hello, i am sandeep a 60% physically handicapped candidate . i got 68.8% in 10th 63.4% in 12th 60.5% in Btech and i am already a MBA from a private college and got 60.5% there also. i have exceptionally well track record in extra curricular activities and have 39 months of exp also. kindly tell me the number required in each section to score 75% in CAT. i am aiming IIM bangalorephone number-7042122093
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10th/12th/b.sc(currently in 2nd year) scores are 9.2/60/71(aggregate of first 4 semesters) respectively and average extra-curricular. SC(female) candidate. Do I have any chance of getting into top iims ? Is there something i can do more to make my profile better ?
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: I frantically called my best friend of my cat journey ( currently doing great at IIFT) @MJ477 ...I said, 'Bhai! I quit. I cannot take it anymore. Chemical engineer ko zabardasti JAVA padha rahe'. I barely breathed as that was just my 14th day into my newly got job. I said to him, I have made up my mind, just convince me that I would at least make it to top 10 b schools despite taking a drop for preparation… 'Bhai! nahi .. mat karo aisa! Thoda aur push karo khudko' promptly said Mayank. I just had this in my mind that I should convince atleast this one guy who is with me in my journey. He then said, Ok! Go all in.. and thus the decision was taken… I was ready going for all or nothing .. my biggest risk of life( to worsen things I had an awful CGPA in my graduation) and believe me I gave it my all.. maybe more than that What was life going to bring ?
PART 1:
A decision wrongly taken - The parking scenes of college
I guess, that was term 2 of third year at engineering..horrible chemical engineering - horrible not being the subject, but the depth of it. I waited for my best friend from electrical engineering at the parking lot of college. We were both finding ways to add more meaning to life. That day was different. He said me something called … MBA . I said, what? He said, this is the way people have moved places, have flashy life but more than that, have earned respect. 'Acha, toh B school me ab jaana hoga!! - I exclaimed. Kaise jae? IIM A suna hai mene wese', I continued. I dropped an year after my 12, just to take a hit at IIT/BITS. Alas, there was no Eminem in those days( meaning no internet penetration as like today) to motivate me enough. But, I managed to get a top college back in my city(Hyderabad). But, not the branch of my choice. Next day, we both went to TIME centre for the details. There flashed the numbers - 99.99, 99.88, 99.77 and so on… Honestly, I was pumped up at that moment.. I mean, Wow! That seems an achievement man! And the classes began. A few days later, I landed on PagalGuy( hardly realizing that my life would change - forever). That year passed and I took my entrance exams. CAT = 88.7x, XAT = 94.xx, IIFT = Not qualified ( I never qualified for iift, not even in my next attempt), SNAP = 89.xx(GK bombed me here again, after IIFT), CMAT = 90ish (not sure). MHCET was scheduled after 2-3 months. I said my dad, this test takes people to JBIMS. Beautiful college. Dad said, 'theek aahe - de MHCET pan' ( ok!, give MHCET too). We both went to Pune.. He waited with hopes outside the test centre. But I returned hours later- petrified. That was the toughest test I had ever taken. I said to him, no point in even checking the result. I could see a tinge of sadness in his eyes. Not because I failed him, but because he felt I really wanted Jbims after all the entrance debacles. We returned to Hyderabad and life continued.
PART 2:
A job I yearned for - and a job never meant for me
Future First was scheduled to come to our campus (for the first time ever). Somehow, that job fascinated me - also it had a attractive bounty attached. I explored now. How ? How can I make it?
