and lower probability of local extinction is definitively established.
(D) Most of the isolated subgroups of mammalian life within a tropical zone are found to experience rapid extinction.
5. Which one of the following inferences about the biological characteristics of a temperate-zone grassland is most strongly supported by the passage?
(A) It has more different species than does a tropical-zone forest.
(B) Its climatic conditions have been severely interrupted in the past by succession of ice ages.
(C) If it has a large amount of biomass, it also has a large number of different species.
(D) It has a larger regional pool of species than does an arctic grassland.
6. With which one of the following statements concerning possible explanations for the latitudinal gradient in number of species would the author be most likely to agree?
(A) The time theory is the least plausible of proposed hypotheses, since it does not correctly assess the impact of ice ages upon tropical conditions.
(B) The rate-of-speciation hypothesis addresses a principal objection to the climatic-stability hypothesis.
(C) The major objection to the time theory is that it does not accurately reflect the degree to which the latitudinal gradient exists, especially when undiscovered species are taken into account.
(D) Despite the claims of the species-energy hypothesis, a high rate of biological growth and reproduction is more likely to exist with low biomass than with high biomass.