If you get a very good CAT score, then you can justify your decision to drop a year. However in borderline cases, it might work against you. Since you have already resigned, focus on your preparation and aim for a top score. If you can manage to get a decent job take it up without hesitation. Work experience will give you adequate situations for you to express your teamwork and leadership skills. These will be very useful at the time of attending interviews.
The sectional cut-off scores indicated in the TIME website for various IIMs are the qualification scores only. For a student in the General Category the cut-off required will be in the 98+. Some of the IIM's like Indore, Kozhikode and Shillong give weightage to academic scores also. A 95+ score can get you a call if your academics are great.
@[368506:rohity294]-as alreadymentionedbysivshanthsiritisjst a qualifying score i.e from all the students that clear the cutoff they select the best ones due to which higher percentile is a must .for more info search for iiim kashipur final converts 2012 thread.
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i m getting 75-80 percentile in mocks!
plz do reply!
Dont worry too much about mocks, rather dont perceive mocks as a dress rehearsal for CAT or D-Day as that is a fallacy ,., Mocks are steps towards your final day .. they show you where you are weak , where you are strong .. treat mocks as the opportunity to improve and get a great score at the final stage .. Keep working hard , keep improving , you can get anywhere between 80-100%tile on a given day ..
@[606997:ShuvamJoy] Agree with @[364443:abhimukh19]. But I would suggest that you try to take your mock score as high as possible if you are aiming for the IIMs because of obvious reasons. Generally you would get more than your mock scores. But if you are aiming for the top, you should be in the 90th percentile range by end of Sept.
@[606997:ShuvamJoy] I belong to the 'stone-age' of CAT. I took the CAT 5 years back when it was still a pen and paper test. :)
I had not taken any coaching. I use to follow Arun Sharma's VA book. The CR section was really good. I also used to take IMS SimCATs. Their verbal section was strong. RC used to be a weak section for me, mainly because the topics and passages were boring. So, I started reading about random and heavy stuff from the internet on psychology, history etc. I found out that once you know the general structure of the passages, finding answers is easier even if I did't understand anything. I don't know if you can do that now, but I used to read the questions once (without the options) before I started reading the passage. For other questions like FIJ, Premise conclusion etc, I practised as much as I could. But after every question, I wrote down the flow of my logic and compared it with the explanation given in the solution. I don't know how relevant this was but I hope I could help.
@MISSION-MBA said: is it a wise decision to take finance in major and hr in minor?what about marketing?
You should take specializations as per what interests you and not what others say. However, you should also look at practical implications. Finance+HR is not a very popular combination. Generally Fin+Mkt or Mkt+HR is the trend in schools as well as job market. However if you truly believe that you want to leanr both these (Fin and HR), do go ahead and take those electives.
btech with 86.6.91.4,71.2 in 10,12,BTECH respectively+ 1 yr work ex....taking a drop to prepare exclusively for CAT..aiming CAT2013
option 1)get any job just for sake of adding work ex yrs....keep giving CAT in repeated yrs...maybe consume 2-3 yrs since I'm aiming tier1 institutes.
option 2)do-or-die situation in cat 2013....will go for any mba....but surely I'll be getting atleast 90 percentile with the efforts I'll put in.....and if even not that will get in mat top ones like loyala...or iit's (since I'm an enginneer).....in the worst case...I'll be in a postion to crack any bank PO exam with salary more than I'll have in tech sector if i take option1 ...
any suggestions from experienced puys are welcome and sincere thanks in advance
btech with 86.6.91.4,71.2 in 10,12,BTECH respectively+ 1 yr work ex....taking a drop to prepare exclusively for CAT..aiming CAT2013
option 1)get any job just for sake of adding work ex yrs....keep giving CAT in repeated yrs...maybe consume 2-3 yrs since I'm aiming tier1 institutes.
option 2)do-or-die situation in cat 2013....will go for any mba....but surely I'll be getting atleast 90 percentile with the efforts I'll put in.....and if even not that will get in mat top ones like loyala...or iit's (since I'm an enginneer).....in the worst case...I'll be in a postion to crack any bank PO exam with salary more than I'll have in tech sector if i take option1 ...
any suggestions from experienced puys are welcome and sincere thanks in advance
If you are determined to do it then go ahead... but dont really think that CAT is so difficult these days to prepare exclusively for one entire year for the same ..
Secondly , if you are smart you will observe that b-schools dont look at just scores these days but profiiles as well .. and profile just doesnt mean acads , but what is that you have done in past , what you are doing currently and what you intent to do in future and if the intent is strong , then have you actually made any efforts towards them..
CAT has evolved , admission process has evolved , time has come to change the mindset and adapt..
Thanks friend for your suggestions..yes I fully agree that CAT score is a mere qualifying in nature and then it all depends on your profile(and gdpi which reflects that...)...bur somewhere I felt when u'r doing job without ur heart into it just for the sake of building work ex yrs and trying to juggle CAT prep along-side u'r not doing justice to either of the things....(barring those who have prepared earlier and those who are ready to devote further CAT attempts)........
can you advice how to build and improve upon one's profile in context to a btech,it,s/w professnional that would help in mba.....finance guys can do cfa certifications etc..
Thanks friend for your suggestions..yes I fully agree that CAT score is a mere qualifying in nature and then it all depends on your profile(and gdpi which reflects that...)...bur somewhere I felt when u'r doing job without ur heart into it just for the sake of building work ex yrs and trying to juggle CAT prep along-side u'r not doing justice to either of the things....(barring those who have prepared earlier and those who are ready to devote further CAT attempts)........
can you advice how to build and improve upon one's profile in context to a btech,it,s/w professnional that would help in mba.....finance guys can do cfa certifications etc..
thanks!
