Hii everyone my name is Akash, and I have completed my BBA from DAVV university Indore. I would like to share my preparation strategy and interview experience, I hope this will be helpful for the future CAT aspirants.
30th July 2020: A very important day in my life. Today finally, after so many challenges, I was welcomed (now formally) as a student at IIM Calcutta. As I looked at those "Three Magical Words"- 'WELCOME TO JOKA', a series of memories came up to my mind. It reminded me of that tough yet beautiful journey of CAT preparation. In this article, I will try to share my journey to IIM C with a focus on what strategies that I follow to reach up there. So, this article is to every non-engineer out there who has a dream to join a B-school.
Would you still keep working hard, if you knew you are going to fail? Well, you would wonder why it says 'rote,' because in my case, it has been a very vulnerable journey. I would describe it as a Roller Coaster Ride with lots of ups and downs (mostly downs). But the final up was worth all the downs and efforts. Well, it's not a story of success or failure, but it's a journey with a lot of lessons to learn. The Roller Coaster Ride!
No, this is not a clickbait. I truly went from a 30’s something percentile in quant section in CAT 2017 to a 97 percentile in CAT 2019. Now before you go on to think that quant is not your cup of tea since you never understood it in the first place, let me give you a small background on myself. I have had an interesting journey with Mathematics all my life. I hated it until I was in std 9th, mainly because I failed to understand it. Topics of arithmetic like profit loss, percentages, Time speed distance all were a bouncer and the often-imaginary world of geometry was a nightmare for me as I compared myself to Darsheel Safari of Taare Zameen Par, who could not form a picture of Apple when the teacher asked him to write it. I barely managed to scrape through my exams and felt my future to be absolutely bleak.
I graduated from NIT Delhi in 2018 and worked in Tata power-DDL for nearly two years in the Operations Department. When I’m not working or studying, I am always chasing an overly-ambitious reading goal that I set for myself every year. In the year 2019, I had pledged to read 51 books, however owing to the shortage of time, I managed to read only 20 books. My path to CAT wasn’t clear from the start. Unlike most aspirants, I didn’t have an inkling of how my future was going to look like. The gruelling experience of being a Science student was taking its toll on me. At the beginning of my final year of B.Tech, I decided that entering the corporate world rather than pursuing higher education was the right course of action for me. But things didn’t go as smoothly as I had hoped, my father, who had an illustrious career in a Maharatna PSU, expected me to follow in his footsteps. And why wouldn’t he? So far, I had fulfilled my parents’ expectations, to the extent that I even studied the same branch in Engineering as my father did. And thus, began my tryst with GATE.
There has been plenty of posts on individual CAT journeys and most of them were quite inspiring. Every time I thought of writing my journey, I realized that it was rather quite boring in nature without much element of drama in it. After getting the result of CAT 2019, I wanted to somehow help the upcoming aspirants in my capacity. Most of the articles that I found during my preparation only talked about the preparation and none of them mentioned how to build the exam-taking strategy. This is one area in which I feel I can help the aspirants and therefore this is my small effort in helping the upcoming students and also motivating them in my little capacity.
To give you a little background of me: I’m Nishi Agrawal. I belong to a small town in Chhattisgarh called Pathalgaon. I have done my early schooling there and hence I’m not a student of schools with big names. But I have done my Under Graduation from a reputed college and now going to pursue my Post Graduation from one of the most prestigious B schools in the country.
Hi guys, this is Jaideep and today I would be telling my CAT 2019 success story. Through this article of mine, I will try to answer the question - How I scored 99.98 percentile in CAT 2019?
Hii everyone my name is Akash, and I have completed my BBA from DAVV university Indore. I would like to share my preparation strategy and interview experience, I hope this will be helpful for the future CAT aspirants.
30th July 2020: A very important day in my life. Today finally, after so many challenges, I was welcomed (now formally) as a student at IIM Calcutta. As I looked at those "Three Magical Words"- 'WELCOME TO JOKA', a series of memories came up to my mind. It reminded me of that tough yet beautiful journey of CAT preparation. In this article, I will try to share my journey to IIM C with a focus on what strategies that I follow to reach up there. So, this article is to every non-engineer out there who has a dream to join a B-school.
Would you still keep working hard, if you knew you are going to fail? Well, you would wonder why it says 'rote,' because in my case, it has been a very vulnerable journey. I would describe it as a Roller Coaster Ride with lots of ups and downs (mostly downs). But the final up was worth all the downs and efforts. Well, it's not a story of success or failure, but it's a journey with a lot of lessons to learn. The Roller Coaster Ride!
No, this is not a clickbait. I truly went from a 30’s something percentile in quant section in CAT 2017 to a 97 percentile in CAT 2019. Now before you go on to think that quant is not your cup of tea since you never understood it in the first place, let me give you a small background on myself. I have had an interesting journey with Mathematics all my life. I hated it until I was in std 9th, mainly because I failed to understand it. Topics of arithmetic like profit loss, percentages, Time speed distance all were a bouncer and the often-imaginary world of geometry was a nightmare for me as I compared myself to Darsheel Safari of Taare Zameen Par, who could not form a picture of Apple when the teacher asked him to write it. I barely managed to scrape through my exams and felt my future to be absolutely bleak.
I graduated from NIT Delhi in 2018 and worked in Tata power-DDL for nearly two years in the Operations Department. When I’m not working or studying, I am always chasing an overly-ambitious reading goal that I set for myself every year. In the year 2019, I had pledged to read 51 books, however owing to the shortage of time, I managed to read only 20 books. My path to CAT wasn’t clear from the start. Unlike most aspirants, I didn’t have an inkling of how my future was going to look like. The gruelling experience of being a Science student was taking its toll on me. At the beginning of my final year of B.Tech, I decided that entering the corporate world rather than pursuing higher education was the right course of action for me. But things didn’t go as smoothly as I had hoped, my father, who had an illustrious career in a Maharatna PSU, expected me to follow in his footsteps. And why wouldn’t he? So far, I had fulfilled my parents’ expectations, to the extent that I even studied the same branch in Engineering as my father did. And thus, began my tryst with GATE.
There has been plenty of posts on individual CAT journeys and most of them were quite inspiring. Every time I thought of writing my journey, I realized that it was rather quite boring in nature without much element of drama in it. After getting the result of CAT 2019, I wanted to somehow help the upcoming aspirants in my capacity. Most of the articles that I found during my preparation only talked about the preparation and none of them mentioned how to build the exam-taking strategy. This is one area in which I feel I can help the aspirants and therefore this is my small effort in helping the upcoming students and also motivating them in my little capacity.
To give you a little background of me: I’m Nishi Agrawal. I belong to a small town in Chhattisgarh called Pathalgaon. I have done my early schooling there and hence I’m not a student of schools with big names. But I have done my Under Graduation from a reputed college and now going to pursue my Post Graduation from one of the most prestigious B schools in the country.
Hi guys, this is Jaideep and today I would be telling my CAT 2019 success story. Through this article of mine, I will try to answer the question - How I scored 99.98 percentile in CAT 2019?
