Suraj Ramalingam Iyer hails from Aamchi Mumbai and is currently pursuing PGDHRM from XLRI Jamshedpur. He quit his job in TCS to work with a startup working on Machine Learning while parallelly preparing for CAT. With a percentile of 98.38 in XAT, he joined XLRI in the HRM batch of 2018-2020. Suraj will be interning with Microsoft IDC as a Project Management intern in the summer of 2019.
The oldest B-School of the country, XLRI has been ranked as one of the best B-Schools of India and ranked first among private B-schools. Renowned for offering an education that encompasses business studies along with a holistic development of students through its vibrant committee culture, social initiatives and projects, it is not for no reason that corporate organizations make a beeline for hiring from XLRI.
The oldest B-School of the country, XLRI has been ranked as one of the best B-Schools of India and ranked first among private B-schools. Renowned for offering an education that encompasses business studies along with a holistic development of students through its vibrant committee culture, social initiatives and projects, it is not for no reason that corporate organizations make a beeline for hiring from XLRI.
The oldest B-School of the country, XLRI has been ranked as one of the best B-Schools of India and ranked first among private B-schools. Renowned for offering an education that encompasses business studies along with a holistic development of students through its vibrant committee culture, social initiatives and projects, it is not for no reason that corporate organizations make a beeline for hiring from XLRI.
Now that the moment of truth has is behind you, all that you had been working and planning for, is stored in a computer server. This is the time when one’s mind is full of exhilaration and self-doubt at the same time. There would be frustration too, at the questions you could have solved but didn’t. There would also a sense of void, when the crescendo drops when the frenzy quietens and all is silent. It is all very natural, my friend, but like many of everyday time-killers, this won’t lead us to anything.
Often called the youngest of the old IIMs and oldest of the new IIMs, Indian Institute of Management Shillong commenced operations in 2008 and has since grown exponentially to now be counted among one of the countries top 10 government management institutes. Situated in the East Khasi Hills of Shillong, the institute often faces the problem of a great deal of misinformation being spread about it perhaps due to its off-centre location. However, IIM Shillong, now hosting its 11th batch of PGP students, has excelled on various parameters such as diversity and inclusivity to be able to successfully bust any myths. While there’s plenty you can find about the institute online, here are a few things you probably didn’t know!
‘Forewarned is forearmed’ is a piece of timeless wisdom. So, students who went into the second slot expecting a similar paper as that of the first slot (or for that matter the CAT 2017 paper) were on the right track. It too started with an ‘easy’ VARC section. The passages were on similar lines as those of the first slot. The DILR section continued to give a sigh of relief to the students. However, some are of the opinion that it was slightly tougher than the first slot’s DILR section. Overall, it was of a moderate level of difficulty. And the reign of QA continued. It remained the toughest section in the second slot too.
CAT 2018 Paper Pattern CAT came out of the bag with two thuds and one loud bang. The paper started with an ‘even easier than 2017’ VARC section. Then the level of difficulty of the DILR section provided a major reprieve to the nervous ‘jantaa’ as it broke with the trend of the last three years. It was a moderately difficult section, as compared to an out and out difficult section that has been observed over the last 2-3 years. However, this relief was short-lived as QA came out all guns blazing. IIM-C kept its reputation intact, with its emphasis on the QA section. So, the break-up of the paper was as follows:
Suraj Ramalingam Iyer hails from Aamchi Mumbai and is currently pursuing PGDHRM from XLRI Jamshedpur. He quit his job in TCS to work with a startup working on Machine Learning while parallelly preparing for CAT. With a percentile of 98.38 in XAT, he joined XLRI in the HRM batch of 2018-2020. Suraj will be interning with Microsoft IDC as a Project Management intern in the summer of 2019.
The oldest B-School of the country, XLRI has been ranked as one of the best B-Schools of India and ranked first among private B-schools. Renowned for offering an education that encompasses business studies along with a holistic development of students through its vibrant committee culture, social initiatives and projects, it is not for no reason that corporate organizations make a beeline for hiring from XLRI.
The oldest B-School of the country, XLRI has been ranked as one of the best B-Schools of India and ranked first among private B-schools. Renowned for offering an education that encompasses business studies along with a holistic development of students through its vibrant committee culture, social initiatives and projects, it is not for no reason that corporate organizations make a beeline for hiring from XLRI.
The oldest B-School of the country, XLRI has been ranked as one of the best B-Schools of India and ranked first among private B-schools. Renowned for offering an education that encompasses business studies along with a holistic development of students through its vibrant committee culture, social initiatives and projects, it is not for no reason that corporate organizations make a beeline for hiring from XLRI.
Now that the moment of truth has is behind you, all that you had been working and planning for, is stored in a computer server. This is the time when one’s mind is full of exhilaration and self-doubt at the same time. There would be frustration too, at the questions you could have solved but didn’t. There would also a sense of void, when the crescendo drops when the frenzy quietens and all is silent. It is all very natural, my friend, but like many of everyday time-killers, this won’t lead us to anything.
Often called the youngest of the old IIMs and oldest of the new IIMs, Indian Institute of Management Shillong commenced operations in 2008 and has since grown exponentially to now be counted among one of the countries top 10 government management institutes. Situated in the East Khasi Hills of Shillong, the institute often faces the problem of a great deal of misinformation being spread about it perhaps due to its off-centre location. However, IIM Shillong, now hosting its 11th batch of PGP students, has excelled on various parameters such as diversity and inclusivity to be able to successfully bust any myths. While there’s plenty you can find about the institute online, here are a few things you probably didn’t know!
‘Forewarned is forearmed’ is a piece of timeless wisdom. So, students who went into the second slot expecting a similar paper as that of the first slot (or for that matter the CAT 2017 paper) were on the right track. It too started with an ‘easy’ VARC section. The passages were on similar lines as those of the first slot. The DILR section continued to give a sigh of relief to the students. However, some are of the opinion that it was slightly tougher than the first slot’s DILR section. Overall, it was of a moderate level of difficulty. And the reign of QA continued. It remained the toughest section in the second slot too.
CAT 2018 Paper Pattern CAT came out of the bag with two thuds and one loud bang. The paper started with an ‘even easier than 2017’ VARC section. Then the level of difficulty of the DILR section provided a major reprieve to the nervous ‘jantaa’ as it broke with the trend of the last three years. It was a moderately difficult section, as compared to an out and out difficult section that has been observed over the last 2-3 years. However, this relief was short-lived as QA came out all guns blazing. IIM-C kept its reputation intact, with its emphasis on the QA section. So, the break-up of the paper was as follows:
