Which is better for Marketing?
- IIFT Kolkata
- Poll Check
- SIBM Pune
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MDI PGDM-IB vs SCMHRD (not really interested in HR)
- MDI PGDM-IB
- SCMHRD
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Please explain which one to choose? - 3 years of work-ex in IT Operations
- IIM Ranchi
- IIM Trichy
- IIM Udaipur
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What was the lowest composite score at which a GEM candidate was called for interview at IIM Indore?
which one?
- IIM Sirmaur
- FORE School of Management, Delhi
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To all the working professionals and repeaters- How did you guys manage your prep along with the job?
Hours put in on weekdays/weekend, prep material , study groups?
Please do not mention that prep during wfh is easy. That is not the case for me since the work requires atleast 9-10 hrs from my end..
Hey guys I hope all are doing good , if There is anyone repeating for CAT'21 having 99+ percentile last year . can ping me up to form a WhatsApp group .
Suggestions needed:- I am rather forced by circumstances to join MDI hr in the upcoming session(chances for core are neglegible), and have almost no interest in hr domain.(Kindly note, I have no other considerable converts and am sheerly against retaking cat) I'd really love to hear from you people, on what could be done through 2 years of my mba(hr) and even post that, which'll enable me to make a transition to General Management roles. I know it's damn hard, but there has to be a way around, Right? Kindly, share your ideas and knowledge on the same. Ps- I have 8 months of experience in IT
Ek harvard humare Tamilnadu me bhi hai...
Asking for a friend. GEM, Average acads. 3+ years of IT workex
Help me with this decision.
- IIM Visakhapatnam PGP/MBA
- IIIM Lucknow SM
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G/NE/M
- IMT Ghaziabad
- IIM Rohtak
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Hello everyone, I have latest edition of TIME CAT study material hard copies (not used yet). Anyone interested in buying them please dm.
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Whats the best way to understand economics?
MY AIWTSAC: Disclaimer: I've been mulling since the last few weeks about writing a better, polished version. I wrote this one right on the night after B's results. It is an outpouring of raw emotions, so don't judge the language XD It is the second sem of college. I am sitting in the first bench, not because I listen to classes, but because I couldn't find any other seat. The guy next to me is as lost as I am, both eternally disappointed about being stuck in a college of very little substance. We discus what we want to do in life. I say English literature, maybe an MBA. He'd rather do something else too. We muse about how amazing it would be to study at top colleges like an IIM as Eng Lit was now out of the question. Laugh it off 'cause we know we'll probably never make it. Fast forward to the second year of college. I make the switch from Mechanical engineering to Computer Science. I tell myself that I like coding, but deep down I know I am simply petrified of Engineering Drawing and Thermodynamics. Waste a sem in my new department. Realise that the placement in my college is as pathetic as it gets. Decide to prepare for CAT, maybe get into GLIM or LIBA. Fast forward to August '17. I enroll with TIME Puducherry. Write my first mock, score around 90. Gain an inflated sense of self worth. Attend weekend classes. The competition is tepid. Duh, CAT is going to be a stroll in the park. Love the VARC classes, amazing faculty member called Ramesh. Come November, don't take CAT, coz why should I? Not as if am gonna join this year. Cut to April '18. Continue taking mocks. Only percentile expectations, no analysis. Frustration mounts as I see no progress, perennially stuck at 90 percentile. Placement season starts at college. The first company to visit is an product based company well known in my state, X . There's a pre-placemnt talk scheduled. There's alumni from my college conducting it. Asks everybody why they are attending it. My Best friend, a self professed Harichandra, tells him it because the PlaceCom forced him to. Gets himself ejected. I pick a fight with the alumnus about morals and ethics. Fuck you X. The pressure of seeing peers get placed mounts. Cut to June '18. TCS has a new program called Digital, seems like an aptitude test. What harm in trying it out? Start my car and head over to Chennai with mom and three friends. As fate would have it, I encounter an accident on the way. The car is totaled. Mom has a rib fracture and is in the ICU. That persistent woman still wants me to take test. I go to the center without even having glasses. Finish the 3 hour test within 150 minutes without any hope of clearing it. Receive a call the next day saying I have been shortlisted for the interview. Attend the interview. Did all I could, no where close to what is needed. God knows how, but I get selected. Elated. Relieved. Sounds like a dream. CAT? Meh. Probably next year. Comes Jan '19. Interning at TCS