How You Can Rewire Your Brain To Crack CAT
Ever wondered why you excel at what you love doing? Be it watching your favourite sport or your favourite TV series, painting, playing instruments or playing video games.
Ever wondered why you excel at what you love doing? Be it watching your favourite sport or your favourite TV series, painting, playing instruments or playing video games.
In this new series, we stop being management students and become innocent consumers again. We look at the products and services that touch our lives, mould our human connections and stand witness to our many triumphs and trials. If you are a future marketer, this series will help you visualise the final destination of every brand - not his pocket, not his mind, but the consumer’s heart.
It was around this time last year that I started my preparations for CAT. I went through multiple blogs and articles to define my perfect study plan. Though there were multiple blogs on planning the preparation strategy for CAT, none gave a holistic view of the whole process. The main purpose of this blog is not to advise on how to crack the CAT but on how to get into an IIM. And the right time to read this article is while preparing for CAT.
I interned with the ‘Structured Credit Trading’ desk of Principal Funding and Investments group (yes, the name is fancy) in the Securities division of Goldman Sachs Bangalore. As I write this article, I am sitting in the comfort of my home, while most of my friends are having their last day of internship (my internship ended a week earlier - phew!).
CAT, being a very unpredictable exam, can even get the better of very meritorious students on the D-DAY. People who had been aiming the IIMs and top 15 colleges and not able to cross that 95 percentile range are in turmoil. Zeroing down on one college requires exhaustive and extensive research on the available options and also careful weighing and holistic evaluation of the situation one is in. Typical tier-II colleges such as TAPMI, IRMA, IFMR, KJSIMSR come to the rescue for the aspirants for whom preparing another year is not on the cards.
IIM Rohtak and IIM Shillong are considered to be the next best options for an MBA after the tier-1 management institutes such as IIMs BLACKI, JBIMS, FMS, IIFT MDI & SPJIMR.
Have you ever wondered how Domino's manages to deliver the pizza to you in 30 minutes or less? How is it that the taste of every pizza across outlets is the same? What makes them one of the largest pizza chains in the world? It's not their pizza or the ingredients they use, it's their robust supply chain and operations that makes Domino's what it is!
If you do not attend offline coaching classes, the internet can become the most powerful tool for you to prepare for CAT 2018. There are some excellent (and free) resources out there for every aspirant who wants to get that 99+ percentile, but only a few know about them.