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is taking a sabbatical, a good option? my manager is saying that i am not in anyway confined to join the company again if i decide against to? i certainly want to move out of the IT industry
Hey Guys
I have drafted a small guide about how I tackled the VARC section of CAT and XAT. This process helped me improve my percentile considerably within a matter of 7-8 months. I hope this helps you too in your preparation.
https://maldini-24.medium.com/varc-a-reply-of-champions-i-dare-say-1528603a195e
Is there a 'One Student One Job' scenario in New IIMs (Udaipur/Trichy/Ranchi) and NMIMS?
Also, if someone can throw some light on placement process of B-Schools (Preferably the forementioned IIMs and NMIMS), it would be highly appreciated.
TIA!
Be proud of yourself boys, you deserve it :)
Now that some of us have few more months of idle time, any courses which can be done to improve our resume? Also, the learnings of these courses can be applied on which specialisations?
Hi I gave cat this year and managed to score 95.57%. I am currently working (3 years). I want to give one more attempt next year but i got to know that it gets difficult during the placement season with more than 32 months of work ex. How true it is for the top 10 colleges? Both in case of companies offering roles relevant to my work-ex and for other roles as well. Kindly help!
Will having exact 36 Months (+5 days) XP pre-MBA hurt my chances in placement?
I've seen most colleges segregate students into 24-36 and ">36" whereas other colleges like IIM Trichy,Raipur segregate as 24-35 and ">=36" (only completed months counted)
Does this mean I would be in the 24-36 category for most colleges (safe!!!) but not IIM Trichy & Raipur and struggle in clearing initial shortlist for placements in these 2 colleges?
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99.12(94.08/99.12/97.82)
93.1/95.2
18 months work ex
GEM
average interviews
chance of converting shillong/trichy
- No chance
- waitlist and difficult to convert
- Waitlist and convert
- Convert
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I am planning to give CAT 2021.
Following is my Academic Qualification:
10th : 8.2 CGPA
12th : 59.2%
then 1 year drop
B.Tech : 7.8 CGPA
Work Ex (in Nov 2021) : 2 years
And I am concerned about my 12th percentage.
Suppose even if i get a good percentile in CAT, what are chances that I'll get good clgs for MBA ?
And lets assume that I get a good clg and got a decent CGPA in my MBA, what are the chances that I'll be placed in a good company ?
Just want to see the general situation around here. How many interviews is everyone left with?
- 3-5 (Abhi tk to PI dates hi nhi aayi, kb tk chalega ye)
- Poll Check (For those too lazy to skip, like me)
- 6+(Don’t know what to say for these guys, ATB, you certainly need it)
- 1-2 (Bs le lo PI yaar, taiyaari bhut kr li)
- 0 (Waiting for results, kab aayenge)
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Scored 96.3%ile in CAT20(1st attempt), but flunked DILR badly due to which i got only IIM Rohtak call; Also I have Converted GLIM AND IMT DCP, but i am not planning to go to any of these 2. If i convert Rohtak will it be worth joining or should I retake CAT this year.
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hello. Want to give cat 2021 or 2022 My profile: 10th-71.33 (2010) 12th-69.80 (2013) one year gap Grad-62.05 (2019) had 3 backlogs GEM Fresher till now will get a job soon so can make sone experience Is there any chances of getting into any iim or good non iim if got above 99 percentile. And about the hurdles in placements ? Please assist
A question to the veterans out here. scored a pathetic 85(81/88/73) percentile in CAT ’20(my first attempt) , not because I didn’t know the concepts, but because I was pathetic in execution. In QA I panicked after picking one question, which although easy, but I took the lengthier route which ultimately led to a domino effect . I was also writing a lot. I also realized very important topics like Time Speed Distance, weren’t prepared properly when it came to solving the questions as quickly as possible I have started my CAT ’21 prep,(with Time speed and distance only) I am trying to solve the questions entirely in mind and only when I am not able to do it, do I use pen and paper. I used to solve around 12-13 questions during mocks(3 hours and 2 hours format both) ( and in the same number in CAT ’20). I want to increase the attempt to at least 30 Questions. Apart from no pen and paper method, what else can I be doing? I have TIME and IMS material and previous year AIMCATS and SIMCAT 2019 series
This AIWTSAC is just about my experience with the exam, not about my profile, calls, interview experiences or even possible converts.
A story of an attempt at academic redemption.
I guess it’s very natural for us humans to constantly wonder what could have happened. The way this CAT season has turned out for me, I find myself in a very similar position quite often. Having unfortunately made major blunders on D-Day, I try not to think about the kind of percentile I could have possibly achieved had things gone according to plan.
I must admit, doing well in CAT meant much more to me than just hoping to eventually get into a dream B-School. All my life, I have done quite badly at almost every academic challenge I have decided to take up, mostly due to a lackadaisical attitude towards what was important. Growing up I believed every person who ever told me that I possessed an above average intelligence, given my repeated failures there was a point where I wondered if I had been lied to about the same my entire damn life. For me, upon deciding to do an MBA, the desire to do well at a national level aptitude test was primarily fueled by a desperation to excel at atleast one exam in life.
I believe most people on this forum are no strangers to balancing their work, personal lives and CAT preparation all at the same time, my case was no different. This being my second attempt (had a 98.43%ile in my first one) I was already familiar with my strengths and weaknesses, I knew how to prepare and was very quick to start taking mocks. I knew how big a challenge it is to go from a 98.xx%ile to a 99.9x%ile, needless to say my dream was to get a 100 (lol)!!