Siruseri. Amazing place. God damn gorgeous. Love the library. Great teammates. Shitty job. Let's reopen the books. To the library every day after work. The rhythm feels good. Brimming with positivity. CAT 19, I'll show you what I am made of. Fast forward to June '19. Join TCS as full time employee. Same team, new mentor. What.A.Freak. Never knew TCS had folks THAT bloody good. Genius but ruthless. The days are a blur. The work is exciting. Truckload of shit to learn. Having cash in hand is intoxicating. CAT you ask? Hmm, not sure, let's see. October '19. The driving to and fro from work coupled with sitting for long hours breaks my back. Literally. Herniated disc. Multiple docs suggest injections to the spine. Scared. Mentor says take a couple of weeks off. Nice guy he is. Extensive therapy. Gets better. CAT is the last thing on my mind. Move in to a hostel near campus. Feb '20. Lying on the bed. 1 in the afternoon. Lazy. Complacent. Mom sits on a chair nearby. She goes: Is this the end of cat? Is this where you want to be in life? She rekindles the embers. Decide to join IMS. I attend all classes, take all mocks, religiously analyse each. Things look good. Sights set on CAT 20 April '20: The Pandemic hits. Coaching center closed. Work From Home. Looks like lot of time at hand. Nice. Start waking up early. Practise daily. Feel really good. Mock scores touch 97. Good, good. June '20: Absolute lockdown. A bossy iron fisted manager. A tech lead with a short fuse. The inevitable happens. My mentor leaves the project with another teammate. I am stuck. The only guy who knows shit about what's going on in the project. 3 freshers are on-boarded. Put under me. Fuck. Overwhelming. How do I coach AND code? Fuck. I try to continue prep, but just can't seem to do it. July 20': The pressure is on. It's a nice weekend. Good time to take a mock. VARC does well. An okayish DILR. And there comes my demon. I get stuck on a question. Try solving it, no avail. The clock ticks on. The next question? No clue. The next? Same state. Tick tock tick tock. I start hyperventilating. Eyes blurry. Fuck, haven't had a panic attack since class 11. Can't seem to bring it under control. Fuck. Curl up into a ball, throbbing headache. Severe abdominal cramps. Feels like a heart attack Fuck. Eventually fades out. Leaves a bad taste. Time to park the prep for a while. Comes September. The prep is slow but steady. The confidence is starting to rebuild. Feel like a boxer getting back to shape after a knockout. The office pressure still sucks. The newbies just don't seem to learn stuff. Am I mentoring them wrong? Not sure. Okay. Time to take another mock. Two hours this time. Good start, tepid DILR. Quants? Fucks me again. Another panic attack, much more severe. Excruciating. The body takes a blow, but the real scars are on the mind. Fuck ...... ....... Nope. CAT isn't my thing. Not gonna do it. October '20: I think of myself as an Agnostic, but after mom's pestering, decide to turn to religion. Meditation gives me some peace. The newbies at work are finally catching up. The top Mgmt notices me. CAT? Still not sure Nov 20: still unsure about CAT. Call from my IMS mentor. Jenin, great guy. Is distraught when I tell him I'll try next year. Convinces me to give it a shot. " Vandha mala, pona mairu" (if it comes, it's a mountain. If it doesn't you lose nothing). Makes me promise that I'd revise for a couple of hours daily. Still skeptical. A senior from college talks me into it. D-Day: 1130 slot it is.I start with the meditation. Grab a bite, take a cab. VARC is smooth as always, feels good. The nerves are settled. I tell myself again and again " vandha mala pona mairu". Attend all questions. The DILR is okay, miss out on marking 2 questions that I solved. Damn. Then comes QA. Decide to do exactly 10 questions. Do just that. Fast forward to the release of answer key. It is around 10 in the morning. Am not really expecting anything substantial. Maybe 95 percentile. Maybe slightly more. Ring up my best friend. We start counting together. +3,+3,+3,+3. We keep adding up +3. Reaching 40. +3,+3, breaks 50. +3 +3. Crosses 60. Fuck am definitely making a mistake. Let's recheck. Still sums up to 64. 27 in DILR and 27, in QA. as expected. Was quite satisfied. Should fetch me 97 percentile. Key this in into predictors. CL says 99.5, TIME says 99.7. dammit, the gravity sinks in. I could end up with great calls. Immediately regret not filling spjain and MDI. Koi Nahi, dekhte hai. Jan '21: Results come out. 99.75. 