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From A Terrible CAT Attempt To An IIFT Admit: Journey of Redemption Ft. Apoorva Bajaj, IIFT Delhi

Apoorva scored a meager 91 percentile in CAT 2019. She knew she needed to have an alternative strategy, especially considering that she did not want to spend years preparing for b-school entrance exams. Apoorva decided to learn from her mistakes and focused on preparing for the IIFT with full focus. With only a week's difference between CAT and IIFT, Apoorva didn't have much time to prepare. But in this video, she shares how, despite time constraints, she managed to leverage her strengths and score a 99.23 percentile in the IIFT entrance exam, thus making it to IIFT Delhi. If you're writing the IIFT entrance this year, this video is a must watch for you.

Team InsideIIM12 Jan 2021

IIFT Score Versus Percentile Analysis - What It Takes To Get A 99 Percentile In IIFT

The IIFT exam is one of the biggest exams of the MBA admissions season in India, serving as a gateway to the MBA-IB program at one of IIFT's Delhi, Kolkata, and Kakinada campuses. A two hour test, this exam tests candidate's time management abilities as well as their aptitude for an intensive MBA program. So what kind of score can get you an IIFT interview shortlist? To present an indication of how much you may need to score in IIFT, here's a break down of the IIFT 2019 score versus percentile along with the actual cut-offs set by IIFT for admission to the batch of 2022.

Akshaykumar Sirsalewala12 Jan 2021

Meet InsideIIM’s Best 30 - The Most Employable Graduates of The Class of 2019-21

January. New year. New hopes. New laurels. New awards! Meet InsideIIM's Best 30 for the class of 19-21! Drumroll please and all that! Yes, you heard it right. This year, we once again floated the best 30 survey across b-schools. Our goal? To recognise the most employable graduates that recruiters would be proud to collect! We once again asked them questions about their most selfless acts, their most debilitating experiences, how they handled conflicts, what do they excel at, how would they spend a corpus of 10 Mn USD, etc. Once again we got some beautiful answers and some d'uh ones. Conquering ones fears. Battling COVID 19 to successfully earn a PPO and get a job. Learning a new skill and getting out of ones' comfort zone. Fighting depression. Thus were born the Best 30 - The Most Employable Graduates of The Class of 2019-21. In this article, we bring you a list of all their stories. Check out stories of supporting peers and mentoring peers, staring non profits and charities, helping house felp with retirement funds, struggling to juggle multiple exams, competitions, etc. at once, dealing with family problems, giving up on personal goals to live more meaningfully, and many more emotional, beautiful stories of what makes one exceptional!

Team InsideIIM11 Jan 2021

How These XLRI Jamshedpur Students Got An Amazon PPO And A TAS PPI, Ft. Debayan Das, Smriti Garg

XLRI is known for the quality education it imparts to the bright minds, trying to formulate a business acumen from their two year programs. An institute known as the ‘place to be’ for HR aspirants in India, XLRI Jamshedpur has seen many successful stories in all these years. And making the saying of ‘XL Aaye Ho Toh Place Ho Hi Jaoge’ true, we spoke to two such XLRI HRM students about their B-school life, placements and overall learning they took back in the two years. Debayan Das mentioned about his process of cracking Amazon while Smriti Garg took us to her summer internship day when she cracked TAS and got a PPI later on. Watch this entire video to learn how they made the best of their B-school lives. *This is a promoted feature.

InsideIIM Career Services11 Jan 2021

Why You Should Go For A Specialized Finance Course After Your CAT Results?

Now that the CAT results are out, you must be wondering what are options best suited for you. Basis your interest, finding the right program for you often becomes a challenging and daunting task. To make it easier for you and give you a picture of why a specialized Finance course can help build your career, we have another webinar lined up for you powered by the Goa Institute of Management. From discussing the future opportunities in Finance to the courses available for students and what are some of the courses they should get into depending on their interest, this webinar will solve all your doubts.

Team InsideIIM11 Jan 2021

From Being Bottom 10 In Finance To Handling A Finance Heavy Project At BCG | Samarth, MDI Gurgaon, InsideIIM’s Best 30

Samarth Singh Gahlot did not really like finance. But he managed to work successfully as a consultant and landed a PPO with BCG post his summer internship. He also, interestingly, found reading and working with financial statements dreadfully boring and frightening. But now he trades in Futures & Options post investing his Stipend and receiving 82% returns. Then there’s the bit about him helping his family’s driver to set up a retirement home, financial plan and income source. Makes for very interesting reading - this story! Also the ability to learn and grow and contribute meaningfully and smartly to problems sees Samarth Singh Gahlot, MDI Gurgaon student on the list of InsideIIM’s Best 30 - one of India’s most employable graduates from the class of 2021! Read on to find out more!

Team InsideIIM11 Jan 2021

I Created A Blog On Aerospace Engineering In My IIT Days | Feroz, IIM C, InsideIIM’s Best 30

Feroz Baker was scared of getting into an IIT. He’d realised that IIT meant losing the “most intelligent,” “topper,” labels and competing with some of the best students in the country. But when it came to picking an engineering college of his choice, this (currently IIM C) student decided to let go of the comfortable and safe option of IIST and chose IIT Madras - a place where he would certainly not be the top dog. This attitude of competing with one's' betters and becoming better yourself is what landed Feroz a place on InsideIIM’s Best 30 - one of the most employable graduates from the class of 2021. Check out Feroz’s full story here!

Team InsideIIM11 Jan 2021

Group Discussion & Personal Interview Hacks To Crack Your Interviews

"A good start is half the battle." - Plato I am overwhelmed with the “Thank you” notes from my friends and mentees I helped during their cat preparation. Here is an interesting part of the conversation, when I asked them, “what’s your strategy for GD-PI-WAT?”. Most of them were blanked. So, I shared the knowledge I have with them and will share the same with you through this article to get a lucid picture of the next phase.

Dhruv Aggarwal11 Jan 2021