How To Prepare For IIM Calcutta Interview
With CAT 2018 results out and IIM C shortlist out, we have an IIM Calcutta student, dispelling any doubts and queries you might have around Interview Preparation, Campus Life, etc.
With CAT 2018 results out and IIM C shortlist out, we have an IIM Calcutta student, dispelling any doubts and queries you might have around Interview Preparation, Campus Life, etc.
If you have scored between 75-85%ile in CAT 2018, what are the options in front of you? What all business schools can you get shortlist calls from? How can you prepare for interviews with these business schools?
The 85-95%ile bracket is a tricky one - you've probably just missed out on getting that 98+%ile score by 10-20 marks, and consequent calls from top management institutes of the country. However, your current CAT score is not the end of the world.
Let's face it. CAT is a very difficult exam to crack, and not everyone can or wants to join an IIM or any other tier-1 management institute. With a score between 55%ile and 75%ile, all hope is not lost! Let's answer a few key questions to guide you better on your plan of action going ahead.
In the job market, work experience prior to doing an MBA is undervalued as opposed to the work experience after doing an MBA. I will give two scenarios here and compare how work experience prior to doing an MBA is heavily discounted. Consider two students who have completed their undergrad from the same college and graduated in the year 2015. Now one person went on to work for 3 years and after the hikes and promotions managed to get a salary of 10-12 lakhs in 2018, he later decides to join a B-School. Whereas his batchmate went on to do an MBA as a fresher from one of the top B-Schools and now earns a whopping 21 lakh after a year of work experience. This difference is very drastic and even if we consider an investment in management education, the breakeven point is within 2 years. Unless the person who worked for three years was unsure of doing an MBA back in 2015, he/she has worked three extra years at a lower salary than his fellow batchmate to eventually reach the same position that his friend has reached three years before!
CAT, the most important exam for the management aspirants, is a national level examination which happens once a year in November. It is not an exam of intelligence but of aptitude, what this means is that one needs to have skills of selection, pressure handling, and the ability to work harder than others, in addition to knowledge of Quantitative Aptitude, Verbal and Logical Reasoning & Data Interpretation. Every year it receives around two lakhs applications where the final success rate is very low, to say the least.
Now that CAT 2018 is over, with QA section leaving many people shell-shocked, MBA aspirants would be looking to focus on upcoming entrance exams and/or preparing for interviews and calls. This article is nothing about preparing for what is to come, but more about learning from what you went through during your preparation phase.
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