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The Right Way To Prepare For CAT 2020 In The Next 5 Months - Learn From A CAT Expert

The Right Way To Prepare For CAT 2020 In The Next 5 Months - Learn From A CAT Expert

CAT 2020 is now five months away. As the official notification comes out and the IIMs start to release their selection criteria, many CAT 2020 aspirants will pull-up their socks and start to prepare for the exam seriously. So how do you get ahead of the competition for a coveted seat at one of the top six IIMs? How do you get an edge over the 2 lakh+ aspirants that will take CAT 2020 with you? At this stage, where everyone begins from scratch, the only thing that differentiates you from the crowd is how strong your preparation strategy is for the next 5 months. Here's how you can come up with the right  prep. strategy for CAT 2020, with help from a CAT expert that has trained thousands of test-takers like yourself over nearly 30 years.

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My Journey To XLRI Jamshedpur | Rachit Chandra 99.7 %ile

My Journey To XLRI Jamshedpur | Rachit Chandra 99.7 %ile

“You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards”  ~ Steve Jobs My journey for an MBA began in 2018 April when I bought the mandatory-CAT-prep bundle of Arun Sharma guides and enrolled for the test series offered by CL and TIME. I was in my final year of engineering at DTU and already had a PPO from Amazon. Luckily, I was not in a situation where I had to crack a top B-school and did not have a Plan-B (no pun intended). At the back of my mind I reassured myself that I would prepare while working next year and give it my best effort (foreshadowing).  Along with that my semester examinations also got scheduled in such a manner that the date for CAT-2018 fell right between two exams. I decided to treat this year as a practice attempt, to gauge which bracket my score belonged in and how much more effort I need to put in. So far my score in mock tests was all over the place. For example, CL offers a free mock-test before enrolling in its test series program where your score is compared with the highest score and the average score of all the mock-test takers; my test score was more than the previous highest score, and was set as the new highest score for comparison;  on the other hand, my mock-test percentile varied from 99.xx to 70.xx. Ultimately, I got a percentile score of 97.xx which fetched me calls from IIM-I and the newer IIMs under CAP. This was a nice experience and I believed that this would give me a taste of how B-school interviews are and what I need to do to crack them. Later I converted IIM-I and most of the B-Schools in CAP which was surprising since I believed that my interviews went horribly wrong. Lesson Learnt: Your perspective and the interviewer’s about the PI can be vastly differing.

Rachit Chandra
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 Why I Rejected An Offer From SIBM Pune?

 Why I Rejected An Offer From SIBM Pune?

Just to give you a background, I scored 97.78 %ile in CAT 2019 and 98.88 %ile in SNAP 2019. This was my second attempt. In my first attempt in 2018, I scored 84.7% ile in CAT and 214 in NMAT (I don’t really remember the scores in other exams but the percentile was in 70’s).

Kashish Malhotra
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ABG Offered Me A Role That Usually Requires 10-12 Yrs Work-Ex | Saniya Malim, Aditya Birla Group

ABG Offered Me A Role That Usually Requires 10-12 Yrs Work-Ex | Saniya Malim, Aditya Birla Group

In this episode of Konversations Cafe Online, we have Saniya Malim from Aditya Birla Group. A TISS Mumbai graduate, Saniya joined ABG after campus placement. She got hold of the business while working on different projects in diverse domains within ABG in her first year training period. She then was posted for her mandatory factory stint with Hindalco. A life-changing experience that it was, Saniya talks about her journey within ABG, the responsibilities she has got early in her life with the conglomerate, and the fulfilling experience she had working in the HR department.

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Sanjana Arora Shares In Details How She Built Her Basics For CAT And Cracked IIM Ahmedabad!

Sanjana Arora Shares In Details How She Built Her Basics For CAT And Cracked IIM Ahmedabad!

Having called herself a "changemaker-in-progress" oftentimes, Sanjana has often looked for opportunities where she could bring some tangible impact on field. She pursued her Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce. During her undergraduation, she worked with various non-profit organisations and also expanded two such organizations, called Project FUEL and CrossBow Miles, to Delhi. Sanjana did her pre-final year internship with Duff & Phelps where she designed the Social Impact Value Framework for them. Post that, she worked with the Public Sector Practice (within Strategy and Operations) of Deloitte India for about a year. She has a very deep interest in Public Policy and Economics, and would like to combine her managerial skill sets with these interest areas. 

pratibha goenka
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