A quick fast-forward : I tried desperately for it again, during my 'vella' stay at home after quitting my job. Went all the way for my second shot to the office. Waited for long - much more prepared in quick maths etc than that during my engg days. But the company policy made me ineligible to apply so soon after a failed first attempt. I was broken. I cried. Was actually crying walking those roads which still flash before my eyes. I went straight to a pub - questioning god - Why? Why do I fail always? With drinks enough consumed to make me lose my gait, I returned home. Ok, now back to those prep days for campus interview. I am being honest here. I was mad for numbers now. I just did calculations whole day - speed maths, vedic maths and whatever I found useful. So much so that, while travelling to college ( an hour's ride from home- I was messed up with papers and speed maths on it). The day had come. I was prepared. I think too well - to fail . The anxiety caught up on me. I failed the first round of speed maths! People who never ever learned the tricks - cleared it with ease. This was perhaps the first heartbreak moment in this CAT journey. Brace on - there were more. I was sad because there were hardly any more good companies for chemical engg.(frankly none). Come Wells Fargo. My second ray of hope. This time I cleared the first round and second too. Came out of the PI room, very happy with my performance. Awaited results. One after other, names were coming up. My best friend (sahil - from electrical engg) was called. That moment, I was happy and worried at the same time. And the final call was left. I prayed. Prayed to guru nanakji( yes, I somehow developed a bond with him- he inspired me to quit smoking - a complete cold-turkey. Been 3-4 years now). I was not the person who was called. This moment thoroughly shocked me. I remember going again to a bar to calm myself( I strictly advice this- now I am a more poised person and suggest never to fall prey to your feelings and drink - just to temporarily get the relaxation). I tore my resume there and threw it on table. I was unconscious of my surroundings. Walked kms towards home, with tears in my eyes as the good companies which were for chemical engineers were over . And Sahil, as the 3 idiots movie shows- 'Dard hota hai agar best friend ka acha hua and apna nahi'. That was the moment our lives parted after 4 years of being friends. He lost the charm of MBA and enjoyed the new glitter of his job life. And here I settled with 2 jobs in hand - IT jobs. These times were testing times. I searched on pagalguy the stories. The stories which are immortal. The Hate( IIM C chap - doing wonderful in life now), Gupta (from XLRI - don't remember his PG ID). These 2 stories literally gave me goosebumps. I vowed that moment. ( The time actually coincided with my failed entrance attempts). Vowed to come back! I had nothing. No job( no work ex - believe me guys work ex is king for admissions and later). GEM tag behind my name. Poor grad CGPA. No business or contacts to get a go post my graduation. Confused parents ( My dad always said me to choose branch over a college - a mistake I repent till day) Just a confused engineer standing and watching the bustling crowd in front of my house, thinking, where will I go now? Little did I realize that the PagalGuy stories, Eminem etc planted motivation bombs inside me and they were turning LIVE!
PART 3
Think yourself as PHENOMENAL - and you shall be
"You're going to be happy,"
said life,
"but first I'll make you strong." - Paulo Coelho
Just a few days before me laying down my papers at office, I got a call from Mayank. He said, I was made the captain of Underdogs Team ( Every year PagalGuy forms 2 national teams for CAT takers- Underdogs and Dream Team). I was jubilant. I remember screaming out of joy amidst the training. In the meantime, I had made a good friend Suraj Kumar at my office who was fun to talk to and who helped me manage my impatience. The office journey was as tiring as my engineering one..so I used to study during both sides of journey. During evening times, the bus had only a single light at the rear-end of driver and I rushed out of office just to pick that seat. People asked what is it that you are so absorbed into each day. I just swayed the topic around. Now with the responsibility of leading a national team, there was only 1 thing going on in my head. To kill CAT or get killed( not literally but that was the level of 'JOSH' ). I enrolled now for BullsEye, IMS, TIME, Total Gadha etc etc. Now finally I was out of my job. My home had a newly built single occupancy room right over the terrace. This was my new abode now. I woke up early in the mornings and never returned till evening(obviously yes for washroom, snacks etc ). Now I made many great friends - Sabyasachi Mukherji, Anik paul, ankan sengupta, anit suri( my mentor), prateek giria & siddharth chowdhry (both very helpful in my journey), swapnl jha(my maths teacher), simrit bajwa( my verbal teacher ) and the list is endless…( will be adding as I recall) I started imbibing ideals of Guru Gobindji and visited Gurudwara more often just to get that calmness and connection. Gradually, my mock scores started to rise. Now, I was so desperate, I used to take 2 full mocks a day. I mean seriously. 2 full mocks + analysis. I made notes of difficult maths and verbal questions.(still have 2-3 books full of them) The exercise was tiring but rewarding. I remember one such incident - I took a proctored SIMCAT and screwed like hell.. I was transfixed. What went wrong? That day, there was no peace. At night 10, I started taking a Bullseye mock just to take kinda revenge. I was AIR 1 in that. My mock scores soared now(atleast in take home ones). Scored in range of 99.8 ish range. Underdogs team was doing good. But, as I recall, I had literally none to talk to. All my friends had moved to the USA or were in jobs. Loneliness is sad. It deprives you of joys. This period moved me more into spirituality. I remember days when I used to weep in my new 'abode' behind closed doors thinking that even if I get a 99.99 or so I stand a bleak chance for converting A and B. Even C would be apprehensive about me having a drop.