Hi, I need some serious advice from you people. I gave CAT 15 and got 80 percentile, so I give another shot at CAT and scored 98.77 percentile. I want to get admission in a good B school, so should I try for new IIMs or give CAT 2017.
I am not able to enter IIMK site. When is the last date to submit part 2 of the admission form ?
Need a serious thought from you all:
I will complete my 3 years of work exp in June'17.And I want to give the MBA exams this year too. My doubt is whether my 3+ yrs of work exp prove a hindrance in my admissions top 15-20 MBA institutes in India ?Do colleges like MDI,SP JAIN,FMS have people with 3+ years of work exp ?
For OPERATIONS only
- IBS HYDERABAD
- SIOM
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Please rank the new IIMs. IIM shillong, NITIE, and IIT delhi
With an okaish CAT percentile, I have filled out NITIE,MDI,IMT,IITB. Is there anything apart from this which I can fill up ? (GEM with disastrous acads)
When can we expect the other iim lists??? Since one week no other lists
how difficult will it be to convert IIT Delhi or new IIMs with thik thak CAT Score ( 99.49%ile) but very poor acads....? BBA graduate :)
What colleges can I realistically look for conversion with following profile:
10th:90
12th:72
Engineering Grad:58.2
CAT:98.33
XAT:94.242
Nmat:92
MAT:99.9
Work ex: 2 years as a marketing manager.
GEM.
Thanks for the help. really confused.
Do I need to prepare SOP for IIM kozhikode??
Any from this CAT thread gave IPPB mains today..?
Hi Everyone, Need serious help.Please review my profile. Xth - 96% CBSE XIIth -61 % U.P Board Graduation- 84% ( NIFT, New Delhi) Non Engineer Background Work Ex- 8 months Management Trainee at Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail ( By the time I will join I will be having 1.5 yrs of experience and will be Assistant Manager.) Have some very good extra curricular,for eg. Represented India in Maldives in a meet organised by Ministry of Youth and Sports. Please tell me what percentile will be required to get into top IIMs as my 12th score is low?
OA- 99.26 MDI convert chances.?
anyone with 93.3 percentile or near that ??? just want to know the scaled score for this percentile ....last year I had 93.3....
Better between these two?
- KJ Somaiya
- IMI Delhi
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Hi Puys,
Whats better b/w these two?
CAT- 89 Percentile
- UBS Chandigarh
- LIBA Chennai
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By what date dd and application should be reached(iit delhi)?
Hi Guys,
On one hand The MBA journey for most of you will begin this year and on the other for me it's ending. So I think it’s the right time to share some of my learnings from these 2 years of MBA with you since most of you must be having questions regarding the interview’s, College selection, MBA life and most importantly placements. I have tried to keep this post concise but as you know summing up two years of MBA in two-page word doc is a mammoth task so this post might be long read for some.
Let me give you a brief introduction of my pre MBA profile
Btech Electronics & Communication (2008-12) | Software Engineering Analyst Accenture-26 Months | 10th-77% 12th-79% Btech-71.74% | CAT14-95 Percentile |
The percentile range of 94-97 is like having it all yet not having it since all the time you feel the pain of solving 4-5 more questions and landing up in the 98+ range. The same Trauma I also went through post CAT results in 2014.The options that I had in hand were IMI, XIMB, MDI, IMT & IIM Ranchi HR program.
I started with my interview preparations the most useful resources were threads on Pagal Guy, Amiya Sir’s Facebook group and Mrunal’s Blog. Though MBA helped me in developing reading as my hobby but back then I was not much into books so I watched summaries of some famous books such as Animal Farm and Mein Kampf in order to quote them during group discussions to gain some brownie points. For GD according to me more than practice it’s about how well read you are that matters. Read as much as you can from news to views just read it all trust me it will never go waste.
The best part about interview’s is the very first question itself i.e. tell me something about yourself it is here where you can swing the whole interview in your direction. In the end its about your story and how much impactful it is. For weaving a perfect story always end first question with a statement that creates same level anxiety for the interviewer as it’s there for GOT episodes.
