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I Felt Dejected After Seeing My Terrible CAT Score, Ft. Keshav | Vlog Ep 4

I Felt Dejected After Seeing My Terrible CAT Score, Ft. Keshav | Vlog Ep 4

We have brought you the journey of an aspirant Keshav Kumar Singh in the last three episodes, where he shared his experience dealing with different phases of his preparation. From ‘Sab Ho Jaega’ to ‘Kuch Bhi Sahi Nahi Hai Yaar’, Keshav lived through something that majority of the aspirants go through every year. Because, not everybody gets through CAT and gets into their dream B-schools! Keshav also did not. In this episode, Keshav talks about the phase where he was dealing with agitation and how he faced himself after the results came out.

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"Don't Try To Follow All Available Materials And Books" - Swaha Swayamsiddha, CAT 99.92%iler, IIM A'23

"Don't Try To Follow All Available Materials And Books" - Swaha Swayamsiddha, CAT 99.92%iler, IIM A'23

Swaha worked as a Trainee Market Analyst, at Axxela Advisory, before taking up the admission offer from IIM Ahmedabad. She graduated from NIT Rourkela in 2020, with a B.Tech degree in Civil Engineering. Prior to that, she had successfully appeared for her 10th and 12th standard Board Exams; conducted by CBSE, in 2014 and 2016 respectively. In this interview, she talks about her  CAT preparation journey and her advice to future aspirants.

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"Your Target Should Be To Do Really Well On The D-day Rather Than Being A Mock Mauler" - Sagar Tandon On Making It To IIM A In His Fourth CAT Attempt

"Your Target Should Be To Do Really Well On The D-day Rather Than Being A Mock Mauler" - Sagar Tandon On Making It To IIM A In His Fourth CAT Attempt

Sagar is a Chartered Accountant by qualification where he was All India Rank 24 in the intermediate level, he completed B.com from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata where he scored 81% and was ranked 6th in his batch. He has also qualified CFA level 2. He did his schooling from Delhi Public School Megacity, Kolkata where he scored 92.2% in Xth and 95% in XIIth. Post qualifying CA he worked as an Equity research analyst covering the pharmaceutical sector for 7 months. He appeared for CAT 2020 realizing that MBA would play a crucial role in the progression of his career, where he scored 99.60%ile and got calls from IIM A,L,K,I,S where he managed to convert all of them. He is joining IIM Ahmedabad's PGP Co'23. Read this preparation journey, and his advice for future aspirants here!

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This Could Be The Reason For Your Failure To Crack CAT, Ft. Keshav, Vlog Ep 3

This Could Be The Reason For Your Failure To Crack CAT, Ft. Keshav, Vlog Ep 3

In one point or the other, this is the phase every aspirant might go through. After a start, things seem to not go anywhere and then comes the decline, because there are so many external factors that get associated with your preparation. Simple things like your friend posting a photo on Instagram with his office colleagues in a foreign country or the impressive mock results of your friend make you question yourself. And you simply can’t keep up with the journey and focus. Keshav went through the same thing in this prep journey last year. How did he deal with it, you ask? Well, he talks about that in this video.

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