( this thing is difficult to put across in a PI, but I feel a person should do what he must not push himself into something he doesn't like by his heart). Just to relieve my nerves I did pullups and chinups(most difficult exercise but relieving). Came the day of CMAT. My 1st match in the new era. I completed the test with half an hour remaining. That day when result had come, there was somebody more happy than me. My dad. I scored 99.78. But as this is life, there are downs too, that being screwed up IIFT entrance. Just after exam I checked the key and that was the lowest point in the journey. I was clueless, because despite a 99.78 in CMAT there were no colleges which I wished to join via CMAT. What if this happens in CAT? This one full year - was it worth it? Took NMAT - scored 208 or 210. 3 biggies remained now, world cup being the CAT, sharjah - XAT and asia cup - MHCET. As every serious aspirant is - I was sleepless the night before CAT. But by this time, I had solved as much quant and DI that I felt there was no question on earth which I couldn't solve in test(not being headstrong but you guys need to get this type of attitude before the test, it helps!). CAT strolled past and I hit 82/100 questions. Those 3 hours of my life, I was so absorbed - post the test I actually forgot where was I . Then came the big day. I remember calling Vivek Busar ( 99.97 scorer) . 'Bhai, kitna aaya?' I exclaimed. It shows 99.97, he said. I was happy and this soon turned me into a trembling Jay. Should I log in and check? This number will decide my future - my life!!! I remember sitting in main room with my parents around me. My dad finally accepted that I had worked hard and whatever the result be you have improved in life as being a hard-worker(as contrasted to my engineering days so to say). The screen popped - 99.51. This moment was as if your crush says yes to you. You don't know how to react. I logged off and prayed god that let this be my overall score and not a sectional. And yes, it was overall!! I remember posting this on facebook, as I could see those teary eyes of my dad. That read- yes you have made me proud! XAT came and went. Got HR call(for 96.xx) but was not much keen. Prepared more and more for MHCET. As I wrote in my previous part, MHCET was the toughest last year for me. But, today I answered almost all questions in the given order as the questions came. I was more than enough prepared for today. Scored 99.883 Interviews came from C,K, new iims, MDI, NMIMS, FMS, JBIMS To this day, my happiest moment is the day IIM C sent me a mail saying they are happy to invite me for further process(and yes you get tears of joy too, this was that scene). Lost FMS very narrowly, maybe a little more percentile would have helped( a final waitlist movement of even 2-3 guys would have opened the red brick building's doors). C was obviously a reject. I had 3 big colleges now. But as human, you never know how stupidity takes you over. Had a heated debate in K interview. Result = I wasn't in. Should have prepared well for GDs/PI , maybe over-confidence took me over - 'Yar 99.51 pe K toh hona hi chahie' was what I believed. Jbims had dearth of seats and I ranked all india 60ish something without work-ex(aww this should obviously take a dig at me- I knew this all the time). The seats for general category were 60 and you guessed it right. I wasn't in. I was now riding towards crest from trough. Only 1 B school in top 10 remained now. Prepared very well this time for PI avoiding any controversies and justifying my drop well
Guru Gobindji blessed me.
I am a happy mandevian(as they call the MDI people) now.
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10th/12th/B.Tech scores are 9.6/83/72 respectively and pretty decent extra-curricular. General female candidate.
Currently working fulltime with an NGO as its relationship officer since November 2016.
Will be giving my final attempt this year.
I gave CAT 2016 with the following score: Q: 22.5, VA: 91, LRDI: -0.58
Is there something i can do more to make my profile better ?
I want to understand how should I start my preparations as to get a good tier-1 college.
Hlo....I have marks in my 10th and 12 th as 9.2cgp n 79.4% marks respectively . N currently I am doing bsc in comp science(1st year) ...so how much marks do I need in my graduation and cat paper ...to get admission in iim or in very good college ???
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10th/12th/B.Tech scores are 94/94/81 respectively. General female candidate.Currently working fulltime with an IT firm from last 20 months. I am planning to give CAT 2017and I want to understand how should I start my preparations as to get a good tier-1 college.
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I am a working professiona in IT industry and my shift timing is 11 am - 8 pm (Thought most of the time I have to stay past 8 ). I sat for CAT 2016 after self-studying and the result was not what I expected. So this year I decided to opt for some coaching as after giving CAT 2016, I realised that I had some lapses in my preparation for which I need some active guidance. But now I can't decide which one to opt for - classroom coaching or online coaching? I am thinking of going for onlne coaching as with my hectic work schdule it will be easier for me to attend night coaching classes after work and on wekends and it also saves me the time to travel. But at the same time, if I attend classroom coaching I will be able to actively participate in a class and compete with other students which will help me in greatly assessing my performance. I am in a blind here and I need some suggestations. Thanks to all for taking the time to read my post and also for your advice.
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I am a working professional, job hours from 9am till 7pm, based in Guwahati. I am preparing for CAT, XAT 2017. However I am a bit confused if I should leave the job or prepare along with my job. Please advice as how should I proceed with the same for both the scenarios.