Each interview was a unique experience in itself MDI interview revolved around ecommerce, IMT was all about Cricket, IMI revolved around Narendra Modi, XIMB was about Raghu Ram Rajan and in the end IIM Ranchi was about Why HR.
Finally, the results were out I made it through IMT, IMI, XIMB was waitlisted at MDI and was rejected by IIM Ranchi. After series of discussions and consultations I decided to opt for IMT Ghaziabad though batch size was one big factor but then the legacy of college and reviews of my friends studying there lead me to join it finally.
First few months went off in a flash with morning’s dedicated to classes and evening’s to MarkUp the official marketing committee of IMT Ghaziabad where I got through after 5 rounds of rigorous interview and the workload from both Classroom and Committee was too much with stringent deadlines this taught me when it’s asked you have to deliver no running away from that.
The most fascinating part of MBA colleges are Case study competitions where you get an opportunity to solve a real life problem and you get paid for the same. I won two such competition’s one organized by SAB miller and other by Social Responsibility club of IMT before my internship interviews.
As being GEM and from IT field I got a reality check during summer internship when I had no shortlist for first 2 days but I had faith in myself and was looking for that one opportunity which ultimately came my way on day three in form of Videocon and I cracked it to secure internship in Marketing domain which was my aim as I was reluctant to join back IT services companies for internship after coming from same background. This also taught me one important lesson of MBA if you want something be ready to have loads and loads of patience for it.
The next few months of first year were spent in making my CV stronger by winning competitions organized by IIMA, Lava Mobiles, Cashkaro.I also did short term projects for Oyo Rooms and Goibibo and made board room presentations to them along with my friends. In the meantime, the elections for Markup happened and I transitioned from a member to Coordinator for the Committee.
The internship stint at Videocon taught me about the intricacies of Sales and Marketing and how each one of them is so different from other yet so closely related. The year two at IMT began with recruiting junior member’s for Markup that showed me a glimpse of how people management is at core of everything and if you can get right people the work becomes so much simpler.
The second year of MBA starts off in a flash there is July where you get feel of becoming senior then august when you start looking at your books for exams and September when panic button gets pressed and finally October-November& December when the war can be declared anytime i.e. placement week happens.
During my second year also the craze for Case competitions never faded and I won Campus rounds for Mahindra War Room, Aditya Birla Retail,FCB Ulka, TATA Steel and made it to Nationals of Infosys Case Competition. The best part of all these competition was that they taught me about different sectors and different challenges in those sectors which was above any bookish knowledge that I could have learned from.
The Sign-ups started rolling for the final placements with big names coming each day and I started registering for them. Somewhere deep inside me I was fearful regarding shortlists but then the effort that I had put in be it academically (I neither excelled nor did bad just maintained decent CGPA of 6.9) or in extracurricular gave me faith that I can make it through in one go this time around.
It was evening of 17th Nov when I got a mail in my Inbox from placement office informing me that I have been shortlisted for Google. First it gave me goosebumps because this was the biggest job in campus with package not only matching my age but a Brand that is everyone’s dream to get associated with. The placement process started early morning on 18th Nov around 7:30am. We were told that it was a profile based shortlisting and they have gone through each and every CV and finally came down to list of candidates they are going to interview.
It was a rigorous process with my third interview ending around 8:30pm in evening. Later that night I got to know that I have made it through Google and need to send them acceptance mail. The high school marks, being an engineer or coming from IT background none of it mattered the only thing that mattered in that interview room was me and my MBA life so to conclude just want to say MBA is all about exploring yourself if you give it all then you will definitely have it all. All the best and thanks for having the patience to read till the end if you did so :)
Regards,
Shashank Srivastava
IMT Ghaziabad Class of 2015-17
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plz someone suggest some magazines ( no online plz) to review past few months GA ...
Have been searching for good material on how to prepare for PI. Found an interesting read - http://mbayatra.com/mba-interview-questions-answer/
Others might also find it useful.