Journey To A B-School

How I Scored 99.98%ile In CAT 2022 - Pallav Goyal, IIM Ahmedabad Co' 25

Pallav Goyal hails from a small town in Rajasthan named Sangaria. Since his school days, he was good in academics and had scored a perfect 10 CGPA in Class 10th. He was a district topper in Class 12th Commerce and secured 96.8 percentage. In 2018, he moved to Delhi to pursue his bachelor's degree in Economics from the prestigious Hindu College. After graduation, he started working with ICICI bank as an Ascend trainee. In this interview, Pallav shares his preparation strategy that helped him score a stellar 99.98 percentile on CAT 2022, and his journey to IIM Ahmedabad! Read on!

Team InsideIIM25 Apr 2023

Tryst With Destiny - Prabhakar's Journey To XLRI

Ten years have passed since the first time I heard the song, “XL ki kudiya..”. I was in 12th at that time and my older brother was preparing for B-school entrance exams. In those days everything was offline, from filling the forms and getting your admit cards to appearing for the exams (what a period it was…Orkut was cool, Facebook was still new and Instagram was not even heard of!).

Prabhakar Singh17 Apr 2023

The Journey From Graduating In Cinema To Pursuing An MBA At 27 While Being A Fresher

Recently, in a field Immersion program by IIMN, I was asked, “Very rarely a Cinema graduate enters the world of MBA.” And my reply to this was, “This is just the upper layer; there are so many things beneath this.”

Nexus - Media & PR Club, IIM Nagpur21 Sept 2022

How A Vernacular Medium Student From A Small Village Made It To IIM Lucknow - Vasu Shukla

I come from a small Village Bhauwar from Rewa. I come from a lower-middle-class family but my parents always encouraged us to aim high and try for the best. I started my schooling from a nearby town where I used to travel via public transportation with my brother. These schools were Hindi medium. Although most of the teachers weren’t up to mark, I was always blessed with one or two teachers who used to show trust in me. I completed my 10th and 12th from these schools with 90+ percent which is tough in MP Board. I never thought of giving CAT because I knew that it was an English-based test and I didn’t know how I would get 99 percent in these tests. (I didn’t understand that percentile and percentage are different).

Vasu SHUKLA21 Jun 2022

From 6.0 CGPA To One Of India's Top B-Schools | Rishabh Chaubey

"After I Scored 6.0 CGPA in Xth Standard it become very tough for me to believe on myself"

Rishabh Chaubey12 Jun 2022

From A 6-Year Gap To IIM Calcutta | Aman Sharma's Journey Against All Odds

The worst moments in the life of an inspired person push him beyond every limit to prove his potential no matter how much he is abased. Hope is what the strongest weapon is meant to be. Just like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, something which I almost anticipated as impossible turned out to be possible and happened.

Aman Sharma02 Jun 2022

From Scoring Less Than 70%ile To Making It To SPJIMR Mumbai In My Third Attempt - Ft. Gokul V Sunil

Unlike many students in college, I was clear with my goals and what I wanted to do with my career. But even then, how to achieve that particular dream was kind of ambiguous since there were multiple options in front of me - either going abroad or staying in India. The only thing that I had figured out towards the end of my four-year bachelor’s degree was to pursue my career in the management sector rather than in the engineering sector. When I gave my first CAT exam, I hardly knew anything about it, ranging from the duration of the exam to the actual pattern of the exam. I never intended to pursue my post-graduation immediately. I was held up with a lot of work at my college, both academics, and extra-curricular. So, it was like a mock test for me, and once the results got out, there was no element of surprise. I scored significantly less in the range of 70% tile, but the overall exam pattern, especially DILR and Quants, was very much comfortable for me, and I was confident that I could do better if I try again.

Team InsideIIM02 May 2022

Her Dream Of Becoming An ISBian Was Bigger Than Any Challenge Life Could Throw At Her!

From an economically weaker section student to the school topper, from an uninspired engineering undergrad to 'Star of Internshala', from an introvert to an EY Consultant, from a depressed and unhealthy person not knowing what to do with her life to a happy and healthy ISB Alumnus- every time she felt situations slipping away from her grip, her dynamic outlook and intense zeal for exploration aided her to take the leap of faith and go all-in for her dreams!

Team InsideIIM24 Mar 2022