"The most difficult decisions we’re faced with are not about success or failure but finding the courage to simply try again.” - what can be a better example to bring this quote to life other than Adya Shakti’s journey from 39% to 98% in CAT to make it to one of India's top B-Schools, MDI Gurgaon!
Preparing for CAT within a short span of time can be a challenge unless the right strategies are applied. Many renowned coaching centers fail to provide students with right resources to ace the examination. Here are the few strategies that I followed which helped me sail through the challenging phase and enter the coveted B-school.
The only good thing about being average is that you're as close to the top as far you're from the bottom!
What is marketing? Theoretically, it is the process of ideating, creating, prototyping, revamping and maintaining a product or a brand. Marketing has always been used as a synonym of sales or advertising. It is true that they are an integral part of marketing but they don’t define the extensive subject of marketing. MICA changed my perception of marketing completely. MICA is called the Mecca of marketing because it focuses on the integrities of marketing. Things that we generally overlook are looked with completely different perspective. MICA not only teaches marketing, but it also exercises marketing on a daily basis which enables the overall application of marketing concepts and probes us to think as managers do.
"CAT is around the corner. There’s less than a month left for the date with CAT. The 24th of November is the date which will decide your fate. It’s a do or die scenario for all you CAT aspirants".
Whenever we talk about pursuing an MBA in India, we think of clearing CAT as the only milestone. However, we forget that the CAT is just an elimination step in a very long journey. After CAT starts a journey of filling forms, writing essays, SOPs, appearing for interviews, GDs and what not. In this crucial journey of appearing for CAT, we give almost a little importance in understanding what MBA is all about, we forget how clarity of why we want to do MBA is the first step in this journey.
"I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy"
It has been almost a year since I started with the preparation of a so called ‘tough exam’ – CAT. There are some things that come to you naturally even if you try to turn a blind eye to everything around you. One such thing is the thought of your past academic scores. The world starts talking about them till the point you really start asking to yourself - ‘How would I have known in my class X or XII that I’d be taking up CAT exam one day?’
"The most difficult decisions we’re faced with are not about success or failure but finding the courage to simply try again.” - what can be a better example to bring this quote to life other than Adya Shakti’s journey from 39% to 98% in CAT to make it to one of India's top B-Schools, MDI Gurgaon!
Preparing for CAT within a short span of time can be a challenge unless the right strategies are applied. Many renowned coaching centers fail to provide students with right resources to ace the examination. Here are the few strategies that I followed which helped me sail through the challenging phase and enter the coveted B-school.
The only good thing about being average is that you're as close to the top as far you're from the bottom!
What is marketing? Theoretically, it is the process of ideating, creating, prototyping, revamping and maintaining a product or a brand. Marketing has always been used as a synonym of sales or advertising. It is true that they are an integral part of marketing but they don’t define the extensive subject of marketing. MICA changed my perception of marketing completely. MICA is called the Mecca of marketing because it focuses on the integrities of marketing. Things that we generally overlook are looked with completely different perspective. MICA not only teaches marketing, but it also exercises marketing on a daily basis which enables the overall application of marketing concepts and probes us to think as managers do.
"CAT is around the corner. There’s less than a month left for the date with CAT. The 24th of November is the date which will decide your fate. It’s a do or die scenario for all you CAT aspirants".
Whenever we talk about pursuing an MBA in India, we think of clearing CAT as the only milestone. However, we forget that the CAT is just an elimination step in a very long journey. After CAT starts a journey of filling forms, writing essays, SOPs, appearing for interviews, GDs and what not. In this crucial journey of appearing for CAT, we give almost a little importance in understanding what MBA is all about, we forget how clarity of why we want to do MBA is the first step in this journey.
"I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy"
It has been almost a year since I started with the preparation of a so called ‘tough exam’ – CAT. There are some things that come to you naturally even if you try to turn a blind eye to everything around you. One such thing is the thought of your past academic scores. The world starts talking about them till the point you really start asking to yourself - ‘How would I have known in my class X or XII that I’d be taking up CAT exam one day?’