My strongest section was VARC, deriving inferences in RCs was something that luckily came quite naturally to me. My accuracy often faltered in the VA section but was able to work on it to an extent. However, the biggest challenge I faced in the 40 min format was to attempt the entire section (something that somehow felt much easier in the 1-hour format). I’d often rush through the section just hoping to somehow attempt everything, something invariably resulting in bad accuracy. By the time November arrived, I had started to make peace with the fact that I may have to leave a few questions and maximize my accuracy instead.
As a part of my LRDI preparation in the 40 min format, I had started practicing sets with an 8-minute timer, regardless of the difficulty level I’d allocate 8 mins, if the clock ran out, I’d simply leave it and move on to the next set. Over the course of 7 months, I started developing the speed to solve most sets in such a time frame. The idea was to not spend any time scrolling through sets, it was to allocate 40 mins to properly attempting 5 and hopefully solving a minimum of 3 (many have criticized this strategy but I felt it worked for me). Eventually on good days I started successfully solving 4 sets in 40 mins (somehow was never able to successfully solve 5, I guess that would have been too ambitious). By november, my aim was to solve 4 sets on D-Day.
QA was the section I absolutely dreaded, I consulted a number of people on how to prepare, spent countless hours solving problems but somehow, I was never able to dominate this section. Most of my mocks, my sectional percentile would fluctuate between 90-95 having occasionally gone as low as 60.
I cannot remember how many times I have turned to legendary AIWTSACs such as that of @Arsene96 for motivation. This period of balancing preparation and a demanding target driven sales job was arguably the hardest I have ever worked in my life. The kind of toll COVID-19 has taken on our personal and professional lives certainly didn’t make things any easier.
All of this said and done, I didn’t cross the 99%ile mark in mocks too often. The best I have ever done was a 99.86 OA in a SIMCAT. In fact, I had an unfortunate string of 3-4 rather low scoring mocks right before CAT. But the belief was still there, even though the dream of scoring a 100 seemed farfetched, I just wanted to get as near as I possibly could
D-Day:
I was allotted slot-2 and my center was in Pune.
Was able to attempt 16 questions in RC and everything in the VA section except for the 2 odd man out questions in which I went for the infamous akkad-bakkad given that there was no negative marking in them (total 24 attempts in VARC). Attempted 15 questions spread over 4 sets in the LRDI section and 16 questions in quant. Was satisfied with my VARC and LRDI attempts but not nearly as much with QA.
Then came the day of my horrible realization when IIM Indore released the response sheets.
In the VARC section I got a raw score of 48 which didn’t seem half bad, despite a few mistakes that could have been avoided, I wasn’t too disappointed.
Made stupid errors in Quant though, I was baffled by the fact that I got 5 questions wrong (just 68.75% accuracy, wtf) out of which 4 were quite easy, my raw score was 29. However, the biggest blunder was yet to come.
I somehow solved two entire LRDI sets incorrectly, out of my 15 attempts, 8 questions were wrong, this is something that has never happened in any mock. I was sure of a 100% accuracy in LRDI given it was a common occurrence in mocks, and here it dropped down to less than 50. Needless to say, I was completely shattered, having lost 27 marks in the blunder and with a raw score of just 18, in that moment I felt I wasn’t going to clear any sectional cutoff what so ever. The thought of an entire season of preparation going in vain over a silly sectional cutoff was heartbreaking. Tears rolled down my eyes whenever I thought of it.
Results:
VARC- 50.42 (99.83%ile)
LRDI- 20.24 (89.95%ile)
QA- 31.17 (95.84)
Overall- 101.84 (99.00%ile)
Thankfully my LRDI sectional percentile wasn’t nearly as bad as I had imagined. Even though many near and dear ones celebrated my CAT score as a good accomplishment, I was somehow still left with a sense on dissatisfaction. I’d be lying if I were to say that I haven’t calculated what my percentile would have been had the LRDI blunder not happened (99.8x, lol), not that it would have made much of a difference in regards to the calls I got owing to my pathetic academics but the satisfaction of stepping into a national level competition and truly exceling was something I felt would have been beautiful. On a side note, I have always been in awe of many legends I have come across on PG, being in a similar league as them atleast in terms of my percentile would have certainly felt nice.
So here’s my story of being so close yet so far from a desirable percentile. I wouldn’t say I’m disappointed, however difficult this journey of preparation has been, I actually ended up discovering there is great joy and thrill in actually setting a goal and committing everything while working towards it. This is one big lesson I hope to keep with me for as long as I can. I guess its time to move on to other things, I have decided to not fuss over my possible prospects, I believe I’ve prepared well for my PIs and plan on enrolling for an MBA this year wherever my best convert comes from. With bigger goals in mind and a newfound mindset on actively working towards what is important, I’m sure achieving a metaphorical 100 percentile down the line in these other domains will feel even better, till then, ciao!!
Are you still haunted by your past failures!? Are you always cautious ? Do you still refuse to be cheerful even after a good interview just because you still are not sure whether you have converted it or not? If you are I can relate this with you completely. Sorry for such a dark post , but this is the phase I am going through right now and I can't be cheerful till April end and convert at least few new IIMs or MDI ( my best call) ☹️☹️☹️