100 in varc. Seems like a dream. Should get BLACKI calls now. Confident. Boisterous. See a social media called Pg. Create an account, post my scores. Real sweet people reply, messages of congratulations from strangers. A guy named Arsene with 7k karma points posts a link to PG group. People in the comments section treat him like a celeb. Interesting. I join. The shortlists hit me like a brick. No calls from L and I. Great, apparently 96 and 95 in TN Board isn't good enough. Calls from ABCK. The dates start rolling out. First day Interview at K. 3rd day at C. Panic sets in. Wide range of shit to prepare for. Sessions by this great guy arsene clear things up a bit. Good a bunch of really nice folks in life step in to help. A CA friend teaches Econ. An UPSC aspirant takes time to help me understand what's going on around the globe. A junior from college helps in revising Data Structures and Algorithms. The days are a blur. Interviews are lined up. It's show time baby. Feb '21: K is decent. C starts off on a poor note with me accepting my inadequacies in math, but things pick up. IIT B,D,kgp give major feel good vibes; well-rounded, wholesome interviews. A is a disaster. The big boys round ends with B, another decent interview. Mar '21: Interviews, done and dusted. Anxiety about the results. Got to find a way to stay distracted. Well, new friends would be nice. I start texting in THEOMI, the group formed by Arsene. Amazing place, meet some wonderful people. Join calls with them, gel really well. Bunch of lost, anxious folks lending each other a shoulder. A non judgemental place. Amazing folks. April '21: attend interviews of S and NITIE. FMS still hasn't come out with a plan. Quite frustrating. Take a punt, quit my job. Am a walking Zombie. Can't think of anything but the results. Pray for them to be out before FMS, beg. Nope, doesn't happen. Attend FMS too, short interview, went well nonetheless. The wait continues. May '21: The result season starts. Converts from VGSOM and SJMSOM. Very convertible waitlists from IITD and NITIE. But the big boys continue to test my patience. After weeks of speculation and rumors, the results of A is out. I nervously login. Know the interview was crap, still pray for a miracle. None materialises. Rejected. Heartbroken. Ring up my best friend. Can't talk for more than 2 minutes. Mom tries to console, fails. Decide to vent in PG. I will remember the consequence of it for ages. Fellow members share my pain, mourn my setback. People text me on Pg and TG offering a shoulder to cry on. Profound experience. Teaches me that not everyone measures you by your success. Go to sleep with a heavy heart, but better nonetheless. The next day decide to pay the fee for sjmsom, the deadline is fast approaching. My mother has an instinct. Feels something better might come my way. Asks me to wait till the evening. The clock strikes 4:30, no results yet. Login to sjmsom's site. The payment page in front of me. wait till 5, some instinct tells me. Go to the bed and lay down. 10 minutes later my phone is buzzing. Folks texting me that B has released results. My best bet. Hopes pinned on you B. Log in, it reads "congratulations". Cannot comprehend. Read it another time, one more. Tell mom and dad. My sister. Shouts of ecstasy from them. A huge sigh of relief from me. Inform all friends and family. Everybody is elated. Mom takes me to a temple. I say my usual prayer, something that I believe helped me. Lokah Shamastha Shukino Bhavantu. Stay there for 5 minutes. Come back home. Instead of taking the lift, I go the children's play area. There is a small swing there. I sit down there. Try to introspect what am feeling. I sense a lot of relief, some bits of happiness, but mostly gratitude. The journey was never mine, neither was the success. I was never as motivated and driven as most candidates. I was never as disciplined. Never as rigorous. Never as strong. I am a limp guy. The people around me carried me over the line. The musing friend. The never-mince-my-words mother. The mentor who went out of his way to make me take the exam. The senior who simultaneously beseeched and threatened me to make me take the exam. The random senior who decided to help out people. The junior who taught me stuff. The mentor, who in spite of knowing that I was going away, continued to guide me.The bunch of aspirants who kept me going. Countless other strangers and acquaintances who touched my life with their acts of kindness. I am but a mere pawn. The Universe played the game, and it was kind, for which I am eternally grateful.
Hi,
I gave CAT for the third time in 2020.
CAT 2018- 65 percentile, CAT 2019- 86.9 percentile and CAT 2020- 87.01 percentile
I wouldn’t say I did not prepare this time to do better than the last time, I just got too scared because of a bad VARC and LRDI section and had tears in my eyes while solving quant and did really silly errors. Could have easily managed a 93 overall.
But being a GEN-NEF and having all sectionals above 75 percentile, I got calls from IIM Shillong (WL601), Sirmaur (converted), Sambalpur (negligently forgot to fill waitlist fees), Nagpur (WL251) and BG (Waitlisted).
My parents aren’t agreeing to give me another shot for CAT. They have told me to take whichever college I get and if I really want to give CAT again, then work triple the hard and give it while doing MBA.
I really don’t know what to do. Can a person crack CAT while doing MBA? Or I will just be wasting time in vain and spoiling my first year in the process too
Please suggest. I really need help.
Hi All. I am done with my doc verification for IIM Nagpur. As of now My waitlist in IIM Kashipur is WL 01. I am confused whether to opt out of Nagpur and go for Kashipur or just continue to be in IIM Nagpur?? Please help me with your valuable suggestions on this....