Profile building varies slightly with the specialization and the domain in which you want to build your post career MBA.
Also, suggest not to focus on short sighted profile building just to get through a B-School, with almost everyone putting up similar points a generic profile building for getting admission is no more a differentiating factor.
Build the profile for the career you want to pursue and things in PI for a B-School shall fall in place themselves.
Thanks friend for your suggestions..yes I fully agree that CAT score is a mere qualifying in nature and then it all depends on your profile(and gdpi which reflects that...)...bur somewhere I felt when u'r doing job without ur heart into it just for the sake of building work ex yrs and trying to juggle CAT prep along-side u'r not doing justice to either of the things....(barring those who have prepared earlier and those who are ready to devote further CAT attempts)........
can you advice how to build and improve upon one's profile in context to a btech,it,s/w professnional that would help in mba.....finance guys can do cfa certifications etc..
thanks!
No job is 'for the sake of building work-ex'. Every job lets you learn stuff. Some lets you learn more than the other, but learning is definitely there. So, I would suggest that you keep working. Preparation can be unstructured and I have never heard anyone preparing for CAT for 1 and half years. You wont be able to maintain the momentum. Secondly, why should a b-school choose you rather than another person who has got the same percentile as you but who could balance work and preparation which clearly shows that he can multitask?
Also, carrying on with a job is more advisable than joining any random MBA program. The learning is just not there in the lower rung institutes. The institutes which you have mentioned are highly competitive. CAT being the unpredictable creature it is, how will you deal with it if you happen to get lower percentile? The jobs you get after doing an MBA from a lower rung school would be worse (paywise and otherwise) than a tech job you can get with 2 years work-ex.
Also check if Loyola is through MAT. I don't think any MAT institute can compete with even a second tier CAT institute.
how much will working in an ngo for an year help in boosting and henceforth selection in a top b-school? (this including 8 months of software work experience?)
"sorry for starting a new thread...cudnt find an apt one so posted here...if u can help me with a suitable existing thread i am more than eager to shift"
dear puys.....here we are trying to address the drawbacks of the current education system.....wait wait..dnt run away...i m nt here to give the same boring lecture which u tend to hear on this topic...i m just trying to help out d situation..............being from d tech backgrnd and working in d core industry fr sometime now...i find a major gap between wat is taught in college and what is required in the industry......thus we are trying to analyse students/wrking professionals interests and the requirements of the industry and we are trying to design some customized professional courses which would take care of the following points.
1. a real insight to what working in the industry would be
2. practical knowledge required to work in d industry
3. added qualification
4. better chance to get placed
5. even fr the not so interested puys..an industry oriented course wont look worse than sitting at home for 5-6 months waiting for joining
sme of u must b thinking i am here to advertise but no...i am here just to ask for sme gyaan from you and some more gyaan
yeah..just fill the form so that we can analyse what is it that puys like you desire and we will try our best to offer that
Plz fill this spreadsheet and help us help the society..
@[580208:Sivshanth] Hello.. thank you very much for your reply... I had inquired about the short-term crash courses for one month.. all the institutions are charging 13k+ .. for weekend classes...
I am now thinking is it worth 13k+... or instead i should just buy the material which is coming for 5k and prepare on my own...?
As.. i have never attempted for these kind of exams before.. i am not able to come to decide.. can you please suggest..???
@visionIIM-ACL said: Hi allWe all go through a phase in life sometime when we have certain dilemma to face. This dilemma can neither be categorized as CAT or any exam related dilemma nor as the professional dilemma, rather it is related to something happening in our life.And we feel that we can share such hiccups of life with our fellow puys and try to know the best possible way to deal with such situations and overcome the dilemma.This thread deals with similar personal dilemma related queries which need to be addressed.Please feel free to shoot such queries here and let the fellow puys help you in dealing with them in the most appropiate manner .Link to the older personal dilemma thread: www.pagalguy.com/forum/career-...Cheers
Hello. I am a graduate engineer who has passed out with ECE as the mainstream in april 2012 with a good percentage of 83 in B.Tech. All through my career, I have been great in academics. I have had done good number of extra curricular activities in college. I am placed in Infosys but the joining for the same is in April'2013. So, exactly I am in that phase of my career where achieving something that corresponds my competency has become really important. Moreover, I am not taking up a mediocre job and preferring to prepare for CAT. I am worried about this unexpected gap of 1 year which is possibly going to be there unless I find a good job. I know many of my seniors,puys have had also gone through similar phases. I hope one of you takes out time to guide me or share something motivating which will help me and my career to take the right leap at the right time. Also, please mention about the disadvantages of my year being dropped.
Hello. I am a graduate engineer who has passed out with ECE as the mainstream in april 2012 with a good percentage of 83 in B.Tech. All through my career, I have been great in academics. I have had done good number of extra curricular activities in college. I am placed in Infosys but the joining for the same is in April'2013. So, exactly I am in that phase of my career where achieving something that corresponds my competency has become really important. Moreover, I am not taking up a mediocre job and preferring to prepare for CAT. I am worried about this unexpected gap of 1 year which is possibly going to be there unless I find a good job. I know many of my seniors,puys have had also gone through similar phases. I hope one of you takes out time to guide me or share something motivating which will help me and my career to take the right leap at the right time. Also, please mention about the disadvantages of my year being dropped.
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In my opinion, you are not at any disadvantage except in very few B-Schools which pay high weightage to work ex. Elsewhere, your good academic record shall make up for things!
Need not worry, there are lot many puys who have done this with similar gap and have succeeded in converting the calls. Also, there are few things that you do alongside preparation, not necessarily a job 😃
You can just pursue any hobby and say in interview that you worked on developing it alongside preparation. :)