The SNAP exam is all but over last weekend. Post exam all the leading MBA coaching inst. have started pouring-in their analysis and cutoffs of the leading inst. Many aspirants have lost their sleep, hunger and to an extent themselves in search of their actual score and ideal cutoff. People are crazy reading analysis after analysis, discussion forums are overloaded by talks of cutoffs, scores, last year cutoffs. 2 types of aspirants are neither worried nor bothered- 1 who have done really good and 2nd those have done nothing good. And as always, it’s the middle man who’s sandwiched and suffers the most.Why? why has our middleman lost his sleep, hunger, faith, enthusiasm and himself post SNAP exam?

The reason is those extra 10-20 marks! Try imagining getting those extra 10-20 marks over your present SNAP score. I’m sure most would have crossed the cutoff for leading institute quite comfortably ending all worries and insomniac nights; however I’m quite sure there are many who are dying for extra 1-5 marks to cross the finish line. There is no bigger sorrow than missing the cutoff of an elite institute by 1-5 marks. Just try to experience the amount of sadness that one falls into after missing ones dream institute by 1-5 marks. I missed by SIBM Pune call by a mere 0.25 in 2011 and that still haunts me. How I still wish not to have attempted that 1 wrong question.

So, the big question is where to get those extra 10-20 marks? Well as the legendary Vedas tell- ‘The answers lay within’. Yes, those extra 10-20 marks are well within the question paper. It’s just the matter of finding them, picking them and marking them. The best part is you don’t have to even use your brain solving them. They work in typical binary fashion of either 0 or 1 i.e. either you know them or you don’t. Yes, I’m talking about the GK section which amounts as many as 40 marks in SNAP. Most aspirants across age, education and cities tell they didn’t do well in GK because they neglected it. Therefore, it’s loud and clear that GK makes or breaks you no matter how good or bad prepared you are.

So, how to do better in GK? The answer is simple- by not neglecting it. Yes! Most aspirant who do not do well in GK actually neglect it. Instead, someone who faces GK not only defeats it but also conquers it forever. The ways may be many but the only thing that remains constant is you need to respect GK and not neglect it. So as first part of this series on GK, we have understood that- GK needs due respect and we should abide by it. In next part ,I shall touch upon topics which will make conquering GK easy. So Stay Tuned!

Cheers!

Priyank