It is that time of the year again. The official notification from the IIMs is out and for the first time in recent times the exam will be held in the month of December. Every year around 2 lakh aspirants register for the examination to get admission into the prestigious Indian Institute of Management.
Indrajeet Singh, the CEO of iQuanta gave a new direction to the world of online teaching where the doubts gets cleared within seconds or minutes using the previously neglected medium, Facebook as his platform. He started iQuanta last year, and it delivered splendid results in its very first year with two 100%ilers, sixteen 99.6+ %ilers & around 30 final converts from IIM A,B,C and XLRI. iQuanta is mostly about unconventional methods and concepts which aren’t taught in conventional coaching centres and his free peer learning platform i.e. CAT Preparation group is 93k members strong and is highly active – https://www.facebook.com/groups/Rockthecat/
Getting into the elusive league of 99.9x is every CAT aspirant’s dream. Here we interview, S. Raghavan a student at IIM Kozhikode who belled the CAT at a commendable 99.94 percentile.
The stress of working around nine to ten hours a day on an average and managing your B-School preparations is clearly a daunting task. It requires you to follow a hectic schedule, with time and energy becoming major constraints. In order to devote absolute attention towards your preparations, quitting your job may seem like a favorable solution. But, is it the best choice? The answer is, of course, “it depends” – the famous MBA cliché. Having done my preparations while working, and having observed my friends who quit their jobs to do so, I can confidently list the pros and cons of such a decision.
Somewhere during the second year of engineering I had decided to pursue MBA. Whether, just after graduation or after work ex would depend on circumstances. I started preparing during the sixth semester. But it was half heartedly and used to do so for some time during lazy Sunday nights, if I was not playing Age of Empires with my friends. (I am nocturnal. When the world sleeps, it is peaceful and that is when the mind races :p ). It was mostly about connecting back to the good old basics and trying to get acquainted back to the concepts. For instance, I had forgotten the reasoning behind quite a few formulas such as progressions (Just remembering formulas ain’t of much help. There is a reason why the sections are called ‘aptitude’, ‘reasoning’). For this, I went through CBSE textbooks of 8,9,10 and basics of verbal ability and logical reasoning questions. There was no internal pressure to get answers right and hence would rarely even attempt questions and look into the answers directly. I have since beginning been a voracious reader and was also familiar with the concept of skimming, so did not put much effort in reading section.
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Kshitij Chandrakar is currently at IIM Raipur PGP Batch of 2016-2018. He scored an overall percentile of 98.3 in CAT 2015. He shares with us his experience of how he prepared for CAT’15 and aced it.
It is that time of the year again. The official notification from the IIMs is out and for the first time in recent times the exam will be held in the month of December. Every year around 2 lakh aspirants register for the examination to get admission into the prestigious Indian Institute of Management.
Indrajeet Singh, the CEO of iQuanta gave a new direction to the world of online teaching where the doubts gets cleared within seconds or minutes using the previously neglected medium, Facebook as his platform. He started iQuanta last year, and it delivered splendid results in its very first year with two 100%ilers, sixteen 99.6+ %ilers & around 30 final converts from IIM A,B,C and XLRI. iQuanta is mostly about unconventional methods and concepts which aren’t taught in conventional coaching centres and his free peer learning platform i.e. CAT Preparation group is 93k members strong and is highly active – https://www.facebook.com/groups/Rockthecat/
Getting into the elusive league of 99.9x is every CAT aspirant’s dream. Here we interview, S. Raghavan a student at IIM Kozhikode who belled the CAT at a commendable 99.94 percentile.
The stress of working around nine to ten hours a day on an average and managing your B-School preparations is clearly a daunting task. It requires you to follow a hectic schedule, with time and energy becoming major constraints. In order to devote absolute attention towards your preparations, quitting your job may seem like a favorable solution. But, is it the best choice? The answer is, of course, “it depends” – the famous MBA cliché. Having done my preparations while working, and having observed my friends who quit their jobs to do so, I can confidently list the pros and cons of such a decision.
Somewhere during the second year of engineering I had decided to pursue MBA. Whether, just after graduation or after work ex would depend on circumstances. I started preparing during the sixth semester. But it was half heartedly and used to do so for some time during lazy Sunday nights, if I was not playing Age of Empires with my friends. (I am nocturnal. When the world sleeps, it is peaceful and that is when the mind races :p ). It was mostly about connecting back to the good old basics and trying to get acquainted back to the concepts. For instance, I had forgotten the reasoning behind quite a few formulas such as progressions (Just remembering formulas ain’t of much help. There is a reason why the sections are called ‘aptitude’, ‘reasoning’). For this, I went through CBSE textbooks of 8,9,10 and basics of verbal ability and logical reasoning questions. There was no internal pressure to get answers right and hence would rarely even attempt questions and look into the answers directly. I have since beginning been a voracious reader and was also familiar with the concept of skimming, so did not put much effort in reading section.
Websites/Publications
Kshitij Chandrakar is currently at IIM Raipur PGP Batch of 2016-2018. He scored an overall percentile of 98.3 in CAT 2015. He shares with us his experience of how he prepared for CAT’15 and aced it.
